Recent Awards

With a grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a team of scientists from St. Lawrence purchased a scanning electron microscope (SEM) in September 2009. The instrument will facilitate multidisciplinary research, research training, and undergraduate education and will be shared by faculty and students from the Departments of Geology, Biology, and Physics. Expected to make a significant impact on research and teaching within the University's science programs, the new SEM is housed in the Microscopy and Imagery Center in the new Johnson Hall of Science. For more information on how this new instrument will enhance key scientific research at St. Lawrence, please see the link above.

For the third year of this competition, made possible by internationalist and philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, St. Lawrence rising sophomore Grace Ochieng' traveled to Kenya, where she led a micro-financed sewing and education project. Working with A People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) support group in the rural village of Lwala, Ms. Ochieng' developed her project to empower women in Lwala by helping them build business skills and a viable source of income. The project was focused on producing reusable, washable, and environmentally friendly menstrual sanitary pads as a means to also enhance the local economy, to increase school attendance amongst young women, and to improve through education community health and hygiene. For more information on this project, Ms. Davis, and the Davis Projects for Peace program, please visit the Davis Projects for Peace website. http://www.kwd100projectsforpeace.org/

In spring 2009, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded St. Lawrence $800,000 for our Environmental Education Initiative for Active Learning, Research, and Advocacy. Over the next four years, this award will help faculty increase opportunities for students to experience and apply their learning about the environment in real world situations; develop interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaborations related to the study, sustainability, and protection of the environment; and work together to implement project activities, such as increased field study and advocacy activities, in environmentally-sensitive ways for short- and long-term benefit to the environment. In designing the proposed project, the St. Lawrence faculty team has set high expectations for both short-term and long-term outcomes that will be demonstrated by positive changes within the University curriculum, the lives of project participants, and the University's campus and local environment.