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10/28/02

CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR AT SLU AWARDED RESEARCH GRANT

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University Assistant Professor of Chemistry 
Jeffery A. Greathouse has received a Cottrell College Science Award 
from the Research Corporation, a foundation for the advancement of 
science based in Tucson, Arizona.
	Cottrell College Science Awards are made in "support of significant 
research that contributes to the advancement of science and to the 
professional and scholarly development of faculty at undergraduate 
institutions, along with their students."  Greathouse will use the 
award to perform computer simulations of uranium interactions with 
clay minerals. The work will be conducted at St. Lawrence over the 
next two summers, with the assistance of undergraduate students.
	A faculty member at St. Lawrence since 1999, Greathouse is 
a graduate of Southwestern University, with a Ph.D. from the 
University of California at Davis.
	University President Daniel F. Sullivan said, "This award is 
highly competitive. Professor Greathouse's research - especially that 
it will involve our students in collaboration - is an example of how 
top liberal arts colleges do science education well."
	Research Corporation was founded in 1912 by Frederick Gardner 
Cottrell, scientist, inventor and philanthropist, with the assistance 
of Charles Doolittle Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
It is a private operating foundation that aids basic research in the 
physical sciences at U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. 
	Research Corporation supports ideas independently proposed by 
college and university faculty members and carries on activities related 
to science advancement.

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