St. Lawrence University: SLU In the News

St. Lawrence University and its faculty, staff and students are often cited in the national media; what follows is a listing of recent stories in the news that included St. Lawrence.

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Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest blogger for The Skeptical Libertarian Blog and his piece, "The Fed: Not a Conspiracy, Just Par for the Progressive Era Course" was posted on Monday, Feb. 11.
Read the blog post.

St. Lawrence's current art exhibit, 'Game On! Art & Hockey' was featured in a broadcast on WWNY-TV on Thursday, Feb. 7.
Read the story.

Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat spoke via video conference to the Canadian Parliament on Thursday, Feb. 7 regarding Canadian interests and opportunities in Turkey.
Watch the video (Eissenstat appears at the 1 hour, three minute mark).

Art Clark, professor and coordinator of St. Lawrence's education department's counseling and human development program, was quoted in a Watertown Daily Times story on Sunday, February 3, 2013, about a proposed change to the state’s mental hygiene law.
Read the story.

Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was a source for several stories about the Turkey Embassy bombing, including The Associated Press (AP), ABC News, CTV, Al-Jazeera and PRI's The World.
Read the story from ABC News.
Read the AP story from USA Today.
Listen to the story on PRI's The World.

Grace Potter '06n of Grace Potter & the Nocturnals was interviewed by the Watertown Daily Times about her upcoming visit to St. Lawrence on Feb. 10 for the band's 10th anniversary show. The story ran in the Sunday, February 3, 2013 paper.
Read the story.

The St. Lawrence women's ice hockey team hosted a social media event, "Saints Go Social," during their game against Clarkson University on Saturday, Feb. 2 and it was featured in the Watertown Daily Times sports section on Sunday, February 3, 2013.
Read the story.

Danielle McBride '14 and Maria Trummer '15 were featured in a Watertown Daily Times story that ran on Saturday, January 26, 2013 about the SLU Buddies program and its impact on struggling North Country schools.
Read the story.

