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Released: 16-Jan-2018 1:55 PM EST
Conservation Mind Game
Ithaca College

A new study led by Kathryn Caldwell, an assistant professor of psychology at Ithaca College, demonstrates that homeowners can be encouraged to make changes to their energy use with a simple education plan and some helpful tricks from the world of social psychology.

Released: 8-Dec-2017 2:05 PM EST
Ithaca College Professor Finds Emotion Makes Memory Unreliable
Ithaca College

In a new article in the journal Memory, entitled “The Robustness of False Memory for Emotional Pictures,” Ithaca College assistant professor Brandy Bessette-Symons shows that while under certain circumstances emotion can improve memory, it also makes it less reliable.

Released: 6-Dec-2017 11:05 AM EST
Bill D’Elia ’69 and David E. Kelley to Receive Serling Award
Ithaca College

.Award-winning television producer/director Bill D’Elia ’69 and producer/writer David E. Kelley are this year’s recipients of the Rod Serling Award for Advancing Social Justice Through Popular Media. The goal of the Serling Award is to recognize modern media professionals’ work that raises awareness of prejudice, inequality and society’s changing social norms.

Released: 4-Nov-2017 6:05 PM EDT
Ithaca College Enters New Era: Shirley M. Collado Inaugurated as College’s Ninth President
Ithaca College

Collado is the second woman to hold the office, and the first person of color. She is also the first Dominican American to be named president of a college in the U.S.

Released: 31-Oct-2017 4:10 PM EDT
New Study Finds Marijuana Farming Hurts Environment
Ithaca College

Planting cannabis for commercial production in remote locations is creating forest fragmentation, stream modification, soil erosion and landslides. Without land-use policies to limit its environmental footprint, the impacts of cannabis farming could get worse, according to a new study published in the November issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Released: 3-Oct-2017 2:05 PM EDT
Ithaca College to Offer New Tuition Benefit as Alternative to State Programs
Ithaca College

The Ithaca College New York State Tuition Award will provide up to $6,000 per year to incoming students from New York who would qualify for the state’s Excelsior Scholarship program, which can only be used at a state school.

Released: 8-Aug-2017 1:05 PM EDT
Ithaca College Joins BOLD Women’s Leadership Network and President Collado Receives Foundation Grant
Ithaca College

Ithaca College has become the fifth higher education institution in the BOLD Women’s Leadership Network, an intergenerational initiative focused on cultivating courageous leadership among college women who possess the skills necessary to move discourse forward on some of the most challenging social issues on their campuses and in their communities.

Released: 22-May-2017 5:05 PM EDT
Ithaca College Physics Professor Making Digital Replica of Historic Revolutionary War-Era House
Ithaca College

Using state-of-the-art 3D laser technology, Ithaca College Professor Michael “Bodhi” Rogers is helping to preserve the historic Schuyler House — once a home of Alexander Hamilton’s father-in-law – in upstate New York.

   
Released: 21-May-2017 3:05 PM EDT
Award-Winning Producer/Director Urges Ithaca College Graduates to ‘Push Back on that Narrow Road’
Ithaca College

At Ithaca College's 122nd Commencement, producer/director Bill D'Elia told graduates not to let life constrict their choices. He drew lessons from his own career path, which took him from working at an ad agency to producing and directing award-winning television shows like "How to Get Away with Murder."

Released: 13-Apr-2017 10:15 AM EDT
Music as Medicine: Using Music to Help Dementia and Alzheimer's Patients
Ithaca College

Music and voice major Jessica Voutsinas ’18 was singing the classic song “Over the Rainbow” to a resident at Longview — an adult residential facility near the Ithaca College campus — when the woman unexpectedly lit up and began telling stories about her life and children in a breakthrough of memory recall.

Released: 19-Dec-2016 10:45 AM EST
Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers
Ithaca College

A new study from researchers at Ithaca College and Cornell University used three small studies to answer several questions about supertasters and find out more about their brand identification ability, brand loyalty and if their abilities dissipate with learning.

Released: 16-Dec-2016 1:05 PM EST
Mental Health a La Mode: Student Podcast Emphasizes Emotional Well Being
Ithaca College

Mental health awareness and French vanilla ice cream are two passions of senior television-radio major Michayla Savitt, creator and host of “The Scoop on Mental Health,” a podcast where Savitt and guests discuss mental health issues over ice cream.

Released: 9-Dec-2016 2:05 PM EST
Lending a Hand: Student 3D Prints Functional, Affordable Prosthetic
Ithaca College

Using the Ithaca College 3D Printing Lab, a physics student adapted open source plans for a prosthetic hand to build a highly functional, affordable prosthetic.

Released: 19-Oct-2016 4:05 PM EDT
Pot’s Hidden Price
Ithaca College

A new survey of marijuana grow sites in California demonstrates the potential environmental impact of marijuana farming and provides an example of the survey and analysis needed as farming expands.



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