Ithaca College

Some of Ithaca College’s brightest and most creative students will present their impressive research at the 20th Annual James J. Whalen Academic Symposium on Thursday, April 13.

Four hundred and twenty-eight students representing 36 departments will participate by giving oral presentations or displaying posters and other creative works. There will be 221 presentations in total.

For the keynote address, Kathleen Mulligan, Associate Professor of Voice and Speech in the Department of Theatre Arts, and her former student, Sarah Hebert-Johnson, will be talking about their work and experience with her presentation titled: “Walking Through Open Doors: A Journey Through the Subcontinent”. Her current student, senior Jordan Pesci-Smith, will also be performing an original monologue.

The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 8:30 a.m. with the opening ceremony and keynote address in Emerson A, followed by oral and poster presentations running concurrently throughout the Campus Center until the closing ceremony begins at 3:50 p.m. A full schedule can be found on the Whalen Symposium website.

The Whalen Symposium Steering Committee encourages students who have qualifying disabilities to contact Kimberly Wilkinson or Rumit Singh Kakar, Co-Chairs of the Committee at kwilkinson@ithaca.edu or rkakar@ithaca.edu at least one week in advance of any Information Session or other pre-Whalen event to ensure timely arrangements can be made for any necessary accommodations.

For accommodations at the Symposium itself, please make contact at least two weeks in advance to ensure necessary accommodations can be made.