Ithaca College

 The Ithacan has been named a finalist to receive a Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists Northeast Region (Region 1) at the group's annual meeting, to be held at Rutgers University's New Brunswick, N.J., campus on April 12–13.

The award is for overall excellence. The actual place awarded will be announced at the ceremony. 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.

The Ithacan received the national Mark of Excellence Award for Best Non-Daily Newspaper in the country from SPJ in 2012.

 Srijana Bajracharya, School of Health Sciences and Human Performance, published a research article titled, “Colorectal Cancer Screening (CRC): Knowledge, Perceived Benefits and Barriers, and Intentions Among College and University Employees” in American Journal of Health Education, March Issue.

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Jennifer Tennant's article, "Isolating the Effect of Major Depression on Obesity: Role of Selection Bias" with Dhaval Dave and Gregory Colman, has received the "Excellence in Mental Health Policy and Economics Award" for 2011-2012.

The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics gives out two awards, the Adam Smith Award and the Excellence Award.  The Adam Smith Award is given to the best paper published in the journal in two years; the Excellence Award is given to the two exceptional/top papers (after the Adam Smith award) published in the journal in two years.

Together these three papers are the best three papers published in all issues of the journal between 2011-2012.  The papers are chosen by the editoral board and voted upon by them.

The award will be given out at the biennial conference at the end of March in Venice, Italy.

Professor of Music Kim Dunnick traveled to Brazil last week, where, on March 10, he gave a performance and conducted a master class at Rio de Janeiro State University. 

As President of the International Trumpet Guild (ITG), Dunnick also lead meetings with trumpet professors and professional players in both Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo regarding various collaborations that might be developed between the ITG and the Association of Brazilian Trumpeters (ABT). 

After being one of six groups forwarded to the finals, the Ithaca College Trumpet Ensemble placed fourth in the Ensemble Division of the National Trumpet Competition held in Washington, DC this past weekend.

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Kim Dunnick, Professor and Chair of the Department of Performance Studies, was recently reappointed to the Editorial Review Committee of the International Trumpet Guild Journal. The ITG Journal, a quarterly publication with a subscription of around 5,000, recently changed editors.  Dunnick was invited to continue to serve in this capacity by the new Editor.

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 The Ithacan was honored with two Gold Crown awards by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association at the spring National College Media Convention on March 10 at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel in New York City. The Gold Crown awards are the highest honors presented by CSPA.

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Mary Arlin, Emerita Professor of Theory, History and Composition at the School of Music, was the invited Keynote Speaker for the 34th annual conference of the Southern Chapter of the College Music Society on March 1, 2013.

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School of Music faculty Richard Faria and Heidi Hoffman were invited by the Governor's School for the Arts, one of the most select arts magnet schools in Virginia, to give several masterclasses, a concert, and coaching to students of the school's Technology Orchestra on March 8, 9, and 10. 

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Ithaca College senior Ricardo Gomez won the 125-pound title at the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships this weekend in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Gomez, an accounting major from Brentwood, N.Y., is the 11th Bomber wrestler to win an individual national title. He is also the 23rd Bomber student-athlete all-time to win an individual national title, and that group has accumulated 30 national championships in total.

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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 24 nominations for the month of February, 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 March by April 1st.  Check out our website or other Intercom announcements about how to nominate.  

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In January, professor of Double Bass, Nicholas Walker, traveled to The Netherlands where he visited two conservatories in Holland, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.  Professor Walker gave master classes and technique lessons to double bassists from The Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Sweeden, and Belgium. The classes covered a large swath of repertoire, from early renaissance music through romantic classics, as well as jazz and popular styles. Walker worked with the students on a variety of instruments, double bass, D-Violone, G-Violone, and D-Viola da Gamba.

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 David Weil, Director of Enterprise Application Services in ITS, has been accepted to the prestigious EDUCAUSE Leading Change Institute class of 2013.  The Institute is an intensive week-long residential seminar about "leadership in action" that explores higher education challenges, empowering librarians and information technologists to initiate conversations and take action on issues of importance not just to their individual institutions, but to the entire higher education community.

Dave was selected following a rigorous application and selection process, and was also awarded a “Leadership Through New Communities of Knowledge” scholarship to cover all program costs.  Congratulations Dave!

The staff at Split Oak Press would like to congratulate Professor Fred Wilcox on the release of his first novel, Secrets. 

Fred will also be featuring on Tish Pearlman's radio show, Out of Bounds this Sunday, March 10 at 11.30 a.m.

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Ithaca College faculty (Jake Brenner-ENVS, Jason Hamilton-ENVS, Leann Kanda-Biology) and students (Amber Zadrozny, Madison Vander Hill, and Bella Ciabattoni - all Environmental Studies '13) attended the Large Landscape Conservation Conference on March 1 at Colby College in Maine. 

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Jake Brenner (Assistant Professor, ENVS) and John Davis (Environmental Studies, '11) co-authored a publication in the Journal of the Southwest entitled “Transboundary Conservation Across Scales: A World-Regional Inventory and a Local Case Study from the U.S.-Mexico Border." 

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Quoted in the media: Faculty members Scott Hamula, Stephen Mosher, Rachel Wagner and Frank Micale; and staff member Melissa Gattine. For more information on the following articles, please visit the IC in the Media page at the Office of Media Relations:

IC in the Media

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Dr. Skott Freedman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology recently published an article in the Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology entitled "Children's naming as a function of neighborhood density".

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 Denise Nuttall presented  two Indigenous Rhythm Workshops to 82 participants at the Teaching Choices Symposium 2013: "Tomorrow's Classroom", Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa on February 21st. 
Title: Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge Systems in North American Universities: A Workshop on Rhythm and the North Indian Percussion Instrument Tabla.

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IC made a strong showing at the Northeastern Anthropological Association (NEAA) Annual Conference, held at the University of Maryland in College Park on March 1 and 2, 2013. There were six student oral presentations, one poster, one faculty presentation, and one recent alumnus presentation, all from the Anthropology Department.

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