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3/12/07

SLU PROFS APPOINTED TO ENDOWED POSITIONS

CANTON - Six St. Lawrence University faculty members were recently appointed to named and endowed positions within their academic departments.

Sidney L. Sondergard has been named Craig Professor of English. The 1997 Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecturer on campus, Sondergard has been a member of the faculty at St. Lawrence since 1986. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Wichita State University, and the Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is the author of the book Sharpening Her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers, and is working on an adapted screenplay and translations of works by a Chinese author.

Catherine L. Jahncke is the Hayward Chair of Physics. A faculty member since 1995, she is a graduate of Auburn University, with a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. Jahncke's research centers around the use of a near-field scanning optical microscope and she has been involved in several grant-funded research projects at the University.

Re-appointed A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics Jeffrey T. Young has been on the St. Lawrence faculty since 1980. He is a graduate of the University of Maine, and earned the Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Young specializes in the history of economic thought and natural-resource economics; his numerous articles include several on the political economy of Adam Smith.

Aileen A. O'Donoghue has been named to the Henry Priest Chair of Physics. O'Donoghue is a graduate of Fort Lewis College, with a master's degree and Ph.D. from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. She joined the faculty at St. Lawrence in 1988. O'Donoghue spent the 2001-2002 academic year on sabbatical at the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, Arizona, and has written the "Mountain Skies" column for Adirondac magazine. In addition to her astronomy research, O'Donoghue also has an interest in the connections between science and religion; in 2001, she participated in the physics and cosmology group of the Science and the Spiritual Quest discussions sponsored by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Paris, with the support of a grant from the Templeton Foundation. She is under contract to write a book about her spiritual journey.

Sandra K. Hinchman is the Charles D., Sarah and John D. Munsil Professor of Government. A graduate of Vassar College, Hinchman earned her master's degree and Ph.D. at Cornell University and has been a member of the St. Lawrence faculty since 1975. Her academic publications include two co-edited books, Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays and Memory, Identity, Community: The Idea of Narrative in the Human Sciences. Hinchman is also the author of a best-selling guidebook, Hiking the Southwest's Canyon Country.

Peter J. Bailey has been named to the Piskor Professorship in English. He attended Kenyon College and the New School College, New School of Social Research, from which he received his bachelor's degree. After earning a master's degree at the Writing Seminars, The Johns Hopkins University, Bailey earned the Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He joined the St. Lawrence faculty in 1980, and is the author of the books Reading Stanley Elkin (1986), The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen (2000) and Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Belief in John Updike's Fiction (2006).

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