Tagged as “School of Humanities and Sciences”

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...

Ithaca College bids a fond farewell to three retiring leaders -- and welcomes three new ones this fall. Filling the presidential shoes of Peggy R. Williams is Thomas R. Rochon, who becomes the College’s eighth president. Rochon most recently served as the executive vice president and chief academic officer for the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul,...

In a funny coincidence, Professor Michael Twomey, Dana Professor of Humanities and Arts at Ithaca College, has unearthed an unknown piece of Arthurian literature, while his former student Steven Hartman ’87 announced that he had discovered a letter written by Henry David Thoreau to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Professor Twomey discovered a...

I already felt I was a step behind when I first began looking at colleges. Most everyone I knew had a focus and goals to achieve. In short, they knew what they wanted to major in. I felt blank without a clear aspiration. Even after high school graduation, I still couldn't answer the question we're all asked throughout childhood: what do you want to be when...

As part of this semester’s Distinguished Visiting Writers series, the Writing Department and the School of Humanities and Sciences welcome Pulitzer Prize winners Robert Olen Butler and Yusef Komunyakaa and National Book Award finalist Vivian Gornick. Readings from their work will be held at 7:30 p.m. on February 6, March 25, and April 1, respectively. There...

Have you ever wanted to meet your favorite author and ask him, “How did you do it?” Thanks to the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, directed by writing professor Katharyn Howd Machan and sponsored by Ithaca College’s writing department, I got to do just that and more when author and teacher Scott Russell Sanders visited IC for a...

As final exams approach and snow begins to melt, students start to ponder their summer plans. For junior writing majors and minors interested in getting an internship, many turn to Barbara Adams. Teaching at Ithaca College since the early 1970s, Adams is an assistant professor of writing and director of the Department of Writing’s...

“It’s great,”senior National Geographic researcher Heidi Schultz exclaimed one day as we were walking to lunch. “We’ve turned you into a research snob!”

It was true. I’d spent part of that day with Heidi and another intern moaning and commiserating over frustrations with editors who are more...

What draws an alumnus back to Ithaca College? Assistant professor of chemistry Mike Haaf knows. After graduating with honors from Ithaca College in 1994 and completing his Ph.D. in chemistry in 2000 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Professor Haaf taught at other institutions before returning to his alma mater as professor and chair of...

As a freshman, you may come to Physics 101 expecting nothing more than a crowded lecture hall or lab and a faulty overhead projector. But with the help of a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Ithaca College is taking a different approach to teaching physics in the classroom.

“The new facility is called the...

Ithaca College psychology professor Nancy Rader spent the past few months studying Australian diver Lloyd Godson, who won Australian Geographic’s “Live Your Dream” Wildest Adventure Competition. Godson’s winning proposal was a sustainability demonstration that involved being submerged in a pond in Albury, Australia, in a...

Nik Batruch '08 didn't have a typical spring break. Instead of lounging on the beach, Batruch accompanied physics professor Bruce Thompson to Loango National Park in Gabon, West Africa, where the pair set up listening posts to record acoustic and seismic elephant activity for six months. The data collected by these posts will determine how many elephants exist in...

    Following a national search, Dr. Stacia Zabusky has been appointed assistant dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College. 

    Humanities & Sciences dean Howard Erlich remarked, “I’m delighted that Dr. Zabusky has accepted this appointment, for which she...

The Division of Graduate Studies has recently added a master’s degree program in elementary education. By working through the School of Humanities and Sciences, students will be able to pursue child education, specifically for grades 1-6. The program lasts 13 months, incorporating theory and practice with...

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 “...

When the curtain falls it’s the actors who take a bow, but no Ithaca theater production would be possible without the behind-the-scenes collaborations of students, faculty, and staff from IC's School of Music and Department of Theatre Arts.

From set design and construction, to costumes and makeup, to the pit orchestra, to marketing...