Grace Potter '06n talked about her upcoming 10th anniversary concert at St. Lawrence in an interview with Billboard that ran January 18, 2013. The story also was posted on the MSN news website.
Read the story.
Coordinator of Academic Support Matt McCluskey offers advice on how to stay organized with an old-school planner in a January 8, 2013 entry in his blog on The Huffington Post.
Read the article.
The cover story in the Winter 2013 issue of The Independent Review, "The Reality of the Wartime Economy: More Historical Evidence on Whether World War II Ended the Great Depression," was written by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz and Michael McPhillips '11.
Read the article.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Mindy Pitre offered her views on whether or not "Bigfoot" might be lurking in the Adirondacks, as some have reported, in a story for WWNY-TV 7 in Watertown on January 1, 2013.
Read/watch the story.
Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue is quoted in a story titled "The Dark Side: A guide to the season's most abundant resource" in the January/February 2013 issue of Adirondack Life magazine.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Canadian Studies Neil Forkey's book, Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century, was named one of the 100 Best Books of 2012 by The Hill Times, a Canadian newspaper that covers politics.
An article about six students in the fall 2012 New York City Semester was included in the December 12, 2012 issue of the online newsletter of the Arts & Business Council of New York. Written by Executive Director Will Maitland Weiss and titled "Six Saints," the piece describes the projects of the students who completed internships with the organization during the semester.
Read the article.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Canadian Studies Neil Forkey was interviewed by the Network in Canadian History and Environment for a November 27, 2012 podcast about his book, Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century.
Listen to the podcast.
Voice of America's website published an essay by Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat, titled "Turkey's Crackdown on Academic Freedom," on its Middle East Voices page on November 19, 2012. The essay was also published as a blog post by Amnesty International.
Read the essay.
Alimot Yusuff '16 was interviewed by New York City NBC affiliate Channel 4 on November 15, 2012, discussing oyster restoration efforts of The Harbor School and The Nature Conservancy. Yusuff is an alumna of both The Harbor School and The Nature Conservancy's Leaders in Environmental Action for the Future (LEAF) Program which provides paid environmental conservation internships for students who attend select urban environmental high schools.
Watch the interview.
St. Lawrence University's First-Year Program in London was included in a November 13, 2012 story published on USA Today's College website, about colleges offering study abroad in the first year.
Read the story.
Two opinion pieces by Professor of Government Alan Draper were published on November 8, 2012. A piece in USA Today posited that policies by the Federal Reserve were crucial in the re-election of the President Obama, while another, on the Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch discussed the changing nature of the Democratic party.
Read the USA Today piece.
Read the WSJ Marketwatch piece.
Garrett Watson '14 is the author of an essay titled "Misunderstanding Say's Law of Markets," published as a guest post on the blog The Market Monetarist on November 1, 2012.
Read the essay.
Research by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on what can be learned from private-sector response to Hurricane Katrina, was cited in an article in the "Room for Debate" section of The New York Times on October 30, 2012, by James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute. It was also cited in a November 1, 2012 post on the Forbes.com website, titled "Hurricane Sandy, And The Invisible Hand Of Disaster Recovery." In addition, Horwitz appeared on "Stossel," on Fox Business, on November 1, 2012, on the same topic.
Read the piece (may require free registration).
In an October 24, 2012 blog post for The Huffington Post, Coordinator of Academic Support Matthew McCluskey reflects on instructors' responsibilities to assist students in learning to read well.
Read the article.
An October 16, 2012 article in the New York Times about Grace Potter and the Nocturnals included the fact that the band began at St. Lawrence when Potter '06n and drummer Matt Burr '03 were students.
Read the story (May require free registration.)
In an October 12, 2012 blog post on the Scientific American website, Bonnie Swoger '99 wrote about her experience at the 8th Annual Geology Alumni Conference and "paying it forward."
Read the post.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on the WIBA (Madison, Wisconsin) radio program "Out of the Box" on October 11, 2012, where he was interviewed and took questions from callers.
Listen to the interview (toward the end of this hour-long podcast).
Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in an analysis of a Syria attack on Turkey, published in the Toronto Star October 5, 2012.
Read the story.
The Schools.com website picked St. Lawrence as one of the 10 schools for Quidditch seekers, where the Harry Potter-inspired game is played, in a September 24, 2012 posting.
Read the article.
Coordinator of Academic Support Matthew McCluskey's tips on how to handle reading assignments in college were published on his Huffington Post blog on September 28, 2012.
Read the post.
An article by Associate Professor of Psychology Cathy Crosby-Currie and Director of Institutional Research Christine Zimmerman, titled "St. Lawrence University: Links Between Faculty Goals and Pedagogy and First-Year Student Engagement and Well-Being," appears in the Association of American Colleges and Universities' Fall 2012 Bringing Theory to Practice newsletter. It is a report of an ongoing study, funded by a Bringing Theory to Practice grant.
Read the article.
St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester is one of six chosen by website The Active Times to show the growing trend of colleges developing outdoor experiences as an alternative to a semester of study abroad. The story was written by Katherine Bagley '07.
Read the story.
A visit from artists working on a project called "Peace Papers," which included a paper-making demonstration, was the subject of a story on Watertown's WWNY/Channel 7 news on September 24, 2012.
Read/view the story.
Dining services at the four colleges in St. Lawrence County, including recent accolades for St. Lawrence, were included in a September 23, 2012 feature story in the Watertown Daily Times.
Read the story.
Voter-registration efforts at St. Lawrence County's four colleges were detailed in a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on September 21, 2012.
Read the story.
Slate.com published an essay by Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat on September 20, 2012, on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's involvement in the US presidential election.
Read the essay. (Note: Adult language in the first paragraph is quoted material.)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Mindy Pitre's forensic anthropology class, especially its lab studying decomposition, was the subject of a feature story in the September 16, 2012 edition of the Advance News and the September 17, 2012 edition of the Watertown Daily Times.
Read the story.
Amy Yao '14 discussed what she learned by becoming a coxswain in a blog post published by The Huffington Post on September 14, 2012.
Read the post.
The Amnesty International blog published a post by Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat on September 13, 2012, about a landmark human-rights case in Turkey.
Read the piece.
Professor of English Bob Cowser takes issue with candidate Paul Ryan's statements about his marathon times in a blog post for The Huffington Post, published September 11, 2012.
Read the piece.
An essay by Coordinator of Academic Support Matthew McCluskey, titled "Writing Strategies for That Semester-Long Paper," was published in The Huffington Post September 7, 2012.
Read the essay.
Dana Professor of Economics Steve Horwitz appeared on CNBC Europe on September 4, 2012, explaining his fundamental disagreements with economist Paul Krugman on stimulus packages.
Watch the interview.
An essay titled "Financial markets are not 'every man for himself'," by Dana Professor of Economics Steve Horwitz was published in the Buffalo News on September 4, 2012.
An invasive plant was discovered in area lakes this summer by Frances McNierney '14, as a result of her University Fellows research. The news was the subject of a story in the Watertown Daily Times on September 4, 2012.
Read the story.
Professor of Government and Associate Dean for International and Intercultural Studies Karl Schonberg was quoted in a September 3, 2012 story in The Chronicle of Higher Education, about programs of study abroad for first-year students.
Inspired by a famous work by the late John Lennon, Professor of Government Alan Draper wrote an opinion piece for Labor Day, published by the Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch website on August 31, 2012, right before the holiday weekend.
Read the piece.
Who won the War of 1812? Your answer may depend upon which side of the U.S.-Canadian border you're on. Associate Professor of History Melissane Parm Schrem participated in an August 27, 2012 Internet chat session debating the question, sponsored by Canada.com and Post Media newspapers in Canada.
Read the chat transcript.
In an essay published August 14, 2012 by The Daily Caller and an accompanying LearnLiberty.org video, Dana Professor of Economics Steve Horwitz argues against the old adage that "what's good for GM is good for the country."
Read the piece and watch the video.
A $5 million pledge to the University from Kirk '39 and Anne Douglas, through the Douglas Foundation, adding to their endowed scholarship fund and announced on July 29, 2012, was reported in a wide variety of news media outlets nation-wide.
Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue explained the occurrence of a destructive summer storm in the region, in an article for North Country This Week that was published July 20, 2012.
Read the article.
Students in the spring 2012 New York City Semester appear on the cover of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities' summer issue of their publication The Independent Sector.
Look at the publication.
An opinion piece by Professor of Government Alan Draper, on judging presidential candidates by their character, appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on July 13, 2012.
Read the piece.
Professor of History Liz Regosin appeared on the National Public Radio show "BackStory with the American History Guys" on July 13, 2012, discussing the history of marriage in the U.S.
Listen to the show (Regosin's interview is at about the 34:00 minute-mark).
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Michael Schuckers was quoted in a June 27, 2012 story in the Columbus Dispatch by sports writer Michael Arace, analyzing NHL draft picks.
Read the story.
Professor of English Bob Cowser, a former semi-pro football player who teaches courses in prisons, wrote an essay about the verdict in the trial of former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, titled "No Violence is Acceptable - in Prison or in the Locker Room," that was published in the Huffington Post on June 25, 2012.
Read the essay.
E.B. Wilson '53, emeritus chairman of the Board of Trustees, is quoted in an article in the May/June issue of Trusteeship, titled "High-Performing Committees: What Makes Them Work?" The magazine is published by the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities.
Read the article.
English Professor Bob Cowser participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar on the work of Woody Guthrie, and wrote an essay, published in The Huffington Post, on June 19, 2012, reflecting on that work.
Read the essay.
Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in a June 10, 2012 Associated Press story about how the views of one of Turkey's founders are changing.
Read the story.
Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher, who has conducted sleep studies on college students, will work with a school in Glens Falls, N.Y., to see if a later start helps students stay more alert. The research was outlined in a story in the Glens Falls Post-Star on June 11, 2012.
Read the story.
St. Lawrence's Commencement speaker Garry Trudeau and a clip of the ceremony as seen in time-lapse were included in "NBC Night News With Brian Williams" college commencement roundup, broadcast on June 8, 2012.
Watch the story.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz reflects on the legacy of economist John Maynard Keynes in an essay published in the Detroit News on June 5, 2012, which would have been Keynes' 129th birthday.
Read the essay.
A story about St. Lawrence's "doggie de-stress" event held before final exams ran, with photos, in the USA Today College Blog site on May 17, 2012.
Read the story.
Professor of English Bob Cowser Jr. won the Owen D. Young Outstanding Faculty Award from the Class of 2012, offering him the opportunity to deliver the class' "last lecture" during Senior Week. The text was published in the online news site The Huffington Post on May 17, 2012.
Read the text.
The Sustainability Semester, starting in spring 2013, was the subject of a feature story in the May 13, 2012 Watertown Daily Times and Advance News.
Read the story.
WWNY/Channel 7 in Watertown ran a story on May 8, 2012 on the popularity of a cappella singing groups at colleges, and included St. Lawrence's co-ed group the UpBeats.
Watch the story.
In a May 7, 2012 piece for The Daily Caller and an accompanying video from LearnLiberty.org, Dana Professor of Economics tackles the controversial question "are corporations people?"
Read the essay/watch the video.
Topics of regional interest being researched by students in Associate Professor of Biology Erika Barthelmess' Conservation Biology seminar were featured in a Watertown Daily Times story on April 29, 2012.
Read the story.
Perspective from Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was included in an April 26, 2012 story on WWNY/Channel 7, on reports that nearby Fort Drum may be considered as the future site of a missile defense base.
Read/watch the story.
News site The Daily Caller published commentary by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on "Equal Pay Day," which is designed to call attention to wage gender gaps, on April 17, 2012. In addition to an essay by Horwitz, the site included a video with further illustration of the topic.
Read the piece/see the video.
A study by psychology professors Serge Onyper and Pamela Thacher, showing there may be brief benefits to chewing gum before taking a test, was cited in "The Answer Sheet" blog in The Washington Post on April 3, 2012.
Read the story.
Emeritus President Daniel Sullivan is the author of an essay titled "There Has Never Been a Better Time to Compete Against the Publics," published April 2, 2012 as a blog post for clients of Hardwick Day, a higher education consulting firm.
An essay by President William Fox, titled "Gardens of Originality," was published in the April 2012 issue of University Business magazine. The essay outlines how small liberal arts institutions are better at experimentation than larger schools.
Read the essay.
WWNY/Channel 7 in Watertown did a story on March 27, 2012 about Madison Wilcox '14, who organized a full day of activities to benefit a local child with leukemia.
See the story.
A story about unusual college courses on the USA Today College website on March 26, 2012 included a photo and information about St. Lawrence's Dealing With the Dead anthropology course.
Read the story.
Statistical analyses of hockey plays by Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers were the topic of a story in the Boston Globe on March 25, 2012.
Read the story.
An essay by Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies R. Danielle Eagan, providing historical context for recent controversies on women's rights, was published in the Albany (NY) Times Union on March 20, 2012.
Read the piece.
WWNY/Channel 7 in Watertown did a story on the "Morphographica" exhibition in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery on March 19, 2012.
Read/watch the story.
The March 2012 issue of NNY Business magazine includes an article titled "20 Questions with SLU Treasurer Kathryn Mullaney." The magazine highlights a number of women in prominent business roles in Northern New York State.
Read the story.
Amy Yao '15 has begun blogging for The Huffington Post's College section. In her first post (March 7, 2012) she decides she didn't choose the "wrong college" after all.
Read the post.
ESPN's website carried a March 2, 2012 story introducing five women competing in the Iditarod, including Colleen Robertia '98.
Read the story.
The NHL Insider, on NHL.com, included a story on March 2, 2012 reporting on a panel discussion at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference that included Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers.
Read the story.
MyGlobalEducation.com, a website of College Bound, rounded up trends in international education, and included information from St. Lawrence University's programs in the story.
Read the story.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a February 22, 2012 article on the website Salon.com, titled "How 'uncertainty' didn't kill the economy."
Read the article.
Study-abroad programs for first-year students were the focus of a story in the college section of USA Today's Education website on February 21, 2012. St. Lawrence's First-Year Seminar in France was highlighted, with Abigail Ross '15 quoted.
Read the story.
An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, pointing out that while the chances of a child being abducted is very small, its cultural effect has been enormous, appeared in the Buffalo News on February 17, 2012.
Read the essay.
St. Lawrence's announcement that biology and chemistry classes from SUNY Canton, unable to use their facilities due to a fire on that campus, will use labs in Bewkes was covered by the Watertown Daily Times, Northern New York Newspapers, North Country Public Radio, WWNY-7 News and YNN, Channel 10.
WWNY-TV/7 News ran a two-part special story on February 14 and 15, 2012, exploring how the use of technology affects the brain and the way we learn. Interviews with Associate Professor of Biology and Psychology Ana Estevez were included in both parts.
Part Oneand Part Two are available online.
A project to help students understand how Egyptians made mummies, in an anthropology class called Dealing with the Dead, was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on February 15, 2012; the piece ran in other papers in the Northern New York Newspapers group as well.
Read the story.
An opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on creating jobs versus creating value, appeared in the Waterbury, CT, Republican-American on February 12, 2012.
Emeritus President Daniel Sullivan is the author of an essay on "Understanding Your College's Admissions Market," published on the website of the education consulting firm Hardwick Day. The essay appears in the firm's "Fundamentals" column, sent to education professionals throughout the nation.
Read the essay (registraion required).
An article by Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers and Women's Hockey Head Coach Chris Wells '92 appears in the February 13, 2012 issue of The Hockey News. Titled "Just Win, Baby," the article analyzes the impact of four different systems for awarding points based on the outcomes of games, such as winning in regulation or losing in a shootout.
Read the article, on Page 14.
Bradley Heil '08 appeared in a commercial for GE that aired during the Super Bowl on February 5; a February 3, 2012 story in the Syracuse Post-Standard includes an interview and video of the ad.
Read the story, see the video.
Elizabeth Shaffer '11, press secretary for a New York State senator, was profiled in a February 2, 2012 story in the Fairport-East Rochester Post and was quoted saying that her experiences in the Washington, DC, semester led to her changing her major to government, which in turn led to her career.
Read the story.
Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in a February 2, 2012 Associated Press story, about growing ties between Turkey and Hamas.
Read the story, from the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
William Bradley '99 reflects on being a college professor and the professors who inspired him at St. Lawrence in a January 31, 2012 essay on the website Inside Higher Ed.
Read the essay.
USA Today's College section carried a January 29, 2012 story about the Going Locavore course on locally sourced food, quoting Associate Professor Mary Hussmann and Mike Petroni '12.
Read the story.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is one of five American economists interviewed in January 28, 2012 piece in Al Jazeera, expressing views on the economic policies of presidential hopeful Ron Paul.
Read the piece.
A guide to academic writing by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz appeared in the Washington Post education blog "The Answer Sheet" on January 20, 2012.
Read the piece.
Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jill Talbot is the author of a January 5, 2012 Brevity Blog post, on the website of the literary journal Brevity, detailing the assignment students in one of her classes had, to interview essayist Ryan Van Meter, author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now, named New York Magazine's best book of 2011. The Q-and-A article will also appear in the next issue of the print edition of Brevity.
Read the article.
Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeff Rickey is the author of a December 16, 2011 post on the higher education blog CollegeXpress, with advice on how to get the most out of a campus visit.
Read the post.
Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP) Director Bill Short was quoted in a December 15, 2011 story in the Amsterdam (NY) News, about a young man pursuing the goal of a college education, under difficult circumstances.
Read the story.
Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeffrey Rickey was the guest blogger on AskJohnAboutCollege.com December 14, 2011, with advice for high school students on how to respond to all of the mail they receive from colleges.
Read the post.
In the WAMC public radio "Academic Minute" on December 14, 2011, Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers gives an analysis of the hockey "shootout."
Listen to the program.
Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was a guest on the Ontario public television (TVO) program "The Agenda" December 12, 2011, discussing the emerging role of Turkey in world politics.
Watch the program.
An essay by Assistant Professor of Psychology Serge Onyper, explaining research he conducted that showed chewing gum briefly before an exam may boost your score on the test, was the lead feature on NBC.com's Education Nation website December 12, 2011. The research was reported on HealthDay.com, which supplies health-related news to a number of other outlets on the Internet, as well as radio and television. Outlets reporting the research included ABC radio news, U.S. News & World Report, iVillage, MSN.com, Philly.com (the Philadelphia Inquirer's website) and the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom.
Read the Education Nation essay.
Research on left-handedness conducted by Dana Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was cited in this video report on "lefties" on the Wall Street Journal website December 6, 2011.
A video by Mike Petroni 12 and Tommy Costello '14, students in the "Going Locavore" course, featuring a taste test of local products, was included as a "What We're Reading" post in the New York Times Diner's Journal blog on December 7, 2011.
Read the post.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz appeared on "Freedom Watch," on the Fox Business channel, on December 6, 2011, discussing New York Senator Charles Schumer's plan for prescription pricing, which Horwitz said would lead to drug shortages.
Watch the video.
Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeffrey Rickey is the author of a December 6, 2011 guest post in the College, Inc. blog of the Washington Post website, on how St. Lawrence handles Early Decision.
Read the post.
An essay by Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Jon Rosales, on how global warming is affecting the climate in Alaska, was published in the Huffington Post on December 6, 2011.
Read the post.
The December 2, 2011 "Streetscapes" column in the New York Times centered on the real estate development efforts of Class of 1887 graduate Emily Eaton Hepburn; her affiliation with the University was noted in the story.
Read the story.
A December 1, 2011 blog post on the popular BoingBoing.com notes Martha E. '62 and Gregg E. Peterson Professor of Mathematics Duncan Melville's extensive website on Mesopotamian mathematics.
Read the post.
A study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Serge Onyper, showing that there may be short-term benefits to chewing gum briefly before a test, was mentioned in stories on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" on November 30, 2011, and in Wired magazine online on November 29, 2011. The study was also the subject of reports by the UPI wire service, the Wall Street Journal, WebMd.com, the Toronto Globe & Mail, PsychCentral.com and KMPH TV news in Fresno, CA.
USA Today's online College section carried a feature story about the University's Adirondack Semester program on November 14, 2011.
Read the story.
The November 14, 2011 edition of The New York Times included an essay by Professor of Government Alan Draper, titled "Alternate-Side Parking Brings Peace."
Read the essay.
Did you know poet Robert Frost once visited St. Lawrence? He did, in 1894, the same year his first poem was published. He made the visit to persuade his beloved, Elinor White, to leave her St. Lawrence studies and marry him. National Public Radio related the tale on November 8, 2011, as part of its "Writer's Almanac" program.
Read/listen to the story.
An article in the November 14, 2011 issue of ESPN, The Magazine discusses Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers' research on performance of NHL goalies.
An opinion piece about educational opportunity programs by HEOP Director Bill Short was published in the New York City Amsterdam News on November 4, 2011.
Read the piece.
USA Today's College section of its website carried an October 30, 2011 story under College Beat on the sleep study done by St. Lawrence psychology professors showing a potential benefit to students taking earlier classes: better grades.
Read the story.
The website of Adirondack Wild, a non-profit organization, is carrying a feature story about St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester program.
Read the story.
An essay by President Emeritus Daniel Sullivan, arguing that discussions of reform in higher education are directed at encouraging educators to jettison effective methods of teaching and learning for untested and potentially ineffective approaches, appeared in the October 31, 2011 edition of Inside Higher Ed.
Read the essay.
The November 2011 issue of the journal The Freeman includes an article co-authored by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz and Jack Knych '12, senior economic major, titled "The Importance of Failure."
Read the article.
HEOP Director Bill Short was a guest on the Rev. Al Sharpton's News One radio show on Thursday, October 27, 2011, discussing access to college and the value of a college education. Also on the show was program regular Trustee Elinor Tatum '93.
Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher's researchers on "all-nighters" was cited in a Wall Street Journal story on October 26, 2011, on the best ways to study.
Read the story.
The Washington Post blog "College, Inc." ran a post on October 21, 2011 on a study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Serge Onyper and Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher showing that students who had earlier classes also got better grades.
Read the post.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox Business' "Freedom Watch" on October 17, 2011, discussing whether forgiving consumer debt would help the economy.
Watch the show.
The Wall Street Journal published an October 17, 2011 story about Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers' NHL goalie analysis.
Read the story.
The New York Times blog "Diner's Journal" included an item about the Adirondack Semester in its "What We're Reading" post on October 13, 2011, with a link to text and photos by students in the program about what they grow, cook and eat.
Read the post.
Dana Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker provided the October 3, 2011 commentary for WAMC Albany's "Academic Minute," on Canada's role as a producer of oil. The program airs on public radio stations around the country.
Listen to the "Academic Minute."
An opinion piece in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times on October 2, 2011, quoted Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeff Rickey, on the applications of "super people."
Read the piece.
Reuters wire service ran a story on September 29, 2011, on the study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Serge Onyper and Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher showing that students who had earlier classes also got better grades.
Read the story.
An article by Co-CIO for Information Technology Sondra Hedger Smith, on the usefulness of assessment practices, was published in the October issue of University Business magazine.
Read the article.
Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeffrey Rickey was quoted in a September 15, 2011 story in Inside Higher Education, about possible reasons for a nation-wide drop in SAT scores.
Read the story.
A study by psychology professors Serge Onyper and Pamela Thacher, showing that students who have earlier classes tend to get higher grades, was featured in the New York Times blog about college admissions "The Choice" on September 10; it was also covered in the September 8, 2011 edition of Inside Higher Ed, and the September 9, 2011 editions of Huffington Post and the Atlantic Wire.
First-year student Mitchell Joseph's unusual mode of transportation - he biked 400 miles from his home in Connecticut to get here - was the subject of a story in the September 8, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times.
Read the story.
An exhibition of photographs depicting New York City's "ground zero" was featured in a story on Watertown's WWNY-Channel 7 News on September 7, 2011.
Watch the story.
WAMC radio's "Academic Minute" featured Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher on September 2, 2011, with advice for getting to sleep. "Academic Minute" runs on National Public Radio stations across the country, and is featured daily on the Inside Higher Education website.
Listen to the "Academic Minute."
An essay by Professor of Government Alan Draper, on President Obama's falling out with supporters on the left, appeared in the Albany (NY) Times Union on September 1, 2011.
Read the essay.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on "RadioWest," a show on National Public Radio affiliate KUER in Utah, on August 30, 2011, discussing the Austrian school of economics.
Listen to the program.
Northern New York Newspapers ran feature stories on maintaining residence halls, national reaction to plans for local SUNY colleges to share a president and thrift stores aimed at college students that all included St. Lawrence sources.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz's tips for preparing for a disaster, including what items to stock up on, appeared on the ABC News website on August 27, 2011. An interview with Horwitz was included in National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" on August 26, discussing how "big-box" stores prepare for coming disasters, such as hurricanes. He was a guest on National Public Radio affiliate KUOW in Puget Sound, WA, on August 25, discussing presidential candidate Mitt Romney's "corporations are people" remark.
Read the ABC News story.
Listen to NPR's "Morning Edition" from August 26.
The Huffington Post on August 24, 2011 published St. Lawrence's "Green Tips for Dorm Living," complete with a slideshow of images from the University.
See the feature in the Huffington Post.
The opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, originally published in the Austin (TX) American Statesman August 14 (see below), defending presidential candidate Mitt Romney's controversial statement that "corporations are people," was also been published in a number of other newspapers, including the New Jersey Star-Ledger (Aug. 16); the Buffalo News and Palm Beach Post (Aug. 18); and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Aug. 21). Horwitz has also been a guest on a number of radio programs recently, including WAFS in Atlanta and Southern California Public Radio in Los Angeles.
Listen to the KPCC public radio show.
The August 14 Los Angeles Times story which quoted student government President John R. (Robby) Glass '13 (see below), on how the economy is affecting college students and recent grads, was carried by the Times' wire service and ran in a number of other outlets around the nation, including the Nashville Tennessean and Nashua (NH) Telegraph (Aug. 18); the Lakeland (FL) Ledger and Scranton (PA) Times-Tribune (Aug. 17); and the Baltimore Sun (Aug. 14).
Pre-Orientation trips to the Adirondacks for first-year students were the featured topic for an August 20, 2011 story in the Watertown Daily Times.
Read the story.
St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester program was featured in the "Cool Schools" issue (September/October 2011) of Sierra magazine, the publication of the Sierra Club. The feature, "A Semester in the Woods," featured a slide show of photos from the fall 2010 semester.
Read the story.
Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeff Rickey responded to questions about a liberal arts education for the August 15, 2011 edition of the blog "Ask John About College," which fields questions about the college search process.
Read the blog.
Thelmo President John R. (Robby) Glass '13 was quoted in an August 14, 2011 story in the Los Angeles Times, on how the economy is affecting college students and recent grads.
Read the story.
An opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, defending presidential candidate Mitt Romney's controversial statement that "corporations are people," appeared in the Austin, Texas, American Statesman on August 14, 2011.
Read the essay.
Mike Petroni '12 was interviewed August 6, 2011 on the WVCR radio program "The Green Scene," which is the radio station of Siena College. He discussed his efforts to save the Croghan dam, which arose from an environmental studies course.
Listen to the interview.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Erik Backlund's planned study of community satisfaction in the Adirondacks was the topic of an August 10, 2011 story in the Watertown Daily Times.
Read the story.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was live in the studio for "Freedom Watch" on Fox Business on August 8, 2011, discussing how policies of the Federal Reserve led to the current economic climate.
The Memoir Project, a new book by Trustee Marion Roach Smith '77, was featured in the Watertown Daily Times on August 7, 2011.
Read the story.
A grant allowing St. Lawrence and SUNY Potsdam to work together establishing an early literacy program in local schools was the topic of a Watertown Daily Times story on August 6, 2011.
Read the story.
Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in an August 6 article in The Economist, about conflict between politicians and the military in Turkey.
Read the story.
St. Lawrence's inclusion in the Princeton Review's list of the nation's Best Colleges was covered in an August 4, 2011 story in the Watertown Daily Times.
Read the story.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a panelist on the Fox Business show "Freedom Watch" on August 3, 2011, debating the Federal Reserve, the national debt and other topics.
Watch the segment.
Director of Admissions Alison Almasian was quoted in an August 3, 2011 story in the Philadelphia Inquirer, on college tours and how to get the most out of them. The same story ran in the Sacramento (CA) Bee on August 7, 2011.
Read the story.
Vice President for Finance Kathryn Mullaney was quoted in an August 1, 2011 piece on AOL's financial news site, DailyFinance.com, with advice for first-year college students on managing money.
Read the story.
Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in a July 31, 2011 Associated Press story about the Turkish military.
A summer business started by Charlotte Edson '14 and a friend was included in a July 29, 2011 story in the Greenwich (CT) Time, about how students in that area were spending the summer.
Read the story.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is the author of an opinion piece titled "Demise of Borders Shows that Being Big Isn't Enough," published in the Buffalo News on July 27, 2011; the piece also ran in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, on August 8, 2011. A column by Horwitz in the Freeman online, published July 28, reflects on "The Calling of Teaching." The column was also cited in the National Review online.
Read the Buffalo News essay.
Read the Freeman column.
Student government president Robby Glass '13 participated in a conference call with other college student leaders on July 26, urging the federal government to resolve differences and approve a budget deal. President Obama participated in the call and the Watertown Daily Times and Syracuse Post Standard both ran stories about Glass' participation.
The renovation of buildings on campus to house more students was the topic for a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times July 21, 2011 and the Ogdensburg Journal July 22, 2011.
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Two July 21, 2011 stories in the San Jose Mercury News noted St. Lawrence as the alma mater of musician Grace Potter '06 and the place where her band, The Nocturnals, began.
Read them here and here.
The naming of Mike Mudd '90 as American Hockey League Executive of the Year was noted in a July 14, 2011 Buffalo News story, including citing St. Lawrence as his alma mater.
Read the story.
Author and St. Lawrence Trustee Marion Roach Smith '77 says making memoirs interesting and readable is harder than it looks. Hear her interview on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," which aired July 13, 2011.
Maureen McCoy '13 is biking from town to town across New England, spreading news about climate change. Read the full story in the Daily Courier-Observer.
A study by psychology professors Pamela Thacher and Serge Onyper shows that students who mostly take classes with later start times tend to get slightly lower grades on average than other students. A story on the research appears in the July 11, 2011 edition of The Daily Camera in Boulder, CO.
Inspired by the findings of a class project, Mike Petroni '12 is working to save the Croghan dam in Lewis County, as reported in the July 11, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times.
Benjamin Hull '13 is making a 23-minute documentary titled "Uganda 23" in hopes of bringing attention to that country's water crisis. Read the full story in the Watertown Daily Times' July 12, 2011 edition.
Media around the world reported on Christian Lopez's "catch and release" of New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter's 3,000th career hit on Saturday, July 9, 2011. Lopez, a 2010 St. Lawrence graduate, said he was happy to return the historic ball to Jeter, because he deserved it. The story has been covered by the New York Times, ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, USA Today (Associated Press), New York Daily News, Daily Mail (U.K.), Watertown Daily Times, and dozens of other media outlets.
In an op-ed that appeared in the July 6, 2011 edition of The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), President Emeritus Daniel F. Sullivan argues that the best business education is rooted solidly in liberal arts.
Dana Professor of Canadian Studies and Associate Dean of Academic Advising Robert W. Thacker was featured on Academic Minute on the National Public Radio affilliate based in Albany, NY, WAMC, speaking about Canadian author Alice Munro on July 8, 2011. Academic Minute is also featured in the daily Internet-based newsletter Inside Higher Ed.
The Independent Scholar program run by Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, which provides funding for research by partners of faculty at the four member colleges (including St. Lawrence), was the topic of a story in the July 5, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times.
A faculty-student research trip to Japan, postponed due to the earthquake the region suffered, was featured in a story in the July 1, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times.
Mike Petroni '12 is the author of a guest essay in the June 27, 2011 edition of Adirondack Almanack, about efforts to save and restore the historic Croghan Dam.
Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers' analysis of the NHL draft was noted in the Boston Bruins' blog "Stanley Cup of Chowder" on June 27, 2011.
An opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, positing that profit motives can inspire corporations to do good works, ran in the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch and Tampa Bay Online, both on June 26, 2011.
Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers' analysis of the NHL draft was covered in a story in the sports section of the Watertown Daily Times on June 24, 2011.
Summerterm courses in Ireland that focus on peace and conflict, plus place and culture, were featured in the Watertown Daily Times on June 24, 2011.
A Summerterm class on the Neuroscience of Fear, that took place in Denmark, was the topic of a story in the Watertown Daily Times on June 23, 2011.
The news web site Canada.com ran a feature story about Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers' analysis of the NHL draft on June 22, 2011, resulting in stories in the Vancouver Sun and Montreal Gazette.
Professor of English Bob Cowser is quoted in a story in the June 20, 2011 issue of Sports Illustrated, about facts coming to light on a woman long considered the first girl to play Little League baseball.
Read the story.
The Watertown Daily Times published a story June 19, 2011, about Tandazani Dhlakama '11, who is selling artwork that comprised her senior honors thesis in art.
Read the story.
An opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, detailing how the profit motive can be a force for good, ran in the Austin, Texas American Statesman on June 17, 2011 and the Nashville Tennessean on June 19, 2011.
A film project by Benjamin Hull '13, about solutions for bringing supplies of clean water to Uganda, was the subject of a feature story in the Ogdensburg Advance News on June 19, 2011.
Read the story.
Research by Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher, with Assistant Professor of Psychology Serge Onyper, Jack Gilbert '11 and Sam Gradess '11, was presented at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, showing that students who take later classes also tend to get lower grades and use more alcohol, caught the attention of several health-related wire services and showed up in "The Ticker," a blog on the Chronicle of Higher Education web site on June 14, 2011.
Michael Petroni '12 is participating in an internship that includes efforts to save an historic local dam; the Watertown Daily Times included a mention of his project in a June 16, 2011 story.
Read the story.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on the Fox Business Network's show "Freedom Watch" on June 14, 2011, discussing the Federal Reserve.
Watch the video.
The June 12, 2011 edition of The New York Times included an interactive analysis of the Commencement speeches given at a number of colleges, including journalist Tom Brokaw's at St. Lawrence, highlighting common themes, topics, phrases and words.
Read the feature (may require free login).
Efforts by professors at local colleges, including St. Lawrence, to urge the county to approve a climate action plan were detailed in a Watertown Daily Times story on June 8, 2011.
Read the story.
The Watertown Daily Times carried a feature story on June 8, 2011, about two students and two recent graduates who are attempting to canoe the Northern Forest Trail.
Read the story.
The efforts of students and alumni to re-capture a title some thought the University relinquished in the late 1970's was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on June 7, 2011.
Read the story.
YNN/Channel 10 aired a brief story on Congressman Bill Owen's visit to campus June 6, 2011, including interviews with Owens and President William Fox.
Watch the story.
The job prospects for the Class of 2011 are looking up, according to a story in the Watertown Daily Times on June 5, 2011, which includes quotes from Carol Bate, assistant dean of student life and director of career services.
Read the story.
The St. Lawrence Admissions "app" (mobile application software) was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on June 2, 2011.
Read the story.
Jennifer MacGregor, who has taught a First-Year Seminar where she and students "un-plug" from the Internet and cell phones for two weeks, is among the experts quoted in a story about backing away from technology, in the Times of London's Higher Education Supplement, published June 2, 2011.
Read the story.
Co-CIO Sondra Smith is the featured expert in the Chronicle of Higher Education's June 2, 2011 edition of the "Tech Therapy" podcast, discussing the importance of assessment in information technology.
Listen to the podcast.
On May 31, 2011, the Christian Science Monitor published excerpts from 10 Commencement speeches given around the country; the list included an excerpt from the St. Lawrence speech given by journalist Tom Brokaw.
See the list.
Watertown First Presbyterian Church Pastor Rev. Fred Garry is the author of a North Country Perspective essay published in the May 28, 2011, Watertown Daily Times, in which he reflected on the Commencement ceremonies at St. Lawrence and Jefferson Community College. His daughter, Laura, graduated from St. Lawrence on May 22, magna cum laude.
In addition to coverage in Northern New York Newpapers, WWNY Channel 7 and YNN Channel 10, St. Lawrence University's Commencement address by NBC journalist Tom Brokaw was featured in the Huffington Post's "Commencement Central" section.
David Cohen '11 was interviewed for a story in the Westchester, NY Journal on May 25, 2011, about how the cost of travel would affect Memorial Day Weekend.
Conservation biology major Lizzy Stokes-Cawley '11 wrote a letter to the editor of the Watertown Daily Times, encouraging purchase and consumption of locally sourced food, that was published in the May 9, 2011 edition. Also published were letters by Kristi Onzik '11, about habitat fragmentation and Katie Oram '11, about genetically modified food. A letter by Hannah Follender '11 was published in North Country This Week.
The Watertown Daily Times published a "q-and-a" with Viebranz Visiting Writer Peter Selgin on May 12, 2011; research grants to faculty from the New York Power Authority were the subject of a feature story in the paper on May 8, 2011; and students who ring the chapel bells were featured in a May 7, 2011 story.
Dana Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was quoted in a May 8, 2011 story in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, about left-handers in sports.
Read the story.
An essay by Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue, titled "Response to 'The Humble Heart' by Cynthia Reville Peabody," was published in The Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Volume 63; the issue theme is Science and Religion.
Read the essay.
A letter to the editor of the Aspen Times, hometown paper of Annalise Grueter '12, was published on May 5, 2011; Grueter was among the St. Lawrence students participating in the 2011 Powershift conference and her letter advocated steps toward more sustainable energy sources.
Read the letter.
Research by Associate Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Michael Schuckers was the basis of a May 4, 2011 story on the US News & World Report Science web site, titled "How Good Is That Goalie?" The story, distributed by Inside Science News Service news wire, described his statistical research and quoted him extensively.
Read the story.
Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was interviewed for a May 4, 2011 story on WPDM/WSNN (Potsdam, NY) radio, on whether or not the death of Osama bin Laden would escalate the terror threats to the U.S.
Dana Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was interviewed by North Country Public Radio on May 3, 2011, analyzing the outcome of Canada's elections.
Listen to the interview.
Thelmo President Robby Glass '13 was quoted in a May 2, 2011 story in the Huffington Post, on college students' reactions to the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden.
Read the story.
Brian Abernethy '12, studying in London, reported on the royal wedding secne for his hometown newspaper, The Saratogian in an April 29, 2011 story.
Read the story.
Elizabeth Edwards '12 was the "guest blogger" for the Washington Post's Campus Overload blog on April 29, 2011, writing about what it has been like to study in London during the festivities surrounding the royal wedding.
Read the blog.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox Business channel's "Freedom Watch" on April 27, 2011, discussing the question of whether or not the world is running out of resources.
Watch the segment.
Elizabeth Edwards '12 was quoted in an April 28, 2011 story in the Watertown Daily Times and other Northern New York Newspapers, about what it's like to be studying in London during the royal wedding.
Read the story.
Elizabeth Edwards '12 and Professor of English Pat Alden, director of the London program, were interviewed by WWNY-TV 7 for an April 26, 2011 story about the excitement leading up to the royal wedding.
Read & watch the story.
North Country Public Radio aired an interview with President William Fox on April 26, 2011, where he discussed his use of poetry at gatherings of Laurentians, and read some favorite poems.
Listen to the interview.
Emeritus President Daniel F. Sullivan is the author of a Special Commentary published in the Watertown Daily Times on April 21, 2011, on the value of a liberal arts education.
Read the essay.
St. Lawrence's agreement with NYU's College of Nursing, a day of community art, an electricity-use-reduction contest among students, the latest round of Innovation Grants and students who spoke in Drew White '04's Canton Central High School classes about their study-abroad experiences were all subjects for feature stories in the Watertown Daily Times recently.
The "Wizard of Oz"-themed dinner in Dana that welcomed students to campus in the fall was the subject of a story in the April 2011 issue of On-Campus Hospitality magazine.
An essay by President William Fox, "A University President Speaks Through Verse," was published in The Huffington Post on April 14, 2011, about how the president uses poetry in his talks with Laurentians. Originally published in Inside Higher Ed, the piece was also quoted in "The Eloquent Woman" blog, with tips on using poetry in speeches.
Read the essay in The Huffington Post.
Mike Petroni '12 was interviewed by YNN/Channel 10 for an April 13 story about how an environmental studies class at St. Lawrence has become involved in efforts to save an historic dam in Croghan, New York.
View the story.
St. Lawrence's Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, and its collaboration with ARTstor, was featured in the ARTstor newsletter April 11, 2011, in a story about the nearly 200 images of African textiles, contemporary Inuit prints and drawings, and Vietnam War-era photography in its Digital Library.
Read the story.
The Watertown Times published recent feature stories about a student-initiated peer-review journal, an Earth Fest planned by Omicron Delta Kappa, "bee week" events on campus and the women's hockey team's Be the Match bone-marrow registration drive.
St. Lawrence's planned New York City semester was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times April 10, 2011.
Read the story.
North Country Public Radio offered a preview of the keynote address for the 2011 North Country Symposium with an April 4, 2011, interview with Ben Hewitt, about how the town of Hardwick, Vermont, transformed itself. A story about the symposium was featured in the Watertown Daily Times on April 6.
Read the story.
Nathan Rotich '14 and Khadeeja Hamid '11, both awarded Projects for Peace grants, were the subjects of a feature story in the Advance-News on April 3, 2011.
Read the story.
Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in a March 31, 2011, Associated Press story on how Turkey is dealing with instability in the Mideast. The story was picked up by about 100 news organizations, including The Washington Post and the Huffington Post.
St. Lawrence's second annual "Bach Marathon" was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on March 31, 2011.
Read the story.
The March 20 edition of the Watertown Daily Times included a feature story on the climate change conference scheduled at St. Lawrence.
Read the story.
The Plattsburgh (NY) Press Republican ran a feature story and interview with Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead, who directed a production for Pendragon Theatre during her sabbatical.
Read the story.
Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat wrote a guest column for the Amnesty International blog on March 15, 2011, titled "Mass Graves and State Silence in Turkey," and a guest column for "Informed Comment" on March 18, 2011, titled "Libya and Turkey: Ankara's foreign policy goes off key."
Director of Admissions Alison Almasian is the author of a guest column on the college admissions Web site Unigo, titled "College rankings can be helpful if used appropriately," published March 15, 2011.
Read the article.
The Skaneateles Journal (Skaneateles, NY) ran a March 3, 2011 story about Meredith Kane '08, a graduate student at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, who is planting hundreds of wild ginger seeds in the region.
The MTV Act blog ran a story recently about Michael Chambers '09 and an organization he's involved in in Kenya, Flying Kites Adventure Challenge.
Read the story.
A list of "do's and don'ts" for the college visit, by Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey, appears in the February/March 2011 issue of Honor Student magazine.
The exhibition of Inuit art in the Richard F. Brush Gallery was the subject of a story on WWNY-Channel 7 on March 1, 2011.
The February 28, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times included stories on St. Lawrence's electricity-tracking "building dashboard", a community-based learning course where students are learning how to tap maple trees and the University's positive retention rate.
