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Ithaca Buddhist Meditation
The Student News Site of Ithaca College

The Ithacan
Ithaca Buddhist Meditation
The Student News Site of Ithaca College

The Ithacan
Editorial: On-campus clinics benefit students and the campus community

Editorial: On-campus clinics benefit students and the campus community

By The Ithacan • February 28, 2024
It is essential that the college provides these students with real-world, clinical experiences in a way that also benefits the college community as a whole.
Ithaca College is home to undergraduate and graduate programs that require students to participate in research with professors as part of their curriculums. 

Students and faculty work together to conduct research studies

By Eleanor Kay, Managing Editor • November 30, 2022
Ithaca College is home to undergraduate and graduate programs that require students to participate in research with professors.
“[At Ithaca College, the] president, provost, general council, chief of staff, vice president for student affairs and campus life, vice president for marketing and enrollment strategy, vice president of human resources, athletic director, and four of five deans are women,” President La Jerne Cornish said at the Women in Leadership Panel on Sept. 27. 

Panelists discuss the importance of women in leadership roles

By Vivian Rose, Contributing Writer • September 28, 2022
Ithaca College hosted a Women in Leadership Panel Sept. 27, coordinated by Julie Dorsey, chair and professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy.
Carole Dennis, a co-founder of Assistance in Motion and professor emerita in the Department of Occupational Therapy, and Sharon Stansfield, the other co-founder and professor in the Department of Computer Science, began research at the college in 2001 to fill the gap they noticed in mobility aids for infants and toddlers with motor impairment.

Faculty founds tech company to bring mobility to children

By Noa Ran-Ressler, Staff Writer • September 26, 2022
Current and former Ithaca College faculty founded a company to build robots in the hopes of bringing mobility to children with motor impairment.
Julie Dorsey, professor, chair and program director of the Department of Occupational Therapy, said the faculty in the department worked hard to develop the curriculum for the doctorate program so that it is efficient for students. Additionally, Dorsey said only 50 students will be admitted to the OTD doctorate program. 

Department of Occupational Therapy offers doctoral degree program

By Jadyn Davis, Staff Writer • September 14, 2022
The Department of Occupational Therapy has implemented a new six-year undergraduate-plus doctoral degree program that will begin in Fall 2023.
Shannon L. Scott, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy created the “Upper Extremity Motor Recovery Boot Camp” pilot program.

IC professor pioneers program in Ithaca for stroke survivors

By Elizabeth Kharabadze and Jay Bradley • February 24, 2022
Shannon L. Scott, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, started a program to teach students and help stroke survivors.
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