Ithaca College

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 School of Health Sciences and Human Performance is pleased to announce that the Spring 2021 edition of Conversation on COVID will continue on Friday, March 26 from 11am- 12.   This event provides an opportunity to hear from two more HSHP Ithaca College faculty

The guests for this event will be Kari Brossard Stoos of the Dept of Health Promotion and Physical Education and Jennifer Wells of the Dept of Recreation and Leisure Studies.

Courtney Gray, Clinical Professor of the Department of Exercise Science and Athletic Training will moderate.

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Spring has truly arrived IC! The weather is finally turning for the better and we continue to forge ahead in our efforts to contain the impacts of COVID-19. We have worked so hard to get to this point in the semester, but now is not the time to let up in our focus! This week brings our first long-weekend of the spring semester and an important opportunity for some well-earned time to recharge for the final weeks of the semester; however, let’s make sure we are doing so the right way while remaining #ICinThisTogether.

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Zoe Shan Lin,  Assistant Professor of History, presented at the 2021 conference of the Association for Asian Studies. The presentation, "Carved in Stone: Stele Building, Public Memories, and Local Politics in Southern Song China, 1127-1279," examined how local officials and literati built stelae to make public memories that helped them succeed in political negotiations.

As we welcome the Spring Season, we would like to remind our community that our Spring Holiday has been moved to Monday, March 29, 2021 to align with a day classes will not be in session due to the adjustments in this year’s academic calendar, as posted on Intercom in January.

The LMS Implementation Team has been working hard to prepare for the Limited Canvas Pilot, launching this week. Nearly 75 faculty and staff have volunteered to be Pilot Explorers or Pilot Pathfinders. There is a kick-off meeting for the pilot group on Wednesday, March 24th at 4:00 pm. The meeting will be recorded for any members who are not able to attend.  

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Web Profile Manager (WPM), the college's outgoing content management system used to maintain Ithaca.edu, is scheduled to be turned off on April 1.

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Primary faculty assigned to a class can post midterm grades for full semester (not block courses), undergraduate student courses beginning Monday, March 1st through Wednesday, March 24th at 10:00pm via HomerConnect.

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Keep your financial goals on track with TIAA’s live webinars. Reserve your spot today at tiaa.org/webinars.

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The Wellness Clinic is open and accepting new faculty, staff, and graduate student members!   Virtual services are free to the entire campus community (except for virtual personal training).  Membership is required for access to virtual personal training and all in-person services including 90-minute workout sessions, group exercise classes, fitness evaluations, and maximal exercise testing.   

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PCIM and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) will host a roundtable discussion with Rodrigo Brandão and Sharon Lerner from investigative independent news outlet The Intercept on Wednesday, March 24, from 5:00–6:30 p.m.

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Please note that there will not be an All Staff Meeting in March. 

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In recognition of the intellectual and creative richness that Ithaca College faculty members bring to our campus community, Provost La Jerne Terry Cornish invites us all to gather remotely for an evening of engagement. Presenters will share from the research and/or creative activity they engaged in during their sabbatical.

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 PCIM and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) will host a roundtable discussion with Rodrigo Brandão and Sharon Lerner from investigative independent news outlet The Intercept on Wednesday, March 24, from 5:00–6:30 p.m.

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 We are developing a plan for our next steps at the Center for IDEAS and the great work being led by this office.

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Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and Co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, delivered an invited lecture at the University of Colorado on March 5 entitled “The Historiography of We Tell:  Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media.”

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LECTURE: "Intergenerational Witness as Praxis: Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage and Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective"

ABSTRACT: Building Latino digital collections means building a collective of practitioners, scholars, students and community members in a democratized relationship to the cultural production of a collection. Through the work of these two organizations, this talk will present the processes and policies crafted to center community-based knowledge and experience through the transformative act of intergenerational witness as applied to the materials collected and articulated.

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Dr. Elizabeth Bleicher, Dr. Andrew Utterson, and Dr. Jen Wofford presented at the 40th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience. 

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As part of the CCI’s WonderCon, the annual Los Angeles based convention, Catto will lead a panel of top authors to discover the surprising new strategies and tactics they employ to reach their customers.

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