An essay by President Emeritus Daniel Sullivan, headlined "Private Colleges a Better Deal," was published in the Albany, NY, Times Union on February 18, 2011. The piece compared private and public colleges' graduatation rates, and their costs relative to those rates.
Read the essay.
Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey is part of a question-and-answer article in the January/February 2011 issue of NextStepU magazine, a publication for those in the college search process. Cowdrey provided answers to several questions from readers about living expenses and work-study jobs.
Professor of English Bob Cowser's book Green Fields: Crime, Punishment and a Boyhood Between was reviewed positively in the December 15, 2010 issue of Library Journal. The book also received a positive review in Publishers Weekly and the literary journal Fourth Genre.
An interview with Claire Puccia Parham '90, about the book she wrote on the history of the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, is on the Web site Today's Authors. In the interview, Parham discusses how the book began with interviews she conducted while an undergraduate at St. Lawrence.
The Web site OnlineCollege.org, in an article about "the coolest dorm rooms in the country," notes the inclusion of the Adirondack Semester's yurts in U.S. News & World Report's list of "cool dorms."
Read the article.
The Watertown Daily Times ran a feature story about a faculty-student team remotely operating a telescope in Puerto Rico from campus on February 9, 2010, and a story about Grace Ochieng' '12 participating in a UN conference on advocacy for women's issues on February 8, 2010.
Students who raised about $8,000 for charities by shaving their heads were the subject of a story in the Watertown Daily Times on February 7, 2011.
Read the story.
The Watertown Daily Times published a February 4, 2011 story on a collaboration between the University and St. Lawrence County to pursue a funding opportunity and a January 31, 2011 story on the decline of the dairy industry in the region, which quoted R. Sheldon '68 and Virginia H. Johnson Associate Professor of Economics Brian Chezum.
An exhibition of microphotographs of snowflakes and ice crystals in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery was the subject of a story on WWNY-TV Channel 7 news, in Watertown, NY, on February 2, 2011.
Watch the story.
An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "Are The Poor Really Worse Off?," ran in the Tulsa (OK) World on January 29, 2011. It originally ran in newspapers in Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Read the essay.
A report by the Council on Independent Colleges and Universities that showed the economic impact of private higher education institutions in New York State, including St. Lawrence, received widespread coverage in the news media, including stories on WWNY-TV in Watertown and YNN, and in the Watertown Daily Times, Ogdensburg Journal, Courier-Observer, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, North Country This Week, Buffalo Business First and the Albany Business Journal, in addition to a number of radio stations.
Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue's column, The Wilderness Above, published in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake, NY, is now available online. Her most recent, published January 25, 2011, is about Orion's Belt and is titled "A sky-high acessory."
An essay about the joys of outdoor skating, titled "Waiting For Black Ice," by Academic Resources Coordinator of Academic Support and HEOP Counselor Matt McCluskey, was published in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake, NY, on January 26, 2011.
Read the essay.
An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "The Poor Are Not Getting Poorer," was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on January 26, 2011. A version of the piece ran in the Atlanta, GA, Journal Constitution on the same day. On January 27, 2011, Horwitz was interviewed on the same topic on WCHE radio in Westchester, PA.
In an interview with Backpacker magazine, musician Grace Potter '06 relates that one of the factors in her choosing to study at St. Lawrence was its Adirondack Semester program.
Read the story.
Albany (NY) Times Union Editor Rex Smith's January 23, 2011 column reflected on another past General Electric leader who was called upon by the federal government, Owen D. Young, Class of 1894; the column included references to Young's education at St. Lawrence.
Read the column.
A January 16, 2011 story in the Buffalo News, on five women from that region now involved with the state government in Vermont, included information about tax commissioner Mary Peterson '82,P'12, P'14, and the fact that she was educated at St. Lawrence.
Read the story.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz's lecture at the Adam Smith Institute in London, England, was covered in an article in The Spectator on January 10, 2011.
Read the article.
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Michael Schuckers' analysis of NHL shootout shots was cited in a December 17, 2010 post in Peter Keating's blog on ESPN.com; it also appeared in Keating's column in ESPN The Magazine, in the December 27, 2010 issue.
Read the post.
A guest editorial on New York State's government by Emeritus Munsil Professor of Government Robert Wells was published in the Watertown Daily Times on January 7, 2011.
Read the editorial.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox News' "Freedom Watch" on January 6, 2011, discussing possible bail-outs of states. Horwitz has accepted the program's invitation to be a weekly guest.
Peterson Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Duncan Melville was the subject of a "Q-and-A" profile in the Watertown Daily Times on January 6, 2011, regarding his research on mathematics in ancient Mesopotamia.
Read the story.
The January 6, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times included a feature story on St. Lawrence's ranking by Forbes magazine for having minorities and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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Forbes.com published an essay on January 5, 2011, titled "A Scientific World View Includes Economics," co-authored by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz.
Read the essay.
A feature story about Maya Cameron-Gilsey '11 and her decision to shave her head to raise money for children's health care facilities, ran in her hometown newspaper, the Gloucester Times in Massachusetts on December 31, 2011.
Read the story.
A balloon that contained a note from a nursing home resident in Canada, and landed at MacAllaster House, generated a response and stories in the November 18, 2010 edition of the Northwest EMC newspaper in Foxboro, Ontario, and the December 27, 2010 edition of the Watertown Daily Times.
Read the EMC story.
Read the Watertown Times story.
Assistant Professor of Government Ronnie Olesker accompanied five students to the Middle East over the holiday break, so they could work on research projects involving conflict in the region. On December 24, 2010, the Watertown Daily Times published a feature story about the project.
Read the story.
A letter to the editor of the Watertown Daily Times by Ryan Gillard '11 was published on December 21, 2010. The topic was related to a Senior-Year Experience project Gillard researched with Associate Professor of Biology Erika Barthelmess.
Read Gillard's letter.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox News' "Freedom Watch" on December 21, 2010, discussing the Federal Reserve.
St. Lawrence ranked 19th on Forbes.com's December 15, 2010 list of colleges that are best for women and minorities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
See the rankings.
Peterson Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Duncan Melville was quoted in a story on the CNN.com Web site December 17, 2010, about an exhibition at New York University on Babylonian mathematics.
Read the story.
Director of Admissions Alison Almasian was quoted in an online story on the U.S. News & World Report Web site December 15, 2010, on early decision.
Read the story.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on the "Freedom Watch" program on Fox News, discussing the federal government's extension of tax cuts, on December 14, 2010.
Mo Cassara '97, head basketball coach at Hofstra, was profiled in The New York Times December 11, 2010.
Wendy Pavlus '11 was included in the Sports Illustrated feature "Faces In the Crowd" on December 9, 2010.
See the feature.
Proposals by students in an environmental studies class taught by Assistant Professor Amanda Lavigne to save an historic dam and mill were the subject of a story in the Watertown Daily Times on December 7, 2010.
Read the story.
The December 5, 2010 issue of the Watertown Daily Times included feature stories on Innovation Grants awarded to 10 projects on campus and Shawn Austin '13, who is raising funds for women in the Congo.
Read about Shawn Austin '13.
Read about Innovation Grants projects.
The December 2, 2010 edition of The Washington Times included an essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on how TSA policies may be endangering more Americans than they save.
Read the essay.
On November 30, 2010, "The Answer Sheet" education column in the Washington Post by Valerie Strauss featured a guest entry by Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey, on strategies for students who are turned down by colleges where they applied early decision or early admission.
Read the entry.
An essay by English Professor Bob Cowser, reflecting on the death penalty, was published in the Huffington Post on November 29, 2010. Cowser's recent book, Green Fields: Crime, Punishment and a Boyhood Between, deals with a death-penalty case in Tennessee.
Read the essay.
An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on some things about the economy to be thankful for, was the leading opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on November 25, 2010, Thanksgiving day. A piece with a similar theme, also by Horwitz, was the Academic Minute podcast featured on WAMC, the public radio station in Albany, NY, on November 26, 2010.
Listen to the podcast.
Professor of Gender Studies and Sexuality R. Danielle Egan, co-principal investigator of an assessment project at St. Lawrence, is quoted in the November 23, 2010 edition of the Measuring Stick blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Read the entry.
Peterson Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Duncan Melville was quoted in the New York Times on November 22, 2010, about a display at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World; Melville spoke at a symposium marking the opening of the exhibition.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on CNBC's "Street Signs" program on November 22, 2010, speaking about enhanced screening techniques of the TSA over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Horwitz was quoted in the Toronto Globe & Mail and the Washington, D.C., paper The Hill on Sunday, November 21, 2010, as well as the Boston Herald on November 22, 2010, all on the same topic. The story and Horwitz's comments were picked up by numerous blogs on the Internet, and Horwitz was interview for several Internet-based news sites and radio programs.
Watch the "Street Signs" clip
Read the Globe & Mail story.
Read The Hill story.
Read the Boston Herald story.
Efforts by Heather Christie '11 to help areas of Indonesia affected by the eruption of a volcano were detailed in a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on November 21, 2010. Christie studied in Indonesia during her sophomore year.
Read the story.
Advice from Jimmy Mayers '11, on writing the admissions essay, was published in The Washington Post's "Campus Overload" column on November 18, 2010.
Read the piece.
President William Fox was a guest on the hour-long program "WPBS Live," from WPBS in Watertown, New York, on November 17, 2010.
A story about St. Lawrence's First-Year Cup, inspired in part by the House Cup in the "Harry Potter" series, ran in the Huffington Post on November 15, 2010.
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A story about new efforts to ease cross-registration among the Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, including St. Lawrence, ran in the Watertown Daily Times on November 15, 2010.
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St. Lawrence's Quidditch team, playing a sport inspired by the "Harry Potter" stories, and its preparation for competition in the game's World Cup, was the topic of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on November 14, 2010.
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An essay, titled "Making Time for Pond Hockey," by Academic Resources Coordinator of Academic Support and HEOP Counselor Matt McCluskey, was published in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake, NY, on November 10, 2010.
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"The Best of Our Knowledge," a program on WAMC public radio in Albany, New York, featured a commentary, on the value of a liberal arts education, by President William L. Fox on its November 8, 2010 program.
Listen to the program; President Fox's segment begins at the 14:43 mark.
An interview with Kaitlyn Sullivan '12, about her Summerterm experience in Kenya, ran in the Watertown Daily Times on November 2, 2010.
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The November 2010 issue of The Washington Diplomat includes an article about the exhibition of Inuit art at the Canadian Embassy, on loan from St. Lawrence University's Richard F. Brush Art Gallery.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is the co-author of an essay titled "Of Tea and Taxes," published November 1, 2010 on Forbes. com.
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The second annual Fall Festival, including a wood-cutting demonstration aimed at raising awareness about carbon emissions, was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on October 30, 2010.
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Emerita Professor of Anthropology Celia Nyamweru is the author of an article titled "St. Lawrence University Students Help Mentor Akwesasne Youth," in Vol. 4, No. 1 of the newspaper Akwesasne: A Special People A Special Place, a publication of the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne. The article details St. Lawrence students' involvement in youth programs at Akwesasne.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is the co-author of an essay titled "On the Tempests in the Tea Cups," published October 22, 2010 on Forbes.com. The piece was reprinted in the Dallas Morning News on October 31.
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St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester "programme" was the subject of a feature story in The Times of London's Higher Education supplement on October 21, 2010.
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The October 2010 issue of Delta Sky, the in-flight magazine of Delta Airlines, included a profile of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and cited a portion of her speech at St. Lawrence's 2010 Commencement.
The October 19, 2010 edition of the Glens Falls (NY) Post-Star included a story about Lee Pollock '74 achieving an elite status in marathon running; the story mentioned that he is a St. Lawrence graduate.
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Professor of Physics Daniel Koon is the author of the "Light Touch" column in the September 2010 issue of Optics and Photonics News. The column is titled "The Myth of the Fiber-Optic Polar Bear: Fuzzy Wuzzy Wasn't Phototonic, Was He?"
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President Emeritus Daniel Sullivan is the author of an article in the Summer 2010 issue of Liberal Education, the magazine of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, titled "The Hidden Costs of Low Graduation Rates."
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Emeritus Munsil Professor of Government Robert Wells was interviewed by the Syracuse, NY, Post-Standard for a story that ran October 10, 2010, about New York State's government, in connection to his recently published book, New York State Government and Politics in a Nutshell: A Citizen's Primer.
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St. Lawrence's sustainability and environmental programs were the topic of the October 8, 2010 edition of the Clear Channel Radio program "Green Is Good."
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An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, responding to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education and titled "Have Pro-Deregulation Economists Been Bought?," was published in The Freeman online on October 7, 2010; the piece was cited and linked by the National Review online and The Economist online, on October 7 and October 8, respectively.
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An essay by Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Jon Rosales, titled "Remember Shaktoolik," was published in the online news site The Huffington Post on October 4, 2010.
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The Watertown Daily Times published a story on October 4, 2010 about Brijlal Chaudhari '10's efforts to build a school and library in his native Nepal.
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President William Fox's essay from the Summer 2010 issue of St. Lawrence magazine, "The Most Dangerous Building on Campus," was published in the online news site The Huffington Post on October 4, 2010.
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Reiff College's work teaching area senior citizens to use computers and technology was the subject of a feature story in The Watertown Daily Times on October 1, 2010.
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A September 9, 2010 story in the Washington Post noted that lamps designed by Christopher Spitzmiller '94 are part of the newly redecorated Oval Office in the White House. The story included the fact that he graduated from St. Lawrence.
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Associate Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Michael E. Schuckers was a guest on the Vancouver, BC, television news program "The Standard" on August 22, 2010, discussing how his statistical analysis of the National Hockey League may be a better predictor of talent than scouting and the science of biometrics identification. Clips of both interviews have now been posted on the Web.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a September 1, 2010, editorial in the Lincoln Tribune (Lincolnton, NC) by Brian Balfour, a budget and tax policy analyst at the Civitas Institute.
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The Saratogian (Saratoga Springs, NY) ran a September 1, 2010, story about the collaboration of John Daly '86 and Eric Kozlowski '83 on the racing-themed comic strip "Top of the Stretch," noting that they met at St. Lawrence.
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An August 26, 2010, story in the Observer-Dispatch (Utica, NY) about Brittany Gaetano '07 noted that, as head women's basketball coach at Drew University, she is the youngest college head coach of the sport in the nation.
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St. Lawrence University's "go-to-school-green" guide was the topic for a 10-minute segment of the "Whole Living" show on Martha Stewart Radio, carried by Sirius/XM radio, on August 26, 2010.
Professor of Religious Studies Mark MacWilliams was quoted in an August 24, 2010, story in the New York Post, about a New York State Regents examination that has been viewed as having an anti-Christian bias.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox Business Live on August 20, 2010, discussing whether savings jobs will save the economy.
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Vice President for Finance Kathryn Mullaney was quoted in a story in the August 19, 2010 edition of College Times, with advice for managing your money in college and how to develop a budget.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in an August 15, 2010 article on the news Web site "The Daily Caller," about the minimum wage.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on "Freedom Watch," on the Fox Business channel, on Saturday, August 7, 2010; the program aired on the Fox News Channel on August 8.
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An essay by Emeritus Munsil Professor of Government Robert Wells, recommending an overhaul of New York State's government, was published in the Syracuse (NY) Post-Standard on July 30, 2010, and in the Watertown Daily Times and Buffalo News on August 5.
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Vice President for Finance Kathryn Mullaney was the guest blogger for the "Campus Overload" column in the Washington Post on August 3, 2010, providing money-management advice for college students and parents.
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An opinion piece by Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo, titled "An Electorate Angry: At What?," was published in The Huffington Post on August 2, 2010.
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Associate Professor of English Caroline Breashears was interviewed on Australia's Radio National Book Show on July 13, 2010, and quoted in Australian newspaper The Age on July 2, 2010, related to a conference in which she participated, "To Deprave and Corrupt: Forbidden, Hidden and Censored Books, which was sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. Breashears' presentation at the conference was titled "'Dukes or Darlings?' The Scandalous History of Mary Anne Clarke's Writings."
A July 10, 2010 story in The Washington Post reviewed the first year of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's term, noting her participation in St. Lawrence University's Commencement in May. The story was syndicated and ran in many other papers around the nation.
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St. Lawrence's expanded offerings for study abroad were the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on July 9, 2010.
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The Washington Post carried a story July 10, 2010, about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's first year and prominently mentioned her Commencement address at St. Lawrence University. Read the story.
YNN carried two stories about St. Lawrence's Brian Leonard Football Camp on July 7, 2010; one story was about the camp itself and the other was a feature about how the staff makes sure participants stay cool and hydrated in the summer heat.
Watch the story about heat safety.
Watch the story about Brian Leonard Football Camp.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on the program "Freedom Watch," on Fox Business Channel, that aired on July 3, 2010. Horwitz was one of three guests discussing federal stimulus spending and economic discussions of the G-20 summit.
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Nationally syndicated columnist Jonah Goldberg cited research by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz on June 26, 2010; among the publications running the piece, or citing it, were the Dallas (TX) Morning News, Erie (PA) Times-News, Arizona Daily Star, Fort Lauderdale (FL) Sun-Sentinel, Boston (MA) Herald, New York Post and the blog RealClearPolitics.
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Advice from former tour guide Josh Johnson '10, on how to get the most out of a campus tour, was published in The Washington Post on June 24, 2010, in Valerie Strauss' education blog "The Answer Sheet."
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The New York Times June 18, 2010, story on commencement speeches around the country included an excerpt from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's speech at St. Lawrence and a photo from the ceremony, of President Fox, Justice Sotomayor and Kiley Sotomayor '10; the online version included a link to the audio of her speech, on the St. Lawrence Web site.
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The June, 2010, issue of University Business magazine includes an article on how college information technology departments across the country are participating efforts to save energy and be environmentally sustainable; St. Lawrence's IT department is part of the story.
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An opinion piece by Nora Wolinsky '10, advising students to take an acting class in college, was published by the Syracuse, N.Y. Post-Standard on June 4, 2010.
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The Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire Eagle published a June 3, 2010 story about research on zebra mussels in Laurel Lake, including the fact that environmental studies major Bill Sitzer '11, of nearby Lenox, is part of the research team, having gained experience at St. Lawrence.
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The retirement of custodian Carl Hull, employed by the University for 53 years, was noted in a Watertown Daily Times feature story that was published June 2, 2010.
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A May 21, 2010 Associated Press story that ran in newspapers across the country, including The New York Times, featured women who are professional rock-climbing guides; Emilie Drinkwater '98 was quoted in the story, which noted that she began climbing while a student at St. Lawrence.
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The Web site Inside Higher Ed published an essay by President William Fox on May 28, 2010, on his use of poetry in talks with alumni.
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's speech at St. Lawrence University's Commencement was noted in The Huffington Post, which includes a link to the audio file of the talk, and on U.S. News & World Report's online interactive Commencement speaker map.
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Research conducted by Associate Professor of Economics Alison Del Rossi was quoted in a May 7, 2010 story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal about a record award by a jury in a lawsuit. Del Rossi has researched and tracked awards made by juries in the United States over the past several decades.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz made a second appearance on Fox Business Networks' "Freedom Watch," on May 18, 2010, discussing personal liberties and the United States Constitution.
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Associated Press writer John Kekis covered St. Lawrence University's Commencement, and his story went out on the wire minutes after the ceremony concluded May 16, 2010.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox Business Networks' "Freedom Watch" on May 10, 2010.
A May 4, 2010, column for Bloomberg Business Week by Amity Shlaes cited the expertise of Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz.
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An article on the benefits of using the virtual community Second Life in teaching, by Visiting Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts Matthew Trevett-Smith, was published May 3, 2010, in the online magazine Faculty Focus.
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St. Lawrence University's project was featured on the Campus Kitchens blog on April 16, 2010.
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President William Fox's recent letter to the University community was published by the Watertown Daily Times on April 15, 2010, as its "North Country Perspective" feature.
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The Watertown Daily Times carried a feature story on March 29, 2010 about students collecting children's books to send to a library in Malawi.
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Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Daniel Look is using a zombie game to teach one of his spring semester courses; the Watertown Daily Times covered it in a March 28, 2010 story.
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A feature story about Professor of Government Alan Draper named a Fulbright Distinguished Chair was in the Watertown Daily Times on March 26, 2010.
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A monthly "monologue night" broadcast on radio from a Burlington, Vermont, coffeehouse and organized by Todd Townsend '04 was the subject of a feature story in the Burlington Free Press on March 25, 2010.
The Watertown Daily Times ran a feature story on March 23, 2010 about students from St. Lawrence and SUNY Canton who did volunteer work during spring break.
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Web videos created by Chelsea Nuffer '10 and Kitty Higgins '13 were the topic of a Watertown Daily Times feature story on March 22, 2010.
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An essay by Information Technology Co-CIO Sondra Smith, titled "Alleviating Assessment Anxiety," was published on the Techne blog of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education's Web site on March 15, 2010.
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On March 15, 2010, the Utica (NY) Observer-Dispatch published a profile of Taylor Moon '12, a member of the equestrian team and a resident of Sauquoit, in the Utica area.
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The Times Union in Albany (NY) published a profile of Joseph Racette '85, an ecologist with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, on March 15, 2010.
The Vermont home of Peggy '73 and Sparky Potter '70 is featured in the spring 2010 issue of American Style magazine, in a story about artists' homes.
An article in the Kosciosko, MO, Star-Herald on March 9, 2010, about the celebration of the Natchez Trace Parkway's recent renovation, noted that Robin Brooks '08 was crossing the Trace on her bicycle that day. Brooks has been bicycling across the country, and is returning to her home in Seattle; the story noted her St. Lawrence education.
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A March 2, 2010 story on the World Tea News Web site notes that two of the founders of the Ajiri Tea company are alumnae of St. Lawrence's program in Kenya; the company's profits help send Kenyans to school.
Gloria McAdam '79, president and CEO of Foodshare in Bloomfield, CT, recently was "shadowed" by two St. Lawrence students for a day, through the Career Services Shadow-A-Saint program. McAdam included an excerpt of evaluation of the experience written by Bridget Heaton '11 on her blog, in an entry dated February 24, 2010.
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Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was quoted in a February 24, 2010, story in the San Jose Mercury News, about the place that ice hockey holds in Canadian culture.
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The Coral Springs Connection, Coral Springs, FL, ran a story on February 20, 2010, about small liberal arts colleges that recruit in the area for football players, St. Lawrence University among them. The story included a photo of and quotes from Coach Chris Phelps.
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Men's Ice Hockey Head Coach Joe Marsh not only coaches a Division I team, he also teaches in the University's First-Year Program. The Watertown Daily Times ran a feature story about March on February 21, 2010.
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An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "To Be A More Confident Parent, Think Like An Economist," was published February 16, 2010 on author Lenore Skenazy's blog Free-Range Kids, on topics related to her book of the same title.
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A local food company, Sustain, has been working with the student group Lettuce Turnip the Beet and plans to launch a line of chips - including one called Canton Crunchies - on campus. A February 15, 2010, story in The Watertown Daily Times featured the firm.
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Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was a guest on National Public Radio's "Only A Game" on February 13, 2010, discussing Canada, host country of the Olympic games.
The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Wired Campus" section carried a story on February 11, 2010, about how fragments of a legal document signed by Abraham Lincoln that were at St. Lawrence and the Illinois State Archives were "reunited" digitally so that both could be authenticated.
Harold (Hal) Thomas '74 is studying Atlantic salmon, and has returned to the area for part of his research, reuniting with one of his former teachers, Professor of Philosophy Baylor Johnson. He was the subject of a February 9, 2010 feature story in the Watertown Daily Times.
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An opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "The Verizon Wireless Cure for Health Care Reform," was published in The Christian Science Monitor on February 4, 2010.
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The Watertown Daily Times ran a feature story on the front page on January 31, 2010, about a First-Year Seminar taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer MacGregor, "Identity in the Internet Age." As an assignment, students in the seminar are asked to "un-plug" for two weeks and keep a journal about the experience.
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The Campus Kitchen Project, which involves collecting "relcaimed" food from dining services and area schools to provide meals to people in the community, was the subject of a feature story in The Watertown Daily Times on January 29, 2010.
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An opinion piece by Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo, on the outcome of the Senate election in Massachusetts, was published in The Huffington Post on January 28, 2010.
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Two articles by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on the college search process from a free-market/Libertarian perspective, were cited on the National Review Online blog "Phi Beta Cons" on January 28, 2010. The post calls attention to the writing component of St. Lawrence's First-Year Program.
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F. King Alexander '87, president of California State University at Long Beach, is the author of an essay published by the Inside Higher Ed Web site on January 28, 2010, titled "Make 'Maintenance of Effort' Permanent." The piece addresses the renewal by Congress of the Higher Education Act and economic stimulus legislation provisions requiring states to fund higher education systems at certain minimum levels in order to receive some federal funding.
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Trustee Kenneth Okoth '01 is the author of an essay titled "International Migration and Brain Circulation," published on the Diversity & Democracy Web site of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). In the essay, Okoth describes the opportunities made possible for him by being awarded a scholarship to study at St. Lawrence.
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The "Sense of Place" feature in the November/December 2009 issue of University Business magazine featured the North Country Zen Garden at St. Lawrence.
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A January 6, 2010, feature on U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges" Web site celebrated "Eight Cool College Dorms," and included St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester Program yurts among them.
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On January 6, 2010, ESPN.com's "Travel 10" celebrated the oldest college-hockey "barns" in the nation, including St. Lawrence University's Appleton Arena.
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A story in the Chicago Tribune on December 30, 2009, revealed that a portion of a document signed by President Abraham Lincoln, in St. Lawrence's Owen D. Young Library's archives, was "reunited" with the other portion of the document, in Illinois.
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A December 14, 2009, story in the Glens Falls (NY) Post-Star recalls former Glens Falls resident, J. Kimball Gannon '24, composer best known for the song "I'll Be Home For Christmas." The story notes that Gannon's will stipulated that a third of the royalties from his work go to St. Lawrence after the death of his wife, Alma, Class of 1925; she died in 2000.
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Professor of Government C. Fred Exoo was interviewed on the satellite radio program "The Young Turks" on December 11, 2009. He discussed his new book, The Pen and the Sword: Press, War and Terror in the 21st Century.
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Ajiri Tea, a non-profit company operated by Ann Funkhouser '79 and her daughters Kate Holby '12 and Sara Holby, a participant in St. Lawrence program in Kenya, was the subject of a feature story in the Pennsylvania Morning Call on December 11, 2009.
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The novel "A Gate At The Stairs," by Lorrie Moore '78, was named as one of the top 10 books of the year by The New York Times.
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An opinion piece, titled "Don't Slam The Door To Higher Education," by William Short, director of St. Lawrence's Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP), was published in the Albany (NY) Times-Union on November 20, 2009.
"Taste for Life," an event organized by the Black Women's Residence on campus, was featured on the WaterAid America Web site December 1.
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Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue is the author of an essay published in the November 30, 2009, issue of America magazine. O'Donoghue is one of six experts interpreting Pope Benedict XVI's first social encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate," or "Charity in Truth." She addresses the environment and climate change in the piece.
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An opinion piece by Professor of Government Alan Draper was published in the Syracuse Post-Standard on November 22, 2009. The piece was titled "Democrats Are From Venus, Republicans Are From Mars."
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The band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, which includes Grace Potter n'06 and Matt Burr '03 on drums, is on a national tour and has been getting press in the cities where they are performing. Many of the stories include the fact that Potter and Burr met at St. Lawrence, and formed the band here while students. Two that included a mention are the Washington Post (November 13, 2009) and New York's Village Voice (November 10, 2009).
Assistant Professor of Government Shelley McConnell was quoted in a November 7, 2009, story in the New York Times, on the collapse of an agreement meant to end a government stand-off in Honduras.
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Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey is the author of a post on the "College Planning Blog" section of the Web site TheAdmissionGame.com. Her post, on the early decision process, is titled "When the 'Early' Answer is No."
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz has begun writing a bi-weekly column for The Freeman's online site. His first, titled "The Freedom Philosophy as a Calling," was published November 5, 2009.
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Professor of Government Alan Draper was quoted in a November 4, 2009, story in the Toronto Globe and Mail, analyzing the results of the off-year election.
Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo was quoted in November 3 and 4 (2009) stories in New York Newsday, about the closely watched election in the 23rd Congressional district. The November 4 story, about the outcome, was circulated through MCT News Service, and ran in other outlets, including the Hartford (CT) Courant.
The November 6, 2009, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education carried a news brief about the Victor Ekpuk exhibition in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, "(Of) Lines and Lives."
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz has posted an essay on the Web site for the PBS Program "Nightly Business Report," dated October 29, 2009, and titled "Government Meddling in Bank Executive Pay is Not Going to Help."
Erin Cook '09 is profiled in the Education 09-10 edition of the national magazine Indian Country Today.
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Professor of Government C. Fred Exoo was quoted in an October 23, 2009, story in Canada's National Post newspaper, about the campaigns in New York's 23rd congressional district.
Dana Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was interviewed at length on the October 20, 2009, edition of the show "Everything Is Broken," with Jim Lynch, on WUSB, the radio station of SUNY Stony Brook, about Canada's relationship with the United States, and why Americans don't know much about their neighbors to the north.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is the author of a blog post on the Web site for the PBS program "Nightly Business Report." In the post, dated October 16, 2009, Horwitz examines the role of the Federal Reserve.
Dean of Student Life Joe Tolliver is quoted in a story in a special Diversity in Academe supplement of The Chronicle of Higher Education, dated October 16, 2009. The story is about how colleges are managing diversity programs in difficult economic times and includes a photograph of Tolliver.
The First-Year Program's Eaton College ("Thoreau Lives!") and the Adirondack Semester were mentioned in a blog post on the American Feast's Sustainable Food Blog October 9, 2009; the post was about college students learning to appreciate made-from-scratch local foods.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on an hour-long program on WVOX radio (New Rochelle, NY) on October 2, 2009, discussing the nature of money with host Bill Reed. Horwitz was also quoted in a story, titled "Fed Up: The political movement to curtail the Federal Reserve goes from fringe to mainstream," in the November 2009 issue of Reason magazine.
The September/October 2009 issue of Adirondack Explorer includes an extensive feature story on St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester, by Anna Rehm '11, who participated in the program in the fall semester of 2008.
An article in the Wall Street Journal on September 17, 2009, on how people who lost jobs in the recession have found new positions, included George Ehrhardt '08.
Viggo Mortensen '80 is the subject of the cover story in the October 2009 issue of Men's Journal magazine; the article notes his St. Lawrence education.
Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was quoted in the Toronto Globe and Mail on September 17, 2009, in a story about plans for security at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, noting that because leadership of NORAD alternates between countries, Canada will rely on a U.S. commander to lead security operations.
An essay by Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning R. Danielle Egan, expressing the view that racism underlies much of the most vehement opposition to President Barack Obama's policies, was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on September 16, 2009.
A front-page story in The Watertown Daily Times on September 12, 2009, noted the SLU Republicans tribute to lives lost on September 11, 2001, the placing of small American flags on the University's quad.
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An essay titled "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Economists," by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz and Rhodes College Economics Professor Art Carden, was published on the Forbes.com Web site on September 12, 2009.
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Dana Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker is the author of a review of Too Much Happiness, a collection of short stories by Alice Munro, in the September 2009 issue of The Literary Review of Canada.
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A story in the September 8, 2009, New York Times, about tennis player Melanie Oudin's rise, notes that her father, John, graduated from St. Lawrence (1981) and played lacrosse and soccer.
The Web site Blisstree.com, which includes information, advice and news about health, environmental issues, family life and other topics, posted a story on September 3, 2009, about St. Lawrence's "go to school green" list, including a photo of the Johnson Hall of Science and links to the University's Web site.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in ABC News "20/20" co-anchor John Stossel's syndicated newspaper column that ran on the Web and in papers across the country on August 26, 2009. Among the papers carrying the column are the Jacksonville Observer in Florida.
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An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on "debt pollution," was published in the Tampa Tribune on August 23, 2009.
An article by President William L. Fox, "Mastering the Idea of a Master Plan," appears in the 2008-2009 Presidential Perspectives edition of Best Practices in Higher Education.
St. Lawrence's "go to school green" list is the subject of a story in the July/August 2009 issue of University Business magazine, in its "Behind the News" section.
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Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker is quoted extensively in an article titled "Alice in Borderland," by Charles Foran in the August 13, 2009, issue of the Canadian magazine Walrus. In the article, the writer takes a "tour" of places that shaped the life and writing of author Alice Munro, using Thacker and his book, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, as guides.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was cited in ABC News "20/20" co-anchor John Stossel's blog entry August 11, 2009, and included in his nationally syndicated newspaper column August 12.
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St. Lawrence's "go to school green" list was posted on the SocialYell blog on August 10, 2009, as well as SocialYell's Facebook and Twitter pages.
St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester program is profiled in an article by Professor of Philosophy Baylor Johnson and Steve Alexander in the Summer 2009 issue of Liberal Education, a publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).
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St. Lawrence's suggestions for going to school the "green" way were the subject of an August 3, 2009, story in the online magazine Environmental Protection.
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An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "F.A. Hayek and the Fatal Conceit of Barack Obama," was published in the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch on August 2, 2009.
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President William Fox was interviewed on "7 News At Noon" on WWNY-TV in Watertown on July 22, 2009.
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Chelsea Nuffer '10, of Castorland, NY, was quoted in a July 17, 2009, Associated Press story, about the ways colleges are using new technologies to reach out to students. Among papers that ran the story are the News & Messenger in Manassas, VA; The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, LA; News Tribune in LaSalle, IL; Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, VA; the Times Daily in Florence, AL; the Herald Democrat in Sherman, TX; and News-Dispatch in Michigan City, IN.
Johnson Associate Professor of Economics Brian Chezum was quoted in a July 10, 2009, Associated Press story marking the 50th anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Also quoted in the story was Claire Puccia Parham '90, author of a book on the Seaway.
Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Kathryn Mullaney was quoted in a July 8, 2009, story on the Dow Jones Newswire, on how the investment managers at small colleges have revised strategies for their endowments.
Priest Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue was quoted in a story in the Science section of The New York Times June 23, 2009, about scientists at the Vatican Observatory, where she was engaged in observation while on sabbatical.
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Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey is a "guest blogger" for the college planning blog The Admission Game. On June 15, 2009, she blogged about being standardized test-optional.
Professor of Religious Studies Mark MacWilliams was quoted in a June 14, 2009, story in the Japan Times, the largest English-language daily in Japan. He was one of a number of academic sources quoted in a story headlined "Scholars worldwide react to plan," which ran alongside a story about plans for a National Center for Media Arts in Japan.
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Danielle Rhubart '10, of Deferiet, NY, wrote a series of four "Letters from Kenya" for her hometown newspaper, the Carthage Republican Tribune, during her spring 2009 semester there. The first appeared February 12, 2009, and her final column was published May 28, 2009.
A story in the May 19, 2009, edition of the Syracuse Post-Standard "Green" supplement noted the University's Re-Cellar, formerly the Re-Use Trailer. Now housed in the basement of Reiff College, it's open throughout the academic year for students to re-use everything from rugs and hangers to clothing and dishes.
Dana Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was quoted in a May 28, 2009, story in the Toronto Star, about author Alice Munro, winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize in literature. Thacker wrote the only authorized Munro biography.
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Associate Professor of Biology Karl McKnight is quoted in an article titled "Garden of Earthly Delights," about foraging for mushrooms in the Adirondacks, in Adirondack Life magazine's "2009 Annual Guide to the Great Outdoors." McKnight is a former director of the University's Adirondack Semester.
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a letter to the editor from President Daniel Sullivan in its May 29, 2009, issue, headlined "Monitor Net Tuition, Not Sticker Price." The letter outlined President Sullivan's thoughts on an interview The Chronicle had published online with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
President Daniel Sullivan was quoted in a May 13, 2009, story in USA Today, headlined "Eight Keys to a Graduation Speech with Pomp & Significance."
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President Daniel Sullivan was quoted in a May 8, 2009, story on the Inside Higher Education Web site, about what makes a good commencement speaker.
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An article by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "Ought Implies Can," is published in the April 24, 2009, edition of The Freeman, a journal published by the Foundation for Economic Education.
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Associate Vice President for University Relations Lisa Cania and Kristen Bednar '09 both had "guest posts" on the LinkedIn blog during the week of April 20, 2009. The week's posts all deal with Class of '09 graduates.
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The VoiceAmerica Business talk radio network aired an hour-long interview with Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz on April 16, 2009, on the "Free Market" program. Horwitz and host Mike Beitler discussed the similarities between the Great Depression and the current economic crisis.
Professor of Geology Mark Erickson is quoted in an April 8, 2009, story about hermit crabs on the Discovery News Web site, affiliated with the Discovery Channel.
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A photograph of the Newell Center for Arts Technology is included in a special online issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly (Volume 31, Number 1), devoted to learning spaces.
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Excerpts from a presentation given at Georgia State University by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, which had been posted on the Austrian Economists blog, were posted on the National Review Online's "blog row" on April 1, 2009.
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An article by Ann Rehm '11, about hiking Mt. Van Hoevenberg, appeared in the March/April (2009) issue of Adirondack Explorer. Rehm, of Shelburne, Vermont, is an English and environmental studies major.
Associate Professor of Global Studies Martha Chew Sanchez was quoted in a March 15, 2009, story in the Washington Post, about compact disc of Mexican folk songs produced by the U.S. Border Patrol. Sanchez wrote a book about the cultural meanings of the songs.
Kirk Douglas '39 has written and stars in a one-man show, Before I Forget, playing at his namesake theater in California. The Los Angeles Times ran a story in its March 4, 2009, edition, and in it, Douglas mentions the endowed scholarship he gave to St. Lawrence.
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President-elect William Fox '75 is the subject of a profile in the winter 2009 issue of The Beta Theta Pi, the magazine of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
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Dana Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was quoted in the February 16, 2009, issue of US Weekly, in a story about left-handedness.
A February 20, 2009, story in the Boston Globe about husband-and-wife hockey coaches Shannon '03 and Matt Desrosiers '01 notes that they met while students (and hockey players) at St. Lawrence. The Desrosiers were also the subject of a story in the January/February 2009 issue of Arrive magazine, the on-board magazine of Amtrak.
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Read the Arrive magazine story.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz's "Open Letter to My Friends On the Left" was mentioned and linked in the National Review Online blog "Phi Beta Cons" on February 19, 2009.
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Loraine "Rainie" Walter Blanchet '42 participated in the 13th annual Ski for Women, held in Anchorage, Alaska, February 1. A feature story in the February 1, 2009, Anchorage Daily News included quotes from Blanchet, and the fact that she graduated from St. Lawrence, where she was a member of the women's ski team. About 1,150 women and girls participated in the cross country ski event, which benefits local non-profit organizations helping to stop the cycle of domestic abuse against women and children. Blanchet traveled from Denver to participate with her daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
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An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "The 'forgotten people' are already doing something for economic recovery," about the economic stimulus bill, was published in the Washington, D.C., Examiner on February 13, 2009.

