The Ithacan

The Ithaca College Softball team defeated the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3–2 in extra-innings on May 25

The Ithaca College women’s diving team competed at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships in Indianapolis

Junior Dallas Fonseca was awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and was accepted to the Amgen Scholars Program for his biology research.

The women’s track and field team enters its outdoor season looking to build on the momentum it established during the indoor season, during which the women took home the Empire 8 Championship and had three individuals set four new school records.

Junior pole vaulter Katherine Pitman has broken the Ithaca College pole vaulting record twice this season along the way to her No. 2 national ranking in the event.

Alan Lightman, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the keynote speaker at Ithaca College’s C.P. Snow Lecture Series.

As the price of four-year public and private universities increases nationwide, online education companies are offering up massive open online courses, MOOCs, as a way to bring higher education to students who cannot afford the traditional campus experience.

With a decrease in state financial aid during challenging economic times, obstacles that for-profit colleges deal with have risen annually. As America heads into the first part of an election year, the battle between the federal government and the public with academic research has heated up.