Ithaca College

The 15th Annual Etiquette Dinner will be held on Tuesday, November 8th at 6:15pm in Emerson Suites. This event is a great opportunity to gain etiquette and networking experience and is registered as an SLI “Leading Self” event. 

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      Open yourself to new worlds of water through art, music, film, dance and animation. These poetic and profound water sources will provide insights that help us re-imagine our relationship with this essential resource so we can preserve and respect it, rather than take water for granted. Presented by Mara Alper, with music by Joe Smellow and guest artists at the Community School of Music & Art at 7:30 p.m.

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Do you enjoy collecting minerals or fossils?

Are you interested in polishing rocks or faceting gemstones?

Perhaps you are a skilled wire wrapper or jewelry maker?

Maybe you simply admire works of geological beauty created by nature?

Want to learn more?

If you answered "Yes" to any of the above, please consider joining the Rock Hound Affinity Group for IC staff and faculty to share in this wonderful hobby!  For more information, please contact Brian Scholten in the Office of the Registrar at bscholten@ithaca.edu or ext. 4-3075 or Osupa T-Davis in Human Resources at otdavis@ithaca.edu or ext. 4-1033.

Join the International Association of Business Communicators on November 15th at 8pm in Park 220 to skype with former chairman of IABC, Charles Pizzo. 

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Tom Nicholson, associate professor in the Department of Television-Radio, worked on an upcoming episode of “Fabric of the Cosmos,” a four-part series for “Nova” being aired by PBS.

The series will runs throughout November. Nicholson worked on the second episode entitled “The Illusion of Time,” airing Wednesday, November 9, at 9:00 p.m.

In central New York, the program can be seen on Binghamton public television station WSKG and Syracuse public television station WCNY.

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ITS will begin moving all computers to the new campus computing network on Monday November 7th. All faculty and staff computers will be migrated over the next 4 months.

Desktop Service technicians need to touch every computer in order to switch the computer from Novell to Active Directory, add the Bradford network access control client and switch the port to the new network.

Users can expect to be without their computers for 1 hour while these changes are being made. Individuals will be notified via email regarding their specific migration date. The changes will be made whether or not you are there. Laptops need to be made available to the technicians on the migration date.

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 The Ithacan print edition was awarded first place, and the Ithacan website was awarded second place, in their categories in the Best of Show competition at the National College Media Convention in Orlando, Fla., October 27–30.

The paper was also presented with a Newspaper Pacemaker Finalist Award at the convention. The Pacemakers, presented each year by the Associated Collegiate Press, are widely regarded as “the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism” and are among the most prestigious student journalism awards in the country.

The paper has been a finalist eight times in the past 10 years, and won the award in 2005, 2006 and 2008.The website has won the Online Pacemaker four times in the past six years.

(In photo, from left: Ithacan Assistant News Editor Erica Palumbo, Assistant Photo Editor Rachel Orlow, Chief Copy Editor and Sales Manager Marissa Smith and Managing Editor Whitney Faber in Orlando.)

Join us on Wednesday, November 2nd at 4pm Ithaca Falls! Liz Chabot will be presenting on how to collaborate perspectives to form a new perspective and a shared understanding!

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Join the IC HPA for our meeting and craft night this Tuesday at 7pm in Williams 221. Bring yarn, needles, glue, xacto knifes, scissors, string, etc. You can donate stuff you make for us to sell as part of a fundraiser, which would be totally awesome! Oh, did I mention we'll be watching A Very Potter Musical too?

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Now is the time to submit nominations for OTM’s (Of The Month’s)! Ithaca College’s chapter of National Residence Hall Honorary recognizes YOUR submissions of outstanding individuals in the Ithaca College community. 

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Now is the time to submit nominations for OTM’s (Of The Month’s)! Ithaca College’s chapter of National Residence Hall Honorary recognizes YOUR submissions of outstanding individuals in the Ithaca College community. 

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 "The Chalkboard: An Undergraduate Journal for Educational Collaboration" is looking for someone interested in web design to create our entire website.

Some of our needs include:

  -A homepage that can highlight different articles

  -The capability for people to post comments on articles

  -Facebook and Twitter feeds incorporated in website

  -YouTube videos embedded

  -Search and tagging functions

  -Designing the logo

In essence, we would like a more functional version of our initial website: http://www.idealistictruths.org.

This is a great resume builder and a wonderful opportunity to express creativity through web design. Contact us atchalkboardjournal@gmail.com.

The Sustainability Café on Monday, October 31st will feature Steven Penningroth, speaking on “Monitoring Water for Impacts from Residential Development, Agriculture and 'Hydrofracking'”  The Café will be held in Center for Natural Sciences Room 112 at 4:00PM.

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Help Up 'til Dawn in the fight against childhood cancer on November 6th in Emerson Suites! 

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* short courses on systems thinking, synthesizing expertise, and creativity

* active hands-on learning; no lectures

* lots of fun

* the courses will help you make connections among what you are studying in different courses inside and outside your majors

* this can make learning more lasting and more useful in meeting complex real-world challenges

* courses are one credit and are graded pass/fail    

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Mark Whitmore, Cornell University

"The Emerald Ash Borer: The biology and potential impacts of an aggressive, invasive, non-native forest pest and how New Yorkers are responding"

4:00 p.m.
CNS 112 
Department Seminar Series

Download the PDF announcement here.

Refreshments served at 3:45, 1st floor CNS foyer. Bring your mug. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Nancy Pierce at 274-3161.  We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

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The Handwerker Gallery is pleased to host a salon moderated by Lily Sheehan, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, taking place on Tuesday, November 1, at 4.00 p.m..  Following a presentation on her research, Sheehan will moderate a relevant discussion on how hair enacts a visual dialogue of identity presentation and politics.

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Everyone on campus is encouraged to...

Get the shot,   :-)

Not the flu!     }:-(

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Drum Roll Please! Our Senior Class Gift is...

the Class of 2012 Emergency Financial Aid Scholarship. It is now our turn to leave a lasting legacy here at Ithaca College through our class scholarship. 

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Visiting Fulbright scholar from Sri Lanka to discuss cyberspace as an emerging site for the expansion of global, social, and political processes; 7 pm, Thursday, 11/03, Clark Lounge

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