Ithaca College

Professors James Pfrehm (DMLL) and Robert Sullivan have co-authored an article for the journal Honors in Practiceentitled "The Cultural Encounters Model: Incorporating Campus into the Honors Curriculum." 

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Ithaca College softball head coach Deb Pallozzi won her 700th career game as coach of the Bombers during Wednesday’s doubleheader sweep of King’s College. Pallozzi is the 10th coach overall in NCAA Division III softball history to reach 700 career wins, and only six coaches all-time have achieved 700 wins at one school.

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Assistant Professor Nick Kowalczyk, who teaches feature writing and creative nonfiction in the writing department, published a new essay this week in the "Real Families" series on Salon.com. The essay is titled "How Many Pets Can We Save?" and it's about love, marriage, pets, and a small dog in danger named "Pancakes."

Read it here: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/how_many_pets_can_we_save/

 The Department of Anthropology announces the spring 2013 inductees into the Omicron Chapter of the Lambda Alpha national anthropology honorary society.

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 The Ithacan has been named a finalist for the Online Pacemaker Award by the Associated Collegiate Press.

 The winners of the award — widely regarded as “the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism” — will be announced at this fall's National College Media Convention in New Orleans on October 26. The Ithacan's website won the Online Pacemaker in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012, and was a finalist in 2009.

The Associated College Press is the oldest and largest membership organization of college journalists in the country. 

Professor of Music Dr. Janet Galván has had a busy and successful 2013, full of exciting guest conducting experiences and outreach.

This past February, she conducted the Massachusetts High School Mixed All-State Chorus. This was the second time that she has conducted this ensemble, which performed in Boston’s Symphony Hall to a full house, receiving two standing ovations. 

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Jarrett Bastow, ’11 School of Music graduate, recently won a section double bass position with the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra. 

He advanced last month in the audition process and was awarded the opportunity to play with the orchestra on a trial basis as the final part of the audition.   

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Rebecca Jemian, Associate Professor of Music Theory, has been elected to a four-year term as Secretary of the Music Theory Society of New York, an organization committed to fostering the development of all aspects of music theory.

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The Marketing Department in the School of Business and the Ithaca College chapter of the America Marketing Association are pleased to recognize this year's inductees into the Alpha Mu Alpha international honorary marketing fraternity.

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Prof. of Politics Naeem Inayatullah recently presented and participated in the following events:

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The Society of Professional Journalists has once again named The Ithacan the Best Nondaily Student Newspaper in the Northeast Region. The paper received the first place Mark of Excellence Award Saturday afternoon at the SPJ Region 1 conference at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.

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Asma Barlas, professor and director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, has published a paper, "Uncrossed Bridges: Islam, feminism and secular democracy," in the journal, Philosophy and Social Criticism. 

The online version is at:
http://psc.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/04/05/0191453713477346

Professor Kent Scriber, EdD, ATC, PT and Clinical Assistant Professor Courtney Gray, MS, ATC recently co-wrote and published an article in a recent volume of Athletic Training & Sports Health Care. Entitled "Encouraging Students to Develop Their Own Learning Strategies", it details creative and student directed learning assessment strategies that the authors have used in their athletic training classes.

On behalf of the National Residence Hall Honorary - Ithaca College Chapter, congratulations to all nominees on their outstanding contributions to the Ithaca College community.  We had 30 nominations for the month of March, a record breaking number for Ithaca College.  Thank you to our dedicated nominators who took the time to recognize these outstanding individuals and programs.  You can take part in this recognition process and submit an OTM for the month of April by May 1st.  Check out our website or other Intercom announcements about how to nominate. 

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Congratulations to Samantha Stafford who was recently elected as the Western New York District Coordinator for the Northeast Affiliate of College and University Housing Officers.

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Dr. Howard Erlich, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, recently completed his fifth team membership for the Middle States Association.  As part of the team, Dr. Erlich visits an institution seeking accreditation, reviews self study materials, meets with members of the campus community, and participates in the decision making process that results in a written report about accreditation.

Southern Graphics Council International is the largest print organization in North America.   Its annual conference includes artists from all 50 states as well as international attendees from Canada, South and Central America, and Europe.  The 41st SGIC conference (March 20- 24, 2013), Print: MKE  hosted by the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts provided forums for significant dialogue and exchange that included presentations of academic papers, workshops, print process demonstrations, exhibitions and lectures on a multitude of contemporary and historical print practice.

Susan Weisend participated in the portfolio exhibition, “The Hidden Room in the House, Printmakers and the Art of Sublimation”.

Taylor recently read from her mixed-genre book, Apart, at several locations in Colorado including Colorado-Staute University-Pueblo and Denver at Counterpath Books.
 

Associate Professor Taylor presented a paper titled "Confessions of a Solitary Walker."

The paper was presented at a Seminar on "The Poetics of Digression" as part of the American Comparative Literature Conference in Toronto, Canada, April 5-7.

 

The National Science Foundation has awarded $185,000 to Ithaca College for support of "RUI: Critical Dynamics of the Iron Pnictide Superconductors," which is under the direction of Associate Professor of Physics Matthew C. Sullivan.

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