The Ithacan

The Passion Project is dedicated to self-empowerment, embracing youth culture, inspiration and social issues within and beyond Ithaca College.

Alisar Awwad created the #takeitback Project in an effort to “take back” her own identity and empathize with others.

From Tokyo to Italy, Cory Young’s passion for food and communications has brought her around the globe. Currently on sabbatical leave, Young is on a quest to combine these two passions to define culinary communications and how it could potentially become a field of study at Ithaca College.

Senior students’ artwork was selected to exhibit as part of the senior art show “Letters to Our Future Selves” April 17 to May 18 in the Handwerker Gallery.

Cass Spencer, an award-winning creative and art director, visited the college and gave a lecture on taking advantage of data visualization. Assistant Accent Editor Steven Pirani spoke with Spencer about his career and design philosophy.

Senior, Johanna Pan talks about her passion for theater and the arts as well as her talent for costume design in this week’s all new “Hidden Talents of Ithaca.”

Imagine this: You are over at a friend’s house, and you need to use the restroom. They point you down the hall. You open the door, and next to the bathroom sink is a plunger. Sounds normal, right? Oh no. This plunger isn’t discreetly next to the toilet or inside a cabinet,  it’s suctioned to the…

Sure, it’s cool, but can you eat it? This question, if answered yes, can turn any ordinary object into extraordinary, upping the cool factor by at least ten points. The case is no different with the “Sugarchair,” a strange innovation by an even stranger designer, Amsterdam’s own Pieter Brenner. Yes, the chair is made entirely…