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Press ReleasesCheck out our 'Green' Press Kit! New Book By SLU Prof Meant To Empower Client In Mental Health Treatment St. Lawrence University Launching Sustainability Semester In 2013 SLU's Friends Of Libraries Presents Lecture By Econ Prof Horwitz 'Doonesbury' Creator Trudeau To Speak At St. Lawrence Commencement Cowser Selected By SLU Senior Class As Top Prof St. Lawrence Honors Employees Upon Retirement Employees Honored For 25 Years Of Service To St. Lawrence 'Morphographica,' Art By Scientists, In Brush Gallery At SLU |
FeaturesProf. Cowser Selected For NEH Seminar On Guthrie Jonathan Stopyra '13 Awarded Scholarship For Study In Denmark Four Students Inducted Into Physics Honor Society Northstar Café Wins Dining Services Award Language Honor Socieities Welcome 19 Students Philosophy Honor Society Inducts Eight Students 2012 Moving-Up Day Award Winners Announced Eddie Richter '12 Wins Presentation Award For Biology Thesis Iris Longo '13 Wins Student Library Worker Award |
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A new book by a St. Lawrence University professor is aimed at putting the client first in the treatment of mental health conditions, encouraging professionals to see the client as the "unrecognized expert on their condition."
The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries' Commencement lecture, titled "Is Inequality on the Rise and Are the Poor Getting Poorer?," will be given by St. Lawrence University Dana Professor of Economics Steven G. Horwitz on Saturday, May 19, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 10 of Carnegie. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
St. Lawrence University Professor of English Bob Cowser Jr. is the recipient of this year's Owen D. Young Outstanding Faculty Award, as voted by members of the senior class. The award is the only one given to faculty that is chosen by students.
Employees retiring from St. Lawrence University were honored at a recent campus event. Shown from left in the photo above are J. Mark Erickson, geology; Lynn Church, office services; Judith Wallace, health and counseling center; Patricia Alden, English; and President William L. Fox.
Employees with 25 years of service to St. Lawrence University were honored at a recent campus event. Shown from left in the photo above are Duane Cheney, facilities operations; Lisa Cania, community and employee relations; Roy Caldwell, modern languages and literatures; Sharon Henry, University communications; Darlene Dawley, facilities operations; Steven White, modern languages and literatures; Sidney Sondergard, English; and President William L. Fox.
Morphographica, a joint art installation by biologist Alex Schreiber and bioarchaeologists Mindy Pitre and Pamela Mayne Correia, will be in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery from March 19 through June 2. There will be a lecture by the artists on Monday, April 9, at 7 p.m., in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center. All are open to the public, free of charge.
Professor of English Bob Cowser has been selected to participate in National Endowment for the Humanitites (NEH) Summer Seminar for Faculty at SUNY Potsdam, on "Woody Guthrie and the American Folk Revival." The seminar takes place from June 5 through 28 and will be led by James Kimball, of SUNY Geneseo's music department.
Jonathan Stopyra '13, of Warwick, RI, has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship that will allow him to study in Denmark this summer. Stopyra is a performance and communication arts/global studies major, with a minor in gender studies.
Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honorary society, recently inducted four new members, Isabelle Caffry '12, Alex Knoll '13, Mykael Goodsell-SooTho '14 and Roelof Groenewald '14.
Managers of the Northstar Café on campus have been awarded the bronze medal in the National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS) Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards competition. The award recognizes outstanding performance in the category of Retail Sales - Multiple Concepts/Marketplace for a medium-sized school.
Edward (Eddie) Richter '12, of Genoa, NY, won the Best Student Presentation award for presentation of his thesis, "Ecology of Roadside Mosses," at the New York Flora Association's Northeast Natural History conference, held recently in Syracuse.
Iris Longo '13, of White Plains, NY, has won the Seventh Annual Northern New York Library Network Award for Outstanding Students in NNYLN Member Libraries. Longo, a biology and sociology major, works in the cataloging department of Owen D. Young Library and is pictured above with, left, Acquisitions/Cataloging Librarian Michelle Gillie and, at right, Cataloging Technician Mary Austin.