Economics major top student in the class of 2009

(May 17, 2009)  Dipesh Mainali  graduated from St. Lawrence Summa Cum Laude  with honors in economics. Dipesh was also the senior with the highest cumulative grade-point average over four full years of study at St. Lawrence; his GPA is 3.941 (out of a possible 4.0).

Other economics students in the Class of 2009  graduating Summa Cum Laude were Michael James Crankshaw-Bierce and Marcella Inderia Hall.

There were 444  bachelor's degrees granted at St. Lawence's Commencement on May 17th with Economics having the second highest number of majors among those graduating.  The five most popular majors this year were, in descending order:
- Psychology
- Economics
- Government
- English
- Mathematics