By taking first place in the Collegiate Orchestras category, the Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jeffery Meyer, is one of 19 American orchestras to be honored with a 2012–2013 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) Award for Adventurous Programming. ASCAP and the League of American Orchestras present the awards annually to orchestras of all sizes...

Two Ithaca College faculty members, both from the Department of Theatre Arts, have received Fulbright grants. Kathleen Mulligan, assistant professor of theatre arts, is returning to Pakistan this summer as a Fulbright Specialist. Susan Monagan, manager of audience development and special projects, has been awarded a Fulbright research award in Ireland for the fall of...

Officers from a number of municipal and campus police agencies in New York State will learn how to incorporate bicycles into their operations at the 2013 Law Enforcement Bike School, scheduled for June 10–14 at Ithaca College.

This will be the 20th anniversary of the school, which began in 1993 when...

Ithaca College’s Center for Life Skills invites individuals who have experienced a stroke to participate in its fall 2013 session. Intended for individuals who have been discharged from a formal rehabilitation program but deem it necessary to continue post-rehabilitation services to improve the quality of their everyday life, the session will run from Sept. 9 to Dec. 13, with...

Update: June 5, 2013, 1 p.m. Casey Byrne '13 hit some turbulence of sorts Tuesday night. His long awaited trip in SOFIA, which is NASA's high-flying observatory, was cut short when its telescope ran into electrical issues. The 747 itself was fine, but it was forced back to Palmdale, Calif., halfway into the scheduled flight.

Good news though: The physics grad was able to...