Intercom

intercom home  |  advanced search  |  about intercom  |  alerts  |  faq  |  help  |  rss  

user functions

Log into intercom now

Current Ithaca College community members may contribute stories and comments as well as view additional topics by logging in.

Reset My Password

roundup

E-mail
Roundup

Sign up to receive a summary of Intercom headlines via e-mail three times a week.

Cyndy Scheibe, Executive Director and Founder of Project Look Sharp, speaks with Mission: Radio on WRFI. Project Look Sharp is a non-profit media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that helps teachers incorporate media literacy in the classroom.

Read more . . . (53 words)

Join us for the fellows' brief presentations and a reception to honor them.

Read more . . . (251 words)

The “Rural Aging in 21st-Century America” workshop will be held Wednesday, April 24th, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Country Inn and Suites, 1100 Danby Road, Ithaca (just 5 minutes south of the college).

Read more . . . (110 words)

A conversation 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. 

 

Read more . . . (92 words)

An evening with best selling author and transgender activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Thursday, April 18 - doors open at 6:30 p.m., reading at 7 p.m. First Unitarian Church of Ithaca, Parlor, 306 N. Aurora Street, downtown Ithaca on the corner of Aurora and Buffalo.

Read more . . . (247 words)

The “Disaster Planning for Older Adults” workshop will be held today, Wednesday, April 17th, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Country Inn and Suites, 1100 Danby Road, Ithaca (just 5 minutes south of the college).

Read more . . . (113 words)

All are welcome to attend Professor Adams's talk on Thursday, April 25, 5:30-6:30 in Business 103.  This event is proudly sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society.

Read more . . . (162 words)

Joy Bauer, from NBC's TODAY, will serve as this year's Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecturer. She will speak on Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Emerson Suites. The event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Roy H. Park School of Communications, the Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecture Series brings a broadcast journalist to campus each year to honor the legacy of Jessica Savitch, the 1968 Ithaca College graduate who became an Emmy Award-winning NBC News anchor and correspondent. Previous speakers in the series have included Sam Champion, Jean Chatzky, Lester Holt, Ann Cury, David Muir ’95, Andrea Mitchell, and Natalie Morales.

Read more . . . (336 words)

 THURSDAY, April 18, 2013 -- Taughannock Falls Meeting Room; Campus Center Ithaca College, 5:30pm-7pm

 Dr. Cynthia Hsu, member of Finger Lakes Zero Waste Coaliton (accompanied by members of Concerned Citizens of Arcadia)

 

Read more . . . (147 words)

The Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE) will host two talks by experts on Latino/a youth on Thursday, April 18. The presentations in Textor 103 will begin at 7 p.m., and they are free and open to the public.

Read more . . . (254 words)

Global Citizens for Health
Getting Involved: Taking Action for a Healthier World

WEDNESDAY, April 17, 7pm, Klingenstein Lounge
Malaria: Global Risk Requires Global Solutions, 
Dr. Laura Harrington, 
Cornell University, Dept of Entomology,
Grand Challenges in Health Awardee from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Read more . . . (93 words)

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.

Read more . . . (146 words)

The “Disaster Planning for Older Adults” workshop will be held Wednesday, April 17th, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Country Inn and Suites, 1100 Danby Road, Ithaca (just 5 minutes south of the college).

Read more . . . (111 words)

How did David Corn unearth that “Mitt Romney and the 47%” video? DId it have an impact on the 2012 presidential election? What is “dark money,” where does it come from, and what impact does it have on our lives?

We’ll learn the answers to those questions and more when Mother Jones representatives Corn (Washington Bureau chief), publisher Steve Katz, and environment/reproductive rights reporter Kate Sheppard (IC ’06) accept the fifth Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.

Read more . . . (166 words)

Michael E. Zuber
Upstate Medical University

"Retina Degeneration and Regeneration in Xenopus: What we can learn from the frog"

4:00 p.m.
CNS 112
April 18


Part of the Department's Seminar Series.

Everyone is welcome to attend!
Refreshments beforehand* (3:45-4:00pm)
CNS first floor lobby
*Please bring your own reusable mug for beverages. Reuse, reduce, recycle! 

Read more . . . (26 words)

Human Rights lawyer Theresa Harris will deliver a talk this evening on the first prosecution in the US Courts of a US citizen, for torture committed abroad. The talk and Q/A will take place today, April 11, 2013 at Business 204 from 7-9 pm. All are welcome 

Read more . . . (182 words)

Please join us for a special presentation by associate professor of religious studies and author S. Brent Plate:

“A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects”
Dr. S. Brent Plate
Thursday, April 18
7:00 PM
Friends Hall 209

Read more . . . (211 words)

Communication is often taken for granted, but it is what 13-year-old Alexis Runyan and four-year-old Oliver Chatterjee struggle with every day. Both children are nonverbal and cannot sign with their hands due to disorders that create a lack of muscle control.

The documentary Expressions of Hope gives a voice to these two children struggling to find their own. The film follows the children as they learn how to use various forms of assistive technology and modes of communication, and features the amazing work of Tina Caswell, clinical instructor, and her students at Ithaca College's Sir Alexander Ewing Speech and Hearing Clinic.

Screening: Expressions of Hope
Monday, April 15
5 p.m.
Textor 101

Read more . . . (84 words)

 Human Rights Watch lawyer and activist Elise Keppler will deliver a talk on the efficacy of the International Criminal Court and the promise of global justice today April 9 from 7-9 pm at the Clark Lounge. Free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

 

Read more . . . (144 words)

“Numbered,” a documentary that tells the story of survivors who for the past six decades have been living with the grayish-blue numbers tattooed on them by Nazis in Auschwitz, will be shown at Ithaca College on Tuesday, April 9, in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Free and open to the public, the screening will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Textor 101.

Read more . . . (199 words)