The piece also ran in its entirety on the blog "For Freedom's Sake," on February 16; radio host Mark Levin read lengthy excerpts from the piece on his show, also on February 16. The essay was mentioned in the February 25 syndicated column by "20/20" host John Stossel, and an online paper in Spain, LibertadDigital, ran the piece -- translated into Spanish -- on February 26.
Read the piece in Spanish.
The February 13, 2009, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education has a front-page story about institutions that have hired recent graduates as sustainability coordinators. The story includes a photo of and information about St. Lawrence Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava, as well as quotes from President Daniel Sullivan.
Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher was quoted in a February 5, 2009, story in The Times of London's Higher Education Supplement, about sleep deprivation in college students, and efforts some institutions are making to combat the problem.
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An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "An Open Letter to My Friends On the Left," was published in the Winter 2009 edition of the Canadian Student Review, the quarterly student magazine of the Fraser Institute. Horwitz participates in a monthly online q-and-a column for the Institute, called "Ask the Professor."
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An essay advocating a "one-state solution" to conflict between Palestinians and Israeli Jews, by Associate Professor of Global Studies John Collins, was published in the Albany (NY) Times Union on January 30 and the Atlanta Journal- Constitution on February 1, 2009.
Read the essay in the Journal-Constitution.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a story on the Reason magazine Web site January 29, 2009, about President Obama's economic stimulus package.
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St. Lawrence's "Bringing Theory to Practice" program is the featured story in the January/February 2009 issue of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) newsletter. The story includes information about Professor of Mathematics Patti Frazer Lock's FYP; Lock and Associate Dean of the First Year Catherine Crosby-Currie are quoted in the piece, which cites work by Director of Institutional Research Christine Zimmerman and Anne-Marie FitzGerald, research associate.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was among the economist signatories in a Cato Institute-sponsored advertisement that ran in the Washington Post, New York Times and Roll Call on January 28, 2009, opposing President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan.
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Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was quoted in a January 26, 2009, story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, about left-handedness; the story included information about the number of U.S. presidents -- such as President Obama -- who are or were left-handed.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a January 26, 2009, story on the Web site of the History News Network, about how government "bailouts" work.
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A letter to the editor of the Watertown Daily Times by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was published January 19, 2009; Horwitz commented on an opinion piece by Adam Cohen, published by the paper earlier.
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Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a January 18, 2009, story on Newsmax, about President Obama's economic stimulus proposal.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Air America/ XM Radio's "Young Turks" show on January 12, 2009, discussing the economic crisis and President-elect Obama's proposals for rectifying it.
Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava was a guest on "Marc Sussman's Money Message," on Air America/XM Radio on January 10, 2009, discussing ways to save money by being more environmentally responsible.
The January/February 2009 issue of Adirondack Explorer magazine includes an interview that intern Anna Rehm '11 conducted with conservationist Clarence Petty, as well as a feature story about Bernard Conners '51 that is illustrated with a photo of him playing football at St. Lawrence in 1949.
The online publication Inside Higher Ed ran a story January 6, 2009, about colleges that are planning special events tying together the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. The story included information about St. Lawrence.
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"The Curious Capitalist," a blog on the Time.com Web site, mentioned Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, and his writings for the Austrian Economists blog, in a January 1, 2009, post.
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The Aspen Times in Colorado, home-town paper of Katrina DeVore '10, ran a feature story December 29 about DeVore's experiences in the University's Adirondack Semester.
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The Web site "UU World," published by the Unitarian Universalist Church, carried a news story on December 22 about the selection of William L. Fox as the next president of St. Lawrence.
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The Boston Globe's Web site column "The Green Blog" carried an entry on December 18 about Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava's suggestions for 10 resolutions for a "green" new year.
Read the Green Blog.
A story in The Record, in New Jersey, on December 10 noted that St. Lawrence receives royalties from the estate of J. Kimball Gannon '24, the composer of the University's alma mater and the beloved holiday song "I'll Be Home For Christmas," which is 65 years old this year. The December 11 edition of the St. Petersburg Times in Florida also carried a news item on the subject.
A letter to the editor of The Washington Post by Professor of Government Alan Draper, titled "No Need to Worry About Filibusters," was published on December 8.
Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was interviewed by North Country Public Radio December 5, on the constitutional crisis in Canada. On December 9, he was a guest on the live talk show "The Breakfast Club," on NewsTalk 93 radio, from Jamaica.
Listen to the North Country Public Radio interview.
Carol York '75 is a nominee for the Adventure Cycling Association's Board of Directors; the ballot printed in the November/December issue of Adventure Cyclist includes a biography that notes her St. Lawrence degree.
On December 3, the Wall Street Journal blog "Independent Street" cited a blog post on "Austrian Economics" by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on the effect so-called "helicopter parents" may have on a person's entrepreneurial spirit.
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Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman's research on left-handedness and memory was featured in November on the popular "Is It True?" section of the MSN.com Web site.
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Professor of Government Alan Draper was a guest on WWL New Orleans Radio on November 21, on "First News with Bob DelGiorno and Monica Pierre," discussing the state of unions.
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Advice from Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey was featured on the About.com college admissions blog November 14.
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An essay titled "Untangling the Corporatist Knot" by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was published November 14 on the Cato Unbound Web site, a venture of the Cato Institute, a a non-profit public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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An opinion piece on the outcome of the presidential election, by Government Professor Alan Draper, was published in the Syracuse Herald-American on November 9. A similar piece was published by the Providence, RI, Journal on November 22.
Read the piece in the Herald-American.
Read the piece in the Journal
A feature story about the history of Quakers in the Plattsburgh area of New York State, including information about a lecture on the topic by Associate Director of University Communications Neal Burdick '72, ran in the Plattsburgh Press Republican on November 7.
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John Stossel interviewed Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz for an episode of his ABC News program "20/20." The final cut of the episode did not include the interview, but the segment is posted on the ABC News Web site: Watch the interview.
A feature story about Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Amy Hauber's exhibition at SUNY Fredonia was in the Jamestown, NY, Post-Journal on November 6.
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Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava was quoted in the October 31 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, in a story about how colleges plan to pay for environmental commitments.
An essay on the economic crisis by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was published in the October 22 edition of The Christian Science Monitor.
Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava was quoted in the October 17 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, in a story about how colleges' sustainability efforts may be affected by the global financial crisis.
John Stossel, co-host of ABC News' "20/20," quoted Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz in his October 8 syndicated column on the financial bailout; in addition to the Web site for ABC News, the column ran on several political Web sites and blogs, including TownHall.com, Patriot Post and RealClearNews.com. The column ran in many newspapers around the country, including the Brownsville (TX) Herald, Paragould (AR) Daily Press, Mesabi Daily News (Virginia, MN), Hazelton (PA) Standard- Speaker, Kingman (AZ) Daily Miner, Sevierville (TN) Mountain Press, Aberdeen (WA) Daily World and Lancaster (PA) New Era.
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An essay by President Daniel F. Sullivan, about the current legal drinking age and why he signed the Amethyst Initiative, was published in the Albany, NY, Times Union on September 28.
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Comments from Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz are among the expert opinions on the national financial crisis gathered on the Web site of the Heartland Institute September 26.
The 2008 edition of CosmoGirl magazine's "100 Best Colleges," a list of the editors' choices for the best coeducational colleges and universities for women, includes St. Lawrence.
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For the second year in a row, St. Lawrence has been included in Kiwi magazine's "Green College Report," subtitled "50 Schools that will help your kids help the planet." The report is in the September 2008 issue.
An article in the September issue of the environmental magazine Plenty, on "green" colleges, cites St. Lawrence as an example of an institution with "the greenest conscience."
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A photograph from the Richard F. Brush Gallery exhibition "Combat Paper and Warrior Writers", along with text, appeared in the "What's Ahead" column of the September 12 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
St. Lawrence's tips for living "green" at college were featured on the show "Whole Living," on the Martha Stewart Sirius Radio network on August 26.
St. Lawrence is included as one of "the boldest of schools" mentioned in the September/October issue of Sierra magazine, its annual "Green College Guide," for including outdoor studies coures in its academic curriculum.
St. Lawrence students Nigel Fellman Greene '09 and Abby Rose '11 were quoted in an August 17 story in the San Francisco Examiner, titled "Back to School: Green Lessons from Students." Subtitled "Getting Straight E's: Ecology, Economy, Ethics," the article included two photos from the University and gave tips on living the eco-friendly life at college.
Sierra Club Radio included an interview with St. Lawrence University Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava on its August 16 edition, on a "green" back-to-school shopping list.
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St. Lawrence University's Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava gave tips on living the "green" life at college on National Public Radio's "Living On Earth" on August 8, and got reaction from new student Willie Mook '12, of Augusta, Maine.
Read the transcript, view photos and listen to the segment.
Tips from St. Lawrence on how to save money - and the planet - when back-to-school shopping were included in an August 7 story in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on the Garland Robinette talk show on WWL radio in New Orleans, LA, on August 4, discussing his study of how "big-box" stores responded to Hurricane Katrina. The study was also mentioned in the column "The American Scene" in the July/August issue of The American magazine.
Homework for Profs: Perfect the Art of Teaching : Even at teaching-oriented colleges, writes Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Kim Mooney, it’s essential for faculty members to rejuvenate their classroom skills. Prof. Mooney's essay was published in the August 1 edition of the on-line newsletter Inside Higher Education. Read the article.
St. Lawrence University was named a Catalyst for Change in an article in the July 27 New York Times Education Life supplement, which listed seven colleges whose sustainability efforts are admirable.
St. Lawrence, Dartmouth, Brown and M.I.T. are among the other colleges cited. UNPLUGGING: In a program begun last fall by the student government, dorm rooms at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., are graded for greenness – number of appliances plugged in, computer energy settings, recycling facilities, lighting and water use. On a scale of 0 to 95, most rooms score 38 to 56, with appliances and electronics the most common villains. High scorers, -- above 70 – get green stars on their doors; low scorers get suggestions on how to do better.
A recent $1 million gift to St. Lawrence from Kirk Douglas '39 is receiving national attention, including stories in the New York Daily News, the Trentonian, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Schenectady Gazette, Poughkeepsie Journal, Amsterdam Recorder, Miami Herald, Augusta (GA) Chronicle, Syracuse Post-Standard and Rome (NY) Daily Sentinel.
Jon Cardinal '08 had an essay on patriotism published in the Saturday, July 26, Watertown Daily Times.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is among those featured in a special three-part series on WWNY-TV Channel 7 News July 15-17, called "Why Do Things Cost So Much?" Episodes focused on the rising price of food, medical care and gasoline, and all included interviews with Horwitz.
St. Lawrence University Director of Outdoor Programs Phil Royce's journey to the Rupert River in Canada, accompanied by North Country Public Radio's Adirondack Reporter Brian Mann, was featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" on July 14. The story originally aired on North Country Public Radio.
Read and listen to the story, from National Public Radio's Web site.
Jonathan Cardinal '08 is featured in a story in the July 18 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, about colleges that have programs to subsidize students who have unpaid internships.
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An essay by Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey, titled "Choosing a College: Where Do I Start?," is featured in the "Expert Advice" section of the Web site for New York's Private Colleges and Universities.
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A study co-authored by Associate Professor of Economics Alison Del Rossi, titled "Double Your Major, Double Your Return?," and published in Economics of Education Review (August 2008), was cited in a column in the Boston Globe on June 15, called "Surprising Insights from the Social Sciences."
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An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "Giving the Fed New Powers Ignores History," was published on the Cato Institute's Web site, Cato.org, on June 13. A story about it appeared in the Tyler (TX) Morning Telegraph on June 20.
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A podcast by Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey, on the topic "Choosing a Rural College," is included in a listing called "The Counselor's Podcast" on the Naviance.com Web site.
An essay by President Daniel F. Sullivan, titled "Public Relations Masks the Real College-Access Crisis," was published in the May 29 edition of Diverse Issues In Higher Education. The piece also ran, on June 19, in the Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, NY.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is quoted in a May 20 story in The Christian Science Monitor, about the changing population in post-Katrina Gulf Coast communities.
Vice President for University Advancement Michael Archibald was quoted in a May 15 story in USA Today about trends in senior-class gifts; the Class of 2008 gift, of a covered bicycle garage, is also mentioned in a blog on the newspaper's Web site, about "green" gifts from classes.
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St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester is featured on the Web site Higher Education Goes Green
A program of the Diana B. Torrey '82 Health and Counseling Center was the lead story in "College Health In Action," the official newsletter of the American College Health Association (Vol. 47, No. 4). The story, "The College Breakthrough Series - Depression (CBS-D) Project: Transforming Depression Care on College Campuses - Part II," discusses the study in which the University's center participates, on screening for depression.
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Melissa Schulenberg's print, "Numb," was featured accompanying an article in the Denver Post April 17, about an exhibition titled "Varied Voices" at the Denver Art Museum.
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St. Lawrence is included in Kiwi Magazine's list of "50 schools that will help your kids help the planet."
An editorial titled "A Different Way to Fight Student Disengagement," by Bringing Theory to Practice Project Director Donald W. Harward, ran on the Inside Higher Education Web site April 15, and cited St. Lawrence's Center for Civic Engagement and Leadership as an example.
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St. Lawrence University, and Jonathan Edwards '09, were included in a March 23 story in the Miami Herald, about top Florida students increasingly looking beyond the Ivy League to small liberal arts colleges for better opportunities.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a front-page story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune on March 26, about his recently published study comparing the effectiveness of federal agencies versus the private sector in Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. Canada's National Post newspaper ran a story about the study on March 28. Horwitz was interviewed by Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C., on March 27 about the study, and an interview with Horwitz appeared March 31 on the "Homeland Security Today" Web site. Other outlets reporting on the study are ConsumerAffairs.com and MSN Money (April 2); the Rutherford Show, a live news radio show in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (April 1); the national Mark Levin radio show (March 30) and Hispanic Business (March 28). News of the study has also been reported on a number of Internet blogs and Internet-only news sites, including Democratic Underground, FreeRepublic.com, Homeland Security Today, the Federal Times, National Review Online's "The Corner," and Reason magazine's "Hit and Run."
Read the Times-Picayune story.
Assistant Professor of Sociology Robert Torres was quoted in a March 27 story in the New York Times, about how veganism is being marketed. Torres is the co-author the book Vegan Freak.
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The St. Lawrence women's ice hockey team was featured on the National Public Radio show "Only A Game" on March 15, as they made their way into post-season play.
University Chaplain Kathleen Buckley and the "Build Your Own Beliefs" program that she initiated at St. Lawrence were included in a March 16 feature story in the Hartford (CT) Courant, about Americans seeking spirituality outside of traditional organized religions.
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An item in the March 11 news blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education, about the annual lobby day held in Albany by the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities coinciding with a convergence of news media anticipating the resignation of the New York governor, included a quote from Epiphany McGee '11, a participant in the lobby day events.
St. Lawrence was included in a story in the March 10 issue of Greenwire, an energy and environmental policy publication, about how colleges and universities are incorporating sustainability education into their curricula and campus life.
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, and the fact that the increasingly popular musicians got their start at St. Lawrence, showed up in Fortune magazine managing editor Andy Serwer's blog, "Captain's Blog," on March 3.
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A February 23 story in Newsday about the special election for the 48th district New York State Senate seat included comments from Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo. A February 27 story quoted Exoo on the impact of the race's outcome.
A study conducted by Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher, showing that students who pull all-nighters also have lower grade-point averages, was cited in the February 11 column by Yvonne Fournier, which runs on the Scripps Howard News Service wire. Fournier is an educator who gives advice on youngsters and hometown; the column was a response to a reader who sought advice about her teenage son who's a "night owl."
Appleton Arena staff Joe Prashaw, Glen Dibble, Gabe Szafranski, Shawn Wright and Roger Woodard are pictured and highlighted in the "Industry Spotlight" column in the January/February 2008 issue of Rink Magazine; the column is a q-and-a with Prashaw, facilities manager for athletics.
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Bruce Carlisle '78 was one of two media-industry experts called upon by Forbes in a February 5 article to comment on the efforts of Microsoft to purchase Yahoo.com.
Carleton University's student newspaper, The Charlatan, carried a February 1 story about Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher's study, published in the journal Behavioral Sleep Medicine that showed that students who have pulled all-nighters have lower grade-point averages.
Assistant Professor of Sociology Robert Torres was a guest on the KDVS (Davis, California) radio show "Speaking In Tongues" on February 1; the entire hour-long show was devoted to a discussion of Torres' book Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights.
Dana Professor of Biology David Hornung appeared in an episode of "The Nature of Things," the science program on CBC-TV in Canada. The program is carrying a series about the five senses; Hornung was featured in the episode, which aired January 24, on the senses of taste and smell.
A feature story about the spring semester program in France appeared in the Quebec City paper Le Soleil January 18, complete with a photo of the group. The semester begins with an immersion program in Quebec, before continuing in Rouen.
The Newsblaze Web site recently carried a story about Sean Kane '05, serving in Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division's 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment. Kane's family, in Lake Placid, NY, assisted the unit in raising money and donations of school supplies for the children of Kirkuk.
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An essay by President Daniel F. Sullivan, titled "Why IT Matters To Liberal Education," is the "Leadership" column in the January/February 2008 issue of Educause Review, a national magazine for the higher education information technology community.
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Trustee Kenneth Okoth '01, a native of Kenya, was interviewed on the National Public Radio program "Bryant Park" on January 3, about the political unrest in Kenya; the interview included reference to his education at St. Lawrence.
Read or listen to the story.
He has also been interviewed by WUSA, the CBS affiliate television station in the Washington, D.C. area, where Okoth lives, and on the National Public Radio program "Talk of the Nation," on January 8.
Tyler Hanson '09 and Doug Weaver '11, both of Jamestown, NY, made the front page of the sports section of their hometown newspaper, The Post-Journal, on Jan. 1, with a story about their selection as game officials for a scrimmage of the Buffalo Sabres.
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An article titled "Flight of the Hunter: A Report on the State of Hunting in the Adirondack Park," in the December 2007 issue of Adirondack Life magazine refers several times to research conducted by Cynthia Green '01 for her senior honors thesis in economics. The research, by Green, former Assistant Professor of Economics Stephan Kroll and Therese Grijalva, was published in the journal Human Dimensions of Wildlife.
New York Sun contributing editor Seth Gitell wrote a column published December 26, 2007, about the history of the song "I'll Be Home For Christmas," including a recent reference by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the song's connection to St. Lawrence through its composer Kim Gannon '24.
An essay by Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey, advising high school seniors who apply to their first-choice colleges under "early decision" programs to have a back-up plan, was published in the Albany, NY, Times Union December 23.
The national Associated Press newswire carried a story, with photos, about Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher's study showing that pulling all-nighters does not help students achieve higher grades, December 14, was picked up by hundreds of news organizations' online sites, including CNN/Time, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the "Today" show, the New York Times, CBS News Radio, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, Inside Higher Education, the Wall Street Journal, the Hartford Courant and regional TV and radio newscasts across the nation. The story was among the 10 most-e-mailed stories from the Yahoo! News Web site on Friday, December 14. It has also been cited and appeared on hundreds of blogs.
St. Lawrence is well represented in the January 2008 issue of the national magazine Rowing News. The cover photograph, taken at the Head of the Charles, shows the St. Lawrence varsity men's 8+; the issue includes an essay about rowing at the University by Chelsea Isdell '07; and a photograph of Kathleen Oscadal '06 is included as an illustration with an article about technique.
The December issue of Spirit, the in-flight magazine of Southwest Airlines, included a story about the bequest of Kim Gannon '24, designating that one-third of royalties earned by his compositions go to St. Lawrence; he was co-composer of the holiday classic "I'll Be Home For Christmas." Gannon also wrote the University's alma mater.
Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher was interviewed on WJBC radio in Bloomington, IL, on December 5, about her study showing that pulling all-nighters doesn't help improve grades.

Thacher's study was also the subject of a story on the popular Web site WebMD on December 7, and cited in a Wilmington (DE) News Journal story on December 10, about what first-year students go through at the end of their first semester at college. The WebMD story was cited in the "Health Beat" column of the Lowell (MA) Sun on December 10.
Gilbert Maurer '50 was among individuals profiled in a December 1 story in the Financial Times of London, about "strategic philanthropy." The story included information about the Maurer Professorship of Speech and Rhetoric at St. Lawrence.
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Associate Professor of History Anne Csete was quoted in a November 23 story in The Wall Street Journal, about efforts to save the culture of the Li people in China. Csete studies U.S. efforts to preserve the island culture and heritage.
Vice President for Administrative Operations Thomas Coakley and his wife, Nellie, are among the interview subjects in the book Boom! by former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, and have participated in filming a documentary scheduled to air on the History Channel in conjunction with the book. Brokaw mentioned the Coakleys, both veterans of the Vietnam War who met at Walter Reed Army Hospital, in recent interviews on MSNBC with Tim Russert and CNN with Larry King.
The Chronicle of Higher Education Web site and the Web site Inside Higher Education both included St. Lawrence in stories posted on November 8, about colleges that plan to submit proposals to the William J. Clinton Foundation, for funding of energy-efficient projects on campuses. The same story ran in the print edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education dated November 16.
The New York Times ran a feature story about St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester on November 7.
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A columnist for The Daily Pennsylvanian, the independent student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania, referenced the New York Times story on the Adirondack Semster in a November 13 story, and proposed that Pennsylvania consider implementing a similar program near its campus.
A feature story about Associate Professor of Anthropology John Barthelme's course on Neandertals appeared in USA Today on November 6.
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A positive review of Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue's forthcoming book, The Sky Is Not A Ceiling appeared in the November 5 edition of America, the national Catholic weekly magazine.
Read the review.
"The Diane Rehm Show," on WAMU American University Radio (public radio) included in its October 29 broacast a panel discussion on "Going Green In the Private Sector." Among the show's guests was Jon Moore, CEO of Juice Energy, which supplies "green energy" to St. Lawrence; Moore discussed the firm's relationship with the University on the program, and cited St. Lawrence as an example of a customer that wants to be enviromentally responsible.
An October 28 Associated Press story about college courses that offer intensive, hands-on experiences included St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester program.
Sara Bernier '08 and Sal Cania '07 are both among the students offering "insider advice on the first year of college, from those who've been there" in the summer 2007 issue of Careers and Colleges magazine.
The November/December issue of Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, focuses on the "green" movement at colleges, and includes St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester program in an article about hands-on environmental study.
An article about Associate Professor of Anthropology John Barthelme's course on Neandertals, and comparing what students learn to the portrayals in insurance-company commercials and a network sit-com, appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education's issue dated October 19, 2007. Another story about the course was published in the Chicago Tribune on October 21.
An essay by Graduate Assistant in Athletic Media Relations Megan Bernier '07, submitted to the New York Times' College Essay Contest, is included on the Times' online site.
Assistant Professor of Sociology Robert Torres and Director of the Language Center Jenna Torres are quoted and pictured (in the University's Dana Dining Center) in an online story for Newsweek about vegans that was posted September 26.
An interview with Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, about how high school students can better prepare for college-level work, aired on the September 22 edition of "College Connection," a program produced by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education that runs on 12 public radio stations throughout Oklahoma.
Listen to the program.
A study by Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher, showing that pulling all-nighters doesn't help improve grades, was cited in a September 17 story in USA Today, about sleep deprivation in college students.
The Buildings and Grounds news blog on the Web site of The Chronicle of Higher Education September 13 included an item about St. Lawrence's student-published "Green Guide" and voluntary environmental audits conducted on residence hall rooms. The item also appeared in the print edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, in the October 26 issue.
A story in the New York Times September 12, about colleges that notify parents when students abuse alcohol, included a mention of St. Lawrence as an institution that notifies parents when students are transported to medical facilities.
The 2007-2008 Education special issue of Indian Country Today magazine includes photos of and a story about Karla General '07, selected to be one of 12 2006 Native American Congressional Interns.
A commentary titled "Are Our Graduates College-Writing Ready? What High Schools Could Do To Help," by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, was published in the September 5 issue of Education Week magazine. The piece was cited on the "Great College Advice" Web site on September 8; the site is a project of Montgomery Educational Consulting.
An article titled "Writing Programs That Work," by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz and Director of the Munn Center for Rhetoric and Communication Hillory Oakes was published on the Web site of The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy on August 29.
Read the article.
Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was quoted in a story about left-handedness that ran in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) and the San Bernadino Sun on August 13 -- International Left-Handers Day.
An editorial in the July 10 issue of the Malone, New York, Telegram congratulated the University and two professors for grant awards they received for conducting research on local issues. Associate Professor of Geology Jeffrey Chiarenzelli and Assistant Professor of Biology Aswini Pai were each awarded grants from SUNY Potsdam's Center for Regional Research and Community Education's T. Urling and Mabel Walker Fellowship Program.
The July issue of University Business magazine included an article about the University's annual Faculty College; Associate Professor of Government Karl Schonberg was quoted in the story.
The Buffalo News ran a feature on July 25 about Michele Fazekas '93, a native of the region who has a successful career as a writer for television, including episodes of the popular show "Law & Order: SVU" and the upcoming CW show "Reaper." The story noted her St. Lawrence education.
Associate Professor of Anthropology Celia Nyamweru was quoted in a July 24 story in National Geographic News, on an earthquake "swarm" in Africa.
Assistant Professor of Education Peter Ladd's book, Mediation, Conciliation and Emotions, was positively reviews in Volume 22 of Negotiation Journal, published by the Harvard School of Law. A feature story about Ladd, his work and the review ran in the July 11, 2007, edition of The Thousand Islands Sun; the paper is based in Clayton, New York, where Ladd lives.
President Daniel Sullivan was a guest on the National Public Radio show "The Best of Our Knowledge," produced by WAMC radio in Albany, New York, on July 9, on a program about higher education access and accountability. President Sullivan provided a four-minute commentary for the program, which is available for listening online.
St. Lawrence's Faculty College was cited as an example of how American universities are re-emphasizing teaching as a priority in a June 29 article in The Times of London's Higher Education Supplement; Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Kim Mooney was quoted in the article.
Assistant Professor of Sociology Robert Torres was quoted in a June 21 story in the New York Times on "freegans," anti-consumerists who scavenge items discarded by others.
A "q-and-a" on college loans with Director of Financial Aid Patricia Farmer was published on the Higher Education Washington, Inc. Web site June 19.
Read the interview.
The June issue of University Business includes an article by President Daniel Sullivan on sustaining the town-gown relationship.
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A June 7 editorial in the Jacksonville, FL, Times-Union by SchoolMatch Institute Distinguished Research Professor William Bainbridge included a quote from President Daniel F. Sullivan's Commencement remarks, as evidence of the higher education community's criticism of U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings. The editorial called for President Bush to replace Spellings in the position.
The May 31 online edition of The Christian Science Monitor included a Letter to the Editor by St. Lawrence Chaplain Kathleen Buckley, responding to an earlier editorial in the Monitor. In the letter, Rev. Buckley discusses the University's Build Your Own Beliefs program.

