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Festival of Science: Bloomer Auditorium (oral presentations) and Brown Hall (poster presentations), 4:30-10 p.m. For information: 5292.

Lecture: Trent Trulock, St. Lawrence County Historical Association, "Careers in Museum Work and Public History," Piskor 101, 4:30 p.m., pizza following.

Film: Cradle Will Rock, R.

Recital: Senior Music Students, Gilbert Recital Hall, 8 p.m.

Men’s Lacrosse: vs. Plattsburgh, 4 p.m.

Recital: Music Students, Gilbert Recital Hall, 4:30 p.m.

Reception: Employee Recognition Ceremonies, Sykes Common Room, 3 p.m.

Presentations: Tanner Fellowship recipients, Carnegie 10, 4:30 p.m., refreshments following.

Lecture: Wole Soyinka, "Dieties for a Secular Millennium," Gulick Theatre, 8 p.m.

Lecture: Student Art Exhibition juror David Wells, "Some Things I Have Seen Recently," Griffiths 123, 4:30 p.m, reception to follow in Brush Gallery (exhibition opens May 2).

Film: American Beauty, R.

Reading: Wole Soyinka, Sykes Common Room, 8 p.m.

Java Barn: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m.

Baseball: vs. Skidmore, 1:30 p.m.

Outdoor Program: Advanced kayak clinic, 2:30 p.m. For information: 5377.

Science Colloquium: Dan Holdwick, "Friends, Foes, and Suicide," Valentine 205-6, 4 p.m., refreshments at 3:45.

Faculty Forum: Roy Caldwell, "Madame Bovary’s Last Laugh," Carnegie 10, 4 p.m.

Moving-Up Day: Gunnison Chapel, 10 a.m., ODK tapping to follow on Richardson Triangle.

Baseball: vs. Union, 2 p.m.

Softball: vs. Rensselaer, 2 p.m.

Film: Any Given Sunday, R.

Concert: University Chorus, Gulick Theatre, 8 p.m.

Baseball: vs. Hamilton, noon.

Softball: vs. Union, noon.

Concert: University Chorus, Gulick Theatre, 4 p.m.

Film: The Green Mile, 7 and 10 p.m., R.

In Brush Art Gallery: "InMidmomenT" (works by Ada Udechukwu), through June 4.

Distinguished Pianist Inaugurates Birdsong Endowment for Music: Randall Atcheson will perform in concert on Tuesday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Gulick Theatre, in the inaugural performance sponsored by the Birdsong Endowment for Music. The only student in the history of the Juilliard School of Music ever allowed to pursue and receive simultaneous degrees in piano and organ performance, Atcheson won the Juilliard organ competition and gave the premiere performance on the new pipe organ at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. He has recorded 10 albums, featuring both classical music and his unique arrangements of sacred music. Atcheson made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1991. 
	The Birdsong Endowment for Music was established in 1999 through the generosity of Lynn ’68 and Terry Burns ’69 Birdsong, of Greenwich, Conn., to bring visiting musicians or musical groups to campus to enhance music education.

Nobel Prize-Winner to Visit Campus: Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, will be on the St. Lawrence campus to offer a lecture on Wednesday, April 26, at 8 p.m. in Gulick Theatre and a reading from his works on Thursday, April 27, at 8 p.m. in Sykes Common Room. A playwright, poet, novelist and critic, Soyinka has published over 40 works; he is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University. His visit is part of both the "African Arts: Into the Next Millennium" lecture series and the Writers Series.

Student Research Alters University's Paper Purchases: Paper used in copying machines on campus is now more environmentally friendly, thanks in part to research and recommendations from students in Professor of Environmental Studies Alan Schwartz's spring seminar, which examined how the campus could be "greener" in its practices. They researched options for environmentally sound (high post-consumer recycled content; process-chlorine-free; manufactured regionally) copy paper and made recommendations for its purchase.
	Contacted by the students, the manufacturer -- Graphic Paper New York -- agreed to split a truckload shipment (half with the paper the University had been using and half with the recommended paper, Roland New Life DP 100), bringing the cost down and allowing the University to move toward making the campus more environmentally sound.
	Students in the seminar are Brian Banton '00, Victoria Engel '01, Melissa Henrichon '01 and Michael Newton '01. They and Professor Schwartz expressed appreciation to University administrators for their support.

