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Press ReleasesCheck out our 'Green' Press Kit! St. Lawrence To Award Honorary Degrees To Three SLU Professor Alan Draper Awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair SLU Prof's Book Examines Ideas About Children & Sexuality 'Brain Blast' At St. Lawrence Celebrates Brain Awareness Week Laurentian Singers Concert At SLU March 19 Bach 'Marathon' Planned At St. Lawrence, Marking Composer's 325th Birthday Mountaineer/Photographer Jake Norton To Speak At St. Lawrence Pulitzer Winner Taylor Branch To Speak At SLU George Mitchell's Mediations Topic For SLU Talk Spoken-Word Performance 'Salt Lines' At SLU March 26 St. Lawrence Concert Offers 'Music For Brown-Baggers' Canoe Authority James Raffan To Give Talk At SLU Workshop On Reporting Child Abuse And Maltreatment Set At St. Lawrence St. Lawrence Named 'Campus Sustainability Leader' 'U.S. News & World Report' Lists St. Lawrence Among Best Colleges Princeton Review Cites St. Lawrence University In 'Best Colleges' Book |
FeaturesSpring Break Includes Study And Service Mathematics Honor Society Inducts 14 Students Holly Solano '92 Photo Wins Best In Show SLU's Own DIY Network: Students Build Computers For Lab Biology Honor Society Inducts 11 New Members Winners Of Math Jeopardy For $500, Alex! Many Laurentian Connections To Vancouver Olypics Prof. Chiarenzelli Presenting Series Of Talks NCPR's Sommerstein Awarded Fellowship To 'Food Boot Camp' Prof. O'Donoghue To Speak At NYC Symposium On Science & Faith Article By Prof. McConnell Published In Journal Psychology Honor Society Inducts 18 Students |
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St. Lawrence University Professor of Government Alan L. Draper has been appointed a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, providing him the opportunity to conduct research and teach at the University of Innsbruck in Austria during the spring 2011 semester.
A new book co-authored by St. Lawrence University Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies R. Danielle Egan is a study of the history of ideas about children and sexuality. Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity, by Egan and Gail Hawkes, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan.
It's there all the time, controlling literally everything that you do, even your thoughts. But when was the last time that you could say you were actually aware of your brain?
Following their "Senior Hometown Sweep" tour, St. Lawrence University's Laurentian Singers will perform in concert on campus on Friday, March 19, at 8 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
A "marathon" celebrating composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) will take place at St. Lawrence University on Saturday, March 20, from 4 to 9:30 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel. The event, which marks the 325th anniversary of Bach's birth, is open to the public, free of charge.
Nationally recognized mountaineering guide and professional photographer/videographer Jake Norton will give a talk at St. Lawrence University on Monday, March 22, at 7 p.m. in Eben Holden, titled "Climb Your Everest." The event is open to the public, free of charge.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch will give a talk titled "Race, Violence and Democracy: What Rules America?" on Wednesday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Eben Holden at St. Lawrence University. The event, part of the Contemporary Issues Forum, is open to the public, free of charge; a book-signing will follow the talk.
Shelley M. Deane, assistant professor of government at Bowdoin College, will give a talk titled "Belfast, Bethlehem, and Baghdad: George Mitchell's Mediation Mechanisms" on Thursday, March 25, at 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall, Room 218, at St. Lawrence University. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
Salt Lines, an award-winning slam-poetry group made up of gay, straight and transgendered women, will perform at St. Lawrence University on Friday, March 26, at 8 p.m. in the Winston Room of the Sullivan Student Center. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
St. Lawrence University has been named a Campus Sustainability Leader by the Sustainable Endowments Institute in its 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, one of just 80 schools to achieve the designation.
"Alternative" spring break travel was a popular option for St. Lawrence students this year, with a group traveling to Tennessee to work on a Habitat for Humanity project, a group volunteering at a community center in Philadelphia and a group conducting study in China, related to a course.
Pi Mu Epsilon, the mathematics honor society, recently inducted new members. Fourteen students are new members of the group.
A photograph by Holly (Snyder) Solano '92 won first place in Points of Departure, a juried national photography exhibition hosted by The Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts in Rockville, Maryland.
When Associate Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Ed Harcourt said he wanted his computer science students to "get their feet wet and their hands dirty," he wasn't kidding. The dozen students in the fall 2009 course High-Performance Linux Computing Systems, co-taught with Assistant Professor Richard Sharp, built 55 computers for three labs, from scratch, motherboards to monitors.
Eleven students were inducted into Beta Beta Beta, the biology honor society on February 26, 2010.
St. Lawrence University's Math Jeopardy team took first place in a competition held February 19, as part of a two-day mathematics symposium held at Clarkson University. The team beat competitors from Clarkson, SUNY Potsdam, Nazareth College, St. John Fisher College and SUNY Brockport at the event.
Associate Professor of Geology Jeffrey Chiarenzelli '81 gave the Science Today lecture at SUNY Oswego February 3, on environmental forensics and possible methods of restoration on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, primarily with regard to persistent organic pollutants and biogenic hydrocarbons, such as crude oil and various other forms of petroleum spills.
North Country Public Radio's David Sommerstein is one of 12 journalists from around the nation selected as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow on the topic of food. The "Food Boot Camp" takes place March 23-26 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue is among the scholars who will speak at "Monuments to Science and Faith," the 20th Annual Symposium of the Monuments Conservancy, to be held March 19 at the Time & Life Building in New York City.
An article by Assistant Professor of Government Shelley McConnell has been published in the February 2010 issue of the journal Current History. The issue is devoted to topics related to Latin America. McConnell's article is titled "The Return of Continuismo?"
Psi Chi, the psychology honor society, inducted 18 new members recently. To be eligible for membership, students must have an overall average of at least 3.3; a psychology average of at least 3.4 (based on a minimum of four psychology courses completed at St. Lawrence) and be in the top 35 percent of their class.