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 Marella Feltrin-Morris (Modern Languages and Literatures) has published in Pirandello Studies 40 (2020) the first English translation of “Leviamoci questo pensiero” ("Let's Get It Over With," 1910) and "La maschera dimenticata ("The Forgotten Mask," 1918), two short stories by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936).

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 American Marketing Association recognizes outstanding seniors.

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SUMMER 2021 – POLT 10100  Introduction to US Politics 

Can you explain your political ideology? We start the class with a framework of ideologies that will help us to understand different perspectives on the purpose and scope of government.  We then use this framework as we learn about and evaluate the machinery of our institutions broadly defined: Congress, the presidency, bureaucracy, judiciary, parties, interest groups, media, and the electoral process.  

We will use the lenses of ideology and the institutional machinery to understand specific policies such as social security, health care, taxes, civil liberties, and foreign policy. Throughout, we will constantly ask: how democratic is this place? Who is included and who is not?  What are your criteria for measuring democracy?

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"Pendleton" has been on everyone's lips over the last few weeks - from grant deadlines to the excitement around the big celebration. But who is James B. Pendleton and why are we celebrating him?

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Our next virtual All Staff Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, April 28, 2021 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern. An invitation will bent to all staff via Outlook. 

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The Central NY Chapter of the Fulbright Association is very proud to announce our newest project—"Fulbright Reads: A Fulbright Association Book Club” Many of us belong to book clubs. Here’s a chance to be in a book club with people from all over the world. The pandemic confronts us with many challenges –but one silver lining is the reminder that we can connect with one another virtually across time zones.

 

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National Student Employment Week is the week of April 12th, and IC Student Employment would like to take this time to recognize the participation of student employees in the day-to-day operations of the College. 

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Happy National Employee Benefits Day!

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The Office of the Provost & Sr. VPAA invites applications for the Dana Professorship.

Thanks to the Charles A. Dana Foundation’s generosity, Dana Professorships are awarded to selected Ithaca College full professors who have demonstrated a continued record of excellence as well as a promise of outstanding future contributions in teaching, professional endeavor in their area of specialty, and service to college and community. Dana Professors serve as role models and mentors for faculty and students, freely sharing their leadership skills, expertise, advice, and experience with the College’s community and others who seek it. As a result, the Dana Professors’ activities reflect positively on and enhance the College’s national and international reputation as a center for academic and artistic inquiry.

 

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For National Library Week, IC Library is offering a workshop to create written memories of living, working, teaching and learning during the pandemic.  After writing, participants can deposit their piece in the library’s COVID-19 History Archive.  The purpose of this Archive is to gather personal stories about how the pandemic affected members of the Ithaca College community. 

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Dear Ithaca College Community,

These first beautiful days of spring remind us that summer is just around the corner! The season provides new opportunities in Ithaca to enjoy the outdoors and one another’s company in ways not always possible in winter. If you live in the region year-round, you know already that few places in the world are more beautiful in summer than the Finger Lakes.

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Ed Catto, an Instructor focusing on Entrepreneurship and Start-Ups at the School of Business has been recognized as the Best Interior Illustrator and awarded the 2020 Pulp Factory Award.

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SUMMER 2021 - BIOL 10400 Environmental Biology ICC

Why do people find it difficult to connect with nature?

It’s never good to generalize, but society, as it is shaped at the present time, has created this disassociation. Enjoy without destroying is one of our greatest brands. We want nature alive, so we can live our life, too.

Sonia Guajajara Amazonian Indigenous Leader

 

 

 

 

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Please do join us on Monday April 5 at 7 p.m. Eastern for a roundtable with artistic directors of theaters across the US discussing their COVID pivots, challenges, and innovations on screens, phones, headphones, pop-ups, Zoom, and walking theater--and how they are reinventing theater. 

Register here:
https://www.ithaca.edu/finger-lakes-environmental-film-festival/week-three-events/monday-april-5-700-830-pm

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CW: food, body, diet culture

BOLD Trilogy: EMPOWER presents this month’s speaker event for our March theme on food insecurity and sustainability, “Food, Culture, and Healing the Mind & Body”. 

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CW: food, body, diet culture

BOLD Trilogy: EMPOWER presents this month’s speaker event for our March theme on food insecurity and sustainability, “Food, Culture, and Healing the Mind & Body”. 

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The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College has announced that this year’s Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media” will be shared by a publication and two journalists who undertook trailblazing and intrepid reporting during 2020.

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From state police to student activists this panel features a wide array of violence prevention specialists who will give audience members a peak at the behind the scenes work of Sexual Violence Prevention.

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 The Ithaca Music Forum will present a Zoom lecture by ethnomusicologist Dr. Kyra Gaunt of the University at Albany, SUNY, entitled "Music as an Instrument of Violence Against Black Girls on YouTube (or Twerking at the Intersection."  This talk will take place on Friday, April 9, at 5 pm.  See below for the Zoom registration link.

Zoom registration link:

 ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvdemsrT4iGdJrloZWXl2ChjDrxHjQJw9U

or contact psilberman@ithaca.edu.

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Join us virtually for a live viewing, Q+A, and group discussion with the mind behind the "Good Girls Don't Tell" documentary, our very own Jen Huemmer, Assistant Professor, Strategic Communications.

Bring your roommates and join us for this YouTube Live event.! 

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