University Fellows 2000 Chosen: Dean Thomas Coburn has announced the names of the 17 students who have been selected University Fellows for Summer 2000. These students will receive funding to conduct research with a faculty partner in a program that was piloted successfully in Summer 1999. The students, with their project titles and faculty partners’ names, are listed below.

• Vivek Bachhawat '03, Computer-Aided Instruction Tools in Java for Different On-Campus Departments, with Brian Ladd

• Jasmine Benedict '01, Kionhekwa: The Life-Givers (Corn, Beans, Squash, Strawberry and Tobacco) and their Role in Akwesasne Agriculture, Past and Present, with Jon Parmenter

• James Boschen '02, Designing and Printing a Poetical Chapbook on the St. Lawrence University Book Arts Press, with Mark McMurray
• Leah Brady '01 (Ness University Fellow), Dual-Diagnosis Patients and the Importance of Psychiatric Consultation in Treatment, with Cathy Crosby-Currie
• Jaramy Gee '01, The Status of Scientific Theories: Does Language Map Reality?, with Laura Rediehs
• Kyle Kennedy '01, Happiness as the Greatest End, with Baylor Johnson
• Kathleen Kivutha '02, Characterization of the Feedback System of Response of a Near-field Scanning Optical Microscope, with Catherine Jahncke

• Sarah LaComb '02 (Ness University Fellow), The Jury Selection Process in a Rural, Low-Income Court: The Voir Dire Process and Jury Impartiality, with Cathy Crosby-Currie
• Heather Marsh '03 (Mackay University Fellow), The Cultural Fascination with the Serial Killer, with Steve Papson
• Todd Matte '01, Installation Art in Vietnam, with Cathy Tedford
• Leslie McCabe '02, St. Lawrence University: the Oldest Continuously Coeducational School in New York, with Karen Johnson
• Amanda Morrison '03, John Steinbeck as a Symbol of American Conscience in the 20th Century, with Laura O'Shaughnessy

• Rahab Mwangi '02 and Jacqueline Nyoro '03, Effect of Habitat Fragmentation on Behavioral and Population Ecology (of Small Mammals), with Erika Barthelmess
• Kenneth Okoth '01, Exorcising the Ghosts of War and the Holocaust in German Literature (Post-WWII), with Josef Glowa
• David Slay '01, Examining History Through the Holocaust and the Holocaust Through History, with Judy DeGroat
• Scott Spicer '01 (Mackay University Fellow), Effect of Water Solubility on Perceived Odorant Intensity, with David Hornung

Note: Ness and MacKay University Fellows are supported by endowments created by

St. Lawrence alumnae Lorna Ness ’75 and Katy MacKay ’70.

Student Selected For Japan Program: Nathan F. Hall ’00, of Montpelier, Vermont, will spend next year teaching in Japan, having been selected to be part of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. Initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Home Affairs in cooperation with local governments in Japan, the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program is designed to invite foreign youth to Japan and provide them with opportunities to teach language and sports at junior and senior high schools all over the Japan, or to engage in international exchange activities at local governments. The program began in 1987 with approximately 850 young people from the U.S., U.K., Australia and New Zealand; since then, the numbers of countries and participants have increased. In 1999, approximately 5,800 people participated in the program from 37 countries.

O'Dell Wins Fulbright: Brendan T. O'Dell ’00, of Beaverton, Oregon, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to study in Germany next year. O’Dell is a mathematics and German major. He will spend the year at the University of Leipzig in Germany, taking graduate-level courses in mathematics, in preparation for earning his master's degree.

Connett Wins Leadership Award: Professor of Chemistry Paul H. Connett received the Environmental Protector Leadership Award from Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides (NCAMP) at their annual conference, held recently in

New York City. Others cited by the organization for their efforts were environmentalists Barry Commoner and Lois Gibbs. The award states that it was given to Connett "for encouraging clear scientific thinking and inciting environmental activism."

Hornung Is Piskor Lecturer: Dana Professor of Biology David E. Hornung has been named the Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecturer for 2001. Next spring, Hornung will deliver a campus lecture on the topic "How the Nose Knows: The Relationship between Human Nasal Anatomy and Olfactory Ability." For the Piskor Lecture, Hornung plans to conduct further research on the relationship between nasal anatomy and olfactory ability, which has not heretofore been formally tested.

Commencement Preview: The Commencement Committee is down to final details as Commencement looms large, a little over three weeks from now. Ceremonies are scheduled for Sunday, May 21, at 10 a.m. on the Owen D. Young Library Quadrangle, or Appleton Arena, if the weather is poor.

