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Big Red Adaptive Play and Design Re-Wires Toys for Accessibility
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The Big Red Adaptive Play and Design Initiative re-engineers toys and devices to boost their accessibility throughout Ithaca.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/ithaca/page/6/)
The Big Red Adaptive Play and Design Initiative re-engineers toys and devices to boost their accessibility throughout Ithaca.
I brace myself everyday for the feeling. Bump bump bump crash.
It’s part of the daily battle that drivers in Collegetown know all too well. It’s the fight down Buffalo Street. Crumbling concrete and constant potholes create a dangerous mix that punishes my car’s suspension on a daily basis.
This scene, unfortunately, is interchangeable with many in Collegetown. Driving in Ithaca can often be a challenge, from the lack of parking in the Commons to the constant uphill climbing. But a lack of maintenance on Collegetown streets, particularly in the area surrounding Stewart Avenue, is a major concern for student drivers.
Those who frequently travel NY-79 may have passed a clearing on the side of the road on one of the final bends. If you just so happened to glance over at the right time, you may have even seen people pulled over at the clearing filling jugs, bottles, glasses, whatever they could find, with water. Having passed by this water spout dozens of times, it felt like a crime to continue to drive past this spring without trying it and learning a bit more about it.
William Jane, Ithaca’s first marijuana dispensary, opened on March 16 as the first dispensary in Upstate New York to be licensed and supported by the Social Equity Cannabis Investment Fund.
On March 18th, Cinemapolis provided customers with tickets to free films, intending to bring greater attention to the downtown Ithaca theater.
There’s nothing I hate like when Cornellians don’t love Ithaca.
Cornell has announced that due to an expected snowfall of between nine and 18 inches, the Ithaca and AgriTech campuses will be closed on Tuesday.
The Ithaca Rotary Club raised money for a school bomb shelter in Lviv, Ukraine on Sunday with a bomb shelter
If you are interested in building specific skills necessary for community engagement with a more traditional method, the Einhorn Center offers courses and engaged research opportunities for students to develop skills and earn certificates in leadership. Community-engaged learning offers a unique opportunity to directly apply the hard and soft skills you learn both inside and outside the classroom to real-world situations. Working collaboratively with community members creates an educational experience that allows both parties to learn from each other.
Though I have lived in Rochester for most of my life — and have subsequently attended school in Ithaca — this weekend marked my first local upstate New York Chili Bowl. Upon hearing the possibility of escaping our grimy collegetown house with a near-empty refrigerator for a sunny day in Oneonta sampling dozens of local chili recipes, my housemates and I packed ourselves into a compact sedan and hit the road.