The Ithacan

IC Genes is a new organization and its goal is to defy misconceptions about genetic engineering and create a community to discuss synthetic biology.

Faculty and staff are looking for ways to ramp up student interest in the college’s weekly diversity and inclusion discussion groups. These groups were created in response to student protests last fall to address complaints about the administration’s lack of emphasis on diversity and inclusion. However, students do not seem to be attending the discussion groups.

Ithaca College’s Women in Computing brings together women in the computing field, and several of its members won awards at the Rochester Institute of Technology WiCHacks hackathon event.

The Delta Kappa Alpha National Professional Cinema Society has been founded as a local chapter at Ithaca College.

The Ithaca College Student Activities Fund, which has been empty since Feb. 17, has received additional funds, according to an email sent to student organizations March 31.

Studies indicate an increasing number of students are concerned with what they’ll be doing outside the classroom than with next semester’s classes.

The Student Government Association’s vice president of business and finance has resigned.

Senior Pedro Maldonado will graduate at the end of this semester. He and four other students founded HiFashion Studios in the fall of 2010.