The Ithacan

Politics chair discusses nobel prize-winning father’s US exodus

By Erin Conway, Staff Writer • February 20, 2017

Wole Soyinka, the father of Ithaca College professor Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, was the first African writer to win a Nobel Prize in literature.

Commentary: Minimum wage should be a living wage

By Carl Feuer and Pete Meyers • September 9, 2015

There is a sustainable and sure solution, and that is raising the minimum wage to a living wage.

ITHACA TODAY: Thursday, Feb. 13

February 13, 2014

Your guide to what's happening in Ithaca.

Nobel Prize winner to speak at college

January 29, 2014

Roald Hoffmann, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will visit Ithaca College next month to discuss his work with protochemistries, a branch of science that explores chemistry before chemists existed.

Celebrating the master recipe book of life

By Amanda Hutchinson, Contributing Writer • April 25, 2013

DNA is some pretty cool stuff. If you think about it, it’s something as simple as some sugar, some phosphates, and a few different rings made of carbon and nitrogen. Sounds pretty elementary, but consider that this combination creates what is essentially the family heirloom cookbook that contains all the recipes to produce, say, a…