Read the letter.
Vice President and Dean of Student Life Joseph Tolliver was quoted in a June 1 story in The Chronicle of Higher Education, about efforts to assist minority students academically, allowing them to reach their intellectual potential. Tolliver is on the Steering Board of the Consortium on High Achievement and Success, a group of colleges with programs that assist students of high ability who may be under-prepared for higher education.
The Associated Press newswire carried a May 23 story about a new Vermont law that will provide $12 million for college scholarships and workforce training. The sigining ceremony included Caroline Bright '11, of Franklin Vermont, who had worked on the legislation as a member of the Next Generation Commission. In the story, she discussed her college selection process and why she ultimately chose to enroll at St. Lawrence. Papers that ran the story included the Boston Globe and several in Vermont, including the Rutland Herald and Burlington Free Press.
On May 21, the New York State Associated Press newswire carried a story about President Daniel Sullivan's 2007 Commencement speech, in which he was highly critical of U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and her policies. Among publications that ran the story was New York Newsday. The online publication Inside Higher Education also ran a news item on the speech, which generated a number of readers to respond with comment. Regional newspaper the Watertown Daily Times ran a lengthy excerpt from the talk on its May 24 editorial page, as its weekly "North Country Perspective," and the Blogger News Network carried a story about the speech as well.
The Syracuse Post-Standard carried a story May 20 about plans by Assistant Registrar Kevin MacKenzie and a friend to scale all 46 "high peaks" of the Adirondacks in nine days in July, as a fund-raiser for the neo-natal unit of a Syracuse hospital.
Director of Financial Aid Patricia Farmer was quoted in a May 15 story on the Newhouse News Service news wire, with advice for students and parents navigating the student-loan process. Among outlets running the piece were the Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger and New Orleans Times-Picayune.
University Chaplain Kathleen Buckley was quoted in a story about growing interest in spirituality on college campuses in the Syracuse, N.Y. Post-Standard on May 12; the story also discussed St. Lawrence's "BYOB" -- Build Your Own Beliefs -- program.
Director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program William Short was quoted in a May 3 story in the Columbia Daily Spectator, an independent newspaper affiliated with Columbia University, about HEOP. Short is president of the New York State HEOP Professional Organization.
An essay by President Daniel F. Sullivan, on merit aid and access to higher education, was published in the online newsletter Inside Higher Education on April 19.
Read the piece.
Director of Health and Counseling Services Pat Ellis was quoted in an April 19 story in the Philadelphia Inquirer, about what colleges may and may not do to screen students for signs of mental illnesses, and what restrictions there are regarding notification of parents and others. An item about the program was also included in the May 15 edition of "UB Daily," a publication of University Business magazine.
Ellis was also quoted in the April 6 edition of Psychiatric News, in an article titled "Eight Colleges Collaborate to Improve Depression Care." The article discussed a new screening program beginning to be used at college health centers, including St. Lawrence's.
St. Lawrence University's endorsement of a Code of Conduct regarding student loans was noted in a number of stories in the national news media on April 3 and 4; among those including the University as signatories of the agreement were the national Associated Press newswire, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Piskor Professor of English Peter J. Bailey was quoted in a March 18 story in the Reading, PA, Eagle about the film version of the John Updike book Rabbit, Run, which was filmed in Reading. Bailey's most recent book is an analysis of Updike's character Rabbit Angstrom.
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The March/April issue of Adirondack Explorer includes an article by Henry Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue, titled "Keep Us In The Dark," about light pollution and the Adirondack Park Association. Read the article.
Images and text from the Nathan Farb photography exhibition "Summer of Love," in the University's Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, were the "End Paper" feature in The Chronicle of Higher Education's March 16 issue.
An article about and photos of the Johnson Hall of Science is included in the February 2007 issue of Absolutely Business magazine; the focus of the issue is the construction business in northern New York State.
A review of co:lor, an exhibition of work by Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Kasarian Dane at rowlandcontemporary in Chicago, appeared in the February issue of ArtForum magazine. The review, by James Yood, states "The artist often sets up situations in which a color seems to echo within a a painting, or even in a nearby work...his fidelity to the endless subtleties of tone, shape and pattern is both earnest and accomplished, exuding the sense of a knotty problem brought to hard-won resolution...the allure of Dane's project is that each subsequent instance will be as difficult to achieve and interesting to witness as the first."
An article by Henry Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue, titled "God In Machines," was published in the March 5 issue of America, the national Catholic weekly magazine.
The Chronicle of Higher Education's February 23 "Campus Architecture" supplement includes information about and a photograph of the Diana B. Torrey '82 Health and Counseling Center in a section on new buildings at campuses around the country.
The North Creek News Enterprise ran a feature story in its February 3 edition on astronomy research conducted by Jamie Lomax '07, of North Creek, NY, in Puerto Rico. A photo and information about Lomax's research, with Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue and Physics Lab Coordinator Jeffrey Miller, was also included in the December 2006 issue of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center/Arecibo Observatory (NAIC/AO) newsletter.
Read more about Jamie Lomax '07.
Louise Gava '07, of Clifton Park, NY, is quoted in a story in the February 2 edition of The Wall Street Journal, about colleges that offer domestic programs that are similar to study abroad. Gava compared her experiences in the Adirondack Semester and study in St. Lawrence's Kenya program.
An opinion piece by Associate Professor of Global Studies John Collins, proposing a new policy on the Middle East, appeared in the Albany, NY, Times-Union on February 1.
Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue was featured in a lengthy interview about science, especially astronomy, and faith on the January 7 edition of Provoke Radio. Provoke's mission is to engage listeners in "a reflection of important contemporary issues from the perspective of your own faith."
Listen to the show.
Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo is quoted in a January 5 story in The Christian Science Monitor, on the likelihood of a woman or member of a minority group being elected president of the U.S. in 2008.
Read the story.
Associate Professor of Global Studies John Collins was interviewed January 2 on "Democracy Now!," as part of a round-table discussion on the execution of Saddam Hussein. Collins discussed how mainstream news media in the U.S. covered the event.
Read the transcript.
An essay by John Gursky '07, of Baldwinsville, NY, giving high school students advice on preparing for and getting through admissions interviews, appeared in the "Neighbors Northeast" supplement of the Syracuse Post-Standard on December 28.
The Burlington Free Press, in Vermont, published an essay by Lindsey Wetmiller '07 on December 19, with advice for college students on how to survive at home during the break.
The New York Times published a letter to the editor by President Daniel F. Sullivan on December 15, responding to articles published previously on the costs of private higher education.
Read excerpts of the letter.
St. Lawrence University gets a mention in Nelson DeMille's latest thriller, Wild Fire, part of which is set in "upstate New York." (Check page 335 of the hardcover version.)
The winter 2006/7 issue of the journal Chemical Heritage includes an article on Marie Curie's doctoral thesis; the article cites Radiochemistry and the Discovery of Isotopes by the late Emeritus Professor of Physics Alfred Romer as recommended for further reading on the topic.
St. Lawrence's "Net Generation" faculty development program is cited in an article about information technology training for faculty in the November 2006 issue of Campus Technology.
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A review of recent books about Canadian author Alice Munro in the December 21 issue of The New York Review of Books includes a positive review of Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker's Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, published in 2005.
Read the story.
The December 3 "My Life, My Words" column in the Rochester, NY, Democrat & Chronicle was by Harriet Newman '08, of Ithaca and formerly of the Rochester-area suburb of Fairport. Newman wrote about how her experiences hiking in the Adirondacks made her a hiking enthusiast.
A November 30 story in the New York Times, about students at sports academies that emphasize training in winter sports, noted that Vermont ski-racer Sasha Dingle has been accepted at St. Lawrence.
An essay by Kaitlynn Reyell '09, of Saranac Lake, NY, about her experience in a community-based learning course, was published in her hometown newspaper, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, on November 18.
An essay by Chris Kerr '07, of Manlius, NY, giving high school students tips on writing the personal statement accompanying college applications, appeared in the "Neighbors East" supplement of the Syracuse Post-Standard on November 16.
A November 15 story in the Saratoga Springs (NY) Saratogian, about an organization that helps children from El Salvador come to the United States to become educated, made note of the fact that one such student, Terrance Julio, was adopted by Kevin and Diana O'Brien, of Saratoga, and is now a first-year student at St. Lawrence.
The Times Community Newspapers in Virginia, which includes the Fairfax County Times, the Centreville Times and the Reston Times, ran a story November 8 about retired Air Force Col. Richard Unser '71, who lives in Fairfax and is now pursuing a career as a teacher, earning certification in secondary education from George Washington University.
Read the story.
Jeffrey Miller, physics lab coordinator and information technology computer specialist, has been giving presentations on astronomy at the Adirondack Public Observatory; his work was commended in a November editorial in the Tupper Lake Free Press.
Joseph Lekuton '91, M'94, who was recently elected to Parliament in his native Kenya, was the subject of a November 2 story on "Voice of America." The story includes information about his education at St. Lawrence.
The October 2006 issue of Security Management magazine includes an article about the electronic locking system in the senior townhouses, recommended by Director of Security and Safety Patrick Gagnon.
The September 2006 issue of Food Management magazine includes an article about how slip-resistant footwear can reduce the incidence of injuries to food-service employees. St. Lawrence is cited in the article as an example; a program providing slip-resistant footwear to employees has significantly reduced compensation claims.
Read the article.
On October 14 and 15, C-Span's "Book TV" featured North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann, speaking about his book, Welcome to the Homeland. The event was taped at St. Lawrence, in Sykes Common Room.
St. Lawrence University's Center for Teaching and Learning is included in a new Educause E-Book, Learning Spaces.
Read more about Learning Spaces
A feature story in the September 29 edition of The Washington Post profiled Joseph Lekuton '91, M'94, a former teacher in the Washington area who is now a member of the Kenyan Parliament. The story included information about his education at St. Lawrence.
Read more about Lekuton.
A story in the September 26 Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY), about how colleges are considering dropping land phone lines because so many students have cell phones, includes quotes from St. Lawrence Manager of Telecommunications Gregory Stahl, who is the state's coordinator for the Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education.
Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo was a guest on the New Hampshire Public Radio program "The Front Porch" on September 18, discussing the media and democracy.
An article on a five-year study of moose mortality written by Katherine ("Kat") Bagley '07 was published in the September/October issue of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department magazine, Wildlife Journal. Bagley, a resident of Manchester, NH, is a public affairs intern with the department, as well as an English (writing) and biology major at St. Lawrence.
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Associate Professor of Global Studies John M. Collins is quoted in a September 11 story in the Tampa Tribune on how the events of September 11, 2001, changed the language.
Associate Professor of Global Studies John M. Collins was a guest on Chicago Public Radio's "Worldview" program on September 6, discussing the Bush administration's use of the word "Islamofascism."
The September 4 (Volume 84, Number 36) issue of Chemical and Engineering News included a report on the July 28-30 conference on fluoride hosted by St. Lawrence University and organized by Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett.
An article titled "Leaving the Nest," about local students and parents preparing for the journey to college, ran in several Massachusetts papers on August 31, and it included quotes from Ali Bond '10, of Weston, MA. The story was in the Sudbury Town Crier, the Daily News Tribune, Weston Town Crier and Wayland Town Crier.
Read the story.
An editorial in the Rochester, NY Democrat & Chronicle on August 31, advising parents and students not to become overly concerned about scores on standardized tests such as the SAT, noted that at St. Lawrence, as with other New York State colleges and universities, students have the option of not submitting scores when applying.
A sports feature in the August 20 edition of the Gloversville, NY Leader Herald focused on an unusual team competing in the Fifth Annual Sand Classic King and Queen Volleyball Tournament: 69-year-old Carl Jurica and 19-year-old Jo Palmer '09. The story noted that Palmer is a student at St. Lawrence.
An interview with Director of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery Cathy Tedford was included in a special, titled "Travel Advisory: Trapped Behind the Lines," that aired on Discovery's Travel Channel on August 21. The program was about Americans who have been caught up in political upheaval or similar crises while traveling abroad. Tedford was with a group of St. Lawrence students on a University-sponsored study trip to Nepal several years ago when murders took place at the royal palace there.
The Dover-Sherborn Press (VT) featured a story on August 17 about the experiences of Sherborn native G. Bowen Borgeson '07 during his Summerterm in Kenya, studying conservation techniques in national parks.
A story about what students really need to bring to college with them (time-management skills, for example) and quoting Associate Dean of the First Year Steven Horwitz, ran in the Canyon Courier (Evergreen, CO) and Columbine Courier (Littleton, CO) on August 9 and the High Timber Times (Conifer, CO) on August 10.
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The August 9 issue of Education Week included a story on the value of summer employment for students, according to admissions professionals; Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey was among those quoted in the article.
On August 3, the Rochester (NY) Democrat & Chronicle ran a story on difficulties that families have saying goodbye when it's time for a child to head off to college. Among those quoted were Jamie Perconti '10 and his mom, Kathy.
Assistant Professor of History Melissane Parm is featured in the August 2006 issue of Self magazine, discussing how she was motivated to take steps to improve her health. The photo of Parm running was taken in the Ronald B. Stafford Fitness Center at Newell Field House on campus.
The July 2006 fiction issue of The Atlantic features a short story ("Night Bus") by Ada Udechukwu, wife of Dana Professor of Fine Arts Obiora Udechukwu. Ada Udechukwu is a writer, artist and poet, and her work has been exhibited in the University's Richard F. Brush Art Gallery. The Atlantic Web site has an interview with Ada Udechuwu, which mentions that her husband is a professor at St. Lawrence.
Read the interview.
Deborah Geer '77 was profiled in the July 26 issue of the Auburn, N.Y., Citizen. Geer recently joined the staff of Auburn Memorial Hospital; she is a surgeon and women's health specialist.
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Caleb Cross '01, who overcame life-threatening burns to over 90 percent of his body, sustained in an accident, and went on to compete in the Coeur d'Alene Ironman Triathlon, was profiled in a July 12 story in the Minnapolis Star-Tribune. The story was carried in several other papers as well, on the Scripps-Howard newswire. Cross and his wife, Jenny '02, are residents of Northfield, MN; both competed in Alpine skiing while undergraduates at St. Lawrence.
The July 2006 issue of Nonprofit Communications Report includes two stories about St. Lawrence. "Tell History With Timeline" is about St. Lawrence's Sesquicentennial Timeline, and quotes Director of Web Services Mark Mende. "Online List Spotlights Local, National Media Attention" focuses on the "In the News" page of St. Lawrence's Web site.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Michael Schuckers was quoted in a May 29 story in MarketWatch, on the increasing use of biometrics in everyday life.
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Viggo Mortensen '80's speech at Commencement May 21, advocating an activist life, was reported in regional news media, as well as by the Associated Press on its state, national and international wires. In addition to stories in the Watertown Daily Times, Ogdensburg Journal, Courier-Observer, News 10 Now TV, WWNY-TV and WPDM radio, the story appeared in or on the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Time magazine, People magazine, USAToday.com, the York Dispatch (PA), the Toronto Star, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Philadelphia Daily News, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), San Bernadino Sun, Los Angeles Daily News, WSTM-TV (Syracuse), WCAX-TV (Vermont), the Post-Standard (Syracuse), the Houston Chronicle, Staten Island Advance, Newsday (New York), the Canton (OH) Repository, the Asbury Park (NJ) Press, Lawrence (KS) Journal-World, Worcester (MA) Telegram, San Jose Mercury News, Montana Standard (Butte), Buffalo News, Bismarck Tribune, Lowell (MA) Sun, Charleston (WV) Gazette Hilton Head Island Packet, Forbes.com, KRON (San Francisco), KVVU (Las Vegas), Ventura County (CA) Star, Victoria (BC) Advocate, the Reading (PA) Eagle, Seattle Post-Intellingencer, Rochester (NY) Democrat & Cronicle, Canandaigua (NY) Messenger, Little Falls (NY) Evening Times, Lockport (NY) Union Sun-Journal, Lancaster (PA) New Era, Norwich (CT) Bulletin, Lexington (NC) Dispatch, Claremont (NH) Eagle Times, Strasburg (VA) Northern Virginia Daily, High Point (NC) Enterprise, Charlottesville (VA) Daily Progress, Kent County Daily Times (West Warwick, RI), Nashua (NH) Telegraph, Concord (NH) Monitor, Oswego (NY) Palladium-Times, Hudson (NY) Register-Star, Catskill (NY) Daily Mail, Schenectady (NY) Daily Gazette, Gloversville (NY) Leader-Herald, Kansas City Star, Lynn (MA) Daily Item, Norwalk (CT) Hour, Taunton (MA) Daily Gazette, Greenwich (CT) Time, Middletown (CT) Press, Lumberton (NC) Robesonian, Athol (MA) Daily News, Northampton (MA) Daily Hampshire Gazette, New Britain (CT) Herald, Bennington (VT) Banner, Danbury (CT) News-Times, Woodbridge (VA) Potomac News, Manassas (VA) Journal Messenger, Troy (NY) Record, Herkimer (NY) Evening Telegram and White Plains (NY) Journal News.
Read the text of Mortensen's speech.
The Spring 2006 issue of Liberal Education, the journal of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, includes an article by Vice President of the University and Dean of Academic Affairs Grant Cornwell and Professor of Global Studies Eve Stoddard, titled "Freedom, Diversity, and Global Citizenship," and an essay by President Daniel Sullivan, titled "Milton's Areopagitica and Freedom of Speech on Campus."
AACU's Liberal Education
A May 20 story in the New York Times, about prospective students making deposits at more than one institution, included an example of a student who deposited at both St. Lawrence University and Allegheny College.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Marc Beard was quoted in two stories about The DaVinci Code in the May 16 edition of the Chicago Sun-Times; in one of the stories, he separates fact and fiction in the novel.
Read the stories.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Marc Beard was quoted in a May 12 story in the Biloxi (MS) Sun-Herald, on why the novel The DaVinci Code has caused so much controversy.
Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman is quoted in a May 5 story about left-handedness in the Allentown, PA, Morning Call newspaper. The story also ran in the South Florida Sun-Sentinal.
Read the story.
The April 25 edition of the Washington Post included a list of 23 schools, out of the 101 top liberal arts institutions ranked by U.S. News & World Report, that do not require applicants to submit standardized test scores; St. Lawrence is included in the list.
An opinion piece by Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett appeared in the Rutland Herald (VT) on April 19, opposing fluoridation of the water supply in that community.
A column by educational consultant Dennis Barden '79 in the April 18 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education reflected on the legacy of the late Frank P. Piskor at St. Lawrence.
The Providence Journal (RI) included a story on April 15 on a panel discussion held on "Voices in Wartime"; one of the participants was Assistant Professor of English Ngoc Quang Huynh, a former Providence resident.
An April 11 article on the front page of the business section of the Richmond, VA, Times-Dispatch profiled Jennifer Hunter '94; in the article, she discusses her decision to attend St. Lawrence.
An April 7 article in the Poughkeepsie Journal on an exhibition of Rembrandt's art at Vassar College noted that the scholarly catalogue that accompanies the exhibition, "The Felix M. Warburg Print Collection: A Legacy of Discernment," was co-written by Lynn and Terry Birdsong Associate Professor of Fine Arts Dorothy Limouze.
St. Lawrence was included in an April 5 story in USA Today, about the increasing number of liberal arts institutions that have made the submission of standardized test scores optional for applicants.
Read the story.
Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman is quoted in an article in the April 2006 issue of Psychology Today, about photographic memory.
"Nocturnal," a poem by Piskor Professor of English Emeritus Albert Glover, was read by Marion Roach '77 on her show "The Naturalist's Datebook" on Martha Stewart Living Sirius Radio on March 14.
St. Lawrence's "green bikes" program is mentioned in a story in the March/April 2006 issue of Sierra magazine, the magazine of the Sierra Club. It appears in the section called "The Green Life: Ideas for Living Well and Doing Good."
Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was quoted in a February 21 article in the Canadian national news magazine Maclean's, on a dispute between the U.S. and Canada over military presence in the Northwest Passage.
Pittsburgh native Kate Michael '06 was profiled on the Pittsburgh Penguins' Web site February 16.
A story about former Olympic biathlete Lawton Redman '98, in service in Iraq, appeared in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on February 20; the story, which mentioned that he is a St. Lawrence alumnus, also ran on wire services and appeared in other papers, including the San Francisco Chronicle.
The front page of the February 10 issue of the Cornell Daily Sun featured coverage of a talk given by Associate Professor of Government Assis Malaquias at Cornell's Institute for African Development.
An article by Lora Wu '07, about the University's Habitat for Humanity chapter hosting an international photo exhibition from Habitat for Humanity, was published in the spring 2006 issue of Frameworks, Habitat's newsletter for campus chapter and youth programs.
The February/March 2006 issue of Relix magazine features an article about St. Lawrence's Java Barn, written by Josh Potter '05.
An article by University Chaplain Kathleen Buckley, SUNY Canton Director of Career Planning David Norenberg (former digital asset manager at St. Lawrence) and Heidi Dwyer '02, a computer science instructor at the Emma Willard School, about the University's "Build Your Own Beliefs" program, appeared in the January 2006 issue of the Journal of College & Character.
Included in the January 30 edition of The Business Review (Albany, NY) was a profile of Trustee Joseph Richardson '63; he discussed his student experience and his volunteer work as a trustee at St. Lawrence in the article.
The Business Review article
Charlie Bour '05 is among the student leaders profiled in the Summer 2006 edition of Putney Student Travel Guide; in addition to studying in Spain and Costa Rica while a student, he pursued other educational travel opportunities and plans to join a volunteer medical team in Guatemala.
The Putney Student Travel Web Site
Chelsea Isdell '07 was profiled in a recent issue of the newsletter for WorldWrite, an education charity in London. The story was about internships at the firm, and began with the sentence, "St. Lawrence University interns have consistently proved worth their weight in gold." Isdell participated in an internship with WorldWrite while studying in London in the fall 2005 semester.
The WorldWrite Web Site
Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was quoted in a January 25 story in the Toronto Globe & Mail, on how the outcome of the Canadian election will likely affect U.S.-Canadian relations.
Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett was quoted in two stories in the January 8 edition of the Post-Standard in Syracuse, New York, where a community has been discussing whether or not to add fluoride to the water supply; Connett opposes the practice.
Artwork by Alexander "Sandy" Garnett '92 was the subject of a January 5 feature story in the Hartford Courant (CT).
A group of former Binghamton High School students, including Devaun McFarland '09, who are now in college and are advising students at the school, were the subject of a feature story in the Binghamton (NY) Press & Sun-Bulletin on January 5.
Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was quoted in a December 28 story in the Toronto Globe and Mail, on how the outcome of Canadian elections will affect Canada-U.S. relations. The story ran in several U.S. papers as well, including the Bremerton (Washington) Sun and the Knoxville (Tennessee) News-Sentinel.
Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker and his book, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, were the subjects of a major feature story in the December 17 issue of the Ottawa Citizen. The same story ran in the National Post (Toronto edition) on December 21. A feature story on the book and Thacker ran in the Toronto Star on December 24. A positive review of the book appeared in the Guelph Mercury (Ontario) on December 10.
Tips from Director of Counseling Services Bill Burns on how parents and students can get along better during the long holiday break between semesters, included on the Web site Health on the Net, were noted in a December 20 story on the same topic in the Fresno Bee.
The story of how the beloved song "I'll Be Home For Christmas," including the fact that composer Kim Gannon's alma mater is St. Lawrence, was told in a December 19 article in the New York Daily News.
The January-February 2006 issue of Bicycling magazine includes a story on St. Lawrence's "Green Bikes" program.
The California Telegraph and the Philadelphia Herald both ran an opinion piece by Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo, about President Bush's performance, on December 12.
A December 15 story in The Christian Science Monitor, on the college selection process, encourages students and parents to focus on what institutions have in place for first-year students. The story includes reference to the Policy Center on the First Year of College's listing of effective initiatives, which includes St. Lawrence's First-Year Program. The online version of the Monitor story includes a link to the center's listings.
St. Lawrence's participation in a $3.1 million interdisciplinary biometrics research project funded by the National Science Foundation with support from the Department of Homeland Security was noted in a story on the physorg.com Web site December 12. The site collects science, technology, physics and space news; the story detailed how fingerprint-scanning devices may be "spoofed."
Greg Stahl, manager of telecommunications, duplication and mail services, was quoted in a December 1 story in the online publication In-Plant Graphics, on new technology being used for mail services.
St. Lawrence's skiing program was cited as among the best in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the December issue of Ski Racing magazine.
St. Lawrence University's Student Center was selected to appear in the 2005 American School & University Architectural Portfolio issue, one of 201 projects to be selected.
St. Lawrence was included in an article titled "The Flavors of Diversity" in the fall special issue of Campus Dining magazine. Director of Dining and Conference Services Cynthia Atkins was quoted in the story, discussing the University's vegan and organic options.
Professor of Education Arthur Clark is quoted in a story in the December issue of Self magazine, on defense mechanisms and how people use them. Clark is also the coordinator of the University's counseling and human development program.
Positive reviews of Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker's new book, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, appeared in the Toronto Star (November 27); the London, Ontario, Free Press (November 26), the Toronto Globe & Mail (November 26) and the Guelph Mercury (December 10).

Listen to a North Country Public Radio interview with Professor Thacker on Canadian politics.
A commentary piece by Kira Krumhansl '06, on the University's "green bikes" program, ran in her hometown newspaper, The Cabinet in Milford, NH, on November 17.
The New York Times Sunday Book Review's "Paperback Row" on November 20 featured Assistant Professor of English Robert Cowser's novel, Dream Season.
Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett was interviewed on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" on November 14, for a story on a ballot proposition in Bellingham, Washington, to stop the practice of fluoridating water.
The All Things Considered Web site
A November 11 story in the Boston Globe about musician Grace Potter includes information about how her band formed at St. Lawrence.
In a November 6 profile of Pamela Musk '85 in the Boston Globe, about her recent ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro, it was noted that she first learned to speak Swahili while participating the University's program of study in Kenya.
St. Lawrence Coordinator of Electronic Communications Mark Mende was quoted in a November 4 story in University Business, on how colleges are incorporating new features into their Web sites to stay attractive to prospective students.
Magna Publication's "Eye on Students" November 1 newsletter ("for higher education professionals who interact with students") included Director of Off-Campus Programs Nancy Pierce's advice to parents of students who return from study abroad.
Read the University Press Release including Pierce's advice.
Associate Vice President for University Relations Lisa Cania was quoted in a story in the October 2005 issue of Currents, the magazine of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), on how community relations have changed at colleges across the country. The article included information on the University's Canton Initiative.
David Ellison '80 was the subject of a profile in the October 31 issue of Forbes magazine, which noted his St. Lawrence degree in economics. Titled "Tech Tyro Makes Good," the story focused on Ellison's research into tech firms in the post-bubble era. He is a fund manager with Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co.
St. Lawrence's Peak Weekend is Number 7 on the Sports Illustrated list of "102 More Things You Gotta Do Before You Graduate," a follow-up to a similar 2003 story.
Read the list.
Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue was featured on the cover and is the subject of a feature story in the October 28 issue of National Catholic Reporter; the story focuses on the ways O'Donoghue brings faith and science together.
University Archivist Mark McMurray was quoted in an October 24 story in the Montreal Gazette, about a Montreal-based specialty-paper supplier. McMurray also owns and operates the book-arts Caliban Press.
The October 21 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education included a story about alumni events that include community service; events organized in Denver by Betsy Kolber '78 for St. Lawrence alumni were included in the story.
Kolber and other members of the Colorado Saints Network received the 2002 Volunteer of the Year Award from the Alumni Association.
A letter to the editor of the Montreal Gazette by Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett, opposing fluoridation of water, was published on October 19.
Read Professor Connett's letter on the newspaper's Web site.
An excerpt from President Daniel Sullivan's speech welcoming new students was included in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education's October 7 issue.
Read President Sullivan's speech.
An October article in "University Business," on the difficulty some colleges and universities are having getting Web sites included in a specific type of Internet search engine, includes a quote from St. Lawrence Coordinator of Electronic Communications Mark Mende.
In September, both the print and Internet versions of Campus-Technology.com included an article about schools that use electronic portfolios to assess student work, including St. Lawrence.
Associate Director of Admissions Al Gotsch was quoted in a September 24 story in the Tampa Tribune, in a story about the annual convention of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
Examples of artwork from the Richard F. Brush Gallery exhibition "Far North: Inuit Prints and Drawings from Cape Dorset," and an excerpt from an essay by Trustee Allan Newell, appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education's September 23 issue.
Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel is among four experts quoted in a September 18 story in the Montreal Gazette, in which each was asked to compile a list of the best Canadian prime ministers.
Assistant Professor of Global Studies John Collins was quoted in a September 14 story in the Dallas Morning News, on difficulties the United Nations is having agreeing on language to define "terrorism."

An opinion piece on the state of labor unions by Professor of Government Alan Draper ran in the Watertown Daily Times on September 2 and the Syracuse Post-Standard on September 5.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Ning Gao's collaborative research project funded by NOAA was featured on Plattsburgh's NewsChannel 5 on August 29. The report detailed the sampling work on the lake and it mentioned the University as a partner.
Watch the report.
President Daniel Sullivan's remarks to the Class of 2009 at the University's Matriculation Ceremony held August 22 were excerpted in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper.
An episode of the Bravo TV series "Queer Eye" that featured a coach and basketball players at Frederick Douglass Academy in New York included the information that student Ivan Rodriguez is a member of the Class of 2009 at St. Lawrence. The episode began airing in August.
Assistant Professor of Global Studies Vernadette Gonzalez was recently interviewed by community radio station KBOO in Portland, Oregon, about the global trafficking of women and an article she co-authored, "Filipinas.com: Wives, Workers and Whores on the Cyberfrontier" (published in the anthology AsianAmerica.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace). The program is scheduled to air on Tuesday, July 26, from 1 to 2 p.m. Pacific time, on KBOO.org. Information on the anthology, from Routledge.
The July 11 issue of Sports Illustrated includes a photo essay on "sports tribes" -- groups of enthusiasts committed to a particular endeavor. Among the "tribes" profiled is the semi-pro football team the St. Lawrence Valley Trailblazers, of which Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser is a member; the issue also includes a short interview with Cowser. The paperback edition of Cowser's 2004 book about playing football, Dream Season: A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team, will be released on October 10; the cover photo of Cowser was shot by University Photographer Tara Freeman.
Jeffrey Campbell Graduate Fellow in Music Timothy Mangin was interviewed on a recent edition of the National Public Radio show "Afropop Worldwide," about Senegalese hip-hop. Read the interview, and see Mangin's photos, on the Afropop Web site
The July issue of Real Simple magazine included a feature story on Camp Timberlock, owned and operated by Holly '83 and Bruce Catlin '84; it mentions that the two met while students at St. Lawrence.
The June issue of Washingtonian magazine included a feature story on Joseph Lekuton '91 and the students from the Langley School that he has taken to his native country of Kenya.
According to a story in the June 22 edition of the Toronto Globe & Mail, newly installed U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins will include Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph T. Jockel among those chosen to give him an introduction to Canada, its politics and its bilateral relationship with the U.S.
The New York Times Magazine carried a feature story in its June 12 edition on Romentics, a business venture co-created by Scott Pomfret '90, and noted his alma mater. The St. Lawrence Web site NetNews carried this feature story about him in 2004.
Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser's book Dream Season was included in a group of "also recommended" books about college sports in a June 10 story in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Greenwich Post (CT) carried a large feature story in its June 9 edition on the fourth annual lacrosse tournament created to honor the memory of Katie Higgins '00. Emerita Professor of Sport and Leisure Studies Dotty Hall, who had been Higgins' lacrosse coach at St. Lawrence, was quoted in the story.
Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett's comments at a waste-management conference were quoted in a May 13 story in the Toronto Star.
Associate Professor of Physics Daniel Koon was quoted in a May 1 column by New York Daily News writer Lenore Skenazy, about how Einstein's theory of relativity doesn't help explain why ordinary things go missing around the house. The same column ran in the Christian Science Monitor on May 13.
Associate Professor of Physics Daniel Koon's research, debunking popular myths about the fiber-optic qualities of polar bear hair, was detailed in a feature story in the April 24 edition of the Anchorage Daily News.
A March 20 story in The Seattle Times, about two memoirs that include details of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's time in Oregon, included details from Professor of English Natalia Singer's book, Scraping by in the Big Eighties. An interview with Singer about the book appeared in The Bellingham (WA) Herald on March 24.
The Philadelphia Inquirer carried a story on March 21 on a decision to postpone voting on whether or not to fluoridate water in Trenton, New Jersey; Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett, an opponent of the practice, was cited in the story.
St. Lawrence's decision to make the reporting of standardized test scores optional for applicants was noted in a story about the new version of the SAT that ran on the Associated Press newswire the weekend of March 4 through 6. Among the many news outlets that ran the story were USA Today, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Norwalk (CT) Hour, Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune, Marin (CA) Independent-Journal, KOMO-TV (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), Portland (ME) Press Herald, Salt Lake Tribune, The Day (New London, CT), Nashua (NH) Telegraph, Akron (OH) Beacon Journal, Times Argus (Vermont), Lexington (KY) Herald Leader, Winston-Salem (NC) Journal, New York Newsday, Stamford (CT) Advocate and the San Diego Union Tribune.
Prime Minister Paul Martin's announcement that Canada will not join the U.S. in ballistic missile defense, along with the start of the term of Frank McKenna, Canada's new ambassador to the U.S., brought commentary in the news media from Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel March 1. Jockel's comments about the controversy were quoted in a story that ran on the CanWest news wire, and appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Windsor Star, Montreal Gazette, Regina Leader-Post (Saskatchewan) and National Post. Jockel was also quoted in a March 5 story on the topic in the Toronto Star.
Elm Leaves, a newspaper in Elmwood Park, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), carried a feature story on February 9 about Kelly Nipp '07 and her experience in St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester.
Professor of Canadian Studies Joesph Jockel was quoted in a February 3 story in the Montreal Gazette, on topics to be discussed at the American Assembly's conference on U.S.-Canada relations, being held in Harriman, N.Y., February 3-6. Jockel is co-director of the conference.
A live Web cam, showing the construction of a sand mandala in St. Lawrence's Richard F. Brush Art Gallery by the Venerable Tenzin Yignyen, January 21-23, was linked from National Public Radio's art page on its Web site.
Joseph Lekuton '91, M'94 was featured in the January 24 edition of People magazine, in it's "Teacher" section. The story detailed how Lekuton, a Maasai tribesman, annually takes his students from the Langley School, along with their parents, to see how and where he grew up in Kenya.
Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser's book Dream Season was the subject of an article/review in the January 18-25 edition of the Niagara Falls Reporter in Niagara Falls, New York.
A profile of Jeffrey Seely '76, chairman and CEO of ShareBuilder, appeared in the Money section of USA Today on January 10. The piece noted that he holds a degree from St. Lawrence.
"The Beat," an arts show on National Public Radio station KUOW in Seattle, Washington, featured an interview with Professor of English Natalia Rachel Singer on January 11 -- Listen to "The Beat" Interview
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted an upcoming reading and workshop taking place in the area by Professor of English Natalia Rachel Singer in a January 7 story.
Associate Professor of English Bob Cower's book Dream Season was included in a round-up article on books about football in the January 2 edition of The New York Times Book Review. It was the "Editor's Choice" in the January 9 edition.
Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue was quoted in a piece in the November/December issue of the journal Science & Spirit, on the role that Islam has played in the history of science.
Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was quoted in a December 27 story in the Toronto Globe and Mail on the higher media profile of author Alice Munro; Thacker is the author of a forthcoming Munro biography.
The December 17 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education included a story about composer J. Kimball Gannon '24's bequest to the University of a portion of the royalties to his works, including his most famous song, "I'll Be Home For Christmas." Gannon also composed the University's alma mater, "The Scarlet and the Brown."
Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was quoted in November 30 story on the Knight-Ridder news service, on President Bush's visit to Ottawa. The story was carried on numerous radio stations and in many newspapers that subscribe to the service, including the Contra Costa Times (CA), Philadelphia Inquirer, Salt Lake Tribune, Miami Herald, Bradenton Herald, Ft. Wayne News Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Kansas City Star, Biloxi Sun Herald, Myrtle Beach Sun News, San Luis Obispo Tribune (CA), Centre Daily Times (PA), Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA), Monterey County Herald and Macon Telegraph (GA). On November 20, Jockel was quoted in a story in the Toronto Star, on the same topic.
A review of Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser's book, Dream Season, appeared in the November 1 issue of Sports Illustrated. Reviews also appeared in the Boston Globe (November 7) and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (November 9). Radio stations that have run recent interviews with Cowser about the book include KYW in Philadelphia, PA; KMSR in Dallas, TX; WPHM in Detroit, MI; WGY in Albany, NY; WCWA in Toledo, OH; WDRC in Hartford, CT; KMJE in Sacramento, CA; WKQZ in Flint, MI; KMTT in Seattle, WA; and WGTD in Milwaukee, WI. He has also appeared on the syndicated radio programs "Cable Talk" on Cable Radio Network; "Daybreak USA" on the USA Network; and "Business Talk This Morning" on the Business Talk Radio network. An interview with Cowser aired on the National Public Radio show "Only A Game" on November 6.
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures Roy Caldwell was quoted in a story on the Fox News Web site October 25, about the influence of American popular culture on France.
Read the Story.
In the October 22 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, four scholars were asked "to discuss the book or books that have most influenced their fields" for an article called "The Short List." The four scholars included Professor of English Natalia Rachel Singer, who cites works by George Orwell, James Baldwin, Susan Griffin and Alix Kates Shulman.
In a story on "the secret lives of academics" in the October 15 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser's "other career" as a semi-professional football player is detailed.
Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was quoted in an October 10 story in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, on tips for remembering computer passwords, PINs and other necessities of modern life.
A story about Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser's book Dream Season appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune on October 10.
The October 1 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education included an excerpt from Associate Professor of English Natalia Rachel Singer's new book, Scraping by in the Big Eighties.