St. Lawrence will award honorary degrees to the Alexander String Quartet, recognizing the ensemble's long-term relationship with the University; Native American actress Tantoo Cardinal, who has been a guest lecturer on campus on several occasions; and Tracey McNamara ’76, a pathologist at the Bronx Zoo and the scientist who helped identify the West Nile virus in New York City last fall.

Faculty and staff who plan to march in the academic procession are asked to arrive in front of Carnegie Hall or in Appleton Arena by 9 a.m. A post-Commencement light luncheon will be served either at the Herring-Cole Grove (if Commencement is outdoors) or in Leithead Field House (if Commencement moves inside). Academic department signs will be erected so faculty, students and families can connect more easily after the ceremonies.

The full schedule of Commencement events will be prepared and distributed in early May.

Grant-Writing Workshops: Several grant-writing workshops are scheduled for May and June at the Merwin Rural Services Institute at SUNY Potsdam. Registration deadline is April 27. For information: Laura Pearson, 267-2397.

Peer Tutors Needed: The academic skills staff is accepting applications from students for peer tutors in all areas for the 2000-01 academic year. Applications may be picked

up in Whitman 171. Application deadline is Friday, May 5. For information: Steve Runge, 5600.

Drivers Wanted: Health Service will need drivers for Summer Sessions I and II. Drivers should be dependable and have good driving records. Applications can be picked u at Winning Health Center.

Swim Lessons: Sign-ups for a series of six swimming lessons, April 25-27 and May 2-4, are scheduled for Tuesday, April 25, at 4:45 p.m. at the Augsbury Pool. The first session begins at 5 p.m. that day. The series, for ages 3 and up, costs $30. For information: 5884 or 5938.

Retirees Lunches: Retired faculty and staff and their spouses are encouraged to gather for lunch on the second Tuesday of each month at noon in the Noble Center Formal Lounge. Remaining date for the spring semester is May 9. Reservations must be made by the preceding Sunday with Mickey Williams, 386-8781, or Wanda Renick, 386-3474.

Lunch Bunch: Laurentian Women's Association Lunch Bunch meets monthly in the Noble Center Formal Lounge. Remaining meeting date for the spring semester is May 3; reservations must be made by noon the preceding day with Mickey Williams, 386-8781.

Through May 7: "Watteau and his World: French Drawing from 1700-1750," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (Tickets and Information: 613-990-1985)

May 5: Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, Flynn Theatre, Burlington (Tickets: 802-656-4455)

May 5-7: The Buddy Holly Story, National Arts Centre, Ottawa (Tickets: 613-755-1111)

May 8: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Burlington (VT) Memorial Auditorium (Information: 802-864-6044)

May 10: Bryan Adams, Landmark Theater, Syracuse (Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com or 315-472-0700)

May 10: Veruca Salt, Lost Horizon, Syracuse (Information: 315-446-1934)

May 11: Barry Manilow, Onondaga War Memorial, Syracuse (Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com or 315-472-0700)

May 11: "An Evening With Bob Newhart," National Arts Centre, Ottawa (Tickets: 613-755-1111)

May 12-22: Tulip Festival, Ottawa (Information: www.tulipfestival.ca or 613-567-5757)

May 18-20: NAC Orchestra, "An Evening With Burt Bacharach," National Arts Centre, Ottawa (Tickets: 613-755-1111)

June 2-August 27: "Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (Tickets and Information: 613-990-1985)

June 4: Lonestar, Montgomery Gentry and Brooks & Dunn, Olympic Center, Lake Placid (Tickets: www.orda.org/events-gw_set.htm or 518-523-3330)

June 6: Herman's Hermits, Rideau Carlton Raceway, Ottawa (Information: 613-822-2211)

June 8: Ted Nugent, Skid Row, KISS, Onondaga War Memorial, Syracuse (Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com or 315-472-0700)

June 11: Lionel Richie and Tina Turner, Corel Centre, Ottawa (Tickets: www.ticketmaster.ca or 613-755-1111)

June 20-25: Ragtime, National Arts Centre, Ottawa (Tickets: www.ticketmaster.ca or 613-755-1111)

Pollstar -- www.pollstar.com

Ticketmaster -- www.ticketmaster.com

Ticketmaster Canada -- www.ticketmaster.ca

Music-Cal -- www.musi-cal.com