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1/15/01

SLU SCIENTIST NAMED TO NEW PROFESSORSHIP

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University Assistant Professor of Biology 
Erika L. Barthelmess has been named the first recipient of the 
Grace J. Fippinger Junior Professorship in the Sciences, President 
Daniel F. Sullivan has announced. The appointment, effective 
January 1, 2001, is for five years.
	The professorship honors Fippinger, a 1948 graduate of 
St. Lawrence, who died in 1996. It was created by her estate and a 
grant from the Pfizer Corporation, on whose Board of Directors Fippinger 
sat for many years. She began work with the New York Telephone Company 
after her graduation, and served in a number of positions with the firm, 
ultimately becoming the first woman officer in the Bell system, later 
NYNEX. She retired as vice president, corporate secretary and treasurer 
in 1990. Fippinger was awarded an Alumni Citation and an honorary Doctor 
of Humane Letters degree by St. Lawrence, in recognition of her devotion 
to her alma mater.
	Barthelmess is a graduate of Earlham College, with a Ph.D. from 
the University of Kansas; she has conducted post-doctoral research at 
Vanderbilt University. A member of the faculty since 1999, Barthelmess' 
current research is focused on the impact of habitat fragmentation on 
animal populations.

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