Over 50 Ithaca College Roy H. Park School of Communications students were inducted into Lambda Pi Eta, the National Association of Communication's honor society, on April 18.

Economics and mathematics major Steven Cox served as a student ambassador for the 25th Annual Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program Statewide Student Conference, which was held April 7-9, 2017 in Bolton Landing, N.Y.

Ithaca College student Dallas Fonseca presented research at the 25th Annual Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program Statewide Student Conference, which was held April 7-9, 2017 in Bolton Landing, N.Y. Fonseca presented "The Role of Specificity in the Emergence of Post-transcriptional Regulons in Germline Development," for which he won the top Life Sciences II award at the conference.

Ithaca College's student-run newspaper, The Ithacan, has been named the Best College Newspaper in New York State for 2016 by the New York Press Association. The award, the NYPA's top collegiate honor, was announced April 8 at the organization's annual convention at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Ithaca College student Dallas Fonseca was named a recipient of a prestigious -- and competitive -- Barry Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most distinguished awards offered in the sciences. He was also selected to be part of the renowned -- and also competitive -- Amgen Scholars Program, and will spend this summer working in a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Over 150 Ithaca College students were named to the Empire 8 President's List. In order to be considered for the President's List, a student-athlete must earn a 3.75 grade point average or higher while participating in a conference-sponsored sport.

Fifteen Ithaca College students presented research at the Annual Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, in Boston, Mass.

The Ithaca College chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi has selected Cailin Harro '17 to represent Ithaca College and to compete for the 2017-18 Phi Kappa Phi Society-wide fellowship awards. These awards are extremely competitive and to be selected as a Fellow is a distinct honor.

Senior English major Alyssa Rodriguez was awarded the Daniel Walden Prize by the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association. The prize is given each year to an outstanding emerging scholar in popular culture studies. Rodriguez was recognized for her work on the trope of the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" in film and young adult fiction.

The Ithaca College men's and women's track and field teams earned a combined 17 USTFCCCA Atlantic All-Region accolades on March 6.

Ithaca College senior Alison Ricchiuti was named a North Second-Team Division III All-Star by the Eastern College Athletic Conference on March 9. This is Ricchiuti's second ECAC All-Star accolade, as she was recognized at the conclusion of her sophomore season.

The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts on Mar. 12. The performance was the culminating concert of the John Phillip Sousa Band Festival.

16 Ithaca College student athletes were placed on the National Field Hockey Coaches Association's National Academic Squad last week. This honor recognizes players who have held a cumulative grade-point average above a 3.30 through the first semester of the 2016-17 year.

Three Ithaca College student athletes were recognized for their outstanding performance on IC sports teams over spring break. Jake Cotton and Jack Deragon swept the men's lacrosse awards, while Mino Stavrakas captured the Men's Tennis Athlete of the Week.

Jack Shumway, a senior lacrosse player at Ithaca College, was named the USILA/BSN Division III North Offensive Player of the Week on March 10. This award followed his earning of Offensive Player of the Week from the Empire 8 Conference just days earlier.

Ithaca College's track and field team swept all four major categories of the Atlantic Region for The United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association regional awards. Junior Taryn Cordani was named Track Athlete of the Year, senior Katherine Pitman was voted as the Field Athlete of the Year, Jennifer Potter received Head Coach of the Year and Matt Scheffler was chosen as Assistant Coach of the Year.

104 Ithaca College students have been inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the only national honor society which recognizes and encourages superior scholarship in all disciplines of higher education.

Mary Katherine Jones, a sophmore journalism major at Ithaca College, was awarded Best Delegate at the Harvard National Model United Nations Conference on Feb. 19. Jones worked as The Strait Times in the Press Corps committee, which she said she was automatically drawn to due to her interest in journalism. "Throughout the weekend at the conference, I worked to produce about 16 articles on various topics from the point of view of The Straits Times," she said. "It was an amazing experience, and at the end of the weekend I was awarded Best Delegate in the Press Corps. I was completely shocked, as Harvard's conference is the largest and one of most competitive in the world."

Competing against over 200 other students, a group from Ithaca College's Women in Computing organization won "Best Hardware Hack" at the Rochester Institute of Technology's fourth annual WiC Hacks event on Feb. 25 and 26. The competition, which aims to inspire young women to explore the world of technology, challenges participants to build programs in just 24 hours. Lauren McGrath, Lauren Suna, Tea Mdevadze and Mia Kimmich Mitchell won for Time Out, a Pebble watch app that allows women to quickly notify emergency contacts of their safety level.

An Ithaca College senior is one of the top five finalists in this year's PRWeek Student of the Year competition, and she got there with a little help from her theater background. Mackenzie Gannon, who graduates this spring with a degree in integrated marketing communications, applied to the industry magazine's competition as part of an independent project in her Public Relations Lab course in the Roy H. Park School of Communications.

As Ithaca College students depart for Spring Break next week, 40 will disperse throughout the country and Canada to spend their time volunteering for a variety of causes, while another three will trek to Alaska to help locals prepare their income taxes.

Five Ithaca College students were selected to attend the African American Student Leadership Experience in Washington, D.C. As a result of this experience, they have developed an original learning and reflection opportunity for the IC community that will take place Tuesday, Feb. 28.

Ithaca College congratulates all December 2016 graduates.

Ithaca College congratulates all December 2016 graduates

Ithaca College congratulates students named to Dean's List for the fall 2016 semester

Ithaca College alumna Leah Galant was awarded a Sundance Institute Ignite fellowship.

Eleven Ithaca College students recieved the "MLK NOW" Award for their above-and-beyond service during the college's annual MLK Day of Service, which concluded a week of educational workshops and performances. The "MLK NOW" Award is given to one student from each volunteer group who demonstrates servant leadership and exceptional teamwork. The winners are voted on by the members of their group.

Over sixty Ithaca College students were honored with the Peggy R. Williams Award for Academic and Community Leadership, an award recognizing students who excel academically, perform service to the college community and nation, and represent an exemplary level of accomplishment.

Three Ithaca College students are in Houston, TX to broadcast their live sports-talk show and podcast from the site of Super Bowl LI. Jake Asman and Dan Budick, hosts of the aptly named Asman & Budick Show, along with their producer Jake Chernock, were credentialed by the National Football League to broadcast from the famed Radio Row, the designated location for media to set up shop.

Eleven Ithaca College students were inducted into the New York Upsilon chapter of the Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society.