Eight Ithaca College students have reported contracting hand, foot and mouth disease to The Ithacan while on campus in September. HFMD, a disease caused by coxsackievirus or enterovirus, is a disease that is common in young children but can impact all ages.

An artificial intelligence data center may find a home on the bank of Cayuga Lake in the next two years, despite concerns about the proposed center’s environmental impact and the chance of a one-year pause on construction in Lansing. Maryland-based tech company TeraWulf announced in an Aug. 14 press release that it secured an 80-year lease to the site of the decommissioned Cayuga power station in Lansing.

The Ithaca College Student Governance Council met Sept. 29 to discuss upcoming initiatives for the school year. This meeting was the first meeting with the new senate members who were elected Sept. 21.

John Mikhail, the Carroll Professor of Jurisprudence at Georgetown University Law Center, held a talk on anti-slavery and the Constitution in Williams Hall room 383 on Sept. 17 as part of Ithaca College’s annual Constitution Day series.

Cliff-Simon Vital, former interim director of the BIPOC Unity Center, has been appointed as permanent director of the renamed Unity Center. The center has not had a permanent director in almost two years.

A former Ithaca College student, Jonathan D’Agostino, was declared missing by the New York State Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation Department Sept. 10. Video footage showed him leaving the IC campus around 6:30 a.m. Sept. 7, according to the missing person release. An IC spokesperson told Syracuse.com he last attended IC in Fall 2023.

Ithaca College is expanding its palette of creative arts offerings through new majors and returning graduate programs amid college-wide cuts and restructuring. 

Two Ithaca College librarians, Jim Bondra, former business librarian and Karin Wikoff, former electronic and technical services librarian, both retired Aug. 25. The current librarians have restructured the Ithaca College Library to account for the losses amid a turbulent time for libraries across the United States.

A National Science Foundation grant meant to increase the opportunities for minority students in STEM was cut in May for Ithaca College students. Part of the lost funds were set aside to help biology majors present at the 2025 International Worm Meeting over the summer. With financial support from the campus community, students in the Department of Biology were still able to present their award-winning research on an international stage.