E-mail questions or comments to Coordinator of News Services Macreena Doyle.
Updated: January 21, 2013

News Releases	St. Lawrence University and its faculty, staff and students are often cited in the national media; what follows is a listing of recent stories in the news that included St. Lawrence. Click Here to See & Hear Recent Stories and Special Features About St. Lawrence University on North Country Public Radio. Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest blogger for The Skeptical Libertarian Blog and his piece, "The Fed: Not a Conspiracy, Just Par for the Progressive Era Course" was posted on Monday, Feb. 11. Read the blog post. St. Lawrence's current art exhibit, 'Game On! Art & Hockey' was featured in a broadcast on WWNY-TV on Thursday, Feb. 7. Read the story. Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat spoke via video conference to the Canadian Parliament on Thursday, Feb. 7 regarding Canadian interests and opportunities in Turkey. Watch the video (Eissenstat appears at the 1 hour, three minute mark). Art Clark, professor and coordinator of St. Lawrence's education department's counseling and human development program, was quoted in a Watertown Daily Times story on Sunday, February 3, 2013, about a proposed change to the state’s mental hygiene law. Read the story. Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was a source for several stories about the Turkey Embassy bombing, including The Associated Press (AP), ABC News, CTV, Al-Jazeera and PRI's The World. Read the story from ABC News. Read the AP story from USA Today. Listen to the story on PRI's The World. Grace Potter '06n of Grace Potter & the Nocturnals was interviewed by the Watertown Daily Times about her upcoming visit to St. Lawrence on Feb. 10 for the band's 10th anniversary show. The story ran in the Sunday, February 3, 2013 paper. Read the story. The St. Lawrence women's ice hockey team hosted a social media event, "Saints Go Social," during their game against Clarkson University on Saturday, Feb. 2 and it was featured in the Watertown Daily Times sports section on Sunday, February 3, 2013. Read the story. Danielle McBride '14 and Maria Trummer '15 were featured in a Watertown Daily Times story that ran on Saturday, January 26, 2013 about the SLU Buddies program and its impact on struggling North Country schools. Read the story. Grace Potter '06n talked about her upcoming 10th anniversary concert at St. Lawrence in an interview with Billboard that ran January 18, 2013. The story also was posted on the MSN news website. Read the story. Coordinator of Academic Support Matt McCluskey offers advice on how to stay organized with an old-school planner in a January 8, 2013 entry in his blog on The Huffington Post. Read the article. The cover story in the Winter 2013 issue of The Independent Review, "The Reality of the Wartime Economy: More Historical Evidence on Whether World War II Ended the Great Depression," was written by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz and Michael McPhillips '11. Read the article. Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Mindy Pitre offered her views on whether or not "Bigfoot" might be lurking in the Adirondacks, as some have reported, in a story for WWNY-TV 7 in Watertown on January 1, 2013. Read/watch the story. Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue is quoted in a story titled "The Dark Side: A guide to the season's most abundant resource" in the January/February 2013 issue of Adirondack Life magazine. Visiting Assistant Professor of Canadian Studies Neil Forkey's book, Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century, was named one of the 100 Best Books of 2012 by The Hill Times, a Canadian newspaper that covers politics. An article about six students in the fall 2012 New York City Semester was included in the December 12, 2012 issue of the online newsletter of the Arts & Business Council of New York. Written by Executive Director Will Maitland Weiss and titled "Six Saints," the piece describes the projects of the students who completed internships with the organization during the semester. Read the article. Visiting Assistant Professor of Canadian Studies Neil Forkey was interviewed by the Network in Canadian History and Environment for a November 27, 2012 podcast about his book, Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century. Listen to the podcast. Voice of America's website published an essay by Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat, titled "Turkey's Crackdown on Academic Freedom," on its Middle East Voices page on November 19, 2012. The essay was also published as a blog post by Amnesty International. Read the essay. Alimot Yusuff '16 was interviewed by New York City NBC affiliate Channel 4 on November 15, 2012, discussing oyster restoration efforts of The Harbor School and The Nature Conservancy. Yusuff is an alumna of both The Harbor School and The Nature Conservancy's Leaders in Environmental Action for the Future (LEAF) Program which provides paid environmental conservation internships for students who attend select urban environmental high schools. Watch the interview. St. Lawrence University's First-Year Program in London was included in a November 13, 2012 story published on USA Today's College website, about colleges offering study abroad in the first year. Read the story. Two opinion pieces by Professor of Government Alan Draper were published on November 8, 2012. A piece in USA Today posited that policies by the Federal Reserve were crucial in the re-election of the President Obama, while another, on the Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch discussed the changing nature of the Democratic party. Read the USA Today piece. Read the WSJ Marketwatch piece. Garrett Watson '14 is the author of an essay titled "Misunderstanding Say's Law of Markets," published as a guest post on the blog The Market Monetarist on November 1, 2012. Read the essay. Research by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on what can be learned from private-sector response to Hurricane Katrina, was cited in an article in the "Room for Debate" section of The New York Times on October 30, 2012, by James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute. It was also cited in a November 1, 2012 post on the Forbes.com website, titled "Hurricane Sandy, And The Invisible Hand Of Disaster Recovery." In addition, Horwitz appeared on "Stossel," on Fox Business, on November 1, 2012, on the same topic. Read the piece (may require free registration). In an October 24, 2012 blog post for The Huffington Post, Coordinator of Academic Support Matthew McCluskey reflects on instructors' responsibilities to assist students in learning to read well. Read the article. An October 16, 2012 article in the New York Times about Grace Potter and the Nocturnals included the fact that the band began at St. Lawrence when Potter '06n and drummer Matt Burr '03 were students. Read the story (May require free registration.) In an October 12, 2012 blog post on the Scientific American website, Bonnie Swoger '99 wrote about her experience at the 8th Annual Geology Alumni Conference and "paying it forward." Read the post. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on the WIBA (Madison, Wisconsin) radio program "Out of the Box" on October 11, 2012, where he was interviewed and took questions from callers. Listen to the interview (toward the end of this hour-long podcast). Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in an analysis of a Syria attack on Turkey, published in the Toronto Star October 5, 2012. Read the story. The Schools.com website picked St. Lawrence as one of the 10 schools for Quidditch seekers, where the Harry Potter-inspired game is played, in a September 24, 2012 posting. Read the article. Coordinator of Academic Support Matthew McCluskey's tips on how to handle reading assignments in college were published on his Huffington Post blog on September 28, 2012. Read the post. An article by Associate Professor of Psychology Cathy Crosby-Currie and Director of Institutional Research Christine Zimmerman, titled "St. Lawrence University: Links Between Faculty Goals and Pedagogy and First-Year Student Engagement and Well-Being," appears in the Association of American Colleges and Universities' Fall 2012 Bringing Theory to Practice newsletter. It is a report of an ongoing study, funded by a Bringing Theory to Practice grant. Read the article. St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester is one of six chosen by website The Active Times to show the growing trend of colleges developing outdoor experiences as an alternative to a semester of study abroad. The story was written by Katherine Bagley '07. Read the story. A visit from artists working on a project called "Peace Papers," which included a paper-making demonstration, was the subject of a story on Watertown's WWNY/Channel 7 news on September 24, 2012. Read/view the story. Dining services at the four colleges in St. Lawrence County, including recent accolades for St. Lawrence, were included in a September 23, 2012 feature story in the Watertown Daily Times. Read the story. Voter-registration efforts at St. Lawrence County's four colleges were detailed in a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on September 21, 2012. Read the story. Slate.com published an essay by Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat on September 20, 2012, on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's involvement in the US presidential election. Read the essay. (Note: Adult language in the first paragraph is quoted material.) Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Mindy Pitre's forensic anthropology class, especially its lab studying decomposition, was the subject of a feature story in the September 16, 2012 edition of the Advance News and the September 17, 2012 edition of the Watertown Daily Times. Read the story. Amy Yao '14 discussed what she learned by becoming a coxswain in a blog post published by The Huffington Post on September 14, 2012. Read the post. The Amnesty International blog published a post by Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat on September 13, 2012, about a landmark human-rights case in Turkey. Read the piece. Professor of English Bob Cowser takes issue with candidate Paul Ryan's statements about his marathon times in a blog post for The Huffington Post, published September 11, 2012. Read the piece. An essay by Coordinator of Academic Support Matthew McCluskey, titled "Writing Strategies for That Semester-Long Paper," was published in The Huffington Post September 7, 2012. Read the essay. Dana Professor of Economics Steve Horwitz appeared on CNBC Europe on September 4, 2012, explaining his fundamental disagreements with economist Paul Krugman on stimulus packages. Watch the interview. An essay titled "Financial markets are not 'every man for himself'," by Dana Professor of Economics Steve Horwitz was published in the Buffalo News on September 4, 2012. An invasive plant was discovered in area lakes this summer by Frances McNierney '14, as a result of her University Fellows research. The news was the subject of a story in the Watertown Daily Times on September 4, 2012. Read the story. Professor of Government and Associate Dean for International and Intercultural Studies Karl Schonberg was quoted in a September 3, 2012 story in The Chronicle of Higher Education, about programs of study abroad for first-year students. Inspired by a famous work by the late John Lennon, Professor of Government Alan Draper wrote an opinion piece for Labor Day, published by the Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch website on August 31, 2012, right before the holiday weekend. Read the piece. Who won the War of 1812? Your answer may depend upon which side of the U.S.-Canadian border you're on. Associate Professor of History Melissane Parm Schrem participated in an August 27, 2012 Internet chat session debating the question, sponsored by Canada.com and Post Media newspapers in Canada. Read the chat transcript. In an essay published August 14, 2012 by The Daily Caller and an accompanying LearnLiberty.org video, Dana Professor of Economics Steve Horwitz argues against the old adage that "what's good for GM is good for the country." Read the piece and watch the video. A $5 million pledge to the University from Kirk '39 and Anne Douglas, through the Douglas Foundation, adding to their endowed scholarship fund and announced on July 29, 2012, was reported in a wide variety of news media outlets nation-wide. Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue explained the occurrence of a destructive summer storm in the region, in an article for North Country This Week that was published July 20, 2012. Read the article. Students in the spring 2012 New York City Semester appear on the cover of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities' summer issue of their publication The Independent Sector. Look at the publication. An opinion piece by Professor of Government Alan Draper, on judging presidential candidates by their character, appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on July 13, 2012. Read the piece. Professor of History Liz Regosin appeared on the National Public Radio show "BackStory with the American History Guys" on July 13, 2012, discussing the history of marriage in the U.S. Listen to the show (Regosin's interview is at about the 34:00 minute-mark). Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Michael Schuckers was quoted in a June 27, 2012 story in the Columbus Dispatch by sports writer Michael Arace, analyzing NHL draft picks. Read the story. Professor of English Bob Cowser, a former semi-pro football player who teaches courses in prisons, wrote an essay about the verdict in the trial of former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, titled "No Violence is Acceptable - in Prison or in the Locker Room," that was published in the Huffington Post on June 25, 2012. Read the essay. E.B. Wilson '53, emeritus chairman of the Board of Trustees, is quoted in an article in the May/June issue of Trusteeship, titled "High-Performing Committees: What Makes Them Work?" The magazine is published by the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities. Read the article. English Professor Bob Cowser participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar on the work of Woody Guthrie, and wrote an essay, published in The Huffington Post, on June 19, 2012, reflecting on that work. Read the essay. Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in a June 10, 2012 Associated Press story about how the views of one of Turkey's founders are changing. Read the story. Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher, who has conducted sleep studies on college students, will work with a school in Glens Falls, N.Y., to see if a later start helps students stay more alert. The research was outlined in a story in the Glens Falls Post-Star on June 11, 2012. Read the story. St. Lawrence's Commencement speaker Garry Trudeau and a clip of the ceremony as seen in time-lapse were included in "NBC Night News With Brian Williams" college commencement roundup, broadcast on June 8, 2012. Watch the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz reflects on the legacy of economist John Maynard Keynes in an essay published in the Detroit News on June 5, 2012, which would have been Keynes' 129th birthday. Read the essay. A story about St. Lawrence's "doggie de-stress" event held before final exams ran, with photos, in the USA Today College Blog site on May 17, 2012. Read the story. Professor of English Bob Cowser Jr. won the Owen D. Young Outstanding Faculty Award from the Class of 2012, offering him the opportunity to deliver the class' "last lecture" during Senior Week. The text was published in the online news site The Huffington Post on May 17, 2012. Read the text. The Sustainability Semester, starting in spring 2013, was the subject of a feature story in the May 13, 2012 Watertown Daily Times and Advance News. Read the story. WWNY/Channel 7 in Watertown ran a story on May 8, 2012 on the popularity of a cappella singing groups at colleges, and included St. Lawrence's co-ed group the UpBeats. Watch the story. In a May 7, 2012 piece for The Daily Caller and an accompanying video from LearnLiberty.org, Dana Professor of Economics tackles the controversial question "are corporations people?" Read the essay/watch the video. Topics of regional interest being researched by students in Associate Professor of Biology Erika Barthelmess' Conservation Biology seminar were featured in a Watertown Daily Times story on April 29, 2012. Read the story. Perspective from Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was included in an April 26, 2012 story on WWNY/Channel 7, on reports that nearby Fort Drum may be considered as the future site of a missile defense base. Read/watch the story. News site The Daily Caller published commentary by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on "Equal Pay Day," which is designed to call attention to wage gender gaps, on April 17, 2012. In addition to an essay by Horwitz, the site included a video with further illustration of the topic. Read the piece/see the video. A study by psychology professors Serge Onyper and Pamela Thacher, showing there may be brief benefits to chewing gum before taking a test, was cited in "The Answer Sheet" blog in The Washington Post on April 3, 2012. Read the story. Emeritus President Daniel Sullivan is the author of an essay titled "There Has Never Been a Better Time to Compete Against the Publics," published April 2, 2012 as a blog post for clients of Hardwick Day, a higher education consulting firm. An essay by President William Fox, titled "Gardens of Originality," was published in the April 2012 issue of University Business magazine. The essay outlines how small liberal arts institutions are better at experimentation than larger schools. Read the essay. WWNY/Channel 7 in Watertown did a story on March 27, 2012 about Madison Wilcox '14, who organized a full day of activities to benefit a local child with leukemia. See the story. A story about unusual college courses on the USA Today College website on March 26, 2012 included a photo and information about St. Lawrence's Dealing With the Dead anthropology course. Read the story. Statistical analyses of hockey plays by Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers were the topic of a story in the Boston Globe on March 25, 2012. Read the story. An essay by Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies R. Danielle Eagan, providing historical context for recent controversies on women's rights, was published in the Albany (NY) Times Union on March 20, 2012. Read the piece. WWNY/Channel 7 in Watertown did a story on the "Morphographica" exhibition in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery on March 19, 2012. Read/watch the story. The March 2012 issue of NNY Business magazine includes an article titled "20 Questions with SLU Treasurer Kathryn Mullaney." The magazine highlights a number of women in prominent business roles in Northern New York State. Read the story. Amy Yao '15 has begun blogging for The Huffington Post's College section. In her first post (March 7, 2012) she decides she didn't choose the "wrong college" after all. Read the post. ESPN's website carried a March 2, 2012 story introducing five women competing in the Iditarod, including Colleen Robertia '98. Read the story. The NHL Insider, on NHL.com, included a story on March 2, 2012 reporting on a panel discussion at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference that included Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers. Read the story. MyGlobalEducation.com, a website of College Bound, rounded up trends in international education, and included information from St. Lawrence University's programs in the story. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a February 22, 2012 article on the website Salon.com, titled "How 'uncertainty' didn't kill the economy." Read the article. Study-abroad programs for first-year students were the focus of a story in the college section of USA Today's Education website on February 21, 2012. St. Lawrence's First-Year Seminar in France was highlighted, with Abigail Ross '15 quoted. Read the story. An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, pointing out that while the chances of a child being abducted is very small, its cultural effect has been enormous, appeared in the Buffalo News on February 17, 2012. Read the essay. St. Lawrence's announcement that biology and chemistry classes from SUNY Canton, unable to use their facilities due to a fire on that campus, will use labs in Bewkes was covered by the Watertown Daily Times, Northern New York Newspapers, North Country Public Radio, WWNY-7 News and YNN, Channel 10. WWNY-TV/7 News ran a two-part special story on February 14 and 15, 2012, exploring how the use of technology affects the brain and the way we learn. Interviews with Associate Professor of Biology and Psychology Ana Estevez were included in both parts. Part Oneand Part Two are available online. A project to help students understand how Egyptians made mummies, in an anthropology class called Dealing with the Dead, was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on February 15, 2012; the piece ran in other papers in the Northern New York Newspapers group as well. Read the story. An opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on creating jobs versus creating value, appeared in the Waterbury, CT, Republican-American on February 12, 2012. Emeritus President Daniel Sullivan is the author of an essay on "Understanding Your College's Admissions Market," published on the website of the education consulting firm Hardwick Day. The essay appears in the firm's "Fundamentals" column, sent to education professionals throughout the nation. Read the essay (registraion required). An article by Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers and Women's Hockey Head Coach Chris Wells '92 appears in the February 13, 2012 issue of The Hockey News. Titled "Just Win, Baby," the article analyzes the impact of four different systems for awarding points based on the outcomes of games, such as winning in regulation or losing in a shootout. Read the article, on Page 14. Bradley Heil '08 appeared in a commercial for GE that aired during the Super Bowl on February 5; a February 3, 2012 story in the Syracuse Post-Standard includes an interview and video of the ad. Read the story, see the video. Elizabeth Shaffer '11, press secretary for a New York State senator, was profiled in a February 2, 2012 story in the Fairport-East Rochester Post and was quoted saying that her experiences in the Washington, DC, semester led to her changing her major to government, which in turn led to her career. Read the story. Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in a February 2, 2012 Associated Press story, about growing ties between Turkey and Hamas. Read the story, from the Seattle Post Intelligencer. William Bradley '99 reflects on being a college professor and the professors who inspired him at St. Lawrence in a January 31, 2012 essay on the website Inside Higher Ed. Read the essay. USA Today's College section carried a January 29, 2012 story about the Going Locavore course on locally sourced food, quoting Associate Professor Mary Hussmann and Mike Petroni '12. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is one of five American economists interviewed in January 28, 2012 piece in Al Jazeera, expressing views on the economic policies of presidential hopeful Ron Paul. Read the piece. A guide to academic writing by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz appeared in the Washington Post education blog "The Answer Sheet" on January 20, 2012. Read the piece. Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jill Talbot is the author of a January 5, 2012 Brevity Blog post, on the website of the literary journal Brevity, detailing the assignment students in one of her classes had, to interview essayist Ryan Van Meter, author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now, named New York Magazine's best book of 2011. The Q-and-A article will also appear in the next issue of the print edition of Brevity. Read the article. Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeff Rickey is the author of a December 16, 2011 post on the higher education blog CollegeXpress, with advice on how to get the most out of a campus visit. Read the post. Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP) Director Bill Short was quoted in a December 15, 2011 story in the Amsterdam (NY) News, about a young man pursuing the goal of a college education, under difficult circumstances. Read the story. Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeffrey Rickey was the guest blogger on AskJohnAboutCollege.com December 14, 2011, with advice for high school students on how to respond to all of the mail they receive from colleges. Read the post. In the WAMC public radio "Academic Minute" on December 14, 2011, Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers gives an analysis of the hockey "shootout." Listen to the program. Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was a guest on the Ontario public television (TVO) program "The Agenda" December 12, 2011, discussing the emerging role of Turkey in world politics. Watch the program. An essay by Assistant Professor of Psychology Serge Onyper, explaining research he conducted that showed chewing gum briefly before an exam may boost your score on the test, was the lead feature on NBC.com's Education Nation website December 12, 2011. The research was reported on HealthDay.com, which supplies health-related news to a number of other outlets on the Internet, as well as radio and television. Outlets reporting the research included ABC radio news, U.S. News & World Report, iVillage, MSN.com, Philly.com (the Philadelphia Inquirer's website) and the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom. Read the Education Nation essay. Research on left-handedness conducted by Dana Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was cited in this video report on "lefties" on the Wall Street Journal website December 6, 2011. A video by Mike Petroni 12 and Tommy Costello '14, students in the "Going Locavore" course, featuring a taste test of local products, was included as a "What We're Reading" post in the New York Times Diner's Journal blog on December 7, 2011. Read the post. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz appeared on "Freedom Watch," on the Fox Business channel, on December 6, 2011, discussing New York Senator Charles Schumer's plan for prescription pricing, which Horwitz said would lead to drug shortages. Watch the video. Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeffrey Rickey is the author of a December 6, 2011 guest post in the College, Inc. blog of the Washington Post website, on how St. Lawrence handles Early Decision. Read the post. An essay by Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Jon Rosales, on how global warming is affecting the climate in Alaska, was published in the Huffington Post on December 6, 2011. Read the post. The December 2, 2011 "Streetscapes" column in the New York Times centered on the real estate development efforts of Class of 1887 graduate Emily Eaton Hepburn; her affiliation with the University was noted in the story. Read the story. A December 1, 2011 blog post on the popular BoingBoing.com notes Martha E. '62 and Gregg E. Peterson Professor of Mathematics Duncan Melville's extensive website on Mesopotamian mathematics. Read the post. A study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Serge Onyper, showing that there may be short-term benefits to chewing gum briefly before a test, was mentioned in stories on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" on November 30, 2011, and in Wired magazine online on November 29, 2011. The study was also the subject of reports by the UPI wire service, the Wall Street Journal, WebMd.com, the Toronto Globe & Mail, PsychCentral.com and KMPH TV news in Fresno, CA. USA Today's online College section carried a feature story about the University's Adirondack Semester program on November 14, 2011. Read the story. The November 14, 2011 edition of The New York Times included an essay by Professor of Government Alan Draper, titled "Alternate-Side Parking Brings Peace." Read the essay. Did you know poet Robert Frost once visited St. Lawrence? He did, in 1894, the same year his first poem was published. He made the visit to persuade his beloved, Elinor White, to leave her St. Lawrence studies and marry him. National Public Radio related the tale on November 8, 2011, as part of its "Writer's Almanac" program. Read/listen to the story. An article in the November 14, 2011 issue of ESPN, The Magazine discusses Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers' research on performance of NHL goalies. An opinion piece about educational opportunity programs by HEOP Director Bill Short was published in the New York City Amsterdam News on November 4, 2011. Read the piece. USA Today's College section of its website carried an October 30, 2011 story under College Beat on the sleep study done by St. Lawrence psychology professors showing a potential benefit to students taking earlier classes: better grades. Read the story. The website of Adirondack Wild, a non-profit organization, is carrying a feature story about St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester program. Read the story. An essay by President Emeritus Daniel Sullivan, arguing that discussions of reform in higher education are directed at encouraging educators to jettison effective methods of teaching and learning for untested and potentially ineffective approaches, appeared in the October 31, 2011 edition of Inside Higher Ed. Read the essay. The November 2011 issue of the journal The Freeman includes an article co-authored by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz and Jack Knych '12, senior economic major, titled "The Importance of Failure." Read the article. HEOP Director Bill Short was a guest on the Rev. Al Sharpton's News One radio show on Thursday, October 27, 2011, discussing access to college and the value of a college education. Also on the show was program regular Trustee Elinor Tatum '93. Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher's researchers on "all-nighters" was cited in a Wall Street Journal story on October 26, 2011, on the best ways to study. Read the story. The Washington Post blog "College, Inc." ran a post on October 21, 2011 on a study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Serge Onyper and Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher showing that students who had earlier classes also got better grades. Read the post. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox Business' "Freedom Watch" on October 17, 2011, discussing whether forgiving consumer debt would help the economy. Watch the show. The Wall Street Journal published an October 17, 2011 story about Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers' NHL goalie analysis. Read the story. The New York Times blog "Diner's Journal" included an item about the Adirondack Semester in its "What We're Reading" post on October 13, 2011, with a link to text and photos by students in the program about what they grow, cook and eat. Read the post. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker provided the October 3, 2011 commentary for WAMC Albany's "Academic Minute," on Canada's role as a producer of oil. The program airs on public radio stations around the country. Listen to the "Academic Minute." An opinion piece in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times on October 2, 2011, quoted Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeff Rickey, on the applications of "super people." Read the piece. Reuters wire service ran a story on September 29, 2011, on the study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Serge Onyper and Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher showing that students who had earlier classes also got better grades. Read the story. An article by Co-CIO for Information Technology Sondra Hedger Smith, on the usefulness of assessment practices, was published in the October issue of University Business magazine. Read the article. Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeffrey Rickey was quoted in a September 15, 2011 story in Inside Higher Education, about possible reasons for a nation-wide drop in SAT scores. Read the story. A study by psychology professors Serge Onyper and Pamela Thacher, showing that students who have earlier classes tend to get higher grades, was featured in the New York Times blog about college admissions "The Choice" on September 10; it was also covered in the September 8, 2011 edition of Inside Higher Ed, and the September 9, 2011 editions of Huffington Post and the Atlantic Wire. First-year student Mitchell Joseph's unusual mode of transportation - he biked 400 miles from his home in Connecticut to get here - was the subject of a story in the September 8, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times. Read the story. An exhibition of photographs depicting New York City's "ground zero" was featured in a story on Watertown's WWNY-Channel 7 News on September 7, 2011. Watch the story. WAMC radio's "Academic Minute" featured Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher on September 2, 2011, with advice for getting to sleep. "Academic Minute" runs on National Public Radio stations across the country, and is featured daily on the Inside Higher Education website. Listen to the "Academic Minute." An essay by Professor of Government Alan Draper, on President Obama's falling out with supporters on the left, appeared in the Albany (NY) Times Union on September 1, 2011. Read the essay. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on "RadioWest," a show on National Public Radio affiliate KUER in Utah, on August 30, 2011, discussing the Austrian school of economics. Listen to the program. Northern New York Newspapers ran feature stories on maintaining residence halls, national reaction to plans for local SUNY colleges to share a president and thrift stores aimed at college students that all included St. Lawrence sources. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz's tips for preparing for a disaster, including what items to stock up on, appeared on the ABC News website on August 27, 2011. An interview with Horwitz was included in National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" on August 26, discussing how "big-box" stores prepare for coming disasters, such as hurricanes. He was a guest on National Public Radio affiliate KUOW in Puget Sound, WA, on August 25, discussing presidential candidate Mitt Romney's "corporations are people" remark. Read the ABC News story. Listen to NPR's "Morning Edition" from August 26. The Huffington Post on August 24, 2011 published St. Lawrence's "Green Tips for Dorm Living," complete with a slideshow of images from the University. See the feature in the Huffington Post. The opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, originally published in the Austin (TX) American Statesman August 14 (see below), defending presidential candidate Mitt Romney's controversial statement that "corporations are people," was also been published in a number of other newspapers, including the New Jersey Star-Ledger (Aug. 16); the Buffalo News and Palm Beach Post (Aug. 18); and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Aug. 21). Horwitz has also been a guest on a number of radio programs recently, including WAFS in Atlanta and Southern California Public Radio in Los Angeles. Listen to the KPCC public radio show. The August 14 Los Angeles Times story which quoted student government President John R. (Robby) Glass '13 (see below), on how the economy is affecting college students and recent grads, was carried by the Times' wire service and ran in a number of other outlets around the nation, including the Nashville Tennessean and Nashua (NH) Telegraph (Aug. 18); the Lakeland (FL) Ledger and Scranton (PA) Times-Tribune (Aug. 17); and the Baltimore Sun (Aug. 14). Pre-Orientation trips to the Adirondacks for first-year students were the featured topic for an August 20, 2011 story in the Watertown Daily Times. Read the story. St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester program was featured in the "Cool Schools" issue (September/October 2011) of Sierra magazine, the publication of the Sierra Club. The feature, "A Semester in the Woods," featured a slide show of photos from the fall 2010 semester. Read the story. Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeff Rickey responded to questions about a liberal arts education for the August 15, 2011 edition of the blog "Ask John About College," which fields questions about the college search process. Read the blog. Thelmo President John R. (Robby) Glass '13 was quoted in an August 14, 2011 story in the Los Angeles Times, on how the economy is affecting college students and recent grads. Read the story. An opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, defending presidential candidate Mitt Romney's controversial statement that "corporations are people," appeared in the Austin, Texas, American Statesman on August 14, 2011. Read the essay. Mike Petroni '12 was interviewed August 6, 2011 on the WVCR radio program "The Green Scene," which is the radio station of Siena College. He discussed his efforts to save the Croghan dam, which arose from an environmental studies course. Listen to the interview. Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Erik Backlund's planned study of community satisfaction in the Adirondacks was the topic of an August 10, 2011 story in the Watertown Daily Times. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was live in the studio for "Freedom Watch" on Fox Business on August 8, 2011, discussing how policies of the Federal Reserve led to the current economic climate. The Memoir Project, a new book by Trustee Marion Roach Smith '77, was featured in the Watertown Daily Times on August 7, 2011. Read the story. A grant allowing St. Lawrence and SUNY Potsdam to work together establishing an early literacy program in local schools was the topic of a Watertown Daily Times story on August 6, 2011. Read the story. Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in an August 6 article in The Economist, about conflict between politicians and the military in Turkey. Read the story. St. Lawrence's inclusion in the Princeton Review's list of the nation's Best Colleges was covered in an August 4, 2011 story in the Watertown Daily Times. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a panelist on the Fox Business show "Freedom Watch" on August 3, 2011, debating the Federal Reserve, the national debt and other topics. Watch the segment. Director of Admissions Alison Almasian was quoted in an August 3, 2011 story in the Philadelphia Inquirer, on college tours and how to get the most out of them. The same story ran in the Sacramento (CA) Bee on August 7, 2011. Read the story. Vice President for Finance Kathryn Mullaney was quoted in an August 1, 2011 piece on AOL's financial news site, DailyFinance.com, with advice for first-year college students on managing money. Read the story. Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in a July 31, 2011 Associated Press story about the Turkish military. A summer business started by Charlotte Edson '14 and a friend was included in a July 29, 2011 story in the Greenwich (CT) Time, about how students in that area were spending the summer. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is the author of an opinion piece titled "Demise of Borders Shows that Being Big Isn't Enough," published in the Buffalo News on July 27, 2011; the piece also ran in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, on August 8, 2011. A column by Horwitz in the Freeman online, published July 28, reflects on "The Calling of Teaching." The column was also cited in the National Review online. Read the Buffalo News essay. Read the Freeman column. Student government president Robby Glass '13 participated in a conference call with other college student leaders on July 26, urging the federal government to resolve differences and approve a budget deal. President Obama participated in the call and the Watertown Daily Times and Syracuse Post Standard both ran stories about Glass' participation. The renovation of buildings on campus to house more students was the topic for a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times July 21, 2011 and the Ogdensburg Journal July 22, 2011. Read the story. Two July 21, 2011 stories in the San Jose Mercury News noted St. Lawrence as the alma mater of musician Grace Potter '06 and the place where her band, The Nocturnals, began. Read them here and here. The naming of Mike Mudd '90 as American Hockey League Executive of the Year was noted in a July 14, 2011 Buffalo News story, including citing St. Lawrence as his alma mater. Read the story. Author and St. Lawrence Trustee Marion Roach Smith '77 says making memoirs interesting and readable is harder than it looks. Hear her interview on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," which aired July 13, 2011. Maureen McCoy '13 is biking from town to town across New England, spreading news about climate change. Read the full story in the Daily Courier-Observer. A study by psychology professors Pamela Thacher and Serge Onyper shows that students who mostly take classes with later start times tend to get slightly lower grades on average than other students. A story on the research appears in the July 11, 2011 edition of The Daily Camera in Boulder, CO. Inspired by the findings of a class project, Mike Petroni '12 is working to save the Croghan dam in Lewis County, as reported in the July 11, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times. Benjamin Hull '13 is making a 23-minute documentary titled "Uganda 23" in hopes of bringing attention to that country's water crisis. Read the full story in the Watertown Daily Times' July 12, 2011 edition. Media around the world reported on Christian Lopez's "catch and release" of New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter's 3,000th career hit on Saturday, July 9, 2011. Lopez, a 2010 St. Lawrence graduate, said he was happy to return the historic ball to Jeter, because he deserved it. The story has been covered by the New York Times, ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, USA Today (Associated Press), New York Daily News, Daily Mail (U.K.), Watertown Daily Times, and dozens of other media outlets. In an op-ed that appeared in the July 6, 2011 edition of The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), President Emeritus Daniel F. Sullivan argues that the best business education is rooted solidly in liberal arts. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies and Associate Dean of Academic Advising Robert W. Thacker was featured on Academic Minute on the National Public Radio affilliate based in Albany, NY, WAMC, speaking about Canadian author Alice Munro on July 8, 2011. Academic Minute is also featured in the daily Internet-based newsletter Inside Higher Ed. The Independent Scholar program run by Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, which provides funding for research by partners of faculty at the four member colleges (including St. Lawrence), was the topic of a story in the July 5, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times. A faculty-student research trip to Japan, postponed due to the earthquake the region suffered, was featured in a story in the July 1, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times. Mike Petroni '12 is the author of a guest essay in the June 27, 2011 edition of Adirondack Almanack, about efforts to save and restore the historic Croghan Dam. Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers' analysis of the NHL draft was noted in the Boston Bruins' blog "Stanley Cup of Chowder" on June 27, 2011. An opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, positing that profit motives can inspire corporations to do good works, ran in the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch and Tampa Bay Online, both on June 26, 2011. Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers' analysis of the NHL draft was covered in a story in the sports section of the Watertown Daily Times on June 24, 2011. Summerterm courses in Ireland that focus on peace and conflict, plus place and culture, were featured in the Watertown Daily Times on June 24, 2011. A Summerterm class on the Neuroscience of Fear, that took place in Denmark, was the topic of a story in the Watertown Daily Times on June 23, 2011. The news web site Canada.com ran a feature story about Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers' analysis of the NHL draft on June 22, 2011, resulting in stories in the Vancouver Sun and Montreal Gazette. Professor of English Bob Cowser is quoted in a story in the June 20, 2011 issue of Sports Illustrated, about facts coming to light on a woman long considered the first girl to play Little League baseball. Read the story. The Watertown Daily Times published a story June 19, 2011, about Tandazani Dhlakama '11, who is selling artwork that comprised her senior honors thesis in art. Read the story. An opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, detailing how the profit motive can be a force for good, ran in the Austin, Texas American Statesman on June 17, 2011 and the Nashville Tennessean on June 19, 2011. A film project by Benjamin Hull '13, about solutions for bringing supplies of clean water to Uganda, was the subject of a feature story in the Ogdensburg Advance News on June 19, 2011. Read the story. Research by Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher, with Assistant Professor of Psychology Serge Onyper, Jack Gilbert '11 and Sam Gradess '11, was presented at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, showing that students who take later classes also tend to get lower grades and use more alcohol, caught the attention of several health-related wire services and showed up in "The Ticker," a blog on the Chronicle of Higher Education web site on June 14, 2011. Michael Petroni '12 is participating in an internship that includes efforts to save an historic local dam; the Watertown Daily Times included a mention of his project in a June 16, 2011 story. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on the Fox Business Network's show "Freedom Watch" on June 14, 2011, discussing the Federal Reserve. Watch the video. The June 12, 2011 edition of The New York Times included an interactive analysis of the Commencement speeches given at a number of colleges, including journalist Tom Brokaw's at St. Lawrence, highlighting common themes, topics, phrases and words. Read the feature (may require free login). Efforts by professors at local colleges, including St. Lawrence, to urge the county to approve a climate action plan were detailed in a Watertown Daily Times story on June 8, 2011. Read the story. The Watertown Daily Times carried a feature story on June 8, 2011, about two students and two recent graduates who are attempting to canoe the Northern Forest Trail. Read the story. The efforts of students and alumni to re-capture a title some thought the University relinquished in the late 1970's was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on June 7, 2011. Read the story. YNN/Channel 10 aired a brief story on Congressman Bill Owen's visit to campus June 6, 2011, including interviews with Owens and President William Fox. Watch the story. The job prospects for the Class of 2011 are looking up, according to a story in the Watertown Daily Times on June 5, 2011, which includes quotes from Carol Bate, assistant dean of student life and director of career services. Read the story. The St. Lawrence Admissions "app" (mobile application software) was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on June 2, 2011. Read the story. Jennifer MacGregor, who has taught a First-Year Seminar where she and students "un-plug" from the Internet and cell phones for two weeks, is among the experts quoted in a story about backing away from technology, in the Times of London's Higher Education Supplement, published June 2, 2011. Read the story. Co-CIO Sondra Smith is the featured expert in the Chronicle of Higher Education's June 2, 2011 edition of the "Tech Therapy" podcast, discussing the importance of assessment in information technology. Listen to the podcast. On May 31, 2011, the Christian Science Monitor published excerpts from 10 Commencement speeches given around the country; the list included an excerpt from the St. Lawrence speech given by journalist Tom Brokaw. See the list. Watertown First Presbyterian Church Pastor Rev. Fred Garry is the author of a North Country Perspective essay published in the May 28, 2011, Watertown Daily Times, in which he reflected on the Commencement ceremonies at St. Lawrence and Jefferson Community College. His daughter, Laura, graduated from St. Lawrence on May 22, magna cum laude. In addition to coverage in Northern New York Newpapers, WWNY Channel 7 and YNN Channel 10, St. Lawrence University's Commencement address by NBC journalist Tom Brokaw was featured in the Huffington Post's "Commencement Central" section. David Cohen '11 was interviewed for a story in the Westchester, NY Journal on May 25, 2011, about how the cost of travel would affect Memorial Day Weekend. Conservation biology major Lizzy Stokes-Cawley '11 wrote a letter to the editor of the Watertown Daily Times, encouraging purchase and consumption of locally sourced food, that was published in the May 9, 2011 edition. Also published were letters by Kristi Onzik '11, about habitat fragmentation and Katie Oram '11, about genetically modified food. A letter by Hannah Follender '11 was published in North Country This Week. The Watertown Daily Times published a "q-and-a" with Viebranz Visiting Writer Peter Selgin on May 12, 2011; research grants to faculty from the New York Power Authority were the subject of a feature story in the paper on May 8, 2011; and students who ring the chapel bells were featured in a May 7, 2011 story. Dana Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was quoted in a May 8, 2011 story in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, about left-handers in sports. Read the story. An essay by Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue, titled "Response to 'The Humble Heart' by Cynthia Reville Peabody," was published in The Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Volume 63; the issue theme is Science and Religion. Read the essay. A letter to the editor of the Aspen Times, hometown paper of Annalise Grueter '12, was published on May 5, 2011; Grueter was among the St. Lawrence students participating in the 2011 Powershift conference and her letter advocated steps toward more sustainable energy sources. Read the letter. Research by Associate Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Michael Schuckers was the basis of a May 4, 2011 story on the US News & World Report Science web site, titled "How Good Is That Goalie?" The story, distributed by Inside Science News Service news wire, described his statistical research and quoted him extensively. Read the story. Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was interviewed for a May 4, 2011 story on WPDM/WSNN (Potsdam, NY) radio, on whether or not the death of Osama bin Laden would escalate the terror threats to the U.S. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was interviewed by North Country Public Radio on May 3, 2011, analyzing the outcome of Canada's elections. Listen to the interview. Thelmo President Robby Glass '13 was quoted in a May 2, 2011 story in the Huffington Post, on college students' reactions to the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden. Read the story. Brian Abernethy '12, studying in London, reported on the royal wedding secne for his hometown newspaper, The Saratogian in an April 29, 2011 story. Read the story. Elizabeth Edwards '12 was the "guest blogger" for the Washington Post's Campus Overload blog on April 29, 2011, writing about what it has been like to study in London during the festivities surrounding the royal wedding. Read the blog. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox Business channel's "Freedom Watch" on April 27, 2011, discussing the question of whether or not the world is running out of resources. Watch the segment. Elizabeth Edwards '12 was quoted in an April 28, 2011 story in the Watertown Daily Times and other Northern New York Newspapers, about what it's like to be studying in London during the royal wedding. Read the story. Elizabeth Edwards '12 and Professor of English Pat Alden, director of the London program, were interviewed by WWNY-TV 7 for an April 26, 2011 story about the excitement leading up to the royal wedding. Read & watch the story. North Country Public Radio aired an interview with President William Fox on April 26, 2011, where he discussed his use of poetry at gatherings of Laurentians, and read some favorite poems. Listen to the interview. Emeritus President Daniel F. Sullivan is the author of a Special Commentary published in the Watertown Daily Times on April 21, 2011, on the value of a liberal arts education. Read the essay. St. Lawrence's agreement with NYU's College of Nursing, a day of community art, an electricity-use-reduction contest among students, the latest round of Innovation Grants and students who spoke in Drew White '04's Canton Central High School classes about their study-abroad experiences were all subjects for feature stories in the Watertown Daily Times recently. The "Wizard of Oz"-themed dinner in Dana that welcomed students to campus in the fall was the subject of a story in the April 2011 issue of On-Campus Hospitality magazine. An essay by President William Fox, "A University President Speaks Through Verse," was published in The Huffington Post on April 14, 2011, about how the president uses poetry in his talks with Laurentians. Originally published in Inside Higher Ed, the piece was also quoted in "The Eloquent Woman" blog, with tips on using poetry in speeches. Read the essay in The Huffington Post. Mike Petroni '12 was interviewed by YNN/Channel 10 for an April 13 story about how an environmental studies class at St. Lawrence has become involved in efforts to save an historic dam in Croghan, New York. View the story. St. Lawrence's Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, and its collaboration with ARTstor, was featured in the ARTstor newsletter April 11, 2011, in a story about the nearly 200 images of African textiles, contemporary Inuit prints and drawings, and Vietnam War-era photography in its Digital Library. Read the story. The Watertown Times published recent feature stories about a student-initiated peer-review journal, an Earth Fest planned by Omicron Delta Kappa, "bee week" events on campus and the women's hockey team's Be the Match bone-marrow registration drive. St. Lawrence's planned New York City semester was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times April 10, 2011. Read the story. North Country Public Radio offered a preview of the keynote address for the 2011 North Country Symposium with an April 4, 2011, interview with Ben Hewitt, about how the town of Hardwick, Vermont, transformed itself. A story about the symposium was featured in the Watertown Daily Times on April 6. Read the story. Nathan Rotich '14 and Khadeeja Hamid '11, both awarded Projects for Peace grants, were the subjects of a feature story in the Advance-News on April 3, 2011. Read the story. Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat was quoted in a March 31, 2011, Associated Press story on how Turkey is dealing with instability in the Mideast. The story was picked up by about 100 news organizations, including The Washington Post and the Huffington Post. St. Lawrence's second annual "Bach Marathon" was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on March 31, 2011. Read the story. The March 20 edition of the Watertown Daily Times included a feature story on the climate change conference scheduled at St. Lawrence. Read the story. The Plattsburgh (NY) Press Republican ran a feature story and interview with Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead, who directed a production for Pendragon Theatre during her sabbatical. Read the story. Assistant Professor of History Howard Eissenstat wrote a guest column for the Amnesty International blog on March 15, 2011, titled "Mass Graves and State Silence in Turkey," and a guest column for "Informed Comment" on March 18, 2011, titled "Libya and Turkey: Ankara's foreign policy goes off key." Director of Admissions Alison Almasian is the author of a guest column on the college admissions Web site Unigo, titled "College rankings can be helpful if used appropriately," published March 15, 2011. Read the article. The Skaneateles Journal (Skaneateles, NY) ran a March 3, 2011 story about Meredith Kane '08, a graduate student at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, who is planting hundreds of wild ginger seeds in the region. The MTV Act blog ran a story recently about Michael Chambers '09 and an organization he's involved in in Kenya, Flying Kites Adventure Challenge. Read the story. A list of "do's and don'ts" for the college visit, by Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey, appears in the February/March 2011 issue of Honor Student magazine. The exhibition of Inuit art in the Richard F. Brush Gallery was the subject of a story on WWNY-Channel 7 on March 1, 2011. The February 28, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times included stories on St. Lawrence's electricity-tracking "building dashboard", a community-based learning course where students are learning how to tap maple trees and the University's positive retention rate. An essay by President Emeritus Daniel Sullivan, headlined "Private Colleges a Better Deal," was published in the Albany, NY, Times Union on February 18, 2011. The piece compared private and public colleges' graduatation rates, and their costs relative to those rates. Read the essay. Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey is part of a question-and-answer article in the January/February 2011 issue of NextStepU magazine, a publication for those in the college search process. Cowdrey provided answers to several questions from readers about living expenses and work-study jobs. Professor of English Bob Cowser's book Green Fields: Crime, Punishment and a Boyhood Between was reviewed positively in the December 15, 2010 issue of Library Journal. The book also received a positive review in Publishers Weekly and the literary journal Fourth Genre. An interview with Claire Puccia Parham '90, about the book she wrote on the history of the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, is on the Web site Today's Authors. In the interview, Parham discusses how the book began with interviews she conducted while an undergraduate at St. Lawrence. The Web site OnlineCollege.org, in an article about "the coolest dorm rooms in the country," notes the inclusion of the Adirondack Semester's yurts in U.S. News & World Report's list of "cool dorms." Read the article. The Watertown Daily Times ran a feature story about a faculty-student team remotely operating a telescope in Puerto Rico from campus on February 9, 2010, and a story about Grace Ochieng' '12 participating in a UN conference on advocacy for women's issues on February 8, 2010. Students who raised about $8,000 for charities by shaving their heads were the subject of a story in the Watertown Daily Times on February 7, 2011. Read the story. The Watertown Daily Times published a February 4, 2011 story on a collaboration between the University and St. Lawrence County to pursue a funding opportunity and a January 31, 2011 story on the decline of the dairy industry in the region, which quoted R. Sheldon '68 and Virginia H. Johnson Associate Professor of Economics Brian Chezum. An exhibition of microphotographs of snowflakes and ice crystals in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery was the subject of a story on WWNY-TV Channel 7 news, in Watertown, NY, on February 2, 2011. Watch the story. An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "Are The Poor Really Worse Off?," ran in the Tulsa (OK) World on January 29, 2011. It originally ran in newspapers in Philadelphia and Atlanta. Read the essay. A report by the Council on Independent Colleges and Universities that showed the economic impact of private higher education institutions in New York State, including St. Lawrence, received widespread coverage in the news media, including stories on WWNY-TV in Watertown and YNN, and in the Watertown Daily Times, Ogdensburg Journal, Courier-Observer, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, North Country This Week, Buffalo Business First and the Albany Business Journal, in addition to a number of radio stations. Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue's column, The Wilderness Above, published in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake, NY, is now available online. Her most recent, published January 25, 2011, is about Orion's Belt and is titled "A sky-high acessory." An essay about the joys of outdoor skating, titled "Waiting For Black Ice," by Academic Resources Coordinator of Academic Support and HEOP Counselor Matt McCluskey, was published in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake, NY, on January 26, 2011. Read the essay. An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "The Poor Are Not Getting Poorer," was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on January 26, 2011. A version of the piece ran in the Atlanta, GA, Journal Constitution on the same day. On January 27, 2011, Horwitz was interviewed on the same topic on WCHE radio in Westchester, PA. In an interview with Backpacker magazine, musician Grace Potter '06 relates that one of the factors in her choosing to study at St. Lawrence was its Adirondack Semester program. Read the story. Albany (NY) Times Union Editor Rex Smith's January 23, 2011 column reflected on another past General Electric leader who was called upon by the federal government, Owen D. Young, Class of 1894; the column included references to Young's education at St. Lawrence. Read the column. A January 16, 2011 story in the Buffalo News, on five women from that region now involved with the state government in Vermont, included information about tax commissioner Mary Peterson '82,P'12, P'14, and the fact that she was educated at St. Lawrence. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz's lecture at the Adam Smith Institute in London, England, was covered in an article in The Spectator on January 10, 2011. Read the article. Associate Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Michael Schuckers' analysis of NHL shootout shots was cited in a December 17, 2010 post in Peter Keating's blog on ESPN.com; it also appeared in Keating's column in ESPN The Magazine, in the December 27, 2010 issue. Read the post. A guest editorial on New York State's government by Emeritus Munsil Professor of Government Robert Wells was published in the Watertown Daily Times on January 7, 2011. Read the editorial. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox News' "Freedom Watch" on January 6, 2011, discussing possible bail-outs of states. Horwitz has accepted the program's invitation to be a weekly guest. Peterson Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Duncan Melville was the subject of a "Q-and-A" profile in the Watertown Daily Times on January 6, 2011, regarding his research on mathematics in ancient Mesopotamia. Read the story. The January 6, 2011 edition of the Watertown Daily Times included a feature story on St. Lawrence's ranking by Forbes magazine for having minorities and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Read the story. Forbes.com published an essay on January 5, 2011, titled "A Scientific World View Includes Economics," co-authored by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz. Read the essay. A feature story about Maya Cameron-Gilsey '11 and her decision to shave her head to raise money for children's health care facilities, ran in her hometown newspaper, the Gloucester Times in Massachusetts on December 31, 2011. Read the story. A balloon that contained a note from a nursing home resident in Canada, and landed at MacAllaster House, generated a response and stories in the November 18, 2010 edition of the Northwest EMC newspaper in Foxboro, Ontario, and the December 27, 2010 edition of the Watertown Daily Times. Read the EMC story. Read the Watertown Times story. Assistant Professor of Government Ronnie Olesker accompanied five students to the Middle East over the holiday break, so they could work on research projects involving conflict in the region. On December 24, 2010, the Watertown Daily Times published a feature story about the project. Read the story. A letter to the editor of the Watertown Daily Times by Ryan Gillard '11 was published on December 21, 2010. The topic was related to a Senior-Year Experience project Gillard researched with Associate Professor of Biology Erika Barthelmess. Read Gillard's letter. