The Ithacan

Rev. James Touchton, chaplain of the Ithaca College Protestant Community, will resign from his position at the end of Fall 2018.

A new club, Disability Education, Alliance and Resources at Ithaca College (DEAR@IC), will focus on educating people about disabilities.

Ithaca College will no longer be purchasing plastic straws for its on-campus retail locations. Instead, the plastic straws will be replaced with compostable ones.

Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University in San Diego, California, will be leading a discussion at Ithaca College about her newest book “iGen” on Sept. 27.

At the All-College Gathering on Aug. 23, Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado announced that the college’s carbon footprint is projected to drop by 45 percent this academic year. This decrease in overall carbon output is part of the college’s previous pledge to be completely carbon neutral by the year 2050.

Cynthia Nixon, Democratic candidate for New York state governor, announced her platform’s significant environmental goals at an event in Ithaca on Sept. 1.

Six Ithaca College students presented their biology and chemistry research from May 1-3 at the annual Biology Symposia.

Ithaca College announced March 30 that as of February 2018, all of the college’s electricity supply, currently 33,000,000 kWh annually, has been transitioned to clean energy and will only be purchased

The panel discussion focused on identifying problems with student involvement in sustainability and talking about possible solutions.

Smith said she has been working to a bring a chapter of JBF to the college since her freshman year when the organization reached out to her to be its first college ambassador.

Smith presented his research on sustainable development in Nicaragua. His observational research focused on the rural community of Sabana Grande.

Chris Holmes, associate professor in the Department of English, teaches a freshman seminar on guns and gun violence.