Ithaca College

Travel Services is pleased to announce a corporate rate agreement with the new Marriott Downtown on the Commons, effective July 1, 2017.

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With the BalanceWorks personal assistant program, limitless resources are available to find the child and elder care that you need. Your assistant can help you find pediatricians, babysitters/nannies, camps, sports lessons, music lessons and additionally can assist with college applications and financial aid. Your eldercare resources include help with housing options, assisted living facilities, Medicare, doctors, financial planning, and transportation.

If any of these services sound helpful, please contact your Personal Assistant today by calling 1.800.327.2255, submitting a request online at www.mybalanceworks.com, or through the mobile app BalanceGo (available for free in your app store). 

A “lunchtime” yoga class is being offered Wednesdays beginning July 26 at the Fitness Center from 10:45 to 11:45, is suitable for beginners, those with other than Iyengar yoga experience who wish to learn, and for those with limitations.  The class will focus on why props are used in yoga poses and will teach each class member how to work with their limitations, fears and strengths to get the sense of freedom and ease that yoga can bring.

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Information Technology's Teaching and Learning with Technology would like to invite the College community to meet candidates for the Instructional Design position at the College.

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Do you have an engaging presentation that would help students better themselves or others? Consider presenting in the Student Leadership Institute. The Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs is looking for presenters for our fall lineup of programs. Want to present, but not sure where to begin? Click here to see a quick guide on what makes an engaging presentation. Is your office or department putting on a program that relates to the vision of the SLI program? Consider partnering with us!

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  As per Ithaca College Policy 2.12.3 (10), “Only items pertaining to College business may be sent through the campus mail system.”

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Luca Maurer, LGBT Center program director, contributed to a research study conducted by EAB. The project culminated with the publication The Changing Face of the 21st Century Donor: Working With Diverse Alumni Segments, featured in their Advancement Forum.

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YOUR BALANCEWORKS PERSONAL ASSISTANT IS HERE TO HELP!

If you’re planning a vacation this summer definitely consider contacting your BalanceWorks Personal Assistant. They are available 24/7 and will find you the best plane tickets, hotel rates and transportation arrangements possible. They will even help you find great places to visit and eat while you’re there!

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 In the CNS greenhouse, a strange cactus called a night-blooming cereus is blooming this week.  Although the full bloom lasts just a few hours after dark, visitors are welcome to stop by during regular hours to see these spectacular emerging flowers.

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The Facilities Department – working in concert with our colleagues in Procurement – are happy to announce that Ithaca College has partnered with GovDeals to provide IC surplus auction items for online viewing, bidding and purchase. This will help the College reduce storage costs and will take the place of the annual Surplus Sale that was held in the A&E center in past years.

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 Kaitlyn DeHority (Chemistry & Music ’16), Noah Budin (Chemistry ’18), Samantha Hilston (Biochemistry ’18) and Yongqian (Kelly) Zhang (Chemistry ’14) co-authored a publication with Professor Akiko Fillinger of the Ithaca College Chemistry Department.

Deposition of Nickel on Electrodeposited Cu2O at Potentials More Positive than the Nernst Potential of Ni2+/Ni0.  Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 164 (9) H615 -H620 (2017).

We are grateful to Ithaca College for the Summer Research Grants for undergraduate students and faculty that supported this work. 

The Office of International Programs and Extended Studies would like to invite interested faculty, staff and students to join the Ithaca College International Students Friendship Network. We are looking for dedicated IC students, faculty and staff to serve as Cultural Partners for our new international students.

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The server hardware that runs the www.ithaca.edu site (including Intercom) will be updated on Saturday, July 22. There will be some services unavailable during the upgrade, from 12 a.m. until 7 a.m. In addition to replacing aging hardware, the new infrastructure provides new functionality to improve web services.

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'The need is constant.  The gratification is instant. Give Blood."  And now it's particularly acute!  An Emergency Call  has been issued by the Red Cross and Staff Council is sponsoring a Blood Drive to help out.

Wednesday 19 July, Emerson Suites, 8:00 am -2pm is the time - is the day - to donate and help others out.

Plan ahead and schedule a time by calling 1-800-RED-CROSS or visit the Red Cross at redcrossblood.org to sign up. Donors will get a T-shirt as a token of appreciation.

It's never too late. Walk-ins are also welcome

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The Office of the Registrar is pleased to announce that students can now submit address changes online.  The Change of Address form is located on the Office of the Registrar web page under Student Forms >> Change of Address.  

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Asma Barlas, professor of Politics, presented a lecture and a workshop in Granada, Spain, on "Secularizing the Qur'an?" and, "Decoloniality and Internal Colonialism: The Secular Turn in Qur'anic Studies," on July 7th.

Both events were part of the annual summer school on Critical Muslim Studies organized by the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Granada (http://www.dialogoglobal.com/granada/index.php)

The Office of Energy Management is pleased to invite the campus community to participate in a webinar and short discussion regarding our sustainability plans for 2017-18. 

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 Posted on behalf of Mark Fink, Director Director of Teaching and Learning with Technology

Teaching and Learning with Technology is pleased to announce the availability of an enterprise license for Voicethread. Voicethread is a unique online tool for having asynchronous conversations around media. You can upload, share, and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files and videos. Students and instructors can comment within Voicethread with voice, drawing, webcam, text, or phone. There are many possibilities for using Voicethread in teaching and learning including practicing listening and speaking languages, student presentations and feedback, discussing or critiquing artwork and media, or creating presence in online courses.

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Posted on behalf of Dr. Roger (Doc) Richardson

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Fall 2017 Technology Renewal questionnaires have been sent to all individuals and area coordinators.

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