On April 11, Prof. Sheibe participated in an online roundtable sponsored by the National Association for Media Literacy Education, spotlighting the work of three member organizations, which included:

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Come and learn what research students have been working on in the lab.

May 1 & 2

CNS 112

4:00 p.m.

Hugh Egan, Professor in the department of English, is ending his three-year term as the Robert Ryan Professor of the Humanities, and will deliver a lecture on Friday, May 3, at 4pm in the Handwerker Gallery. His talk is entitled, "Slavery and Self-Reliance: Douglass, Emerson, and the Limits of Metaphor." A reception will follow the talk.  

The new Robert Ryan Professor is Vivian Bruce Conger of the History Department.

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Senior writing students, working with faculty mentors Mary Silva and Susan Adams Delaney from the Department of Writing, will be presenting "Hindsight is 20/20: Developing the ICC E Learning Portfolio for the Writing Department" on Tuesday, April 30th from 12:00-1:15 in Clark Lounge.

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Posted on behalf of the IC Rotaract Club

Come hear Svante Myrick, mayor of Ithaca, talk to the Rotaract Club about student activism, the Ithaca community, and the environment!

When: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 7:00 PM

Where: Textor 101

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Physics Spring Seminar Series Tuesday, April 30 12:10 CNS 204

Please Join us for a Talk Entitled:

Let's Twist Again: Coupling Large Optical Angular Momentum to a Small Torsional Oscillator. With Mishkatul Bhattacharya of RIT

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Scott Stull of the Department of Anthropology at Ithaca College will present a public lecture entitled "Hedwig Beakers:  Construction of Authority and Material Culture in Norman Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire."  The talk will take place on Monday, April 29, from 5-6:30pm in the Six Mile Creek Room in the Ithaca College Campus Center.

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• DATE: Monday, April 29, 2013
• TIME: 11:45 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
• LOCATION: Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850

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• DATE: Monday, April 29, 2013
• TIME: 11:45 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
• LOCATION: Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
• PLEASE REGISTER BY: Tuesday, April 23 (event is free and open to the public)

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 Submitted by Marisa Kelly, Provost

Please join me on Thursday, May 2 for the final Faculty Colloquium of the 2012 – 2013 academic year.  Sara Haefeli, Department of Music Theory, History, and Composition, will be presenting “John Cage and the New Canon.”

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The “Rural Aging in 21st-Century America” workshop will be held at the Country Inn and Suites, 1100 Danby Road, Ithaca (just 5 minutes south of the college).

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Tompkins Cortland Community College
Friday, May 3, 2013
8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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All are welcome to attend Professor Adams's talk, "All the Things We Could Be By Now if Race Really Didn't Matter" on Thursday, April 25, 5:30-6:30 in Business 103.  This event is proudly sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society.

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Language changes.That simple, inevitable fact has rich implications for our lives, in ways that most people aren’t aware of. While some people believe that differences in regional speech are dying out today in the U.S., much evidence shows that dialects are becoming much stronger and new dialect features are emerging rapidly, including basic pronunciation of words like bad and bag, Don and Dawn, or his and hiss, and these tell us much about recent history, about contemporary society and our own identities.   Presentation is free and open to the public, on Wednesday, April 24th in the Klingenstein Lounge, from 6-7 pm. 

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Welcome to Professor Cynthia A. Kierner's talk on Monday April 22, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m at Textor 101, and hear how President Jefferson's daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, helped shape her father's public image in Washington and beyond.

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Please Join us at the Physics Cafe in Emerson Suites, 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 as Paola Barbara, Georgetown University, gives a talk entitled:

Beyond Gulliver’s Travels: Shrinking Matter One Dimension at a Time:

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Dr. Judith Plaskow, noted Jewish feminist author and activist, will be speaking at Ithaca College on April 23, 2013, at 7:30 pm in Textor 103 on “Judaism through a Feminist Lens: Feminism in a Post-Feminist Era." Her talk is free and open to the public.

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•  DATE: Monday, April 29, 2013
• TIME: 11:45 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
• LOCATION: Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
• PLEASE REGISTER BY: Tuesday, April 23 (event is free and open to the public)

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Thursday, April 25    
4:00 p.m.
CNS 112
Reception at 3:45 p.m., 1st floor foyer.
All are welcome to hear what students have been working on for their honors research.

Abby Finley (Biology); Bruce Smith/Dave Gondek
"An extensive survye of infection by potential sex ratio distorting pathogens among species of Arrenurus   water mites"

Adam Longwich (Biochemistry); Susan Swensen
"The Neotropical Cucumber Gurania: An Evolutionary Analysis    

Keyla Tumas (Biology); Andy Smith
"The Nature of Cross-Links in Biological Glue: Why does Increased Temperature Weaken Slug Glue?  

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A robust discussion on Monday 22, 2013 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m, with Dr. Amii Omara-Otunnu, UNESCO Chair for the United States, on power, terror and the constant tension between realpolitik and justice.

Dr. Otunnu holds the first and only Chair in Human Rights in the USA and coordinates the
UNESCO Chairs in Human Rights in the regions of Israel, Western Europe and North America. He is also the founder and Executive Director of the Institute of Comparative Human Rights at the University of Connecticut.

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