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Financial Elder Abuse workshop

Contributed by Teri Reinemann on 03/16/14 

Ithaca College Gerontology Institute with the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center presents the Financial Elder Abuse workshop on Wednesday, March 19, from 2:00-4:30 p.m. at the Country Inn and Suites, 1100 Danby Road. This workshop is FREE for IC students, faculty and staff, but registration is required. Visit ithaca.edu/agingworkshops to register and for more information.

 

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Free Cooking Class!

Contributed by Lindsay Simpson on 03/16/14 

Are you struggling with preparing healthy meals for yourself? Are you making the transition off campus in the fall and worried about cooking meals? This student-led course is for you! 

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Submitted on behalf of Julia Herman '14, CHP Intern.

In this month's IC Student Health 101...

Stand Out From The Crowd

  • 5 questions to answer in your cover letter

Android or iPhone? Or Something Else?

  • What's your smartphone of choice? Why? Please share here!

Creating Your Own Happiness

  • Realize the joys of being single

Find out more - and enter the March drawing $2,500 - in IC Student Health 101!!

Have a healthy week!!

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Ticket information is now available for Seth Meyers’ performance on April 12 at Ithaca College. Ithaca College students will be able to purchase presale tickets beginning Wednesday, March 19 at 10 a.m. EST. Any remaining seats will be open to the general public on Friday, March 21 at 10 a.m. EST.


To Purchase Tickets:

Visit: iceventstickets.com

Please note: You will need to create an account to purchase tickets. Create your account ahead of time for a faster and easier ticket purchase experience.

Ithaca College Students: To receive the IC student discount on non-premium seats, you MUST enter your student ID when you create your account. Enter your ID number in the "IC ID#/Promo Code" section. Ithaca College students can purchase up to 6 tickets. Non-premium seats are $15 each and premium seats are $40 each.

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Rachel Kushner’s most recent novel, The Flamethrowers, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award. Her debut novel, Telex From Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, won the California Book Award and was a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Believer, Artforum, Bookforum, Fence, Bomb, and Grand Street.  She is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow. Her reading on Thursday, March 20th at 7:30 pm in Park Hall Auditorium is free and open to the public.

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We are now accepting nominations, including self-nominations, for the 2015 Senior Class Gift Committee.  More information about the Senior Class Gift Campaign and Committee can be viewed at http://goo.gl/YroKr7.

 

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 Just when you thought college basketball was over for the year, here’s another tournament!


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The Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs would like to recognize student leaders who have made an impact on campus. This year we are recognizing student organizations for their work and dedication to the campus. We are asking students, staff and faculty to submit nominations for Outstanding Adviser of the Year, Outstanding Executive Board Member of the Year and Best Program of the Year. To nominate, please submit the Student Organization Nomination Form and the Program of the Year Application found on IC Link and the OSEMA website by March 28, 2014. For more information or questions, please contact Theresa Radley at tradley@ithaca.edu.

Come join the IC Animal Rights club on March 24th at 6pm in Textor 102 for a lovely presentation by the amazing Kathy Stevens ( founder of the animal sanctuary) The name of her presentation is " Why go Vegan"and it's going to a great time! Don't feel like you need to be vegan or have to even consider going vegan if you come to the lecture! It's open for all kinds of life styles, but it will be an amazing learning experience!

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 2 - 3 p.m.
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center

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Monday, March 17, 2014, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center
http://events.ithaca.edu/calendar/day/2014/3/17

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Come join the IC Animal Rights club on March 24th at 6pm in Textor 102 for a lovely presentation by the amazing Kathy Stevens ( founder of the animal sanctuary) The name of her presentation is " Why go Vegan"and it's going to a great time! Don't feel like you need to be vegan or have to even consider going vegan if you come to the lecture! It's open for all kinds of life styles, but it will be an amazing learning experience!

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 2 - 3 p.m.
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center

Presented by Bodhi Rogers, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Think, Pair, Share is a form of cooperative group learning where students silently form their own answer and then share with their neighbors, group, or table. This instructional mode encourages all students to participate and has the potential to create cognitive dissonance, which may result in deeper learning.
(register here)
 

 

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Find out more about how to use the new IC Mentoring Network on LinkedIn and why having career mentors can help make all the difference in your career path. Also learn about important strategies around utilizing LinkedIn to make connections, networking etiquette, and informative career networking groups.

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Stephen Sweet (Associate Professor of Sociology) has been selected as editor of the journal Teaching Sociology.

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Please join H&S Pre-Law and the Ithaca College Alumni Association in welcoming prominent entertainment lawyer Michael McNeil, alumnus of the Park School of Communications, to campus. McNeil will share his insights and answer questions about his academic and professional experiences at a dinner held in School of Business conference room 301 at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, March 20.

All students who are considering law school, interested in entertainment law, or simply curious about how an accomplished attorney went from being an IC student to the leading counsel of a major media company are encouraged to attend!

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John Confer (Biology), Leann Kanda (Biology) and Ireyena Li (recent ENVS graduate).  “Northern Saw-whet Owl regional patterns for fall migration and demographics revealed by banding data” accepted for publication in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 2014.

 

Submitted on behalf of Robert Cree, Associate Vice President for Business and Finance

 As the College’s strategic sourcing initiative gets underway, we are preparing to hold the initial “kick-off” meetings for each of the four advisory committees that have been created to assist with various aspects of the overall initiative.  The four advisory committees that have been created are as follows:  Supply Management, Change Management, Information Technology, and Purchasing/Travel Card.

 A listing of the members that will be serving on each of the committees can be found below:

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Assistant Professor of Education, Ellie Fitts Fulmer, recently presented "Emerging from 'Puzzling Moments': A White Teacher's Narrative in a Course on Multicultural Education," at the Penn GSE Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The annual conference, sponsored by the Center for Urban Ethnography, includes a special focus on teacher inquiry and on urban schooling and was held February 28 to March 1, 2014. 

3/18 (Tuesday) 12:15pm, CNS 115 - Presentation on the involved application timeline. Sarah will give us a look into the timeline with MCAT scores, the AMCAS primary application, school specific secondary applications, interview invitations and scheduling, and finally admissions decisions, deposits and second-looks.

Lunch provided. 

PS  Don't forget about March 17 deadline!  Check out the blog for details.