Editor-in-Chief Lorien Tyne and News Editor Kaeleigh Banda spoke with Ithaca College President La Jerne Cornish about how IC is responding to institutional financial challenges and political pressures from the federal government.
By Kai Lincke, Community Outreach Manager
• April 11, 2025
Steve TenEyck began serving as the dean of the Ithaca College School of Music, Theatre, and Dance on March 1. TenEyck has worked as a faculty member at the college since 2001. He served as a professor and chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and became an associate dean of the School of MTD when the department merged with the School of Music in 2022.
In early March, Marella Feltrin-Morris, professor in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Ithaca College, translated famous Italian writer Grazia Deledda’s short story “La porta stretta.” Morris also wrote a chapter in “Grazia Deledda’s Painterly Aesthetic,” called “The Space Between: Deledda’s Doors as Frames for Visual and Symbolic Landscapes,” which seeks to dive deeper into Deledda’s imagery of the Door.
By Jacob Gelman, Contributing Writer
• March 21, 2025
Sophomore Katrina Hardy, an environmental science major at Ithaca College, traveled to Botswana on Feb. 10 through the Round River Conservation Studies program. She is studying wildlife conservation, which extends to all herbivore species, opportunistic predators, elephants and birds in Botswana.
After accumulating over 4,000 hours of service work since 2019, sophomore Louis Pratt was awarded the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Pratt collected these hours through his local chamber of commerce and Students Against Destructive Driving, a student-run certifying organization that promotes safe driving decisions.
In December 2023, Austin Reid was announced as the interim director for the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life. The position opened when Yasin Ahmed, former director for the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, resigned from the college in October 2023.
Elizabeth Kaletski, an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Ithaca College, was on sabbatical for Spring 2023. During her sabbatical, she worked on projects centered on children’s rights for the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, including analyzing data, writing academic papers and securing funding.
John Vongas is an associate professor in the School of Business at Ithaca College. He was able to lend his expertise to help research stress-work relationships and assisted in writing the paper “The Essential Impact of Stress Appraisals on Work Engagement.”
Ven. Geshe Lhakdor is His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama's translator and religious assistant. He visited Ithaca College on Nov. 27 to share his perspective on the nature of peace.
Carla Stetson, former associate professor of arts and chair of the art department, was recognized as a finalist for the Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts discipline in the 2023 New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship. Mariana Contreras, staff writer, sat down with Stetson and spoke about her recent award as a finalist for the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship.
Co-Life and Culture Editor Molly Fitzsimons spoke with Lyons about The Lavender Rhino, the motives behind starting this project and where it is going next. Lyons was a journalism major at Ithaca College and later received an MBA at New York University, moving to New York City post-graduation. His professional experience so far has included journalism, content marketing, as well as being active politically and fighting for causes such as LGBTQ+ rights and empowerment.