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Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, professor and chair of the politics department, is the daughter of Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka who promised to leave the United States if Donald Trump was elected president.

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.
From left, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick and Pete Meyers, coordinator and co-founder of the Tompkins County Workers’ Center, call for more living wage employers at the TCWC’s living wage celebration in January 2014.

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.
Roald Hoffmann, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, said his presentation Feb. 13 at Ithaca College will focus on chemistry and the arts, and it will appeal to the general public.

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 26, 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…
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