Two Ithaca College alums received Fulbright Awards, scholarships given to advance international research and increase mutual understanding between citizens of the United States and other countries.

Melendy Krantz ’09, anthropology and politics double major, will travel to Bangladesh where she will be studying how women's subcultures and caregiver subcultures in Bangladesh...

November means snow and Thanksgiving to many IC students, but for the anthropology department, it's Native American Celebration Month at Ithaca College. For years the department has used the month as an opportunity to embrace and celebrate the rich culture of the Haudenosaunee, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy.

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The third annual Tutelo Homecoming Festival recently welcomed back the Cayuga, Tutelo, and Kindred Indian Nations, and the Saponi tribes to Ithaca. Held in Tutelo Park in the Town of Ithaca, the festival was full of people mingling among stalls offering crafts for sale from many different Native American nations.

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The prestigious journal Science recently published articles by Ithaca College biology professor Sue Swensen and anthropology professor Jack Rossen. Professor Swensen was one of five authors on the May 16 cover story titled, “Hidden Neotropical Diversity: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts.” The research explored the extraordinary diversity...

This past November, Ithaca College sent Garry Thomas, retired from the anthropology department, and Sean Vormwald, assistant director in the Office of Alumni Relations, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Nairobi, Kenya. Currently, Thomas’s blog, entitled “...