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Interested in gaining professional experience at the Cayuga Medical Center, exploring career options in the health field, and developing your leadership skills?

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Come with us to Ecuador!

Contributed by Carole W. Dennis on 10/26/15 

Join us for pizza at noon on Thursday, Oct. 29 in CHS 208 to learn about a service-learning opportunity in Ecuador this summer.

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Please refer to the Driving College owned and Rented Vehicles section of the Risk Management site at:  https://www.ithaca.edu/riskmanagement/driving/ to review the process.

Thank you!

Mary Pitti,MS, CCC-SLP (Speech Language Pathology and Audiology) and Mike Matheny MS, ATC (Exercise and Sport Sciences) were recently featured in the NATA News Magazine.

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Interested first and second year students that are not currently in the Honors Program are invited to apply to the Ithaca College Honors Program. The Honors Program engages a community of scholars in a highly enhanced liberal arts program that offers a variety of curricular and co-curricular opportunities to foster critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, and lifelong learning.  More information can be found at https://www.ithaca.edu/honors/ and http://ichonors.com/

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Make printing even faster by using cherry keyboards.  Swipe your ID card, release your job, you're good to go!

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 Get your tickets for the annual Rocky Horror Picture Show in Campus Center 10-3 all this week! 

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Learn how to observe wild howler monkeys and measure and map their ecology for credit! Interested students from all majors are encouraged to attend.

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Hélène Larin, PT, PhD, was invited to participate in the APTA Section on Pediatrics, Summit IV titled “Innovations in Technology for Children with Brain Insults: Maximizing Outcomes” held in Alexandria, VA, October 15-17, based on her work with the IC Tots on Bots research team.

 

On October 23, she also presented at the NYPTA conference held in Albany, NY, as recipient of the 2012 Arthur J Nelson Research Designated Fund Award.  The topic was “Pilot study: Feasibility of a novel control method for a robotic mobility device for young children with physical disabilities.”

The next No Pressure Blood Pressure will be held on Wednesday, October 28th.

Body:
67 million people have high blood pressure in America

What we already knew:

·Risk of CVD (Cardio Vascular Disease) doubles for each incremental increase in SBP of 20 mmHg or DBP of 10 mmHg.

·Aerobic exercise training leads to reduction in resting BP of 5-7 mmHg in those with hypertension.

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Project Look Sharp will host a free webinar, “Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns,” from 7–8 p.m. EST Nov. 3 as a part of Media Literacy Week. 

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Need a course for your identities or mind, body, spirit theme?

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  10-day online winter session course: Identities or Mind, Body, Spirit theme

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This year's Annual Employee Benefits and Work/Life Fair is an event you don't want to miss.  Tuesday, November 3, 2015 in Emerson Suites from 10am to 2pm.  Join us for games, prizes, treats and surprises.

The Hammond Health Center will be administering flu vaccines during the Fair.  Get the shot not the flu!!

Benefit Eligible Faculty & Staff Only-College ID to Enter. 

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 Faculty, please encourage seniors who have the passion for research to apply!

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Guiding Eyes for the Blind at Ithaca College presents: 

Puppy Meet & Greet - Halloween Edition!

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Members of BOC, IC AfterDark, SAB and STAT are hosting th IC Terraces Tailgate in the Terraces Dining Hall prior to the annual Cortaca Game - 8 am - 12 noon on Saturday, November 14, 2015 and we need volunteers to help!

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Alternative Spring Break offers students the opportunity to volunteer at one of five locations in the eastern United States during spring break, March 12 - 20.

There will be an information session for students who would like to learn more about the five ASB locations for March 2016. Students can come to the session to learn about the trips, and why this program is a great way to spend spring break!

To learn more or to apply for ASB, go HERE.

The session will be held in Cayuga Lake Room on Thursday, October 29, at 12:10pm. Cayuga Lake Room is located next to the main entrance for campus center dining hall.

Additional information sessions will be held on:

Tuesday, November 3 (Cayuga Lake Room)

Monday, November 9 (Ithaca Falls Room)

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Applications to be a Participant-Leader on one of this year’s ASB trips opened TODAY!  All applications are due on Friday, November 13, 2015 at 5:00pm.

Why should you become a Participant-Leader? Because you’ll get to…

·         Learn and exercise new leadership skills

·         Travel during spring break

·         Receive a significantly reduced fee for participation (Participant-Leaders only pay a one-time $50 deposit for the trip)

·         Help make this a positive experience for fellow IC students

 

For more information please visit: https://www.ithaca.edu/sacl/osema/service/AB/

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

* 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

* taking any three of the four mini-courses will count as an ICC elective in the World of Systems or the Inquiry, Imagination and Innovation theme with a Humanities or Social Sciences perspective

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