8/23/12
Jeffrey Chiarenzelli Named Chapin Professor At St. Lawrence
CANTON - Jeffrey R. Chiarenzelli has been appointed to the James Henry Chapin Professorship of Geology and Mineralogy at St. Lawrence University. The Chapin Professorship was endowed in 1904 by Kate Lewis Chapin in memory of her husband, the Reverend James Henry Chapin, professor of geology from 1871 to 1892. The fund supports an exceptional member of the geology department.
A 1981 graduate of St. Lawrence, Chiarenzelli holds a master's degree from Carleton University in Ottawa and earned the Ph.D. at the University of Kansas. A University faculty member since 2006, he previously taught at SUNY Potsdam and was a research associate at SUNY Oswego's Environmental Research Center. Chiarenzelli has done extensive research on Precambrian rocks that make up the Canadian Shield and the Adirondacks and has collaborated with undergraduate students on several research projects.
For more information about Chiarezelli, see his faculty biography.