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox News' "Freedom Watch" on December 21, 2010, discussing the Federal Reserve. St. Lawrence ranked 19th on Forbes.com's December 15, 2010 list of colleges that are best for women and minorities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. See the rankings. Peterson Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Duncan Melville was quoted in a story on the CNN.com Web site December 17, 2010, about an exhibition at New York University on Babylonian mathematics. Read the story. Director of Admissions Alison Almasian was quoted in an online story on the U.S. News & World Report Web site December 15, 2010, on early decision. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on the "Freedom Watch" program on Fox News, discussing the federal government's extension of tax cuts, on December 14, 2010. Mo Cassara '97, head basketball coach at Hofstra, was profiled in The New York Times December 11, 2010. Wendy Pavlus '11 was included in the Sports Illustrated feature "Faces In the Crowd" on December 9, 2010. See the feature. Proposals by students in an environmental studies class taught by Assistant Professor Amanda Lavigne to save an historic dam and mill were the subject of a story in the Watertown Daily Times on December 7, 2010. Read the story. The December 5, 2010 issue of the Watertown Daily Times included feature stories on Innovation Grants awarded to 10 projects on campus and Shawn Austin '13, who is raising funds for women in the Congo. Read about Shawn Austin '13. Read about Innovation Grants projects. The December 2, 2010 edition of The Washington Times included an essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on how TSA policies may be endangering more Americans than they save. Read the essay. On November 30, 2010, "The Answer Sheet" education column in the Washington Post by Valerie Strauss featured a guest entry by Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey, on strategies for students who are turned down by colleges where they applied early decision or early admission. Read the entry. An essay by English Professor Bob Cowser, reflecting on the death penalty, was published in the Huffington Post on November 29, 2010. Cowser's recent book, Green Fields: Crime, Punishment and a Boyhood Between, deals with a death-penalty case in Tennessee. Read the essay. An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on some things about the economy to be thankful for, was the leading opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on November 25, 2010, Thanksgiving day. A piece with a similar theme, also by Horwitz, was the Academic Minute podcast featured on WAMC, the public radio station in Albany, NY, on November 26, 2010. Listen to the podcast. Professor of Gender Studies and Sexuality R. Danielle Egan, co-principal investigator of an assessment project at St. Lawrence, is quoted in the November 23, 2010 edition of the Measuring Stick blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Read the entry. Peterson Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Duncan Melville was quoted in the New York Times on November 22, 2010, about a display at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World; Melville spoke at a symposium marking the opening of the exhibition. Read the story (requires free login). Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on CNBC's "Street Signs" program on November 22, 2010, speaking about enhanced screening techniques of the TSA over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Horwitz was quoted in the Toronto Globe & Mail and the Washington, D.C., paper The Hill on Sunday, November 21, 2010, as well as the Boston Herald on November 22, 2010, all on the same topic. The story and Horwitz's comments were picked up by numerous blogs on the Internet, and Horwitz was interview for several Internet-based news sites and radio programs. Watch the "Street Signs" clip Read the Globe & Mail story. Read The Hill story. Read the Boston Herald story. Efforts by Heather Christie '11 to help areas of Indonesia affected by the eruption of a volcano were detailed in a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on November 21, 2010. Christie studied in Indonesia during her sophomore year. Read the story. Advice from Jimmy Mayers '11, on writing the admissions essay, was published in The Washington Post's "Campus Overload" column on November 18, 2010. Read the piece. President William Fox was a guest on the hour-long program "WPBS Live," from WPBS in Watertown, New York, on November 17, 2010. A story about St. Lawrence's First-Year Cup, inspired in part by the House Cup in the "Harry Potter" series, ran in the Huffington Post on November 15, 2010. Read the story. A story about new efforts to ease cross-registration among the Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, including St. Lawrence, ran in the Watertown Daily Times on November 15, 2010. Read the story. St. Lawrence's Quidditch team, playing a sport inspired by the "Harry Potter" stories, and its preparation for competition in the game's World Cup, was the topic of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on November 14, 2010. Read the story. An essay, titled "Making Time for Pond Hockey," by Academic Resources Coordinator of Academic Support and HEOP Counselor Matt McCluskey, was published in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake, NY, on November 10, 2010. Read the essay. "The Best of Our Knowledge," a program on WAMC public radio in Albany, New York, featured a commentary, on the value of a liberal arts education, by President William L. Fox on its November 8, 2010 program. Listen to the program; President Fox's segment begins at the 14:43 mark. An interview with Kaitlyn Sullivan '12, about her Summerterm experience in Kenya, ran in the Watertown Daily Times on November 2, 2010. Read the story. The November 2010 issue of The Washington Diplomat includes an article about the exhibition of Inuit art at the Canadian Embassy, on loan from St. Lawrence University's Richard F. Brush Art Gallery. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is the co-author of an essay titled "Of Tea and Taxes," published November 1, 2010 on Forbes. com. Read the essay. The second annual Fall Festival, including a wood-cutting demonstration aimed at raising awareness about carbon emissions, was the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on October 30, 2010. Read the story. Emerita Professor of Anthropology Celia Nyamweru is the author of an article titled "St. Lawrence University Students Help Mentor Akwesasne Youth," in Vol. 4, No. 1 of the newspaper Akwesasne: A Special People A Special Place, a publication of the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne. The article details St. Lawrence students' involvement in youth programs at Akwesasne. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is the co-author of an essay titled "On the Tempests in the Tea Cups," published October 22, 2010 on Forbes.com. The piece was reprinted in the Dallas Morning News on October 31. Read the essay. St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester "programme" was the subject of a feature story in The Times of London's Higher Education supplement on October 21, 2010. Read the story. The October 2010 issue of Delta Sky, the in-flight magazine of Delta Airlines, included a profile of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and cited a portion of her speech at St. Lawrence's 2010 Commencement. The October 19, 2010 edition of the Glens Falls (NY) Post-Star included a story about Lee Pollock '74 achieving an elite status in marathon running; the story mentioned that he is a St. Lawrence graduate. Read the story. Professor of Physics Daniel Koon is the author of the "Light Touch" column in the September 2010 issue of Optics and Photonics News. The column is titled "The Myth of the Fiber-Optic Polar Bear: Fuzzy Wuzzy Wasn't Phototonic, Was He?" Read the column. President Emeritus Daniel Sullivan is the author of an article in the Summer 2010 issue of Liberal Education, the magazine of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, titled "The Hidden Costs of Low Graduation Rates." Read the article. Emeritus Munsil Professor of Government Robert Wells was interviewed by the Syracuse, NY, Post-Standard for a story that ran October 10, 2010, about New York State's government, in connection to his recently published book, New York State Government and Politics in a Nutshell: A Citizen's Primer. Read the story. St. Lawrence's sustainability and environmental programs were the topic of the October 8, 2010 edition of the Clear Channel Radio program "Green Is Good." Listen to the program. An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, responding to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education and titled "Have Pro-Deregulation Economists Been Bought?," was published in The Freeman online on October 7, 2010; the piece was cited and linked by the National Review online and The Economist online, on October 7 and October 8, respectively. Read the essay. An essay by Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Jon Rosales, titled "Remember Shaktoolik," was published in the online news site The Huffington Post on October 4, 2010. Read the essay. The Watertown Daily Times published a story on October 4, 2010 about Brijlal Chaudhari '10's efforts to build a school and library in his native Nepal. Read the story. President William Fox's essay from the Summer 2010 issue of St. Lawrence magazine, "The Most Dangerous Building on Campus," was published in the online news site The Huffington Post on October 4, 2010. Read the essay. Reiff College's work teaching area senior citizens to use computers and technology was the subject of a feature story in The Watertown Daily Times on October 1, 2010. Read the story. A September 9, 2010 story in the Washington Post noted that lamps designed by Christopher Spitzmiller '94 are part of the newly redecorated Oval Office in the White House. The story included the fact that he graduated from St. Lawrence. Read the story. Associate Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Michael E. Schuckers was a guest on the Vancouver, BC, television news program "The Standard" on August 22, 2010, discussing how his statistical analysis of the National Hockey League may be a better predictor of talent than scouting and the science of biometrics identification. Clips of both interviews have now been posted on the Web. Watch the NHL interview. Watch the biometrics interview. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a September 1, 2010, editorial in the Lincoln Tribune (Lincolnton, NC) by Brian Balfour, a budget and tax policy analyst at the Civitas Institute. Read the editorial. The Saratogian (Saratoga Springs, NY) ran a September 1, 2010, story about the collaboration of John Daly '86 and Eric Kozlowski '83 on the racing-themed comic strip "Top of the Stretch," noting that they met at St. Lawrence. Read the story. An August 26, 2010, story in the Observer-Dispatch (Utica, NY) about Brittany Gaetano '07 noted that, as head women's basketball coach at Drew University, she is the youngest college head coach of the sport in the nation. Read the story. St. Lawrence University's "go-to-school-green" guide was the topic for a 10-minute segment of the "Whole Living" show on Martha Stewart Radio, carried by Sirius/XM radio, on August 26, 2010. Professor of Religious Studies Mark MacWilliams was quoted in an August 24, 2010, story in the New York Post, about a New York State Regents examination that has been viewed as having an anti-Christian bias. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox Business Live on August 20, 2010, discussing whether savings jobs will save the economy. Watch the clip. Vice President for Finance Kathryn Mullaney was quoted in a story in the August 19, 2010 edition of College Times, with advice for managing your money in college and how to develop a budget. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in an August 15, 2010 article on the news Web site "The Daily Caller," about the minimum wage. Read the article. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on "Freedom Watch," on the Fox Business channel, on Saturday, August 7, 2010; the program aired on the Fox News Channel on August 8. Watch the program. An essay by Emeritus Munsil Professor of Government Robert Wells, recommending an overhaul of New York State's government, was published in the Syracuse (NY) Post-Standard on July 30, 2010, and in the Watertown Daily Times and Buffalo News on August 5. Read the essay. Vice President for Finance Kathryn Mullaney was the guest blogger for the "Campus Overload" column in the Washington Post on August 3, 2010, providing money-management advice for college students and parents. Read the piece. An opinion piece by Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo, titled "An Electorate Angry: At What?," was published in The Huffington Post on August 2, 2010. Read the piece. Associate Professor of English Caroline Breashears was interviewed on Australia's Radio National Book Show on July 13, 2010, and quoted in Australian newspaper The Age on July 2, 2010, related to a conference in which she participated, "To Deprave and Corrupt: Forbidden, Hidden and Censored Books, which was sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. Breashears' presentation at the conference was titled "'Dukes or Darlings?' The Scandalous History of Mary Anne Clarke's Writings." A July 10, 2010 story in The Washington Post reviewed the first year of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's term, noting her participation in St. Lawrence University's Commencement in May. The story was syndicated and ran in many other papers around the nation. Read the story. St. Lawrence's expanded offerings for study abroad were the subject of a feature story in the Watertown Daily Times on July 9, 2010. Read the story. The Washington Post carried a story July 10, 2010, about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's first year and prominently mentioned her Commencement address at St. Lawrence University. Read the story. YNN carried two stories about St. Lawrence's Brian Leonard Football Camp on July 7, 2010; one story was about the camp itself and the other was a feature about how the staff makes sure participants stay cool and hydrated in the summer heat. Watch the story about heat safety. Watch the story about Brian Leonard Football Camp. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on the program "Freedom Watch," on Fox Business Channel, that aired on July 3, 2010. Horwitz was one of three guests discussing federal stimulus spending and economic discussions of the G-20 summit. Watch video of the show. Nationally syndicated columnist Jonah Goldberg cited research by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz on June 26, 2010; among the publications running the piece, or citing it, were the Dallas (TX) Morning News, Erie (PA) Times-News, Arizona Daily Star, Fort Lauderdale (FL) Sun-Sentinel, Boston (MA) Herald, New York Post and the blog RealClearPolitics. Read the piece. Advice from former tour guide Josh Johnson '10, on how to get the most out of a campus tour, was published in The Washington Post on June 24, 2010, in Valerie Strauss' education blog "The Answer Sheet." Read the post. The New York Times June 18, 2010, story on commencement speeches around the country included an excerpt from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's speech at St. Lawrence and a photo from the ceremony, of President Fox, Justice Sotomayor and Kiley Sotomayor '10; the online version included a link to the audio of her speech, on the St. Lawrence Web site. Read the story. The June, 2010, issue of University Business magazine includes an article on how college information technology departments across the country are participating efforts to save energy and be environmentally sustainable; St. Lawrence's IT department is part of the story. Read the story. An opinion piece by Nora Wolinsky '10, advising students to take an acting class in college, was published by the Syracuse, N.Y. Post-Standard on June 4, 2010. Read the piece. The Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire Eagle published a June 3, 2010 story about research on zebra mussels in Laurel Lake, including the fact that environmental studies major Bill Sitzer '11, of nearby Lenox, is part of the research team, having gained experience at St. Lawrence. Read the story. The retirement of custodian Carl Hull, employed by the University for 53 years, was noted in a Watertown Daily Times feature story that was published June 2, 2010. Read the story A May 21, 2010 Associated Press story that ran in newspapers across the country, including The New York Times, featured women who are professional rock-climbing guides; Emilie Drinkwater '98 was quoted in the story, which noted that she began climbing while a student at St. Lawrence. Read the story. The Web site Inside Higher Ed published an essay by President William Fox on May 28, 2010, on his use of poetry in talks with alumni. Read the essay Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's speech at St. Lawrence University's Commencement was noted in The Huffington Post, which includes a link to the audio file of the talk, and on U.S. News & World Report's online interactive Commencement speaker map. See the entry on the Huffington Post See the U.S. News & World Report's map Research conducted by Associate Professor of Economics Alison Del Rossi was quoted in a May 7, 2010 story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal about a record award by a jury in a lawsuit. Del Rossi has researched and tracked awards made by juries in the United States over the past several decades. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz made a second appearance on Fox Business Networks' "Freedom Watch," on May 18, 2010, discussing personal liberties and the United States Constitution. Hear the audio podcast of the show. Associated Press writer John Kekis covered St. Lawrence University's Commencement, and his story went out on the wire minutes after the ceremony concluded May 16, 2010. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Fox Business Networks' "Freedom Watch" on May 10, 2010. A May 4, 2010, column for Bloomberg Business Week by Amity Shlaes cited the expertise of Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz. Read the column. An article on the benefits of using the virtual community Second Life in teaching, by Visiting Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts Matthew Trevett-Smith, was published May 3, 2010, in the online magazine Faculty Focus. Read the article. St. Lawrence University's project was featured on the Campus Kitchens blog on April 16, 2010. Read the blog entry. President William Fox's recent letter to the University community was published by the Watertown Daily Times on April 15, 2010, as its "North Country Perspective" feature. Read the story. The Watertown Daily Times carried a feature story on March 29, 2010 about students collecting children's books to send to a library in Malawi. Read the story. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Daniel Look is using a zombie game to teach one of his spring semester courses; the Watertown Daily Times covered it in a March 28, 2010 story. Read the story. A feature story about Professor of Government Alan Draper named a Fulbright Distinguished Chair was in the Watertown Daily Times on March 26, 2010. Read the story. A monthly "monologue night" broadcast on radio from a Burlington, Vermont, coffeehouse and organized by Todd Townsend '04 was the subject of a feature story in the Burlington Free Press on March 25, 2010. The Watertown Daily Times ran a feature story on March 23, 2010 about students from St. Lawrence and SUNY Canton who did volunteer work during spring break. Read the story. Web videos created by Chelsea Nuffer '10 and Kitty Higgins '13 were the topic of a Watertown Daily Times feature story on March 22, 2010. Read the story. An essay by Information Technology Co-CIO Sondra Smith, titled "Alleviating Assessment Anxiety," was published on the Techne blog of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education's Web site on March 15, 2010. Read the essay. On March 15, 2010, the Utica (NY) Observer-Dispatch published a profile of Taylor Moon '12, a member of the equestrian team and a resident of Sauquoit, in the Utica area. Read the story. The Times Union in Albany (NY) published a profile of Joseph Racette '85, an ecologist with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, on March 15, 2010. The Vermont home of Peggy '73 and Sparky Potter '70 is featured in the spring 2010 issue of American Style magazine, in a story about artists' homes. An article in the Kosciosko, MO, Star-Herald on March 9, 2010, about the celebration of the Natchez Trace Parkway's recent renovation, noted that Robin Brooks '08 was crossing the Trace on her bicycle that day. Brooks has been bicycling across the country, and is returning to her home in Seattle; the story noted her St. Lawrence education. Read the story. A March 2, 2010 story on the World Tea News Web site notes that two of the founders of the Ajiri Tea company are alumnae of St. Lawrence's program in Kenya; the company's profits help send Kenyans to school. Gloria McAdam '79, president and CEO of Foodshare in Bloomfield, CT, recently was "shadowed" by two St. Lawrence students for a day, through the Career Services Shadow-A-Saint program. McAdam included an excerpt of evaluation of the experience written by Bridget Heaton '11 on her blog, in an entry dated February 24, 2010. Read McAdam's blog. Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was quoted in a February 24, 2010, story in the San Jose Mercury News, about the place that ice hockey holds in Canadian culture. Read the story. The Coral Springs Connection, Coral Springs, FL, ran a story on February 20, 2010, about small liberal arts colleges that recruit in the area for football players, St. Lawrence University among them. The story included a photo of and quotes from Coach Chris Phelps. Read the story. Men's Ice Hockey Head Coach Joe Marsh not only coaches a Division I team, he also teaches in the University's First-Year Program. The Watertown Daily Times ran a feature story about March on February 21, 2010. Read the story. An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "To Be A More Confident Parent, Think Like An Economist," was published February 16, 2010 on author Lenore Skenazy's blog Free-Range Kids, on topics related to her book of the same title. Read the piece. A local food company, Sustain, has been working with the student group Lettuce Turnip the Beet and plans to launch a line of chips - including one called Canton Crunchies - on campus. A February 15, 2010, story in The Watertown Daily Times featured the firm. Read the story. Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was a guest on National Public Radio's "Only A Game" on February 13, 2010, discussing Canada, host country of the Olympic games. The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Wired Campus" section carried a story on February 11, 2010, about how fragments of a legal document signed by Abraham Lincoln that were at St. Lawrence and the Illinois State Archives were "reunited" digitally so that both could be authenticated. Harold (Hal) Thomas '74 is studying Atlantic salmon, and has returned to the area for part of his research, reuniting with one of his former teachers, Professor of Philosophy Baylor Johnson. He was the subject of a February 9, 2010 feature story in the Watertown Daily Times. Read the story. An opinion piece by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "The Verizon Wireless Cure for Health Care Reform," was published in The Christian Science Monitor on February 4, 2010. Read the piece. The Watertown Daily Times ran a feature story on the front page on January 31, 2010, about a First-Year Seminar taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer MacGregor, "Identity in the Internet Age." As an assignment, students in the seminar are asked to "un-plug" for two weeks and keep a journal about the experience. Read the story. The Campus Kitchen Project, which involves collecting "relcaimed" food from dining services and area schools to provide meals to people in the community, was the subject of a feature story in The Watertown Daily Times on January 29, 2010. Read the story. An opinion piece by Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo, on the outcome of the Senate election in Massachusetts, was published in The Huffington Post on January 28, 2010. Read the piece. Two articles by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on the college search process from a free-market/Libertarian perspective, were cited on the National Review Online blog "Phi Beta Cons" on January 28, 2010. The post calls attention to the writing component of St. Lawrence's First-Year Program. Read the post. F. King Alexander '87, president of California State University at Long Beach, is the author of an essay published by the Inside Higher Ed Web site on January 28, 2010, titled "Make 'Maintenance of Effort' Permanent." The piece addresses the renewal by Congress of the Higher Education Act and economic stimulus legislation provisions requiring states to fund higher education systems at certain minimum levels in order to receive some federal funding. Read the piece. Trustee Kenneth Okoth '01 is the author of an essay titled "International Migration and Brain Circulation," published on the Diversity & Democracy Web site of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). In the essay, Okoth describes the opportunities made possible for him by being awarded a scholarship to study at St. Lawrence. Read the essay. The "Sense of Place" feature in the November/December 2009 issue of University Business magazine featured the North Country Zen Garden at St. Lawrence. Read the feature. A January 6, 2010, feature on U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges" Web site celebrated "Eight Cool College Dorms," and included St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester Program yurts among them. Read the story, see the photos. On January 6, 2010, ESPN.com's "Travel 10" celebrated the oldest college-hockey "barns" in the nation, including St. Lawrence University's Appleton Arena. Read the story. A story in the Chicago Tribune on December 30, 2009, revealed that a portion of a document signed by President Abraham Lincoln, in St. Lawrence's Owen D. Young Library's archives, was "reunited" with the other portion of the document, in Illinois. Read the story. A December 14, 2009, story in the Glens Falls (NY) Post-Star recalls former Glens Falls resident, J. Kimball Gannon '24, composer best known for the song "I'll Be Home For Christmas." The story notes that Gannon's will stipulated that a third of the royalties from his work go to St. Lawrence after the death of his wife, Alma, Class of 1925; she died in 2000. Read the story. Professor of Government C. Fred Exoo was interviewed on the satellite radio program "The Young Turks" on December 11, 2009. He discussed his new book, The Pen and the Sword: Press, War and Terror in the 21st Century. Listen to the interview. Ajiri Tea, a non-profit company operated by Ann Funkhouser '79 and her daughters Kate Holby '12 and Sara Holby, a participant in St. Lawrence program in Kenya, was the subject of a feature story in the Pennsylvania Morning Call on December 11, 2009. Read the story. The novel "A Gate At The Stairs," by Lorrie Moore '78, was named as one of the top 10 books of the year by The New York Times. Read the list (log-in required). An opinion piece, titled "Don't Slam The Door To Higher Education," by William Short, director of St. Lawrence's Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP), was published in the Albany (NY) Times-Union on November 20, 2009. "Taste for Life," an event organized by the Black Women's Residence on campus, was featured on the WaterAid America Web site December 1. Read the story. Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue is the author of an essay published in the November 30, 2009, issue of America magazine. O'Donoghue is one of six experts interpreting Pope Benedict XVI's first social encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate," or "Charity in Truth." She addresses the environment and climate change in the piece. Read the article. An opinion piece by Professor of Government Alan Draper was published in the Syracuse Post-Standard on November 22, 2009. The piece was titled "Democrats Are From Venus, Republicans Are From Mars." Read the article. The band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, which includes Grace Potter n'06 and Matt Burr '03 on drums, is on a national tour and has been getting press in the cities where they are performing. Many of the stories include the fact that Potter and Burr met at St. Lawrence, and formed the band here while students. Two that included a mention are the Washington Post (November 13, 2009) and New York's Village Voice (November 10, 2009). Assistant Professor of Government Shelley McConnell was quoted in a November 7, 2009, story in the New York Times, on the collapse of an agreement meant to end a government stand-off in Honduras. Read the story (log-in required). Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey is the author of a post on the "College Planning Blog" section of the Web site TheAdmissionGame.com. Her post, on the early decision process, is titled "When the 'Early' Answer is No." Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz has begun writing a bi-weekly column for The Freeman's online site. His first, titled "The Freedom Philosophy as a Calling," was published November 5, 2009. Read the column. Professor of Government Alan Draper was quoted in a November 4, 2009, story in the Toronto Globe and Mail, analyzing the results of the off-year election. Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo was quoted in November 3 and 4 (2009) stories in New York Newsday, about the closely watched election in the 23rd Congressional district. The November 4 story, about the outcome, was circulated through MCT News Service, and ran in other outlets, including the Hartford (CT) Courant. The November 6, 2009, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education carried a news brief about the Victor Ekpuk exhibition in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, "(Of) Lines and Lives." Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz has posted an essay on the Web site for the PBS Program "Nightly Business Report," dated October 29, 2009, and titled "Government Meddling in Bank Executive Pay is Not Going to Help." Erin Cook '09 is profiled in the Education 09-10 edition of the national magazine Indian Country Today. Read the story. Professor of Government C. Fred Exoo was quoted in an October 23, 2009, story in Canada's National Post newspaper, about the campaigns in New York's 23rd congressional district. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was interviewed at length on the October 20, 2009, edition of the show "Everything Is Broken," with Jim Lynch, on WUSB, the radio station of SUNY Stony Brook, about Canada's relationship with the United States, and why Americans don't know much about their neighbors to the north. Listen to the show. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is the author of a blog post on the Web site for the PBS program "Nightly Business Report." In the post, dated October 16, 2009, Horwitz examines the role of the Federal Reserve. Dean of Student Life Joe Tolliver is quoted in a story in a special Diversity in Academe supplement of The Chronicle of Higher Education, dated October 16, 2009. The story is about how colleges are managing diversity programs in difficult economic times and includes a photograph of Tolliver. The First-Year Program's Eaton College ("Thoreau Lives!") and the Adirondack Semester were mentioned in a blog post on the American Feast's Sustainable Food Blog October 9, 2009; the post was about college students learning to appreciate made-from-scratch local foods. Read the post. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on an hour-long program on WVOX radio (New Rochelle, NY) on October 2, 2009, discussing the nature of money with host Bill Reed. Horwitz was also quoted in a story, titled "Fed Up: The political movement to curtail the Federal Reserve goes from fringe to mainstream," in the November 2009 issue of Reason magazine. The September/October 2009 issue of Adirondack Explorer includes an extensive feature story on St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester, by Anna Rehm '11, who participated in the program in the fall semester of 2008. An article in the Wall Street Journal on September 17, 2009, on how people who lost jobs in the recession have found new positions, included George Ehrhardt '08. Viggo Mortensen '80 is the subject of the cover story in the October 2009 issue of Men's Journal magazine; the article notes his St. Lawrence education. Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was quoted in the Toronto Globe and Mail on September 17, 2009, in a story about plans for security at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, noting that because leadership of NORAD alternates between countries, Canada will rely on a U.S. commander to lead security operations. An essay by Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning R. Danielle Egan, expressing the view that racism underlies much of the most vehement opposition to President Barack Obama's policies, was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on September 16, 2009. A front-page story in The Watertown Daily Times on September 12, 2009, noted the SLU Republicans tribute to lives lost on September 11, 2001, the placing of small American flags on the University's quad. Read the story. An essay titled "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Economists," by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz and Rhodes College Economics Professor Art Carden, was published on the Forbes.com Web site on September 12, 2009. Read the essay. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker is the author of a review of Too Much Happiness, a collection of short stories by Alice Munro, in the September 2009 issue of The Literary Review of Canada. Read the review. A story in the September 8, 2009, New York Times, about tennis player Melanie Oudin's rise, notes that her father, John, graduated from St. Lawrence (1981) and played lacrosse and soccer. The Web site Blisstree.com, which includes information, advice and news about health, environmental issues, family life and other topics, posted a story on September 3, 2009, about St. Lawrence's "go to school green" list, including a photo of the Johnson Hall of Science and links to the University's Web site. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in ABC News "20/20" co-anchor John Stossel's syndicated newspaper column that ran on the Web and in papers across the country on August 26, 2009. Among the papers carrying the column are the Jacksonville Observer in Florida. Read the column. An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on "debt pollution," was published in the Tampa Tribune on August 23, 2009. An article by President William L. Fox, "Mastering the Idea of a Master Plan," appears in the 2008-2009 Presidential Perspectives edition of Best Practices in Higher Education. St. Lawrence's "go to school green" list is the subject of a story in the July/August 2009 issue of University Business magazine, in its "Behind the News" section. Read the story. Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker is quoted extensively in an article titled "Alice in Borderland," by Charles Foran in the August 13, 2009, issue of the Canadian magazine Walrus. In the article, the writer takes a "tour" of places that shaped the life and writing of author Alice Munro, using Thacker and his book, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, as guides. Read the article. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was cited in ABC News "20/20" co-anchor John Stossel's blog entry August 11, 2009, and included in his nationally syndicated newspaper column August 12. Read the blog. St. Lawrence's "go to school green" list was posted on the SocialYell blog on August 10, 2009, as well as SocialYell's Facebook and Twitter pages. St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester program is profiled in an article by Professor of Philosophy Baylor Johnson and Steve Alexander in the Summer 2009 issue of Liberal Education, a publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Read the article. St. Lawrence's suggestions for going to school the "green" way were the subject of an August 3, 2009, story in the online magazine Environmental Protection. Read the story. An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "F.A. Hayek and the Fatal Conceit of Barack Obama," was published in the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch on August 2, 2009. Read the essay. President William Fox was interviewed on "7 News At Noon" on WWNY-TV in Watertown on July 22, 2009. Watch the interview. Chelsea Nuffer '10, of Castorland, NY, was quoted in a July 17, 2009, Associated Press story, about the ways colleges are using new technologies to reach out to students. Among papers that ran the story are the News & Messenger in Manassas, VA; The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, LA; News Tribune in LaSalle, IL; Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, VA; the Times Daily in Florence, AL; the Herald Democrat in Sherman, TX; and News-Dispatch in Michigan City, IN. Johnson Associate Professor of Economics Brian Chezum was quoted in a July 10, 2009, Associated Press story marking the 50th anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Also quoted in the story was Claire Puccia Parham '90, author of a book on the Seaway. Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Kathryn Mullaney was quoted in a July 8, 2009, story on the Dow Jones Newswire, on how the investment managers at small colleges have revised strategies for their endowments. Priest Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue was quoted in a story in the Science section of The New York Times June 23, 2009, about scientists at the Vatican Observatory, where she was engaged in observation while on sabbatical. Read the story (free, but requires log-in). Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey is a "guest blogger" for the college planning blog The Admission Game. On June 15, 2009, she blogged about being standardized test-optional. Professor of Religious Studies Mark MacWilliams was quoted in a June 14, 2009, story in the Japan Times, the largest English-language daily in Japan. He was one of a number of academic sources quoted in a story headlined "Scholars worldwide react to plan," which ran alongside a story about plans for a National Center for Media Arts in Japan. Read the story. Danielle Rhubart '10, of Deferiet, NY, wrote a series of four "Letters from Kenya" for her hometown newspaper, the Carthage Republican Tribune, during her spring 2009 semester there. The first appeared February 12, 2009, and her final column was published May 28, 2009. A story in the May 19, 2009, edition of the Syracuse Post-Standard "Green" supplement noted the University's Re-Cellar, formerly the Re-Use Trailer. Now housed in the basement of Reiff College, it's open throughout the academic year for students to re-use everything from rugs and hangers to clothing and dishes. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was quoted in a May 28, 2009, story in the Toronto Star, about author Alice Munro, winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize in literature. Thacker wrote the only authorized Munro biography. Read the article. Associate Professor of Biology Karl McKnight is quoted in an article titled "Garden of Earthly Delights," about foraging for mushrooms in the Adirondacks, in Adirondack Life magazine's "2009 Annual Guide to the Great Outdoors." McKnight is a former director of the University's Adirondack Semester. The Chronicle of Higher Education published a letter to the editor from President Daniel Sullivan in its May 29, 2009, issue, headlined "Monitor Net Tuition, Not Sticker Price." The letter outlined President Sullivan's thoughts on an interview The Chronicle had published online with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. President Daniel Sullivan was quoted in a May 13, 2009, story in USA Today, headlined "Eight Keys to a Graduation Speech with Pomp & Significance." Read the story. President Daniel Sullivan was quoted in a May 8, 2009, story on the Inside Higher Education Web site, about what makes a good commencement speaker. Read the story. An article by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "Ought Implies Can," is published in the April 24, 2009, edition of The Freeman, a journal published by the Foundation for Economic Education. Read the article. Associate Vice President for University Relations Lisa Cania and Kristen Bednar '09 both had "guest posts" on the LinkedIn blog during the week of April 20, 2009. The week's posts all deal with Class of '09 graduates. Read the blog. The VoiceAmerica Business talk radio network aired an hour-long interview with Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz on April 16, 2009, on the "Free Market" program. Horwitz and host Mike Beitler discussed the similarities between the Great Depression and the current economic crisis. Professor of Geology Mark Erickson is quoted in an April 8, 2009, story about hermit crabs on the Discovery News Web site, affiliated with the Discovery Channel. Read the story. A photograph of the Newell Center for Arts Technology is included in a special online issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly (Volume 31, Number 1), devoted to learning spaces. View the issue. Excerpts from a presentation given at Georgia State University by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, which had been posted on the Austrian Economists blog, were posted on the National Review Online's "blog row" on April 1, 2009. View the blog. An article by Ann Rehm '11, about hiking Mt. Van Hoevenberg, appeared in the March/April (2009) issue of Adirondack Explorer. Rehm, of Shelburne, Vermont, is an English and environmental studies major. Associate Professor of Global Studies Martha Chew Sanchez was quoted in a March 15, 2009, story in the Washington Post, about compact disc of Mexican folk songs produced by the U.S. Border Patrol. Sanchez wrote a book about the cultural meanings of the songs. Kirk Douglas '39 has written and stars in a one-man show, Before I Forget, playing at his namesake theater in California. The Los Angeles Times ran a story in its March 4, 2009, edition, and in it, Douglas mentions the endowed scholarship he gave to St. Lawrence. Read the story. President-elect William Fox '75 is the subject of a profile in the winter 2009 issue of The Beta Theta Pi, the magazine of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Read the story. Dana Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was quoted in the February 16, 2009, issue of US Weekly, in a story about left-handedness. A February 20, 2009, story in the Boston Globe about husband-and-wife hockey coaches Shannon '03 and Matt Desrosiers '01 notes that they met while students (and hockey players) at St. Lawrence. The Desrosiers were also the subject of a story in the January/February 2009 issue of Arrive magazine, the on-board magazine of Amtrak. Read the Boston Globe story. Read the Arrive magazine story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz's "Open Letter to My Friends On the Left" was mentioned and linked in the National Review Online blog "Phi Beta Cons" on February 19, 2009. Read the blog. Loraine "Rainie" Walter Blanchet '42 participated in the 13th annual Ski for Women, held in Anchorage, Alaska, February 1. A feature story in the February 1, 2009, Anchorage Daily News included quotes from Blanchet, and the fact that she graduated from St. Lawrence, where she was a member of the women's ski team. About 1,150 women and girls participated in the cross country ski event, which benefits local non-profit organizations helping to stop the cycle of domestic abuse against women and children. Blanchet traveled from Denver to participate with her daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Read the story. An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "The 'forgotten people' are already doing something for economic recovery," about the economic stimulus bill, was published in the Washington, D.C., Examiner on February 13, 2009. The piece also ran in its entirety on the blog "For Freedom's Sake," on February 16; radio host Mark Levin read lengthy excerpts from the piece on his show, also on February 16. The essay was mentioned in the February 25 syndicated column by "20/20" host John Stossel, and an online paper in Spain, LibertadDigital, ran the piece -- translated into Spanish -- on February 26. Read the piece in Spanish. The February 13, 2009, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education has a front-page story about institutions that have hired recent graduates as sustainability coordinators. The story includes a photo of and information about St. Lawrence Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava, as well as quotes from President Daniel Sullivan. Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher was quoted in a February 5, 2009, story in The Times of London's Higher Education Supplement, about sleep deprivation in college students, and efforts some institutions are making to combat the problem. Read the story. An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "An Open Letter to My Friends On the Left," was published in the Winter 2009 edition of the Canadian Student Review, the quarterly student magazine of the Fraser Institute. Horwitz participates in a monthly online q-and-a column for the Institute, called "Ask the Professor." Read the essay. An essay advocating a "one-state solution" to conflict between Palestinians and Israeli Jews, by Associate Professor of Global Studies John Collins, was published in the Albany (NY) Times Union on January 30 and the Atlanta Journal- Constitution on February 1, 2009. Read the essay in the Journal-Constitution. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a story on the Reason magazine Web site January 29, 2009, about President Obama's economic stimulus package. Read the story. St. Lawrence's "Bringing Theory to Practice" program is the featured story in the January/February 2009 issue of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) newsletter. The story includes information about Professor of Mathematics Patti Frazer Lock's FYP; Lock and Associate Dean of the First Year Catherine Crosby-Currie are quoted in the piece, which cites work by Director of Institutional Research Christine Zimmerman and Anne-Marie FitzGerald, research associate. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was among the economist signatories in a Cato Institute-sponsored advertisement that ran in the Washington Post, New York Times and Roll Call on January 28, 2009, opposing President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. See the ad. Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was quoted in a January 26, 2009, story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, about left-handedness; the story included information about the number of U.S. presidents -- such as President Obama -- who are or were left-handed. Read the story. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a January 26, 2009, story on the Web site of the History News Network, about how government "bailouts" work. Read the story. A letter to the editor of the Watertown Daily Times by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was published January 19, 2009; Horwitz commented on an opinion piece by Adam Cohen, published by the paper earlier. Read the letter. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a January 18, 2009, story on Newsmax, about President Obama's economic stimulus proposal. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Air America/ XM Radio's "Young Turks" show on January 12, 2009, discussing the economic crisis and President-elect Obama's proposals for rectifying it. Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava was a guest on "Marc Sussman's Money Message," on Air America/XM Radio on January 10, 2009, discussing ways to save money by being more environmentally responsible. The January/February 2009 issue of Adirondack Explorer magazine includes an interview that intern Anna Rehm '11 conducted with conservationist Clarence Petty, as well as a feature story about Bernard Conners '51 that is illustrated with a photo of him playing football at St. Lawrence in 1949. The online publication Inside Higher Ed ran a story January 6, 2009, about colleges that are planning special events tying together the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. The story included information about St. Lawrence. Read the story. "The Curious Capitalist," a blog on the Time.com Web site, mentioned Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, and his writings for the Austrian Economists blog, in a January 1, 2009, post. Read the blog. The Aspen Times in Colorado, home-town paper of Katrina DeVore '10, ran a feature story December 29 about DeVore's experiences in the University's Adirondack Semester. Read the story. The Web site "UU World," published by the Unitarian Universalist Church, carried a news story on December 22 about the selection of William L. Fox as the next president of St. Lawrence. Read the story. The Boston Globe's Web site column "The Green Blog" carried an entry on December 18 about Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava's suggestions for 10 resolutions for a "green" new year. Read the Green Blog. A story in The Record, in New Jersey, on December 10 noted that St. Lawrence receives royalties from the estate of J. Kimball Gannon '24, the composer of the University's alma mater and the beloved holiday song "I'll Be Home For Christmas," which is 65 years old this year. The December 11 edition of the St. Petersburg Times in Florida also carried a news item on the subject. A letter to the editor of The Washington Post by Professor of Government Alan Draper, titled "No Need to Worry About Filibusters," was published on December 8. Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was interviewed by North Country Public Radio December 5, on the constitutional crisis in Canada. On December 9, he was a guest on the live talk show "The Breakfast Club," on NewsTalk 93 radio, from Jamaica. Listen to the North Country Public Radio interview. Carol York '75 is a nominee for the Adventure Cycling Association's Board of Directors; the ballot printed in the November/December issue of Adventure Cyclist includes a biography that notes her St. Lawrence degree. On December 3, the Wall Street Journal blog "Independent Street" cited a blog post on "Austrian Economics" by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, on the effect so-called "helicopter parents" may have on a person's entrepreneurial spirit. Read the blog. Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman's research on left-handedness and memory was featured in November on the popular "Is It True?" section of the MSN.com Web site. Read the story. Professor of Government Alan Draper was a guest on WWL New Orleans Radio on November 21, on "First News with Bob DelGiorno and Monica Pierre," discussing the state of unions. Listen to the show. Advice from Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey was featured on the About.com college admissions blog November 14. Read the blog. An essay titled "Untangling the Corporatist Knot" by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was published November 14 on the Cato Unbound Web site, a venture of the Cato Institute, a a non-profit public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C. Read the essay. An opinion piece on the outcome of the presidential election, by Government Professor Alan Draper, was published in the Syracuse Herald-American on November 9. A similar piece was published by the Providence, RI, Journal on November 22. Read the piece in the Herald-American. Read the piece in the Journal A feature story about the history of Quakers in the Plattsburgh area of New York State, including information about a lecture on the topic by Associate Director of University Communications Neal Burdick '72, ran in the Plattsburgh Press Republican on November 7. Read the story. John Stossel interviewed Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz for an episode of his ABC News program "20/20." The final cut of the episode did not include the interview, but the segment is posted on the ABC News Web site: Watch the interview. A feature story about Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Amy Hauber's exhibition at SUNY Fredonia was in the Jamestown, NY, Post-Journal on November 6. Read the story. Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava was quoted in the October 31 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, in a story about how colleges plan to pay for environmental commitments. An essay on the economic crisis by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was published in the October 22 edition of The Christian Science Monitor. Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava was quoted in the October 17 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, in a story about how colleges' sustainability efforts may be affected by the global financial crisis. John Stossel, co-host of ABC News' "20/20," quoted Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz in his October 8 syndicated column on the financial bailout; in addition to the Web site for ABC News, the column ran on several political Web sites and blogs, including TownHall.com, Patriot Post and RealClearNews.com. The column ran in many newspapers around the country, including the Brownsville (TX) Herald, Paragould (AR) Daily Press, Mesabi Daily News (Virginia, MN), Hazelton (PA) Standard- Speaker, Kingman (AZ) Daily Miner, Sevierville (TN) Mountain Press, Aberdeen (WA) Daily World and Lancaster (PA) New Era. Read John Stossel's column. An essay by President Daniel F. Sullivan, about the current legal drinking age and why he signed the Amethyst Initiative, was published in the Albany, NY, Times Union on September 28. Read the essay. Comments from Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz are among the expert opinions on the national financial crisis gathered on the Web site of the Heartland Institute September 26. The 2008 edition of CosmoGirl magazine's "100 Best Colleges," a list of the editors' choices for the best coeducational colleges and universities for women, includes St. Lawrence. Read the feature. For the second year in a row, St. Lawrence has been included in Kiwi magazine's "Green College Report," subtitled "50 Schools that will help your kids help the planet." The report is in the September 2008 issue. An article in the September issue of the environmental magazine Plenty, on "green" colleges, cites St. Lawrence as an example of an institution with "the greenest conscience." Read the story. A photograph from the Richard F. Brush Gallery exhibition "Combat Paper and Warrior Writers", along with text, appeared in the "What's Ahead" column of the September 12 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. St. Lawrence's tips for living "green" at college were featured on the show "Whole Living," on the Martha Stewart Sirius Radio network on August 26. St. Lawrence is included as one of "the boldest of schools" mentioned in the September/October issue of Sierra magazine, its annual "Green College Guide," for including outdoor studies coures in its academic curriculum. St. Lawrence students Nigel Fellman Greene '09 and Abby Rose '11 were quoted in an August 17 story in the San Francisco Examiner, titled "Back to School: Green Lessons from Students." Subtitled "Getting Straight E's: Ecology, Economy, Ethics," the article included two photos from the University and gave tips on living the eco-friendly life at college. Sierra Club Radio included an interview with St. Lawrence University Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava on its August 16 edition, on a "green" back-to-school shopping list. Listen to the show. St. Lawrence University's Sustainability Coordinator Louise Gava gave tips on living the "green" life at college on National Public Radio's "Living On Earth" on August 8, and got reaction from new student Willie Mook '12, of Augusta, Maine. Read the transcript, view photos and listen to the segment. Tips from St. Lawrence on how to save money - and the planet - when back-to-school shopping were included in an August 7 story in the Chicago Sun-Times. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on the Garland Robinette talk show on WWL radio in New Orleans, LA, on August 4, discussing his study of how "big-box" stores responded to Hurricane Katrina. The study was also mentioned in the column "The American Scene" in the July/August issue of The American magazine. Homework for Profs: Perfect the Art of Teaching : Even at teaching-oriented colleges, writes Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Kim Mooney, it’s essential for faculty members to rejuvenate their classroom skills. Prof. Mooney's essay was published in the August 1 edition of the on-line newsletter Inside Higher Education. Read the article. St. Lawrence University was named a Catalyst for Change in an article in the July 27 New York Times Education Life supplement, which listed seven colleges whose sustainability efforts are admirable. St. Lawrence, Dartmouth, Brown and M.I.T. are among the other colleges cited. UNPLUGGING: In a program begun last fall by the student government, dorm rooms at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., are graded for greenness – number of appliances plugged in, computer energy settings, recycling facilities, lighting and water use. On a scale of 0 to 95, most rooms score 38 to 56, with appliances and electronics the most common villains. High scorers, -- above 70 – get green stars on their doors; low scorers get suggestions on how to do better. A recent $1 million gift to St. Lawrence from Kirk Douglas '39 is receiving national attention, including stories in the New York Daily News, the Trentonian, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Schenectady Gazette, Poughkeepsie Journal, Amsterdam Recorder, Miami Herald, Augusta (GA) Chronicle, Syracuse Post-Standard and Rome (NY) Daily Sentinel. Jon Cardinal '08 had an essay on patriotism published in the Saturday, July 26, Watertown Daily Times. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is among those featured in a special three-part series on WWNY-TV Channel 7 News July 15-17, called "Why Do Things Cost So Much?" Episodes focused on the rising price of food, medical care and gasoline, and all included interviews with Horwitz. St. Lawrence University Director of Outdoor Programs Phil Royce's journey to the Rupert River in Canada, accompanied by North Country Public Radio's Adirondack Reporter Brian Mann, was featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" on July 14. The story originally aired on North Country Public Radio. Read and listen to the story, from National Public Radio's Web site. Jonathan Cardinal '08 is featured in a story in the July 18 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, about colleges that have programs to subsidize students who have unpaid internships. Read the story. An essay by Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey, titled "Choosing a College: Where Do I Start?," is featured in the "Expert Advice" section of the Web site for New York's Private Colleges and Universities. Read the essay. A study co-authored by Associate Professor of Economics Alison Del Rossi, titled "Double Your Major, Double Your Return?," and published in Economics of Education Review (August 2008), was cited in a column in the Boston Globe on June 15, called "Surprising Insights from the Social Sciences." Read the column. An essay by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, titled "Giving the Fed New Powers Ignores History," was published on the Cato Institute's Web site, Cato.org, on June 13. A story about it appeared in the Tyler (TX) Morning Telegraph on June 20. Read the essay. A podcast by Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey, on the topic "Choosing a Rural College," is included in a listing called "The Counselor's Podcast" on the Naviance.com Web site. An essay by President Daniel F. Sullivan, titled "Public Relations Masks the Real College-Access Crisis," was published in the May 29 edition of Diverse Issues In Higher Education. The piece also ran, on June 19, in the Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, NY. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz is quoted in a May 20 story in The Christian Science Monitor, about the changing population in post-Katrina Gulf Coast communities. Vice President for University Advancement Michael Archibald was quoted in a May 15 story in USA Today about trends in senior-class gifts; the Class of 2008 gift, of a covered bicycle garage, is also mentioned in a blog on the newspaper's Web site, about "green" gifts from classes. Read the story. St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester is featured on the Web site Higher Education Goes Green A program of the Diana B. Torrey '82 Health and Counseling Center was the lead story in "College Health In Action," the official newsletter of the American College Health Association (Vol. 47, No. 4). The story, "The College Breakthrough Series - Depression (CBS-D) Project: Transforming Depression Care on College Campuses - Part II," discusses the study in which the University's center participates, on screening for depression. Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Melissa Schulenberg's print, "Numb," was featured accompanying an article in the Denver Post April 17, about an exhibition titled "Varied Voices" at the Denver Art Museum. Read the story. St. Lawrence is included in Kiwi Magazine's list of "50 schools that will help your kids help the planet." An editorial titled "A Different Way to Fight Student Disengagement," by Bringing Theory to Practice Project Director Donald W. Harward, ran on the Inside Higher Education Web site April 15, and cited St. Lawrence's Center for Civic Engagement and Leadership as an example. Read the editorial. St. Lawrence University, and Jonathan Edwards '09, were included in a March 23 story in the Miami Herald, about top Florida students increasingly looking beyond the Ivy League to small liberal arts colleges for better opportunities. