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Asma Barlas, director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, presented at a conference on Islamic NewThinking in Germany on June 28th.

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We no longer will accept personal cash, check or credit card transactions at the Phillips Hall Post Office for outgoing FedEx or UPS shipments. Doing so would be a violation of our contract with the USPS. These transactions including estimates must be done at the Mail Center located in the General Services building.

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Give the gift of life and enjoy happiness, one scoop at time, courtesy of Friendly’s Ice Cream. Come in and donate at our Blood Drive on July 12th from 10am to 4pm in the Fitness Center Mondo Gym and receive a coupon for a carton of Ice Cream from Friendly’s . Call 1-800-RED CROSS to schedule your appointment time. Type O donors are needed, the Blood supply is low from the many disasters, please sign up or stop by the day of the drive, walk-ins welcome.

The Office of Residential Life would like to announce that we have limited space available in Terraces 9, 10 and 11 in the Upper Years Program. Any student interested in living in this area should contact housing@ithaca.edu no later than July 8th. 

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Quoted in the media: Faculty members Michael McCall, Jeff Cohen, Asma Barlas and Stephen Sweet. 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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The Athletic Training Program in the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences was recently ranked first in top athletic training schools by Education-Portal.com.  The other two schools ranked in the top 3 included: 2. University of Texas at Austin; 3. Cal State University - Long Beach.  Congratulations to IC's Athletic Training Program and the faculty and staff of the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences.

ITS will begin the Oracle software upgrade to Parnassus Financials and Human Resources system and will be unavailable beginning on 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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The Fitness Center will be closed on Monday, July 4th.  The Outdoor Pool will be open.

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Adeline Nieto (Class of 2013) is a Culture and Communication Major who chose a semester abroad with an affiliate program in Spain.  That choice greatly enhanced her cultural awareness and changed the way she views the world.

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Chris Zivalich (Journalism '12) and Professor James Pfrehm (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures) presented their conference paper entitled "Assigning Enhanced Podcasts as Course Final Projects" at the annual conference for the International Association of Language Learning and Technology (IALLT) held at the university in Irvine, California from June 20th - 24th.

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As a result of the expansion to the Ithaca College Circle Apartments, we will be naming the roads and renumbering all of the buildings in the apartment complex.

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The American Prize is a series of new, non-profit national competitions providing cash awards, professional adjudication and regional, national and international recognition for the best recorded performances of music by ensembles and individuals each year in the United States at the professional, college/university, church, community and secondary school levels.

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Mail Services and the Phillips Hall Post Office will resume accepting and processing mail destined for Canada.

Mail being held in the USPS network since the lockout began is now being released  and transported into Canada.  

Due to the large volumes of mail being held  by countries around the world during the lockout,  they may experience slightly longer transit times.  

The dates have been corrected on the webpage flier.

Lessons are available on weekdays and weekends.  You can find the schedule and sign up form at the Outdoor Pool webpage, or at the outdoor pool office.  The schedule is located in the green feature box on the right. Simply fill out the form and return it to the outdoor pool office with your payment.

Questions? Please contact Brad Buchanan.

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**ALL PARENTS, CAREGIVERS, AND PARENTS-TO-BE ARE WELCOME!**

Affinity groups are designed to be a safe place where both staff and faculty may speak on common interests and provide an opportunity to seek and support one another.

The Working Parents Affinity Group (WPAG) provides different perspectives on integrating work and our families as working professionals. This group is co-facilitated by two moms who work here on campus and who are interested in developing a resourceful place for other working parents to come together and share with one another based on ideas that YOU provide!!
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Associate Professor Jeff Holmes and Professor Barney Beins co-authored a chapter in the e-book Promoting Student Engagement: Volume 1: Programs, Techniques, and Opportunities. The chapter is entitled "Student Engagement in Undergraduate Research".  Barney Beins was one of the editors of the two-volume set.

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Beginning this fiscal year, the Technology Renewal Program no longer provides no-cost replacements for Apple MacPro tower computers.  The standard Apple desktop offering under this program is now the iMac.

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 Rory Cooper, Class of 2012, will learn firsthand about the interrelationships between culture, communication, and the environment this fall.  He is bound for Chile through an affiliated program in the School of International Training.  Rory will complete a course called "Cultural Identity, Social Justice, and Community Development" while living among a small indigenous Mapuche community. 

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The Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jeffery Meyer, was one of 26 American orchestras to win a 2010–11 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) Award for Adventurous Programming. ASCAP and the League of American Orchestras present the award annually to orchestras of all sizes for programs that challenge their audiences, build their repertoires and increase interest in the music of our time.

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