Ithaca College

Wednesday, November 20, 2013
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (bring your lunch), Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center
Facilitated by Belisa Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology; Danette Johnson, Assistant Provost and Director of the Core Curriculum; Michelle Rios-Dominguez, Manager of Diversity and Inclusion

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
4 - 6 p.m., Clark Lounge

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 Cannes Film Festival Student Programs info session Nov. 20.

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Ithaca College's Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Club will be hosting its 5th Annual Dinner Dance on Dec 7th at 6pm.  The event will take place at Celebrations in Ithaca.  Come join us for a night full of good food, music, and fun- all while helping a great cause!

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Ithaca College's Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Club will be hosting its 5th Annual Dinner Dance on Dec 7th at 6pm.  The event will take place at Celebrations in Ithaca.  Come join us for a night full of good food, music, and fun- all while helping a great cause!

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 As you all are excited for our upcoming break we are excited for this weeks meeting which will include a guest lecture by Dr. Phuong Nguyen! Dr. Nguyen is currently teaching two courses this semester,The "Introduction to Asian-American Studies"   along with "Race and Love in Asian-America". As the coordinator of the newly developedAsian-American Studies minor Dr. Nguyen's long background in ethnic studies has given him a foundation for discussing issues of race and identity. During this meeting he will talk about his personal experiences with such topics as he tries to raise questions and bring light to ideas we never fully talk about as well as answer the question of "Why I Became Asian-American.."

It will be a great dialogue and we hope all of you can attend and bring your friends for this great opportunity!   Meet us in Williams 313 this Thursday at 7pm as we get to not only get to know Dr. Nguyen better but share our stories as well

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

Most students feel overly stressed at some point during their college careers. One of the best things you can do to control stress is exercise. Exercising releases endorphins--the "feel-good" chemicals in your brain, and pushes out the stressful energy while allowing you to relax and feel more at ease. 

Stress can also cause trouble concentrating, anxiety and depression, and it can increase anger and irritability. By exercising, you can start defeating all of these negative emotions and come out on top! 

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Govind Acharya, Senior Research Analyst in the Office of Institutional Research, presented a session at the 40th Annual North East Association for Institutional Research Conference held in Newport, RI, November 9 - 12, 2013.

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All interested Ithaca College students – especially those residing in South Hill neighborhoods - to encouraged to attend and participate in a listening/feedback session tonight, Monday, November 18 from 7:00PM – 8:30PM in the South Hill Elementary School cafeteria. Cornell University students in the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) are exploring the concept of ecological and economic sustainability in a city, and how Ithaca and the surrounding area in Tompkins County might evolve into a more sustainable urban center in the coming decades. Given the unique challenges facing the South Hill neighborhood - from traffic to demographic changes to housing to topography - it is one of two areas in Ithaca chosen as a study site.

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The Resource and Environmental Management Program is hosting our annual CLOTHING SWAP this Wednesday, November 20th, from 9:00-2:00 in Clarke Lounge (in campus center).

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ITS has released the final report based on results of the 2013 Faculty Survey on Instructional Technology. The purpose of the survey is to assess the current use, needs, perceptions and future aspirations of instructional technologies in order to help ITS and others on campus best align services and support.

Below is a sample of what you'll find in the report:

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Celebrate the accomplishments of our December 2013 graduates at a dessert reception on Sunday, December 15, 2013 from 2 pm to 3:30 pm in the Emerson Suites of Phillips Hall.

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Students enrolled in ARTH 111: Episodes in Art History will be re-enacting the Exposition Universelle de Paris of 1889 on Tuesday, November 19, from 10:50 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. and again from 1:10 p.m. to 2:25 p.m. in Handwerker Gallery.

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Hitting the road for Thanksgiving and need a lift home or to the airport? Want to make a few extra bucks driving others along the way? Ithaca Zimride makes it easy to catch a lift or fill the empty seats in your car. You can limit your ride to just members of the Ithaca College campus community, or you can open it up to other students from Cornell or Tompkins Cortland Community College. Or you can decide to throw the Zimride search portal wide open to include the entire Tompkins County area community and see who all is headed home in the same direction you are.

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HELP US SAVE LIVE THROUGH THE POWER OF PUNCTUATION!

 **Apply to be a tutor in the Writing Center.

 **The Writing Center is now hiring for Spring 2014. Applications are available in hard copy in Smiddy 107 or online (ithaca.edu/hs/depts/writing/writingcenter).

 **The deadline for applications is Friday, November 22nd.

Naeem Inayatullah (Politics) participated in two events at Vassar College . He presented “The Pedagogical Origins of Autobiographical International Relations” on a panel titled “Fiction in Global Politics, Global Politics as Fiction.” And, he participated in a faculty workshop, “The Narrative Turn in Politics,” November 14-15, 2013. 
 

Jeffery Meyer, Director of Orchestras at Ithaca College, will conduct the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic at the 25th International New Music Festival “Sound Ways” led by Russian composer and faculty member at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory Alexander Radvilovich. The program will include two world premieres by Russian composer Anatoly Koroliov and the young, emerging American composer Daniel Temkin. American pianist James Giles will return to the stage of Gilnka Hall to perform the world premiere of the final version of American composer Timothy Dunne’s Piano Concerto written for Giles and the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic.  The rest of the program is focused around two titans of the 20th century: Lutoslawski and Berio.

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The On the Verge playreading series presents a reading of Tom Stoppard's "dazzling dissection of adultery, the theatre, radical politics and other so-called real things" (Linda Winer, Newsday). The reading was directed by Claire Gleitman, a faculty member in the English department, and the cast will include faculty members from both Theatre and English (Kathleen Mulligan and Chris Holmes), students from the departments of Theatre and English (Taylor Misiak, Jordan Schultz, Katy Newton, and Caleb Cushing), and a local professional actor (Jesse Bush).

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 An evening of spoken word, emceed by Mary Beth O'Connor. With an open reading to follow.

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Come join Colleges Against Cancer for popcorn, candy and trivia! Relay for Life is Academy Awards themed this year, so what better way to kick off the RFL season with movie trivia? Prizes will be awarded!

The event is TOMORROW from 7 to 9 p.m. in IC Square.

We want everyone to come out and sign up for Relay for Life, which is being held on March 29, 2014!

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