Learning That Never Stops

These stories showcase a cumulative learning experience that doesn’t end at graduation. Meet students, faculty, and other IC community members who took risks, embraced setbacks, and iterated their way to success.
Tim Reynolds
Tim Reynolds
Making Every Step Count
Alexa Chalnick
Alexa Chalnick
Turning Limes into Lemonade
Antara Sen ’22 and Professor Beth Ellen Clark Joseph
Antara Sen & Beth Ellen Clark Joseph
Landing Out-of-This-World Opportunities
Tim Reynolds
Tim Reynolds
Making Every Step Count

Scaling business, mountains, and TikTok, Ithaca College professor Tim Reynolds ’12, DPT ’14, knows how to gain a foothold on unexpected terrain.

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Alexa Chalnick
Alexa Chalnick
Turning Limes into Lemonade

TikTok star Alexa Chalnick ’23 turned setbacks into successes by embracing creative resilience and daring other artists to join in.

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Antara Sen ’22 and Professor Beth Ellen Clark Joseph
Antara Sen & Beth Ellen Clark Joseph
Landing Out-of-This-World Opportunities

On a NASA mission, Antara Sen ’22 and Professor Beth Ellen Clark Joseph set national research and lifelong friendship into motion.

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Lisa Corewyn and Kari Brossard Stoos
Lisa Corewyn & Kari Brossard Stoos
Collaborating Wildly
Raevyn Goodson
Raevyn Goodson
Navigating Tough Times
Jorge Grossmann
Jorge Grossmann
Bridging Divides
Lisa Corewyn and Kari Brossard Stoos
Lisa Corewyn & Kari Brossard Stoos
Collaborating Wildly

From IC to Costa Rica, two faculty members forged an unexpected and unwavering partnership to save an endangered species. 

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Raevyn Goodson
Raevyn Goodson
Navigating Tough Times

Whether juggling 12-hour hospital shifts or a 4-hour time difference for virtual classes, Alaska native Raevyn Goodson knows how to keep her cool.

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Jorge Grossmann
Jorge Grossmann
Bridging Divides

Music’s power to bridge divides helped shape Professor Jorge Grossmann’s life during an adolescence spent among several cultures.  

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A Place That Transforms

Learn about students, faculty, and other IC community members who were changed by the stunning natural beauty and eclectic cultural scene here—along with those who transformed IC with their vision for a better world.
A woman in a US Navy uniform stands on the deck of a Naval vessel.
A Veteran Finds Her Voice … and Her Calling
Vanessa Doucette’s journey from the United States Navy to IC’s Speech-Language Pathology program
Four people in an art gallery looking at art and having conversations
Art Downtown
Art major Safara Vache ’25 opens her solo exhibition in downtown Ithaca with support and collaboration from faculty mentor Julianne Hunter.
An educator on a boat teaches families.
In Her Element
How a summer internship aboard a floating classroom on Ithaca’s Cayuga Lake connected Patty McHugh ’25 to memories of her grandfather and prepared her for new adventures

Growing the Future

“I think it’s important to know that you can pursue any passion you want and there’s a way to make it your profession.” 

Hadil Khodji portrait
Hadil Khodji
Swimming in Opportunity
Eric Jordan Young
Eric Jordan Young
Setting the Stage for Transformation
Nick Capodilupo
Nick Capodilupo
Daring Stages and Stadiums
Hadil Khodji portrait
Hadil Khodji
Swimming in Opportunity

President of the IC Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Hadil Khodji '25 dove headfirst into actualizing a visionary solution for a formidable issue. 

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Eric Jordan Young
Eric Jordan Young
Setting the Stage for Transformation

Eric Jordan Young ’93 finds fuel for continual collaboration, creative refuge, and transformation where he launched his career—IC.

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Nick Capodilupo
Nick Capodilupo
Daring Stages and Stadiums

Nick Capodilupo '24 found his voice and his vigor as a vocal performance major and football player at Ithaca College.

