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...