THE ITHACAN

Easing up on our emotions

By Victor A. López-Carmen • April 19, 2017

The extent to which one can navigate a mixture of emotions and rebound from stressful situations is a useful predictor of health outcomes.

Q&A: Nick Sagan pushes beyond his father’s legacy

By Brianna Ruback, Staff Writer • April 12, 2017

Everyone looks to find their own path — but you’re also the product of where you come from.

Environmental journal Alluvian plants its roots on IC campus

By Daniel Hart, Contributing Writer • November 9, 2016

Alluvian, which is published each season, is Ithaca College’s only online student-run environmental journal.

Q&A: Ithaca College biology students research gene mutations

By Meg Tippett, Staff Writer • October 5, 2016

C. elegans, a specific type of roundworm, have been the subject of careful study for sophomore Leah Larsen and junior Jacqueline Alexander.

Ithaca College students monitor return of black bears

By Faith Meckley, News Editor • April 14, 2016

Menges and Miller are animal trackers. They said tracking is more than just following animal footprints through the woods — it is about being aware of their surroundings, and the body language and signals from nearby animals, including other people.

Commentary: Humanities are essential to student success

By Michael Smith • April 13, 2016

For most of the history of higher education, the humanities were the foundation of a college degree, not a marginal element squeezed in—or worse, “gotten out of the way,” to use the all too common parlance about ICC courses on campus.

Ithaca College professor uses levitation to connect to students

By Daniel Hart, Staff Writer • October 28, 2015

In honor of the movie, Sullivan and several of his students showed off levitating models of Marty on a hoverboard and of a jet-fueled DeLorean during an outreach event to a physics lab with three reporters, several students and a handful of photographers.

$A jar of silica sand used for hydraulic fracturing$

Risky Business

By Faith Meckley, Staff Writer • November 16, 2014

My heart was pounding as I brushed the excess sand off the jar, and it wasn't because I was risking trespass charges. It was because I knew there was a chance I was risking my life. Once I screwed the lid on, I frantically brushed my gloves off on my pant leg, and then did the best I could to shake the stuff off my pants. A little voice in my head told me that trying to decontaminate myself was futile, that if I had been smart I would have come here equipped with a mask. It could already be in my lungs.

Review: Science inspires in data-based exhibit

By Nina Varilla, Staff Writer • March 26, 2014

Professor Jenny Sabin's newest exhibit is a scientific art venture.

Catholic astronomer speaks on relationship between science and religion

By Vicky Wolak, Chief Copy Editor • November 12, 2013

The Rev. George Coyne, former director of the Vatican Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., spoke Monday at Cornell University in a lecture titled “The Dance of the Fertile Universe: An Interplay of Science and Religion.”

Nonprofit proposes extensive science ed reform plan

By Amanda Hutchinson, Contributing Writer • April 12, 2013

Several studies by the US Department of Education show that American students are academically behind on STEM – science, technology, engineering, and math – subjects as compared to their peers in Europe and Asia. Personal struggles with the subject become more pronounced when students specialize in college: I have friends in the humanities who loathe…

Video: The End of the World

By Tiffany Ruff • April 11, 2013

Ithaca College faculty holds a panel to discuss the likelihood of an apocalypse and how the world will eventually come to an end.