Ithaca College

On April 7, Sunday Baroque—a weekly public radio program with more than 250,000 listeners—will broadcast selections from a recording by the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, led by School of Music’s Jeffery Meyer, Director of Orchestras and Artistic Director of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic. 

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School of Music Professor Kim Dunnick presented a trumpet masterclass at the South Carolina Trumpet Guild (SCTG) Festival in Columbia, SC on March 23.

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Patrick Valentino, second year masters student in orchestral conducting, has been invited to study and conduct at the 2013 Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, OR this summer. 

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Ithaca College trumpet professor Frank Gabriel Campos traveled to Alfred University in Alfred, NY and Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX in March to play his "Art of the Single Line" concert program. 

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Dr. James Mick, Assistant Professor of Music Education, recently conducted a string orchestra consisting of selected students from all five boroughs of New York City at "The Inaugural Festival of Music for High School Students."

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The staff in Student Disability Services would like to express our thanks to Pi Theta Epsilon, the OT Honor Society, for donating funds for the purpose of improving accessibility services on campus.

This contribution was made possible through the purchase of 3E Love merchandise by Ithaca College faculty, staff and students so another big thank you to all who made this fundraising event such a success.

LeeAnn Hill, Christina Kranz and Curt McConnell accompanied geology professor Chris Sinton to New Hampshire, where they presented posters at the Geological Society of America’s 2013 Northeast Chapter Meeting in Bretton Woods.

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A physical therapy student and 2 athletic training faculty from the Department of Exercise & Sport Sciences crossed disciplinary boundaries in co-authoring a case study manuscript, which is to be published soon in the Journal of Athletic Enhancement.

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M. Braun (Biology ’11), M. Menges (Biology ’10), F. Opoku  (Biochemistry ’13) and A. M. Smith.  2013. The relative contribution of calcium, zinc and oxidation-based cross-links to the stiffness of Arion subfuscus glue. The Journal of Experimental Biology 216, 1475-148.  View the article here.

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Imprint Magazine has been named a finalist in the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards for the Northeast Region (Region 1). 

Imprint will be honored for overall excellence in the "Best Independent Online Student Publication" category. The actual place awarded will be announced at a ceremony on April 12-13 at Rutgers University. The winner of the regional competition will go on to compete against the winners in SPJ's other 11 regions for the national Mark of Excellence Award.

Imprint Magazine is "a national college life magazine, exclusively online, based from Ithaca College" with sections titled Arts & Entertainment, Life & Style, Music, Culture & Politics, and Sports, and one creative writing section, Impact. To read the magazine, click here.

The Leadership Scholars program recognizes students with a demonstrated record of academic and co-curricular achievements. Students enter the program during their first year at Ithaca College and take on new leadership challenges every semester until they graduate. Components of the program include service projects, professional development, and leadership in student organizations – all recorded in personalized leadership portfolios that are presented to administrators and peers every semester.

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Dr. James Mick, Assistant Professor of Music Education, and three undergraduate students recently presented two sessions at the national conference for American String Teachers Association (ASTA) held in Providence, RI. 

Delivering presentations titled "Strategies for Teaching Composition to K-12 String Students" and "Best Practices in the National String Project Consortium," Mick and his students presented among more than 200 top-notch education sessions. 

This is the first time that Ithaca College students have participated in the conference. Student presenters included Elizabeth Benz ('14), Jessica Chen ('13), and Margaret Dagon ('13), who are all current String Music Education majors and members of the Ithaca College ASTA Student Chapter.

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Lyndaker, A.M., et, al. "Conditional Inactivation of the DNA Damage Response Gene Hus1 in Mouse Testis Reveals Separable Roles for Components of the RAD9-RAD1-HUS1 Complex in Meiotic Chromosome Maintenance."  PLoS Genetics, 9(2): e1003320. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003320.  View the article here.

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Five School of Music alumni—Brian Dozoretz (’94), Rosie Newton (’10), Jennifer Middaugh (’94), Matthew Saccuccimorano (’89) and Dana Billings—played on a recording recently nominated for “Best Song” in the Alt. Country category at the 12th Annual Independent Music Awards (IMAs). 

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Violin Performance major Joohyun Lee ('15) recently earned two major achievements in her young musical career, providing the opportunity to perform twice at Carnegie Hall in New York City in the spring and fall. 

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Dr. Janet Galván, Professor of Music, conducted the Alabama Women's All State Chorus the first weekend in March. She also conducted the Massachusetts All State Chorus in a concert at Boston's Symphony Hall this past February. 

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On March 2 and 3, 2013, 22 students representing  from 6 research teams presented 11 posters about their research at the Annual Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, in New York, NY.

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Merriam, L.A, Baran, C.N. ('08), Girard, B., Hardwick, J.C., May, V., and Parsons, R.L. (2013). PAC1 receptor internalization and endosomal signaling mediate the PACAP-induced increase in guinea pig neuron excitability.  Journal of Neuroscience, 6 March 2013, 33(10): 4614-4622.  View the article. 

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ENVS faculty member Chris Sinton is a co-principal investigator on a two-year project titled Engaging Students in Grand Challenges in an Interdisciplinary Water Sustainability Course. The Interdisciplinary Teaching of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future (InTeGrate) program made the award. 

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Assistant Professor of Music Composition Jorge Grossmann has been selected for an artist residency this summer at the MacDowell Colony where he will be working on his new composition, "Whistling Vessels," a commission by the Society of New Music. The work will premiere in November 2013. 

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