Ithaca College

 Assistant Professor Donathan Brown will present a recent essay titled,  "Examining Racial Politics amidst Shifting Demographics," at the 60th annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies to be held this week in Panama City, Panama.

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Charles Woodard's artist's book, The History of Photography in Pen & Ink (A-Jump Books, Ithaca), has been selected for inclusion in an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery entitled Ed Ruscha Books & Co. and a publication entitled Various Small Books: Referencing Small Books by Ed Ruscha (The MIT Press, Cambridge).

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Lee Goodhew Romm, Professor in the School of Music, will travel to Deland, Florida for a March 17, 2013 performance at the Stetson University School of Music.  As part of the Faculty/Guest Recital the group will perform works by Francois Couperin, Georg Philipp Telemann, Marin Marais, Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Friedrich Fasch.    

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Last Thursday, Feb. 28, Jennifer Hayghe, an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the School of Music, took part in the Piano Artist Master Class Series offered at New York University's Steinhardt of Culture, Education, and Human Development. 

The annual Artist Master Class Series, running from January to May, offers a window into the creative process, as 14 world-renowned performing artists offer guidance and inspiration to the pianists of NYU Steinhardt. The master classes are free and open to the public.

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Three ICTV shows were recognized at the 2013 PEGASYS Awards, celebrating the best in public, governmental, and educational access television production in Tompkins County. The event was cablecast live on Time Warner Channel 13 on February 22.

The zombie drama "Ithapocalypse," produced by Chloe Wilson and Austin Saltz, won the Entertainment category.

"Sports Final," produced by John Avino and Sean Yoo, won the Best ICTV Studio Show category, and also shared the award Best Educational Access Program award with "Newswatch 16."

"Newswatch 16," under the leadership of news directors Collin Smith and Julia Manchester, is the the only live, local news program on Ithaca area television. In addition to the Best Educational Access Program award, it also won in the Local Focus category.

Andrew Utterson, assistant professor in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies, has been appointed Regional Visiting Fellow at the Cornell Institute for European Studies (CIES), part of Cornell College's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

The appointment aims to foster collegiality in the region in support of the development of scholarly work with a European focus.

Utterson is originally from the UK, and taught there prior to coming to Ithaca College. During that time, he was funded by the EU's Erasmus initiative to spend time teaching in Prague and Helsinki, and to establish links with universities throughout Europe.
 

Heather Schuck from Campus Center and Events Services took two first place positions in the Area 10 Toastmasters speech contest, representing Ithaca College. On Saturday, February 23rd in Cortland, members from four local clubs competed in two speech categories for International and Tall Tales, which Heather received first place for both. First and second place winners move on to the Southern Division Contest to be held on April 13th.

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Rebecca Plante, associate professor of sociology, was invited by Colgate University (earlier in February) to give a talk on 'hooking up,' sex, and dating. It was the kick off event for their 'Yes Means Yes!' Positive Sexuality education series; about 125 students and faculty attended. She also consulted with staff and students at Colgate about campus sexual climate.

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The faculty listed below were selected for recognition by the Division of Student Affairs and Campus Life (SACL) for their outstanding collaborative efforts, support of the SACL mission, and support of students in the out of classroom learning experience.

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Patricia Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was invited to write the catalog essay for the 32nd Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival.

Her essay, "Moana: Robert Flaherty, Frances Flaherty, and Documentary Fantasies," analyzes the history of Flaherty's 1926 film Moana, shot in Samoa. The docudrama prompted British producer and critic John Grierson to coin the term "documentary." This rarely seen film raises significant issues about fantasies of uncontaminated paradises and the ethics of documentary representation. Later, in the 1970s, Flaherty's daughter Monica and direct cinema legend Richard Leacock added new sound to the film, further complicating its history.

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Patrick Winters, assistant professor in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies, was recently interviewed by Tish Pearlman for the local radio show "Out of Bounds." The show features 30-minute interviews with "people living, working, and thinking outside the mainstream."

Winters, who has worked in the film business for more than 30 years, describes his most memorable experience -- working on sound design for the shower scene in the remake of Psycho (1998). He has worked on numerous other films including Finding Forrester, My Own Private Idaho, and Good Will Hunting.

To listen to the interview, click here. Air date: Jan. 10, 2013.
 

Catherine Taylor, Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, presented recent video work at the Conference on Ecopoetics at the University of California - Berkeley this past week.

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Miranda Kaye has published an article; Stellingwerff T, Kaye MP (2013) Deterrents of Modern Anti-Doping Approaches – Are the Efforts Making a Difference? J Sports Med Doping Stud 3: e131. doi:10.4172/2161-0673.1000e131, in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Doping Studies. To summarize, indirect evidence provides support that gains in the fight against doping in sport have been made. To preserve sport as a contest of human excellence and to address the morality of doping, deterrence methods are important.

Assistant professors Patrick Winters and Andrew Utterson were invited panelists at a recent Cornell Cinema special event. The two discussed the impact of science and technology on how movies are produced and consumed, following a screening of a new feature-length documentary on the subject, Side by Side.

Utterson teaches screen studies in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies. He recently co-curated a 2012 Blu-ray/DVD release of the 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.

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Jake Brenner (Environmental Studies & Sciences) and Leann Kanda (Biology) collaborated on a paper, titled "Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) Invades Lands Surrounding Cultivated Pastures in Sonora, Mexico," that will be published soon in Invasive Plant Science and Management, a journal of the Weed Science Society of America.

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Gustavo Licón, Assistant Professor of Latino/a Studies in the Center for the Study for Culture, Race and Ethnicity (CSCRE) was recently awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty.  This fellowship is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by The Woodrow Wilson Foundation.  This Fellowship, along with the support of Ithaca College and the School of Humanities and Sciences, will provide Dr. Licón the opportunity to focus on his research and writing from June 2013-June 2014. His goal during this fellowship year is to publish several articles in peer reviewed journals.

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Marie Sanford, Clinical Associate professor in the Dept of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, three IC students and a colleague from Cornell University presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences in Las Vegas, NV. 

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Ithaca College Fuse, the twice-yearly magazine created by students for students, and Life at IC, a social media project showcasing daily student life, each earned bronze honors in the 2013 Cuppie Awards Program. Sponsored by the Association of Communicators in Education, the Cuppie Awards recognize creative excellence in marketing and communication in higher education. Ithaca College Fuse competed in the Print Publications - Magazine category; Life at IC in Electronic Media - Social Media. A panel of senior-level industry experts judged the entries.

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Frank Gabriel Campos, professor of trumpet, and Nicholas Walker, associate professor of string bass, are appearing twice this week on Performance Today, a nationally syndicated radio and internet show on American Public Media that reaches 1.5 million listeners worldwide.

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Chelsie Reed, an Ithaca College DPT student in her final year of studies at the Rochester Center, is this year’s recipient of the Ann Marie Sirois Clinical Education Scholarship. This clinical education scholarship is awarded to a student with high academic achievement, a record of scholarship and community service.  

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