Ithaca College

The June 12th Weight Watchers At Work meeting will be in Job Hall 161, one of the classrooms in the hallway (beneath the fountain) between Job Hall and Dillingham Center. This location change is for June 12 only.

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Nancy Rader, Psychology, has two recent publications using eye-tracking methodology that detail how, while speaking to an infant, caregiver gestures manage the infant’s attention; these gestures “unstick” infant attention from the speaker’s mouth and direct it to an object as it is being named. 

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Andy Smith. Keynote speaker at the 1st International Conference on Biological and Biomimetic Adhesives in Lisbon Portugal (May 9-11, 20112). 

His talk was titled "Multiple metal-based cross-links: protein oxidation and metal coordination in a biological glue".

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Maya Patel. “Learning through undergraduate research:  Practice of inquiry and understandings about nature of science and nature of scientific inquiry.”  Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual International Conference. Indianapolis, IN. Spring 2012.

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Low SE, Woods IG, Lachance M, Ryan J, Schier AF, Saint-Amant L. 2012. “Touch responsiveness in zebrafish requires voltage-gated calcium channel 2.1b.” J Neurophysiol. Apr 4. [Epub ahead of print]

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As previously announced in Intercom and direct emails, all faculty, staff, student and departmental email accounts will be moving to Microsoft Live@edu as of Monday, June 11, 2012. The new system will provide a reliable, robust email and calendar system (the calendar phase will be implemented in the coming months), including 10 GB of email storage.

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A test of the e-mail component of the college’s Emergency Notification System (ENS) will be conducted during the noon hour on Thursday, June 14. This will involve e-mail only, so there will be no text or voice message or use of the Outdoor Warning System as part of the test.

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The Office of Risk Management is in the process of renewing Ithaca College's Contract with bus providers.   We anticipate having the updated Approved Bus Company list posted on the Risk Management site in the next 2 weeks.

Whether or not a Contract is renewed with a particular bus company is dependent upon their ability to meet the various requirements in our contract.  If a company was  previously approved that does not guarantee they will be again. 

Please refer to the Risk Management website at:  www.ithaca.edu/riskmanagement/bus_charter/  for updates.

Thank you.

Quoted in the media: President Tom Rochon; faculty members Jeff Cohen, Scott Hamula, Rachel Wagner, and Sandra Steingraber; students Evan Nison, Elizabeth Stoltz, and Ashely Aliciea; and staff member Mark Coldren. For more information on the following articles, please visit the IC in the Media page at the Office of Media Relations:

IC in the Media

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Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor of screen studies in the Roy H. Park School of Communications and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, has published an essay entitled "Humanist and Poetic Activism: The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in the 1950s."

The essay was published in the anthology Film Festivals and Activism, a new book edited by Diana Iordinova and Leshu Torchin and published by the University of St Andrews Press in Scotland.

Drawing on archival research and participant interviews, the essay situates the Flaherty seminar in the emerging international non-commercial media sectors developing post-World War II and also explores Frances Flaherty's theories of documentary filmmaking and how they formed the foundation for the seminar's operations.

 Actions taken by the Ithaca College Board of Trustees during its May meeting have already been reported in Intercom, but I’d like to take the opportunity to highlight some of the other topics addressed by the board during this very productive session.

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This summer, ITS is planning on upgrading SPSS from version 19 to 20 in ITS-managed labs and eClassrooms for Windows computers.

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Try the refreshingly good Dijon Curry Chicken Pita*,chicken salad with apples, fresh California grapes, celery and toasted almonds tossed with light Dijon curry mayonnaise. Served with field greens and wrapped in a pita.

Or try the Roast Turkey Cobb Salad*, mixed greens with roast turkey, crisp bacon, fresh avocado, hard boiled egg, tomato and cheddar cheese. Served with Bleu cheese dressing.

In the mood for a bit of crunch?
Bite into the Honey Mustard Chicken BLT*, made with crispy chicken tenders topped with smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise and honey mustard on a ciabatta roll.

(*)These items are only available until June 29th.

And, dont forget, Breakfast Paninis are still being served at La Vincita! (available until 8/3)

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Everyone likes to win at games, and IC Hope, Ithaca's Relay for Life team, is here to give you several opportunities to do just that! Our guaranteed winner is our Knockout Rose Bush sale...$25 for a beautiful, lovingly nurtured rose bush in a 2 gallon container! You will be the envy of your neighborhood with these gorgeous roses adorning your yard!

Feeling more adventurous? Try your hand at one of our 17 raffle baskets! With 2 levels of opportunities at bargain prices, buy your tickets and put them into the raffle that grabs your heart...from a deluxe stay at LaTourelle with full amenities to a beautiful handmade quilt and pillow set by the IC Quilters, we have it all! Here is a partial listing of our wares:

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There has been a very successful ongoing speaker series at Longview since the beginning of the IC/LV Partnership in Spring 1999.  These presentations are informal and can be academic in nature or related to areas of personal interest.  An appreciative audience is guaranteed!

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Don't miss the Residential Life Surplus Furniture Tent Sale on Friday, June 15, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the L Lot by Terrace 13.  Hundreds of pieces of surplus residential furniture will be available for purchase to the general public.

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The New Directions Cello Association and Festival Inc. (NDCA& F) is a 501c3 not for profit organization that has created a network for the growing field of alternative and non-classical cello. The goals of the NDCA&F are to encourage interaction among non-classical cellists, and to promote awareness among all cellists and the musically oriented public about the contributions that cellists are making in many styles of contemporary music. This encompasses those musical styles which are not commonly taught to cellists at music schools (jazz, blues, rock, folk, experimental, ethnic, etc.) especially those involving improvisation.

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Professors Steve Mauk (saxophone) and Kim Dunnick (trumpet) will be featured as soloists with the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra in Chengdu, China this coming week.  Jeff Meyer (Director of Orchestras) will be conducting the program of works by Beethoven, Tomasi, Villa-lobos among others. 

Meyer has spent the last week at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music where he coached chamber music, worked with the Xi'an Conservatory Orchestra and the Xi'an Preparatory Orchestra and gave a lecture/performance on Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. 

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Hospicare of Tompkins County would like to acknowledge all who helped make the 2011-2012 Hospicare Musicale Series a reality. In conjunction with the Ithaca College School of Music, Hospicare hosted a total of three musicales in the Nina K. Miller Hospicare Center Great Room, in late 2011 and in the first half of 2012.

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The Fitness Center TRX classes will NOT begin until the week of June 11, 2012.

Thank you for understanding.  

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