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Michael Radzwilla '13 recently won second place in a national essay contest on technology and religion sponsored by the Templeton Technology & Religion Project. The prize includes a cash honorarium and publication on the program's website.   

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Computer Science Department faculty member Ali Erkan has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for the 2011-2012 academic year to carry out his sabbatical research in Istanbul, Turkey (in affiliation with KOC University). The focus of his work is to create an open source Geographic Information System for humanists interested in international collaborations and scholarly information exchange.  Please join me in congratulating Ali on this significant accomplishment.

Bashar Hanna
Associate Provost

Are you being safe in the sun?

Contributed by Alison Bowman on 07/07/11 

Over 1 million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year and 1 in 5 Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime!

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Alicia Brady, Ithaca College's TIAA-CREF Individual Client Services Consultant, comes to campus twice or three times a month to provide personalized advice and planning services to help you in pursuing your retirement goals. The dates she will be on campus in September have been determined.

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Alex Krasser '09 (Acting) played the title character in Billy Blythe, a folk opera about Bill Clinton's youth. The opera, composed by Bonnie Montgomery and based on Clinton's 2004 memoir, My Life, has been featured in numerous places, including The New Yorker, the BBC, Time, and USA Today

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Leadership education has become a necessary piece of higher education.  "In the past, companies could be counted on to develop leaders by ushering bright employees into management-training programs. Today such programs are few and far between. Colleges and universities must do the job," according to Richard Greenwald for The Chronicle of Higher Education (Read the full article at http://chronicle.com/article/Todays-Students-Need/125604/).

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For helpful hints on how to help your child adjust to campus life as well as what to expect as a parent, see eni's July newsletter.

https://www.ithaca.edu/hr/docs/benefits/balanceworks/eni_July/

We want your work! Sharing Education Content with more then just Ithaca College!

 

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ITS will begin the Oracle software upgrade to Parnassus Financials and Human Resources system and will be unavailable beginning TODAY-Wednesday, July 6th at 4:00pm. The software upgrade is expected to run through the weekend and should be available to the campus on Tuesday, July 12th.  Users will be notified when Parnassus is available via email to all Faculty and Staff and will also be posted as a Top Story in Intercom.

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A Consumer Credit Counseling Service (CCCS) representative is here on campus every third Wednesday of the month. This month, a representative will be here on Wednesday, July 20th. To schedule an appointment please call 1-800-479-6026. Appointments typically last an hour so please plan accordingly.

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Are you knowledgeable on a topic that could be beneficial to student leaders and student organizations? 

The Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs is looking for faculty/staff/students who are willing to present a workshop for the Leading @ IC track part of the Student Leadership Institute.

Volunteer to share your expertise with the Ithaca College community. Some examples of presentations include: running a program on a budget, fundraising, and how to make a smooth executive board transition.

To submit a proposal please complete the Proposal Form.

For more information please contact Theresa Radley, the Assistant Director of Student Involvement, at tradley@ithaca.edu.

The Student Leadership Institute is a series of interactive workshops designed to help students develop and refine personal and organization leadership skills.

Leading @ IC is a new track developed this semester in the Student Leadership Institute. Unlike the other tracks, Leading @ IC is specifically designed to improve leadership skills and development within a student organization. The target audience for these workshops is student organization members.

We are in the process of looking for presenters for Leading @ IC series in the upcoming academic year.  If you have any experience in or with a student organization and have a skill that you think will benefit members of student organizations please fill out the proposal form on our website at: https://www.ithaca.edu/sacl/osema/leadership/proposals/. 

In the past, we have had presenter's lead workshops on a variety of topics that included: running an effective meeting, transitioning, IC Link training and many more!

 If you have any questions please contact studentorganizations@ithaca.edu.

 

Thank you!

 The Student Leadership Institute is a series of interactive workshops designed to help students develop and refine personal and organization leadership skills. 

We are in the process of looking for presenters for the Leading @ IC series in the upcoming academic year.  If you have any experience in or with a student organization and have a skill that you think will benefit members of student organizations please fill out the proposal form on our website at: https://www.ithaca.edu/sacl/osema/leadership/proposals/   

In the past, we have had presenter's lead workshops on a variety of topics that included: running an effective  meeting, transitioning, IC Link training and many more! 

If you have any questions please contact studentorganizations@ithaca.edu 

Thank you! 

Band Needed!

Contributed by Jessie Kanowitz on 07/05/11 

Ithaca College Hillel is looking for a band to play at our Welcome Back BBQ on September 4th around 4:30pm.

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Carole Dennis, Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, presented at two conferences in June.

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Ithaca College has been ranked among the top 10 colleges and universities that are “killing it” in social media. The website Best Colleges Online positioned IC as number 7 on a list that includes Harvard, Notre Dame, the University of Texas, and Johns Hopkins.

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Band Needed! 

Contributed by Jessie Kanowitz on 07/03/11 

Ithaca College Hillel is looking for a band to play at our Welcome Back BBQ on September 4th around 4:30pm.

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There are so many great things happening at my At Work meeting. Please join me in celebrating the success of my group, hear about the strategies and tips that have helped us lose weight, get healthy, and keep it off. Learn how you can, too, at our

WEIGHT WATCHERS AT WORK MEETING OPEN HOUSE

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Ray Boone, retired faculty member from the department of Physical Therapy passed away recently. Ray worked at Ithaca College for 32 years (retiring in 2007) starting in 1975 at the Ithaca College Bronx campus. In 1990, Ray was pivotal in organizing the move from the Bronx to the Rochester River Road campus. While in Rochester Ray served as the first Planning Unit Director, hired our initial faculty and staff, and implemented, first the MSPT curriculum and then served as Curriculum Coordinator during the implementation of the DPT. He also oversaw major facility improvements of the River Road campus.

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 Ithaca College in the Media

Contributed by Anonymous on 07/01/11 

Quoted in the media: Faculty member James Pfrehm, Ari Kissiloff, and Diane Gayeski. 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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