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Provost Melanie Stein invites us to celebrate the intellectual and creative accomplishments of our colleagues. Presenters will share from the research and/or creative activity they engaged in during their sabbatical. Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there.

Wednesday, April 19, 4:00-5:30pm
Clark Lounge, Campus Center

Presenters:
Matthew C. Sullivan, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Title: Opportunity from Adversity: Creating Hands-on Physics Laboratory Experiences for Remote Students

In Spring and Fall 2020, the COVID pandemic turned our hands-on intermediate and advanced laboratory courses into remote courses, forcing the creation of labs that could be conducted by students at home for low cost and with readily available materials.  The remote labs I created (in collaboration with Ithaca College students) leverage in-house equipment production capabilities such as the Ithaca College Maker Space and a powerful analytical tool available to nearly all students: the smartphone.  In this presentation, I will discuss two lab projects that we published in the leading pedagogical physics journal The American Journal of Physics.

Cory Brown, Department of Writing
Title: On the Godless Beauty of What Is (a poetry reading)

I will read a selection of lyrical and narrative poems from this manuscript, which was completed during the sabbatical. Now into my fifth decade of writing poems, I explore here some recurring themes: modern alienation, our troubling relationship to nature, whether we can save ourselves from our own self-deluding tendencies. This manuscript, however, grapples a bit more conspicuously than past poems of mine with religion and religiosity. They limn some personal religious doubts and the conditions of modernity that resist or undermine a religious sensibility. Many of them, accordingly, are expressions of grief over the loss of family members, appearing to lean on some Stoic and Epicurean principles for solace. The poems explore sources of what might be called secular redemption, for the "sins" of the Anthropocene. One of the redemptions they appear to propose, despite postmodernist leanings in some, is a traditional literary Romantic reverence for nature and its beauty.

Susan Waterbury, Department of Music Performance
Title:  Playing by Heart - a Classical violinist explores Fiddling and Improvisation

The effects of playing from memory, improvising, and learning by ear through exploring Old Time and other styles of Fiddling (and Improvisation). How this 8-year exploration into fiddling has influenced this Classically trained violinist. Both violin and fiddle will be in hand to play and demonstrate.

Facilitator: Matt Clauhs, CFE Co-director and Associate Professor of Music Education
Organized and supported by the Center for Faculty Excellence

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Colette Matisco at cfe@ithaca.edu or 607-274-3734. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.