"Fifty Shades of Grey" is credited with a sexual awakening among tame housewives and staid girlfriends, and the addition of lower-lip-biting spice to vanilla bedrooms across America. But for Rebecca Plante, an associate professor of sociology at Ithaca College, the BDSM exploits of Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele are hardly an erotic revelation.
It may be one of the last places in the world you’d expect to be interested in learning how to develop skills in critical thinking and media analysis. But when academics and researchers in Iran decided they needed help with that effort, they turned to Ithaca College’s Cyndy Scheibe and Chris Sperry of Project Look Sharp.
Disney made a lucrative industry out of princesses. With the release of “Maleficent” earlier this year — which drops on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital download on Nov. 4 — they may have discovered a new vein in that marketing gold mine: misunderstood bad girls.
Adults don’t often buzz about new TV shows on the Disney Channel. When the network ordered a full season of “Girl Meets World” last summer, however, adults of a certain age took to social media to express delight, nostalgia and concern.
Astronomy Professor Expects New Generation to be Inspired by New ‘Cosmos’ Series—As He was by the Original
Coverage of the March on Washington anniversary by PBS and NBC News will include a documentary produced by an Ithaca College faculty member and interviews conducted by Ithaca College students.
Ithaca College faculty member Skott Freedman has discovered insights that indicate children can learn two native languages as easily as they can learn one.
A team of Ithaca College physics students and a professor recently took photos from a flying observatory to help discover what makes up our universe.
Stehen Mosher, sports ethics expert, is available to comment on the recent firing of Rutgers head basketball coach Mike Rice.
Exercise and sport science researcher says the players for the Ravens and 49ers could have been given better advice for staying loose when the lights went out.
Long before the team matchups are even finalized, Super Bowl fans can begin rooting for their favorite — commercial, that is. More and more, advertisers are thinking outside the television box and putting their spots on social media ahead of the big game.
Rachel Wagner, author of "Godwired" and an expert on the intersections between religion and virtual reality, says that Pope Benedict is entering the profane world of social media by issuing his first tweet.
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