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Information Technology Services has been working in the computer labs this summer and has some important updates and changes to make you aware of.

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 The Ithaca College Occupational and Physical Therapy Clinic will hold FREE weekly injury clinics for all performing artists every Thursday from 8:30-9:30am during Fall Block 1. 

Fall 2013 drop-in hours begin August 29, 2013.

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All students living in Temporary Lounges and Extended Occupancy Triples will receive priority on the fall wait list to move into a double or triple room. When you check into your room on August 25th, you will receive a preference form that needs to completed and submitted to the Office of Residential Life by August 30, 2013 befroe 5pm.

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Dr. Cathrene Connery, Associate Professor of Education, has published Constructing a Community of Thought: Letters on the Scholarship, Teaching, and Mentoring of Vera John-Steiner. The volume is co-edited with Robert Lake of Georgia Southern University and includes essays by leading researchers in sociolinguistics, anthropology, psychology, education, and the arts. The text is part of Peter Lang's Educational Psychology series.

Katherine Beissner, Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, recently published two interrelated papers in the Fall issue of the Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy.

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The TLC (Technology Learning Center) will be offering training on Taskstream and Sakai from Monday, August 26 through Friday, August 30. Please note that due to student staff training and the start of classes, our workshop schedule will be limited for these dates.

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The ITS Helpdesk will be open on Sunday, August 25, from noon to 5:00 p.m. We'll have a full-time staff member on duty as well as new Helpdesk students "learning the ropes." If you are in need of technology assistance that day, please feel free to call us at 274-1000 or stop by Job Hall 104.

For help with Apogee ResNet problems, please call 1-877-478-8893.

ITS Helpdesk
104 Job Hall
helpdesk@ithaca.edu
274-1000

Submitted on behalf of Terri Stewart, Director for Public Safety and Emergency Management

It is with great sadness that I pass along the news to the Ithaca College community of the death of Master Patrol Officer Jay VanVolkinburg of the Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management. Jay passed away unexpectedly as the result of a heart attack early Wednesday evening while off duty.

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Sumitted on behalf of Provost Marisa Kelly

The Ithaca College community recently lost two former longtime faculty members, with the passing on August 9 in Ithaca of both Robert Congdon and Imre Tamas.

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Did you play an instrument before coming to IC and want to play in an orchestra? 

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Faculty in Environmental Studies and Sciences collaborated with co-instructors from Primitive Pursuits to publish a paper in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences about the Environmental Sentinels (ENVS 120) course. 

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Sarah Brylinksy, Communications Management and Design ’08, recognized in Sierra Magazine for her “Aha Moment” here at IC.

Below is an excerpt from her interview:

A couple of months into a freshman seminar, Sarah Brylinsky sat through a PowerPoint presentation. It wasn't much more than a series of line charts from a 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. But the charts had pluck. Their lines were fire engine red, and they rose fervently up, up, following the perilous trajectory of greenhouse gas concentrations and surface temperatures. The final slide was just a quote from David A. King, the former chief scientific adviser to the British government: "In my view, climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today--more serious even than the threat of terrorism."

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Students from Ithaca College's Park School of Communications will head to Washington, DC this weekend to cover 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for NBC Nightly News, Weekend Edition, with Lester Holt. James A. Rada, associate professor in the Department of Journalism, will accompany the students as they interview participants and gather footage of the day's events at the Lincoln Memorial this Saturday, August 24. The students' work will air as part of NBC's Saturday evening newscast and will also be available through the NBC News website.

Rada will then return to D.C. with another group of students from the Park School on Wednesday August 28, for a second round of coverage of The March on Washington Commemorative events. This time, Rada and the IC News Crew will be covering the events for PBS Newshour online. Students work will be packaged and uploaded to the PBS website at a later date. August 28 is the actual 50th Anniversary of The March on Washington. President Obama is scheduled to appear along with former Presidents Clinton and Carter.

James A. Rada, associate professor in the Department of Journalism, has had his documentary Meet Me at Equality: The People’s March on Washington picked up for broadcast by several PBS affiliates nationwide. The hour-long program profiles 28 people who participated in The March on Washington on August 28, 1963. Locally, the program will air on WSKG on Friday August 30 at 10 p.m. In addition, PBS will stream the program online on the actual anniversary of the March – Wednesday August 28. More information is available at: www.meetmeatequality.com.

The Roy H. Park School of Communications will host a screening of the Rada's film on Thursday, September 5 at 6:30 p.m. in the Park Hall Auditorium. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with Rada and a group of students who participated in the March on Washington project.

Want to gain insight to the inner workings of a national film festival at the AMC Theatre in Times Square? Then you should volunteer for the first annual All-American High School Film Festival from October 4th - 6th in NYC!

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Prepare for a future in land management by enrolling in the Ithaca College Natural Lands (ICNL) Student Intern Training (SIT) program. 

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Within the next few days, Web Profile Manager users will notice a new text editor in WPM. The text editor is the toolbar used for applying formatting such as bold, bulleting, etc. The new text editor offers improved compatibility for newer Web browsers such as the latest version of Internet Explorer. The new editor has essentially the same functionality and formatting options as the old, but the toolbar buttons are arranged differently and may have different icons. You can hover over any button to see the name of its function.

Please contact the ITS Helpdesk if you have any questions.

ITS Helpdesk
helpdesk@ithaca.edu
104 Job Hall
4-1000

 Attention aspiring jazz vocalists! - The IC Jazz Vocal Ensemble is looking for singers! 

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Student Permits ordered online before 11:59pm, Wednesday August 21, 2013 and opted for "pick-up" will be available from 8:00am to 3:00pm at the A&E Center during IC Move-In, on Sunday August 25, 2013. Please contact Parking Services at (607) 274-3756 with any questions you may have.

The Center for Print Production (the Print Shop) would like to remind the campus community that the volume of printing and duplicating requests increases dramatically at this time of year as the entire campus gears up for the start of the classes.  

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