Humanities & Sciences

SGC and SLT Present: Student Conversation on the Academic Prioritization Process

Are you a student looking to learn more on the state of the Academic Prioritization Process (APP)? Make plans to join us on Tuesday, January 19, from 12:00-1:00 p.m. as members of the Student Governance Council (SGC) lead a STUDENTS ONLY town hall discussion with members of Ithaca College's Senior Leadership Team (SLT).

We will be answering your live questions and dedicating an hour of transparent discussion on the current status of the APP.

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia Series: Black Holes Exist, No…Really! The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel for their work helping us understand and locate black holes.

What is a black hole? How do we know they exist? And what did each of these physicists contribute to our current understanding? And what the heck is a Nobel Prize, anyway?

We will explore these questions and more.

Screen Cultures (B.A.)

Screen Cultures (B.A.)

The Screen Cultures major is an innovative and interdisciplinary program that provides students with a flexible course of study. It offers a solid understanding of foundational issues related to the study and understanding of the moving image while also allowing students to focus their studies on a range of specific issues and areas.

As a humanities-based course of study grounded in the field of film studies, but drawing on neighboring disciplines such as cultural studies, area studies, media arts, and media theory, Screen Cultures allows students to study in depth the theory, aesthetics, history, and cultural and institutional contexts of film, television, and related screen media from interdisciplinary perspectives. The degree emphasizes international and multicultural foci and is attentive to the role that the moving image plays in the construction of national, racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities.

The degree also provides opportunities for experiential learning in the form of on-campus and off-campus internships and projects in collaboration with a variety of film festivals on campus and throughout Ithaca, ensuring that students graduate not only with core liberal arts skills, but with a keen understanding of the important role that visual media play in the contemporary world and in national/international public discourses and multiple industries.

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia Series: Optical cloaking and other applications of metamaterials

Vera Smolyaninova, Towson University

Invisibility is an ancient dream. Applications of principles of transformation optics and metamaterials help to bring this dream closer to reality. What are metamaterials? What properties they can have? Optical cloaking based on emulation of metamaterials properties will be discussed. Applications of metamaterial engineering to different branches of physics, such as superconductivity and even cosmology will be shown.