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Join us from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. in Emerson Suites on September 30th!

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Join us from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Emerson Suites on September 30th!

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It's the beginning of the semester, homework is piling up, and your To Do List doesn't seem to end... Are YOU getting enough sleep? 

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All students are invited to the circus themed Student Activites Center Open House! September 24, 11:00am-2:00pm, 311 Egbert Hall. Come to participate in fun activites, eat free food, and enter for raffle prizes!

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IC voICes, an employee chorus is starting its 14th year and looking for new members.

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Associate Professor Elizabeth Bergman, Aging Studies, will present "Exploring the Aging Experience" on Thursday, October 2, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm at the Tompkins County Office for the Aging. Bergman will engage participants in a number of activities designed to educate and sensitize individuals to the physical, psychological, social, and other changes that are common as we age. This free workshop is open to family caregivers and others interested in how to communicate with, and assist, older adults in overcoming and copying with age-related changes. Please contact the Office for the Aging to register by calling 274-5492, or email dstoyell@tompkins-co.org .

Associate Professor Mary Ann Erickson is one of four authors of an article published online in September 2014 in the Journal of Housing for the Elderly. "Aging in Place or Relocation? Plans of Community Dwelling Older Adults" describes the results of a study that examined the anticipated living arrangements of 416 community-dwelling older adults using data from the first two data collections of the Pathways to Life Quality Study. John Krout, professor emeritus and the first director of the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute, is also an author. Read more...

Faculty members are sought to serve as the steering committee for the Linden Award for Learning Portfolio Excellence. The award has been established by Jay and Judith Linden to recognize up to three senior students annually who create outstanding learning portfolios demonstrating the reflective and creative use of technology through the portfolio as an electronically mediated presentation and showing an established relationship and communication with an IC alumnus mentor for the portfolio. Student award recipients will be selected based on the content and quality of their portfolios, including evidence of integrative thinking, critical and analytical problem solving, and reflective learning.

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Mara Keisling, Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality will speak at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday October 9 in the VIP Room of the  A&E Center.

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Gomez (Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Education) and Maceli (retired faculty, Mathematics) recently published their work, "Using Algebraic Expressions to Reveal the Math Behind Puzzles" in the New York State Mathematics Teachers' Journal.  The article explores how to use puzzles to motivate students and foster their understandings of algebra. The journal is published by the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State (an affiliate of the NCTM).

Want to learn about sustainable ecotourism while traveling in Costa Rica? Listen to howler monkeys and see exotic plants and wildlife? Assist in a turtle conservation program? Take RLS 27700 Ecotourism and Natural Resource Management - FA14 Block II with a trip to Costa Rica in January! 

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This is just a reminder that mandatory fire and emergency evacuation drills will continue in the coming week for academic and residential buildings.

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September is National Campus Safety Awareness Month, and the Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management would like to remind you of some of the resources available to you through our office.

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Department of Physics and Astronomy Associate Professor Michael "Bodhi" Rogers is the Zone 2 councilor on the National Council of the Society of Physics Students. Zone 2 covers New York, Ontario, and Quebec. 

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IC FIT KIDS: Personalized one on one training customized to help your child reach their fitness goals at the Ithaca College Robert R. Colbert Wellness Clinic!

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Career Services regrets to announce that the employer information session by the Frontier Project, scheduled for 5:00 p.m. this evening (Monday, September 22), has been postponed.  We are working with them to reschedule the visit for another time in the semester and will announce the new date as soon as it is known.

The next No Pressure Blood Pressure will be held on Wednesday, September 24th.

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Submitted on behalf of Gerald Hector, Vice President for Finance and Administration.

All students, staff and faculty are invited to attend one of two hour-long town hall sessions scheduled for Tuesday, October 7, to provide input on the campus master plan. The sessions will be held in the Emerson Suites, from 12:10 to 1:10 p.m. and from 2:35 to 3:35 p.m. 

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We all have mental health. Are you taking care of yours?

 

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After a long painful summer away from the Emerson Suites, Ithaca College's only all-male a cappella group is back and ready for our first show of the year. The show is free and tickets are not necessary.

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