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David Prunty
Dave Prunty
Cultivating Community—Heart and Soul
Andrew Roberts '26
Andrew Roberts
Leveling the Playing Field
Duda Formosa
Duda Formoso
Seasons of Empowerment
David Prunty
Dave Prunty
Cultivating Community—Heart and Soul

Dave Prunty has a unique perspective on Ithaca College—one that comes from over three decades working on campus.  

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Andrew Roberts '26
Andrew Roberts
Leveling the Playing Field

Diagnosed with autism, Andrew Roberts ’26 was told he might never speak. Now, this Park scholar is leveling the playing field.  

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Duda Formosa
Duda Formoso
Seasons of Empowerment

A trailblazing first-gen student, digital influencer Duda Formoso ’26 turned trials into transformation.

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An Experience That Evolves

College isn’t just about meeting requirements. Meet those who took chances, charted new paths, found unexpected sides of themselves, and developed an unstoppable, ever-evolving mindset.
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Expertise That Elevates

Our leaders connect and align the strengths of others, forge new territory, make tough decisions, and dare innovative solutions. Get to know those in our bold-thinking community who are making an impact.
Elisa Rodriguez

Elisa Rodriguez

Reading the Future
Elisa Rodriguez ’14 is helping to shape tomorrow’s critical thinkers one student at a time.

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Beth Ryan
Beth Ryan
Researching Tomorrow’s Solutions
Belisa Gonzalez
Belisa González
Questioning Old Narratives
Alex Wilson
Alex Wilson '77
Turning Our World Around
Beth Ryan
Beth Ryan
Researching Tomorrow’s Solutions

Beth Ryan is unapologetic about nerding out to biochemistry and what might just be the coolest job ever: designing the future of medicine. 

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Belisa Gonzalez
Belisa González
Questioning Old Narratives

Who defines progress, and how? Professor Belisa González – and a new major at IC – ask challenging questions about dominant social narratives. 

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Alex Wilson
Alex Wilson '77
Turning Our World Around

Alex Wilson ’77 knows the best way to prepare for climate disaster is to expect it—and plan how to bounce forward when it strikes. 

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Rita Bunatal
Rita Bunatal
Modeling Your Mission
La Jerne Terry Cornish
La Jerne Terry Cornish
Fostering Resilience through Rigor
Tim Locastro
Tim Locastro
Thriving through Teamwork
Rita Bunatal
Rita Bunatal
Modeling Your Mission

Rita Bunatal founded a business, cofounded a movement, and found herself. Hear how Rita created her community—and profound change—at IC. 

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La Jerne Terry Cornish
La Jerne Terry Cornish
Fostering Resilience through Rigor

IC’s president, La Jerne Terry Cornish, brings her authentic self to all she does and is committed to sustaining the college’s culture of inclusion.  

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Tim Locastro
Tim Locastro
Thriving through Teamwork

Major League baseball player Tim Locastro ‘14 knows that making progress—and stealing bases—is about biding time and seizing chances.  

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A piece of advice I would give to a woman interested in STEM is to stay interested. Don't let anyone deter you from what you enjoy. Be unapologetically, enthusiastic and nerdy about it. It is really dorky, but if you find something that you like that much, don't give it up because it gets a little tough sometimes. Stay with it. I promise it's really worth it.

Beth Ryan '22

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 I think when you come on our campus and you can see yourself living and thriving in this community, especially if you apply yourself and really want to get involved. I think that's the combination that makes it different. Again, from a very large or a very small school, we're right in the middle. I really like that.

Dave Prunty, IC employee of 30 years

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Instead of thinking in terms of ‘I,’ we think in terms of ‘we’. So progress for me would be thinking about the fabrics of people who brought something forward, and all of the people who contributed to [that] something and continue to remake it, rather than the one person's name who shows up in a history book or on a building.

Belisa Gonzalez, professor of sociology