Graduating senior Timothy Conners will travel to Tanzania after graduation to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, one of the highest mountains in the world.

Over 30 Ithaca College students were inducted into the Tau Sigma National Honor Society, an academic honor society designed specifically to "recognize and promote the academic excellence and involvement of transfer students."

Environmental science and biology students Sydney O'Shaughnessy and Adam Zelehowsky won the Best Undergraduate Poster Award at the annual plant biology conference held at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Their poster displayed research focused on the impacts of an introduced species on coastal plant habitats on the beaches of the Puerto Rican islands. O'Shaughnessy and Zelehowsky conducted their research with Professors Melcher and Susan Witherup. The findings of the study show that the introduced species has a high potential to outcompete the native species.

Over 50 students from the Ithaca College School of Health Sciences and Human Performance were inducted into one of three different honor societies: Pi Theta, Rho Phi Lambda, and Alpha Eta.

Nine Ithaca College students presented research at the American Chemistry Society's national conference in San Francisco.

Ithaca College student Lauren Hodkinson was inducted into Lambda Alpha, the national anthropology honor society.

Ithaca College student Ramya Vijayagopal was selected for the Teach for America Program. Vijayagopal will teach middle school science in Philadelphia, PA.

Ithaca College student Linette Goris Jaquez was selected for the Teach for America Program. She will teach early childhood education in New York City.

In front of a large crowd in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall on a Saturday night in New York City, Ithaca College music students performed a special concert on the same stage where such famed artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and Joshua Bell have played. Titled "The Exquisite Hour: MusIC of Love and Rapture," the April 29 performance featured the Ithaca College Choir, Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra.

Ithaca College junior Victoria Voorhees was awarded a $1,000 study abroad grant from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi -- the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Voorhees is one of a select group of 50 students nationwide to receive the award.

Five Ithaca College students interned at the 52nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.

For the second year in a row, the New York Women in Communications Inc. (NYWICI) Foundation has awarded a significant number of scholarships to students from Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications. Five of the 19 scholarships awarded by the organization this year went to IC sophomores, while last year IC students took home six of 22 awards.

Fifty-three Ithaca College students travelled to the University of Memphis in Tennessee to present their research at the 2017 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Students from colleges and universities across the country presented at the annual conference, which took place April 6-8. The presentations mostly comprised research projects completed during students' coursework, including independent studies, senior theses and lab work.

Ithaca College baseball player Sam Little was named the ECAC North player of the week.

Three Ithaca College students were named athletes of the week by the Empire 8 Conference.

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.

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.

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

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.