Kudos

Susan Allen-Gil, biology, coauthored an article, "Vitamin and thyroid status in arctic grayling (Thymallus acrticus) exposed to doses of 3,3',4,4'-tetrachlorobiphenyl that induce the phase I enzyme system," that was recently published in Chemosphere 45:185-193.

Byron Caplan, television-radio, was awarded first-place honors in the documentary category in the Broadcast Education Association’s Faculty Production Competition. His award-winning film, Three Small-Town American Celebrations, aired on WSKG last fall.

Carole Dennis, occupational therapy, Elizabeth Begley, speech-language pathology and audiology, and Kathy Schlough, physical therapy, presented a miniseminar, "Perils, Pitfalls, and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Graduate Teaching," at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in New Orleans in November. Other presentations by Ithaca College faculty and students were "Interdisciplinary Clinical Education within a Family-Centered Prevention Model" by Dennis and Christine P. Cecconi, speech-language pathology and audiology; "Students Practicing Outside the Box: A Clinical Practicum Model" by Cecconi; and "Screening Child-Specific Media for Language Intervention: Disney to Pokemon" by Marie Sanford and Katie Morgan ’02, both of speech-language pathology and audiology.

Kirsten Fudeman, modern languages and literatures, has been selected for a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. The grant will support six months of full-time research compiling and studying the Old French words, phrases, and sentences incorporated by scholar Joseph Kara into his medieval Hebrew commentaries on the Bible.

Raymond Ghirardo, art, and Megan Roberts, television-radio, recently exhibited Conefield, a site-specific video/sound installation, and Valley Shadows, an outdoor projected work, at the Visual Studies Workshop Gallery in Rochester.

Ithaca College Theatre gave a benefit performance of Parade in November to help families affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. One hundred and ninety patrons paid to see the performance, which raised $2,944 for the Familes of Freedom Scholarship Fund, a national organization supplying assistance for postsecondary education to financially needy children and spouses of those killed in the attacks.

Kinsuk K. Maitra, occupational therapy, and Kal M. Telage, speech-language pathology and audiology, recently presented a paper, "Evidence of Vocalization-Induced Enhancement of Functional Performance in a Daily Occupation in Well Elderly," at the annual meetings of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions in Norfolk and the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego. The work was coauthored by the following occupational therapy graduate students, who conducted the research: Danielle Curry, Caitlin Gamble, Melissa Martin, Jessica Phelps, Maria Elina Santisteban, Erin Slattery, and Jennifer Thomas.