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a front-page story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune on March 26, about his recently published study comparing the effectiveness of federal agencies versus the private sector in Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. Canada's National Post newspaper ran a story about the study on March 28. Horwitz was interviewed by Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C., on March 27 about the study, and an interview with Horwitz appeared March 31 on the "Homeland Security Today" Web site. Other outlets reporting on the study are ConsumerAffairs.com and MSN Money (April 2); the Rutherford Show, a live news radio show in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (April 1); the national Mark Levin radio show (March 30) and Hispanic Business (March 28). News of the study has also been reported on a number of Internet blogs and Internet-only news sites, including Democratic Underground, FreeRepublic.com, Homeland Security Today, the Federal Times, National Review Online's "The Corner," and Reason magazine's "Hit and Run." Read the Times-Picayune story. Assistant Professor of Sociology Robert Torres was quoted in a March 27 story in the New York Times, about how veganism is being marketed. Torres is the co-author the book Vegan Freak. Read the story (Free subscription required.) The St. Lawrence women's ice hockey team was featured on the National Public Radio show "Only A Game" on March 15, as they made their way into post-season play. University Chaplain Kathleen Buckley and the "Build Your Own Beliefs" program that she initiated at St. Lawrence were included in a March 16 feature story in the Hartford (CT) Courant, about Americans seeking spirituality outside of traditional organized religions. Read the story. An item in the March 11 news blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education, about the annual lobby day held in Albany by the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities coinciding with a convergence of news media anticipating the resignation of the New York governor, included a quote from Epiphany McGee '11, a participant in the lobby day events. St. Lawrence was included in a story in the March 10 issue of Greenwire, an energy and environmental policy publication, about how colleges and universities are incorporating sustainability education into their curricula and campus life. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, and the fact that the increasingly popular musicians got their start at St. Lawrence, showed up in Fortune magazine managing editor Andy Serwer's blog, "Captain's Blog," on March 3. Read the blog A February 23 story in Newsday about the special election for the 48th district New York State Senate seat included comments from Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo. A February 27 story quoted Exoo on the impact of the race's outcome. A study conducted by Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher, showing that students who pull all-nighters also have lower grade-point averages, was cited in the February 11 column by Yvonne Fournier, which runs on the Scripps Howard News Service wire. Fournier is an educator who gives advice on youngsters and hometown; the column was a response to a reader who sought advice about her teenage son who's a "night owl." Appleton Arena staff Joe Prashaw, Glen Dibble, Gabe Szafranski, Shawn Wright and Roger Woodard are pictured and highlighted in the "Industry Spotlight" column in the January/February 2008 issue of Rink Magazine; the column is a q-and-a with Prashaw, facilities manager for athletics. Read the article (pdf) Bruce Carlisle '78 was one of two media-industry experts called upon by Forbes in a February 5 article to comment on the efforts of Microsoft to purchase Yahoo.com. Carleton University's student newspaper, The Charlatan, carried a February 1 story about Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher's study, published in the journal Behavioral Sleep Medicine that showed that students who have pulled all-nighters have lower grade-point averages. Assistant Professor of Sociology Robert Torres was a guest on the KDVS (Davis, California) radio show "Speaking In Tongues" on February 1; the entire hour-long show was devoted to a discussion of Torres' book Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights. Dana Professor of Biology David Hornung appeared in an episode of "The Nature of Things," the science program on CBC-TV in Canada. The program is carrying a series about the five senses; Hornung was featured in the episode, which aired January 24, on the senses of taste and smell. A feature story about the spring semester program in France appeared in the Quebec City paper Le Soleil January 18, complete with a photo of the group. The semester begins with an immersion program in Quebec, before continuing in Rouen. The Newsblaze Web site recently carried a story about Sean Kane '05, serving in Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division's 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment. Kane's family, in Lake Placid, NY, assisted the unit in raising money and donations of school supplies for the children of Kirkuk. Read the story. An essay by President Daniel F. Sullivan, titled "Why IT Matters To Liberal Education," is the "Leadership" column in the January/February 2008 issue of Educause Review, a national magazine for the higher education information technology community. Read the essay. Trustee Kenneth Okoth '01, a native of Kenya, was interviewed on the National Public Radio program "Bryant Park" on January 3, about the political unrest in Kenya; the interview included reference to his education at St. Lawrence. Read or listen to the story. He has also been interviewed by WUSA, the CBS affiliate television station in the Washington, D.C. area, where Okoth lives, and on the National Public Radio program "Talk of the Nation," on January 8. Tyler Hanson '09 and Doug Weaver '11, both of Jamestown, NY, made the front page of the sports section of their hometown newspaper, The Post-Journal, on Jan. 1, with a story about their selection as game officials for a scrimmage of the Buffalo Sabres. Read the story. An article titled "Flight of the Hunter: A Report on the State of Hunting in the Adirondack Park," in the December 2007 issue of Adirondack Life magazine refers several times to research conducted by Cynthia Green '01 for her senior honors thesis in economics. The research, by Green, former Assistant Professor of Economics Stephan Kroll and Therese Grijalva, was published in the journal Human Dimensions of Wildlife. New York Sun contributing editor Seth Gitell wrote a column published December 26, 2007, about the history of the song "I'll Be Home For Christmas," including a recent reference by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the song's connection to St. Lawrence through its composer Kim Gannon '24. An essay by Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey, advising high school seniors who apply to their first-choice colleges under "early decision" programs to have a back-up plan, was published in the Albany, NY, Times Union December 23. The national Associated Press newswire carried a story, with photos, about Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher's study showing that pulling all-nighters does not help students achieve higher grades, December 14, was picked up by hundreds of news organizations' online sites, including CNN/Time, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the "Today" show, the New York Times, CBS News Radio, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, Inside Higher Education, the Wall Street Journal, the Hartford Courant and regional TV and radio newscasts across the nation. The story was among the 10 most-e-mailed stories from the Yahoo! News Web site on Friday, December 14. It has also been cited and appeared on hundreds of blogs. St. Lawrence is well represented in the January 2008 issue of the national magazine Rowing News. The cover photograph, taken at the Head of the Charles, shows the St. Lawrence varsity men's 8+; the issue includes an essay about rowing at the University by Chelsea Isdell '07; and a photograph of Kathleen Oscadal '06 is included as an illustration with an article about technique. The December issue of Spirit, the in-flight magazine of Southwest Airlines, included a story about the bequest of Kim Gannon '24, designating that one-third of royalties earned by his compositions go to St. Lawrence; he was co-composer of the holiday classic "I'll Be Home For Christmas." Gannon also wrote the University's alma mater. Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher was interviewed on WJBC radio in Bloomington, IL, on December 5, about her study showing that pulling all-nighters doesn't help improve grades. Thacher's study was also the subject of a story on the popular Web site WebMD on December 7, and cited in a Wilmington (DE) News Journal story on December 10, about what first-year students go through at the end of their first semester at college. The WebMD story was cited in the "Health Beat" column of the Lowell (MA) Sun on December 10. Gilbert Maurer '50 was among individuals profiled in a December 1 story in the Financial Times of London, about "strategic philanthropy." The story included information about the Maurer Professorship of Speech and Rhetoric at St. Lawrence. Read the story. Associate Professor of History Anne Csete was quoted in a November 23 story in The Wall Street Journal, about efforts to save the culture of the Li people in China. Csete studies U.S. efforts to preserve the island culture and heritage. Vice President for Administrative Operations Thomas Coakley and his wife, Nellie, are among the interview subjects in the book Boom! by former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, and have participated in filming a documentary scheduled to air on the History Channel in conjunction with the book. Brokaw mentioned the Coakleys, both veterans of the Vietnam War who met at Walter Reed Army Hospital, in recent interviews on MSNBC with Tim Russert and CNN with Larry King. The Chronicle of Higher Education Web site and the Web site Inside Higher Education both included St. Lawrence in stories posted on November 8, about colleges that plan to submit proposals to the William J. Clinton Foundation, for funding of energy-efficient projects on campuses. The same story ran in the print edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education dated November 16. The New York Times ran a feature story about St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester on November 7. Read the story -- (Free Subscription Required) A columnist for The Daily Pennsylvanian, the independent student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania, referenced the New York Times story on the Adirondack Semster in a November 13 story, and proposed that Pennsylvania consider implementing a similar program near its campus. A feature story about Associate Professor of Anthropology John Barthelme's course on Neandertals appeared in USA Today on November 6. Read the story. A positive review of Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue's forthcoming book, The Sky Is Not A Ceiling appeared in the November 5 edition of America, the national Catholic weekly magazine. Read the review. "The Diane Rehm Show," on WAMU American University Radio (public radio) included in its October 29 broacast a panel discussion on "Going Green In the Private Sector." Among the show's guests was Jon Moore, CEO of Juice Energy, which supplies "green energy" to St. Lawrence; Moore discussed the firm's relationship with the University on the program, and cited St. Lawrence as an example of a customer that wants to be enviromentally responsible. An October 28 Associated Press story about college courses that offer intensive, hands-on experiences included St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester program. Sara Bernier '08 and Sal Cania '07 are both among the students offering "insider advice on the first year of college, from those who've been there" in the summer 2007 issue of Careers and Colleges magazine. The November/December issue of Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, focuses on the "green" movement at colleges, and includes St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester program in an article about hands-on environmental study. An article about Associate Professor of Anthropology John Barthelme's course on Neandertals, and comparing what students learn to the portrayals in insurance-company commercials and a network sit-com, appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education's issue dated October 19, 2007. Another story about the course was published in the Chicago Tribune on October 21. An essay by Graduate Assistant in Athletic Media Relations Megan Bernier '07, submitted to the New York Times' College Essay Contest, is included on the Times' online site. Assistant Professor of Sociology Robert Torres and Director of the Language Center Jenna Torres are quoted and pictured (in the University's Dana Dining Center) in an online story for Newsweek about vegans that was posted September 26. An interview with Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, about how high school students can better prepare for college-level work, aired on the September 22 edition of "College Connection," a program produced by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education that runs on 12 public radio stations throughout Oklahoma. Listen to the program. A study by Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher, showing that pulling all-nighters doesn't help improve grades, was cited in a September 17 story in USA Today, about sleep deprivation in college students. The Buildings and Grounds news blog on the Web site of The Chronicle of Higher Education September 13 included an item about St. Lawrence's student-published "Green Guide" and voluntary environmental audits conducted on residence hall rooms. The item also appeared in the print edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, in the October 26 issue. A story in the New York Times September 12, about colleges that notify parents when students abuse alcohol, included a mention of St. Lawrence as an institution that notifies parents when students are transported to medical facilities. The 2007-2008 Education special issue of Indian Country Today magazine includes photos of and a story about Karla General '07, selected to be one of 12 2006 Native American Congressional Interns. A commentary titled "Are Our Graduates College-Writing Ready? What High Schools Could Do To Help," by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz, was published in the September 5 issue of Education Week magazine. The piece was cited on the "Great College Advice" Web site on September 8; the site is a project of Montgomery Educational Consulting. An article titled "Writing Programs That Work," by Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz and Director of the Munn Center for Rhetoric and Communication Hillory Oakes was published on the Web site of The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy on August 29. Read the article. Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was quoted in a story about left-handedness that ran in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) and the San Bernadino Sun on August 13 -- International Left-Handers Day. An editorial in the July 10 issue of the Malone, New York, Telegram congratulated the University and two professors for grant awards they received for conducting research on local issues. Associate Professor of Geology Jeffrey Chiarenzelli and Assistant Professor of Biology Aswini Pai were each awarded grants from SUNY Potsdam's Center for Regional Research and Community Education's T. Urling and Mabel Walker Fellowship Program. The July issue of University Business magazine included an article about the University's annual Faculty College; Associate Professor of Government Karl Schonberg was quoted in the story. The Buffalo News ran a feature on July 25 about Michele Fazekas '93, a native of the region who has a successful career as a writer for television, including episodes of the popular show "Law & Order: SVU" and the upcoming CW show "Reaper." The story noted her St. Lawrence education. Associate Professor of Anthropology Celia Nyamweru was quoted in a July 24 story in National Geographic News, on an earthquake "swarm" in Africa. Assistant Professor of Education Peter Ladd's book, Mediation, Conciliation and Emotions, was positively reviews in Volume 22 of Negotiation Journal, published by the Harvard School of Law. A feature story about Ladd, his work and the review ran in the July 11, 2007, edition of The Thousand Islands Sun; the paper is based in Clayton, New York, where Ladd lives. President Daniel Sullivan was a guest on the National Public Radio show "The Best of Our Knowledge," produced by WAMC radio in Albany, New York, on July 9, on a program about higher education access and accountability. President Sullivan provided a four-minute commentary for the program, which is available for listening online. St. Lawrence's Faculty College was cited as an example of how American universities are re-emphasizing teaching as a priority in a June 29 article in The Times of London's Higher Education Supplement; Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Kim Mooney was quoted in the article. Assistant Professor of Sociology Robert Torres was quoted in a June 21 story in the New York Times on "freegans," anti-consumerists who scavenge items discarded by others. A "q-and-a" on college loans with Director of Financial Aid Patricia Farmer was published on the Higher Education Washington, Inc. Web site June 19. Read the interview. The June issue of University Business includes an article by President Daniel Sullivan on sustaining the town-gown relationship. Read the article. A June 7 editorial in the Jacksonville, FL, Times-Union by SchoolMatch Institute Distinguished Research Professor William Bainbridge included a quote from President Daniel F. Sullivan's Commencement remarks, as evidence of the higher education community's criticism of U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings. The editorial called for President Bush to replace Spellings in the position. The May 31 online edition of The Christian Science Monitor included a Letter to the Editor by St. Lawrence Chaplain Kathleen Buckley, responding to an earlier editorial in the Monitor. In the letter, Rev. Buckley discusses the University's Build Your Own Beliefs program. Read the letter. Vice President and Dean of Student Life Joseph Tolliver was quoted in a June 1 story in The Chronicle of Higher Education, about efforts to assist minority students academically, allowing them to reach their intellectual potential. Tolliver is on the Steering Board of the Consortium on High Achievement and Success, a group of colleges with programs that assist students of high ability who may be under-prepared for higher education. The Associated Press newswire carried a May 23 story about a new Vermont law that will provide $12 million for college scholarships and workforce training. The sigining ceremony included Caroline Bright '11, of Franklin Vermont, who had worked on the legislation as a member of the Next Generation Commission. In the story, she discussed her college selection process and why she ultimately chose to enroll at St. Lawrence. Papers that ran the story included the Boston Globe and several in Vermont, including the Rutland Herald and Burlington Free Press. On May 21, the New York State Associated Press newswire carried a story about President Daniel Sullivan's 2007 Commencement speech, in which he was highly critical of U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and her policies. Among publications that ran the story was New York Newsday. The online publication Inside Higher Education also ran a news item on the speech, which generated a number of readers to respond with comment. Regional newspaper the Watertown Daily Times ran a lengthy excerpt from the talk on its May 24 editorial page, as its weekly "North Country Perspective," and the Blogger News Network carried a story about the speech as well. The Syracuse Post-Standard carried a story May 20 about plans by Assistant Registrar Kevin MacKenzie and a friend to scale all 46 "high peaks" of the Adirondacks in nine days in July, as a fund-raiser for the neo-natal unit of a Syracuse hospital. Director of Financial Aid Patricia Farmer was quoted in a May 15 story on the Newhouse News Service news wire, with advice for students and parents navigating the student-loan process. Among outlets running the piece were the Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger and New Orleans Times-Picayune. University Chaplain Kathleen Buckley was quoted in a story about growing interest in spirituality on college campuses in the Syracuse, N.Y. Post-Standard on May 12; the story also discussed St. Lawrence's "BYOB" -- Build Your Own Beliefs -- program. Director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program William Short was quoted in a May 3 story in the Columbia Daily Spectator, an independent newspaper affiliated with Columbia University, about HEOP. Short is president of the New York State HEOP Professional Organization. An essay by President Daniel F. Sullivan, on merit aid and access to higher education, was published in the online newsletter Inside Higher Education on April 19. Read the piece. Director of Health and Counseling Services Pat Ellis was quoted in an April 19 story in the Philadelphia Inquirer, about what colleges may and may not do to screen students for signs of mental illnesses, and what restrictions there are regarding notification of parents and others. An item about the program was also included in the May 15 edition of "UB Daily," a publication of University Business magazine. Ellis was also quoted in the April 6 edition of Psychiatric News, in an article titled "Eight Colleges Collaborate to Improve Depression Care." The article discussed a new screening program beginning to be used at college health centers, including St. Lawrence's. St. Lawrence University's endorsement of a Code of Conduct regarding student loans was noted in a number of stories in the national news media on April 3 and 4; among those including the University as signatories of the agreement were the national Associated Press newswire, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Piskor Professor of English Peter J. Bailey was quoted in a March 18 story in the Reading, PA, Eagle about the film version of the John Updike book Rabbit, Run, which was filmed in Reading. Bailey's most recent book is an analysis of Updike's character Rabbit Angstrom. Read the story. The March/April issue of Adirondack Explorer includes an article by Henry Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue, titled "Keep Us In The Dark," about light pollution and the Adirondack Park Association. Read the article. Images and text from the Nathan Farb photography exhibition "Summer of Love," in the University's Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, were the "End Paper" feature in The Chronicle of Higher Education's March 16 issue. An article about and photos of the Johnson Hall of Science is included in the February 2007 issue of Absolutely Business magazine; the focus of the issue is the construction business in northern New York State. A review of co:lor, an exhibition of work by Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Kasarian Dane at rowlandcontemporary in Chicago, appeared in the February issue of ArtForum magazine. The review, by James Yood, states "The artist often sets up situations in which a color seems to echo within a a painting, or even in a nearby work...his fidelity to the endless subtleties of tone, shape and pattern is both earnest and accomplished, exuding the sense of a knotty problem brought to hard-won resolution...the allure of Dane's project is that each subsequent instance will be as difficult to achieve and interesting to witness as the first." An article by Henry Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue, titled "God In Machines," was published in the March 5 issue of America, the national Catholic weekly magazine. The Chronicle of Higher Education's February 23 "Campus Architecture" supplement includes information about and a photograph of the Diana B. Torrey '82 Health and Counseling Center in a section on new buildings at campuses around the country. The North Creek News Enterprise ran a feature story in its February 3 edition on astronomy research conducted by Jamie Lomax '07, of North Creek, NY, in Puerto Rico. A photo and information about Lomax's research, with Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue and Physics Lab Coordinator Jeffrey Miller, was also included in the December 2006 issue of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center/Arecibo Observatory (NAIC/AO) newsletter. Read more about Jamie Lomax '07. Louise Gava '07, of Clifton Park, NY, is quoted in a story in the February 2 edition of The Wall Street Journal, about colleges that offer domestic programs that are similar to study abroad. Gava compared her experiences in the Adirondack Semester and study in St. Lawrence's Kenya program. An opinion piece by Associate Professor of Global Studies John Collins, proposing a new policy on the Middle East, appeared in the Albany, NY, Times-Union on February 1. Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue was featured in a lengthy interview about science, especially astronomy, and faith on the January 7 edition of Provoke Radio. Provoke's mission is to engage listeners in "a reflection of important contemporary issues from the perspective of your own faith." Listen to the show. Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo is quoted in a January 5 story in The Christian Science Monitor, on the likelihood of a woman or member of a minority group being elected president of the U.S. in 2008. Read the story. Associate Professor of Global Studies John Collins was interviewed January 2 on "Democracy Now!," as part of a round-table discussion on the execution of Saddam Hussein. Collins discussed how mainstream news media in the U.S. covered the event. Read the transcript. An essay by John Gursky '07, of Baldwinsville, NY, giving high school students advice on preparing for and getting through admissions interviews, appeared in the "Neighbors Northeast" supplement of the Syracuse Post-Standard on December 28. The Burlington Free Press, in Vermont, published an essay by Lindsey Wetmiller '07 on December 19, with advice for college students on how to survive at home during the break. The New York Times published a letter to the editor by President Daniel F. Sullivan on December 15, responding to articles published previously on the costs of private higher education. Read excerpts of the letter. St. Lawrence University gets a mention in Nelson DeMille's latest thriller, Wild Fire, part of which is set in "upstate New York." (Check page 335 of the hardcover version.) The winter 2006/7 issue of the journal Chemical Heritage includes an article on Marie Curie's doctoral thesis; the article cites Radiochemistry and the Discovery of Isotopes by the late Emeritus Professor of Physics Alfred Romer as recommended for further reading on the topic. St. Lawrence's "Net Generation" faculty development program is cited in an article about information technology training for faculty in the November 2006 issue of Campus Technology. Read the article. A review of recent books about Canadian author Alice Munro in the December 21 issue of The New York Review of Books includes a positive review of Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker's Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, published in 2005. Read the story. The December 3 "My Life, My Words" column in the Rochester, NY, Democrat & Chronicle was by Harriet Newman '08, of Ithaca and formerly of the Rochester-area suburb of Fairport. Newman wrote about how her experiences hiking in the Adirondacks made her a hiking enthusiast. A November 30 story in the New York Times, about students at sports academies that emphasize training in winter sports, noted that Vermont ski-racer Sasha Dingle has been accepted at St. Lawrence. An essay by Kaitlynn Reyell '09, of Saranac Lake, NY, about her experience in a community-based learning course, was published in her hometown newspaper, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, on November 18. An essay by Chris Kerr '07, of Manlius, NY, giving high school students tips on writing the personal statement accompanying college applications, appeared in the "Neighbors East" supplement of the Syracuse Post-Standard on November 16. A November 15 story in the Saratoga Springs (NY) Saratogian, about an organization that helps children from El Salvador come to the United States to become educated, made note of the fact that one such student, Terrance Julio, was adopted by Kevin and Diana O'Brien, of Saratoga, and is now a first-year student at St. Lawrence. The Times Community Newspapers in Virginia, which includes the Fairfax County Times, the Centreville Times and the Reston Times, ran a story November 8 about retired Air Force Col. Richard Unser '71, who lives in Fairfax and is now pursuing a career as a teacher, earning certification in secondary education from George Washington University. Read the story. Jeffrey Miller, physics lab coordinator and information technology computer specialist, has been giving presentations on astronomy at the Adirondack Public Observatory; his work was commended in a November editorial in the Tupper Lake Free Press. Joseph Lekuton '91, M'94, who was recently elected to Parliament in his native Kenya, was the subject of a November 2 story on "Voice of America." The story includes information about his education at St. Lawrence. The October 2006 issue of Security Management magazine includes an article about the electronic locking system in the senior townhouses, recommended by Director of Security and Safety Patrick Gagnon. The September 2006 issue of Food Management magazine includes an article about how slip-resistant footwear can reduce the incidence of injuries to food-service employees. St. Lawrence is cited in the article as an example; a program providing slip-resistant footwear to employees has significantly reduced compensation claims. Read the article. On October 14 and 15, C-Span's "Book TV" featured North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann, speaking about his book, Welcome to the Homeland. The event was taped at St. Lawrence, in Sykes Common Room. St. Lawrence University's Center for Teaching and Learning is included in a new Educause E-Book, Learning Spaces. Read more about Learning Spaces A feature story in the September 29 edition of The Washington Post profiled Joseph Lekuton '91, M'94, a former teacher in the Washington area who is now a member of the Kenyan Parliament. The story included information about his education at St. Lawrence. Read more about Lekuton. A story in the September 26 Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY), about how colleges are considering dropping land phone lines because so many students have cell phones, includes quotes from St. Lawrence Manager of Telecommunications Gregory Stahl, who is the state's coordinator for the Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education. Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo was a guest on the New Hampshire Public Radio program "The Front Porch" on September 18, discussing the media and democracy. An article on a five-year study of moose mortality written by Katherine ("Kat") Bagley '07 was published in the September/October issue of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department magazine, Wildlife Journal. Bagley, a resident of Manchester, NH, is a public affairs intern with the department, as well as an English (writing) and biology major at St. Lawrence. Read the article. Associate Professor of Global Studies John M. Collins is quoted in a September 11 story in the Tampa Tribune on how the events of September 11, 2001, changed the language. Associate Professor of Global Studies John M. Collins was a guest on Chicago Public Radio's "Worldview" program on September 6, discussing the Bush administration's use of the word "Islamofascism." The September 4 (Volume 84, Number 36) issue of Chemical and Engineering News included a report on the July 28-30 conference on fluoride hosted by St. Lawrence University and organized by Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett. An article titled "Leaving the Nest," about local students and parents preparing for the journey to college, ran in several Massachusetts papers on August 31, and it included quotes from Ali Bond '10, of Weston, MA. The story was in the Sudbury Town Crier, the Daily News Tribune, Weston Town Crier and Wayland Town Crier. Read the story. An editorial in the Rochester, NY Democrat & Chronicle on August 31, advising parents and students not to become overly concerned about scores on standardized tests such as the SAT, noted that at St. Lawrence, as with other New York State colleges and universities, students have the option of not submitting scores when applying. A sports feature in the August 20 edition of the Gloversville, NY Leader Herald focused on an unusual team competing in the Fifth Annual Sand Classic King and Queen Volleyball Tournament: 69-year-old Carl Jurica and 19-year-old Jo Palmer '09. The story noted that Palmer is a student at St. Lawrence. An interview with Director of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery Cathy Tedford was included in a special, titled "Travel Advisory: Trapped Behind the Lines," that aired on Discovery's Travel Channel on August 21. The program was about Americans who have been caught up in political upheaval or similar crises while traveling abroad. Tedford was with a group of St. Lawrence students on a University-sponsored study trip to Nepal several years ago when murders took place at the royal palace there. The Dover-Sherborn Press (VT) featured a story on August 17 about the experiences of Sherborn native G. Bowen Borgeson '07 during his Summerterm in Kenya, studying conservation techniques in national parks. A story about what students really need to bring to college with them (time-management skills, for example) and quoting Associate Dean of the First Year Steven Horwitz, ran in the Canyon Courier (Evergreen, CO) and Columbine Courier (Littleton, CO) on August 9 and the High Timber Times (Conifer, CO) on August 10. Read the article. The August 9 issue of Education Week included a story on the value of summer employment for students, according to admissions professionals; Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Terry Cowdrey was among those quoted in the article. On August 3, the Rochester (NY) Democrat & Chronicle ran a story on difficulties that families have saying goodbye when it's time for a child to head off to college. Among those quoted were Jamie Perconti '10 and his mom, Kathy. Assistant Professor of History Melissane Parm is featured in the August 2006 issue of Self magazine, discussing how she was motivated to take steps to improve her health. The photo of Parm running was taken in the Ronald B. Stafford Fitness Center at Newell Field House on campus. The July 2006 fiction issue of The Atlantic features a short story ("Night Bus") by Ada Udechukwu, wife of Dana Professor of Fine Arts Obiora Udechukwu. Ada Udechukwu is a writer, artist and poet, and her work has been exhibited in the University's Richard F. Brush Art Gallery. The Atlantic Web site has an interview with Ada Udechuwu, which mentions that her husband is a professor at St. Lawrence. Read the interview. Deborah Geer '77 was profiled in the July 26 issue of the Auburn, N.Y., Citizen. Geer recently joined the staff of Auburn Memorial Hospital; she is a surgeon and women's health specialist. Read the story. Caleb Cross '01, who overcame life-threatening burns to over 90 percent of his body, sustained in an accident, and went on to compete in the Coeur d'Alene Ironman Triathlon, was profiled in a July 12 story in the Minnapolis Star-Tribune. The story was carried in several other papers as well, on the Scripps-Howard newswire. Cross and his wife, Jenny '02, are residents of Northfield, MN; both competed in Alpine skiing while undergraduates at St. Lawrence. The July 2006 issue of Nonprofit Communications Report includes two stories about St. Lawrence. "Tell History With Timeline" is about St. Lawrence's Sesquicentennial Timeline, and quotes Director of Web Services Mark Mende. "Online List Spotlights Local, National Media Attention" focuses on the "In the News" page of St. Lawrence's Web site. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Michael Schuckers was quoted in a May 29 story in MarketWatch, on the increasing use of biometrics in everyday life. Read the story. Viggo Mortensen '80's speech at Commencement May 21, advocating an activist life, was reported in regional news media, as well as by the Associated Press on its state, national and international wires. In addition to stories in the Watertown Daily Times, Ogdensburg Journal, Courier-Observer, News 10 Now TV, WWNY-TV and WPDM radio, the story appeared in or on the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Time magazine, People magazine, USAToday.com, the York Dispatch (PA), the Toronto Star, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Philadelphia Daily News, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), San Bernadino Sun, Los Angeles Daily News, WSTM-TV (Syracuse), WCAX-TV (Vermont), the Post-Standard (Syracuse), the Houston Chronicle, Staten Island Advance, Newsday (New York), the Canton (OH) Repository, the Asbury Park (NJ) Press, Lawrence (KS) Journal-World, Worcester (MA) Telegram, San Jose Mercury News, Montana Standard (Butte), Buffalo News, Bismarck Tribune, Lowell (MA) Sun, Charleston (WV) Gazette Hilton Head Island Packet, Forbes.com, KRON (San Francisco), KVVU (Las Vegas), Ventura County (CA) Star, Victoria (BC) Advocate, the Reading (PA) Eagle, Seattle Post-Intellingencer, Rochester (NY) Democrat & Cronicle, Canandaigua (NY) Messenger, Little Falls (NY) Evening Times, Lockport (NY) Union Sun-Journal, Lancaster (PA) New Era, Norwich (CT) Bulletin, Lexington (NC) Dispatch, Claremont (NH) Eagle Times, Strasburg (VA) Northern Virginia Daily, High Point (NC) Enterprise, Charlottesville (VA) Daily Progress, Kent County Daily Times (West Warwick, RI), Nashua (NH) Telegraph, Concord (NH) Monitor, Oswego (NY) Palladium-Times, Hudson (NY) Register-Star, Catskill (NY) Daily Mail, Schenectady (NY) Daily Gazette, Gloversville (NY) Leader-Herald, Kansas City Star, Lynn (MA) Daily Item, Norwalk (CT) Hour, Taunton (MA) Daily Gazette, Greenwich (CT) Time, Middletown (CT) Press, Lumberton (NC) Robesonian, Athol (MA) Daily News, Northampton (MA) Daily Hampshire Gazette, New Britain (CT) Herald, Bennington (VT) Banner, Danbury (CT) News-Times, Woodbridge (VA) Potomac News, Manassas (VA) Journal Messenger, Troy (NY) Record, Herkimer (NY) Evening Telegram and White Plains (NY) Journal News. Read the text of Mortensen's speech. The Spring 2006 issue of Liberal Education, the journal of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, includes an article by Vice President of the University and Dean of Academic Affairs Grant Cornwell and Professor of Global Studies Eve Stoddard, titled "Freedom, Diversity, and Global Citizenship," and an essay by President Daniel Sullivan, titled "Milton's Areopagitica and Freedom of Speech on Campus." AACU's Liberal Education A May 20 story in the New York Times, about prospective students making deposits at more than one institution, included an example of a student who deposited at both St. Lawrence University and Allegheny College. Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Marc Beard was quoted in two stories about The DaVinci Code in the May 16 edition of the Chicago Sun-Times; in one of the stories, he separates fact and fiction in the novel. Read the stories. Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Marc Beard was quoted in a May 12 story in the Biloxi (MS) Sun-Herald, on why the novel The DaVinci Code has caused so much controversy. Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman is quoted in a May 5 story about left-handedness in the Allentown, PA, Morning Call newspaper. The story also ran in the South Florida Sun-Sentinal. Read the story. The April 25 edition of the Washington Post included a list of 23 schools, out of the 101 top liberal arts institutions ranked by U.S. News & World Report, that do not require applicants to submit standardized test scores; St. Lawrence is included in the list. An opinion piece by Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett appeared in the Rutland Herald (VT) on April 19, opposing fluoridation of the water supply in that community. A column by educational consultant Dennis Barden '79 in the April 18 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education reflected on the legacy of the late Frank P. Piskor at St. Lawrence. The Providence Journal (RI) included a story on April 15 on a panel discussion held on "Voices in Wartime"; one of the participants was Assistant Professor of English Ngoc Quang Huynh, a former Providence resident. An April 11 article on the front page of the business section of the Richmond, VA, Times-Dispatch profiled Jennifer Hunter '94; in the article, she discusses her decision to attend St. Lawrence. An April 7 article in the Poughkeepsie Journal on an exhibition of Rembrandt's art at Vassar College noted that the scholarly catalogue that accompanies the exhibition, "The Felix M. Warburg Print Collection: A Legacy of Discernment," was co-written by Lynn and Terry Birdsong Associate Professor of Fine Arts Dorothy Limouze. St. Lawrence was included in an April 5 story in USA Today, about the increasing number of liberal arts institutions that have made the submission of standardized test scores optional for applicants. Read the story. Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman is quoted in an article in the April 2006 issue of Psychology Today, about photographic memory. "Nocturnal," a poem by Piskor Professor of English Emeritus Albert Glover, was read by Marion Roach '77 on her show "The Naturalist's Datebook" on Martha Stewart Living Sirius Radio on March 14. St. Lawrence's "green bikes" program is mentioned in a story in the March/April 2006 issue of Sierra magazine, the magazine of the Sierra Club. It appears in the section called "The Green Life: Ideas for Living Well and Doing Good." Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was quoted in a February 21 article in the Canadian national news magazine Maclean's, on a dispute between the U.S. and Canada over military presence in the Northwest Passage. Pittsburgh native Kate Michael '06 was profiled on the Pittsburgh Penguins' Web site February 16. A story about former Olympic biathlete Lawton Redman '98, in service in Iraq, appeared in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on February 20; the story, which mentioned that he is a St. Lawrence alumnus, also ran on wire services and appeared in other papers, including the San Francisco Chronicle. The front page of the February 10 issue of the Cornell Daily Sun featured coverage of a talk given by Associate Professor of Government Assis Malaquias at Cornell's Institute for African Development. An article by Lora Wu '07, about the University's Habitat for Humanity chapter hosting an international photo exhibition from Habitat for Humanity, was published in the spring 2006 issue of Frameworks, Habitat's newsletter for campus chapter and youth programs. The February/March 2006 issue of Relix magazine features an article about St. Lawrence's Java Barn, written by Josh Potter '05. An article by University Chaplain Kathleen Buckley, SUNY Canton Director of Career Planning David Norenberg (former digital asset manager at St. Lawrence) and Heidi Dwyer '02, a computer science instructor at the Emma Willard School, about the University's "Build Your Own Beliefs" program, appeared in the January 2006 issue of the Journal of College & Character. Included in the January 30 edition of The Business Review (Albany, NY) was a profile of Trustee Joseph Richardson '63; he discussed his student experience and his volunteer work as a trustee at St. Lawrence in the article. The Business Review article Charlie Bour '05 is among the student leaders profiled in the Summer 2006 edition of Putney Student Travel Guide; in addition to studying in Spain and Costa Rica while a student, he pursued other educational travel opportunities and plans to join a volunteer medical team in Guatemala. The Putney Student Travel Web Site Chelsea Isdell '07 was profiled in a recent issue of the newsletter for WorldWrite, an education charity in London. The story was about internships at the firm, and began with the sentence, "St. Lawrence University interns have consistently proved worth their weight in gold." Isdell participated in an internship with WorldWrite while studying in London in the fall 2005 semester. The WorldWrite Web Site Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was quoted in a January 25 story in the Toronto Globe & Mail, on how the outcome of the Canadian election will likely affect U.S.-Canadian relations. Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett was quoted in two stories in the January 8 edition of the Post-Standard in Syracuse, New York, where a community has been discussing whether or not to add fluoride to the water supply; Connett opposes the practice. Artwork by Alexander "Sandy" Garnett '92 was the subject of a January 5 feature story in the Hartford Courant (CT). A group of former Binghamton High School students, including Devaun McFarland '09, who are now in college and are advising students at the school, were the subject of a feature story in the Binghamton (NY) Press & Sun-Bulletin on January 5. Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was quoted in a December 28 story in the Toronto Globe and Mail, on how the outcome of Canadian elections will affect Canada-U.S. relations. The story ran in several U.S. papers as well, including the Bremerton (Washington) Sun and the Knoxville (Tennessee) News-Sentinel. Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker and his book, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, were the subjects of a major feature story in the December 17 issue of the Ottawa Citizen. The same story ran in the National Post (Toronto edition) on December 21. A feature story on the book and Thacker ran in the Toronto Star on December 24. A positive review of the book appeared in the Guelph Mercury (Ontario) on December 10. Tips from Director of Counseling Services Bill Burns on how parents and students can get along better during the long holiday break between semesters, included on the Web site Health on the Net, were noted in a December 20 story on the same topic in the Fresno Bee. The story of how the beloved song "I'll Be Home For Christmas," including the fact that composer Kim Gannon's alma mater is St. Lawrence, was told in a December 19 article in the New York Daily News. The January-February 2006 issue of Bicycling magazine includes a story on St. Lawrence's "Green Bikes" program. The California Telegraph and the Philadelphia Herald both ran an opinion piece by Professor of Government Calvin F. Exoo, about President Bush's performance, on December 12. A December 15 story in The Christian Science Monitor, on the college selection process, encourages students and parents to focus on what institutions have in place for first-year students. The story includes reference to the Policy Center on the First Year of College's listing of effective initiatives, which includes St. Lawrence's First-Year Program. The online version of the Monitor story includes a link to the center's listings. St. Lawrence's participation in a $3.1 million interdisciplinary biometrics research project funded by the National Science Foundation with support from the Department of Homeland Security was noted in a story on the physorg.com Web site December 12. The site collects science, technology, physics and space news; the story detailed how fingerprint-scanning devices may be "spoofed." Greg Stahl, manager of telecommunications, duplication and mail services, was quoted in a December 1 story in the online publication In-Plant Graphics, on new technology being used for mail services. St. Lawrence's skiing program was cited as among the best in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the December issue of Ski Racing magazine. St. Lawrence University's Student Center was selected to appear in the 2005 American School & University Architectural Portfolio issue, one of 201 projects to be selected. St. Lawrence was included in an article titled "The Flavors of Diversity" in the fall special issue of Campus Dining magazine. Director of Dining and Conference Services Cynthia Atkins was quoted in the story, discussing the University's vegan and organic options. Professor of Education Arthur Clark is quoted in a story in the December issue of Self magazine, on defense mechanisms and how people use them. Clark is also the coordinator of the University's counseling and human development program. Positive reviews of Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker's new book, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, appeared in the Toronto Star (November 27); the London, Ontario, Free Press (November 26), the Toronto Globe & Mail (November 26) and the Guelph Mercury (December 10). Listen to a North Country Public Radio interview with Professor Thacker on Canadian politics. A commentary piece by Kira Krumhansl '06, on the University's "green bikes" program, ran in her hometown newspaper, The Cabinet in Milford, NH, on November 17. The New York Times Sunday Book Review's "Paperback Row" on November 20 featured Assistant Professor of English Robert Cowser's novel, Dream Season. Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett was interviewed on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" on November 14, for a story on a ballot proposition in Bellingham, Washington, to stop the practice of fluoridating water. The All Things Considered Web site A November 11 story in the Boston Globe about musician Grace Potter includes information about how her band formed at St. Lawrence. In a November 6 profile of Pamela Musk '85 in the Boston Globe, about her recent ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro, it was noted that she first learned to speak Swahili while participating the University's program of study in Kenya. St. Lawrence Coordinator of Electronic Communications Mark Mende was quoted in a November 4 story in University Business, on how colleges are incorporating new features into their Web sites to stay attractive to prospective students. Magna Publication's "Eye on Students" November 1 newsletter ("for higher education professionals who interact with students") included Director of Off-Campus Programs Nancy Pierce's advice to parents of students who return from study abroad. Read the University Press Release including Pierce's advice. Associate Vice President for University Relations Lisa Cania was quoted in a story in the October 2005 issue of Currents, the magazine of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), on how community relations have changed at colleges across the country. The article included information on the University's Canton Initiative. David Ellison '80 was the subject of a profile in the October 31 issue of Forbes magazine, which noted his St. Lawrence degree in economics. Titled "Tech Tyro Makes Good," the story focused on Ellison's research into tech firms in the post-bubble era. He is a fund manager with Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co. St. Lawrence's Peak Weekend is Number 7 on the Sports Illustrated list of "102 More Things You Gotta Do Before You Graduate," a follow-up to a similar 2003 story. Read the list. Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue was featured on the cover and is the subject of a feature story in the October 28 issue of National Catholic Reporter; the story focuses on the ways O'Donoghue brings faith and science together. University Archivist Mark McMurray was quoted in an October 24 story in the Montreal Gazette, about a Montreal-based specialty-paper supplier. McMurray also owns and operates the book-arts Caliban Press. The October 21 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education included a story about alumni events that include community service; events organized in Denver by Betsy Kolber '78 for St. Lawrence alumni were included in the story. Kolber and other members of the Colorado Saints Network received the 2002 Volunteer of the Year Award from the Alumni Association. A letter to the editor of the Montreal Gazette by Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett, opposing fluoridation of water, was published on October 19. Read Professor Connett's letter on the newspaper's Web site. An excerpt from President Daniel Sullivan's speech welcoming new students was included in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education's October 7 issue. Read President Sullivan's speech. An October article in "University Business," on the difficulty some colleges and universities are having getting Web sites included in a specific type of Internet search engine, includes a quote from St. Lawrence Coordinator of Electronic Communications Mark Mende. In September, both the print and Internet versions of Campus-Technology.com included an article about schools that use electronic portfolios to assess student work, including St. Lawrence. Associate Director of Admissions Al Gotsch was quoted in a September 24 story in the Tampa Tribune, in a story about the annual convention of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Examples of artwork from the Richard F. Brush Gallery exhibition "Far North: Inuit Prints and Drawings from Cape Dorset," and an excerpt from an essay by Trustee Allan Newell, appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education's September 23 issue. Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel is among four experts quoted in a September 18 story in the Montreal Gazette, in which each was asked to compile a list of the best Canadian prime ministers. Assistant Professor of Global Studies John Collins was quoted in a September 14 story in the Dallas Morning News, on difficulties the United Nations is having agreeing on language to define "terrorism." An opinion piece on the state of labor unions by Professor of Government Alan Draper ran in the Watertown Daily Times on September 2 and the Syracuse Post-Standard on September 5. Associate Professor of Chemistry Ning Gao's collaborative research project funded by NOAA was featured on Plattsburgh's NewsChannel 5 on August 29. The report detailed the sampling work on the lake and it mentioned the University as a partner. Watch the report. President Daniel Sullivan's remarks to the Class of 2009 at the University's Matriculation Ceremony held August 22 were excerpted in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper. An episode of the Bravo TV series "Queer Eye" that featured a coach and basketball players at Frederick Douglass Academy in New York included the information that student Ivan Rodriguez is a member of the Class of 2009 at St. Lawrence. The episode began airing in August. Assistant Professor of Global Studies Vernadette Gonzalez was recently interviewed by community radio station KBOO in Portland, Oregon, about the global trafficking of women and an article she co-authored, "Filipinas.com: Wives, Workers and Whores on the Cyberfrontier" (published in the anthology AsianAmerica.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace). The program is scheduled to air on Tuesday, July 26, from 1 to 2 p.m. Pacific time, on KBOO.org. Information on the anthology, from Routledge. The July 11 issue of Sports Illustrated includes a photo essay on "sports tribes" -- groups of enthusiasts committed to a particular endeavor. Among the "tribes" profiled is the semi-pro football team the St. Lawrence Valley Trailblazers, of which Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser is a member; the issue also includes a short interview with Cowser. The paperback edition of Cowser's 2004 book about playing football, Dream Season: A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team, will be released on October 10; the cover photo of Cowser was shot by University Photographer Tara Freeman. Jeffrey Campbell Graduate Fellow in Music Timothy Mangin was interviewed on a recent edition of the National Public Radio show "Afropop Worldwide," about Senegalese hip-hop. Read the interview, and see Mangin's photos, on the Afropop Web site The July issue of Real Simple magazine included a feature story on Camp Timberlock, owned and operated by Holly '83 and Bruce Catlin '84; it mentions that the two met while students at St. Lawrence. The June issue of Washingtonian magazine included a feature story on Joseph Lekuton '91 and the students from the Langley School that he has taken to his native country of Kenya. According to a story in the June 22 edition of the Toronto Globe & Mail, newly installed U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins will include Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph T. Jockel among those chosen to give him an introduction to Canada, its politics and its bilateral relationship with the U.S. The New York Times Magazine carried a feature story in its June 12 edition on Romentics, a business venture co-created by Scott Pomfret '90, and noted his alma mater. The St. Lawrence Web site NetNews carried this feature story about him in 2004. Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser's book Dream Season was included in a group of "also recommended" books about college sports in a June 10 story in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Greenwich Post (CT) carried a large feature story in its June 9 edition on the fourth annual lacrosse tournament created to honor the memory of Katie Higgins '00. Emerita Professor of Sport and Leisure Studies Dotty Hall, who had been Higgins' lacrosse coach at St. Lawrence, was quoted in the story. Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett's comments at a waste-management conference were quoted in a May 13 story in the Toronto Star. Associate Professor of Physics Daniel Koon was quoted in a May 1 column by New York Daily News writer Lenore Skenazy, about how Einstein's theory of relativity doesn't help explain why ordinary things go missing around the house. The same column ran in the Christian Science Monitor on May 13. Associate Professor of Physics Daniel Koon's research, debunking popular myths about the fiber-optic qualities of polar bear hair, was detailed in a feature story in the April 24 edition of the Anchorage Daily News. A March 20 story in The Seattle Times, about two memoirs that include details of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's time in Oregon, included details from Professor of English Natalia Singer's book, Scraping by in the Big Eighties. An interview with Singer about the book appeared in The Bellingham (WA) Herald on March 24. The Philadelphia Inquirer carried a story on March 21 on a decision to postpone voting on whether or not to fluoridate water in Trenton, New Jersey; Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett, an opponent of the practice, was cited in the story. St. Lawrence's decision to make the reporting of standardized test scores optional for applicants was noted in a story about the new version of the SAT that ran on the Associated Press newswire the weekend of March 4 through 6. Among the many news outlets that ran the story were USA Today, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Norwalk (CT) Hour, Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune, Marin (CA) Independent-Journal, KOMO-TV (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), Portland (ME) Press Herald, Salt Lake Tribune, The Day (New London, CT), Nashua (NH) Telegraph, Akron (OH) Beacon Journal, Times Argus (Vermont), Lexington (KY) Herald Leader, Winston-Salem (NC) Journal, New York Newsday, Stamford (CT) Advocate and the San Diego Union Tribune. Prime Minister Paul Martin's announcement that Canada will not join the U.S. in ballistic missile defense, along with the start of the term of Frank McKenna, Canada's new ambassador to the U.S., brought commentary in the news media from Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel March 1. Jockel's comments about the controversy were quoted in a story that ran on the CanWest news wire, and appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Windsor Star, Montreal Gazette, Regina Leader-Post (Saskatchewan) and National Post. Jockel was also quoted in a March 5 story on the topic in the Toronto Star. Elm Leaves, a newspaper in Elmwood Park, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), carried a feature story on February 9 about Kelly Nipp '07 and her experience in St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester. Professor of Canadian Studies Joesph Jockel was quoted in a February 3 story in the Montreal Gazette, on topics to be discussed at the American Assembly's conference on U.S.-Canada relations, being held in Harriman, N.Y., February 3-6. Jockel is co-director of the conference. A live Web cam, showing the construction of a sand mandala in St. Lawrence's Richard F. Brush Art Gallery by the Venerable Tenzin Yignyen, January 21-23, was linked from National Public Radio's art page on its Web site. Joseph Lekuton '91, M'94 was featured in the January 24 edition of People magazine, in it's "Teacher" section. The story detailed how Lekuton, a Maasai tribesman, annually takes his students from the Langley School, along with their parents, to see how and where he grew up in Kenya. Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser's book Dream Season was the subject of an article/review in the January 18-25 edition of the Niagara Falls Reporter in Niagara Falls, New York. A profile of Jeffrey Seely '76, chairman and CEO of ShareBuilder, appeared in the Money section of USA Today on January 10. The piece noted that he holds a degree from St. Lawrence. "The Beat," an arts show on National Public Radio station KUOW in Seattle, Washington, featured an interview with Professor of English Natalia Rachel Singer on January 11 -- Listen to "The Beat" Interview The Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted an upcoming reading and workshop taking place in the area by Professor of English Natalia Rachel Singer in a January 7 story. Associate Professor of English Bob Cower's book Dream Season was included in a round-up article on books about football in the January 2 edition of The New York Times Book Review. It was the "Editor's Choice" in the January 9 edition. Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue was quoted in a piece in the November/December issue of the journal Science & Spirit, on the role that Islam has played in the history of science. Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker was quoted in a December 27 story in the Toronto Globe and Mail on the higher media profile of author Alice Munro; Thacker is the author of a forthcoming Munro biography. The December 17 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education included a story about composer J. Kimball Gannon '24's bequest to the University of a portion of the royalties to his works, including his most famous song, "I'll Be Home For Christmas." Gannon also composed the University's alma mater, "The Scarlet and the Brown." Professor of Canadian Studies Joseph Jockel was quoted in November 30 story on the Knight-Ridder news service, on President Bush's visit to Ottawa. The story was carried on numerous radio stations and in many newspapers that subscribe to the service, including the Contra Costa Times (CA), Philadelphia Inquirer, Salt Lake Tribune, Miami Herald, Bradenton Herald, Ft. Wayne News Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Kansas City Star, Biloxi Sun Herald, Myrtle Beach Sun News, San Luis Obispo Tribune (CA), Centre Daily Times (PA), Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA), Monterey County Herald and Macon Telegraph (GA). On November 20, Jockel was quoted in a story in the Toronto Star, on the same topic. A review of Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser's book, Dream Season, appeared in the November 1 issue of Sports Illustrated. Reviews also appeared in the Boston Globe (November 7) and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (November 9). Radio stations that have run recent interviews with Cowser about the book include KYW in Philadelphia, PA; KMSR in Dallas, TX; WPHM in Detroit, MI; WGY in Albany, NY; WCWA in Toledo, OH; WDRC in Hartford, CT; KMJE in Sacramento, CA; WKQZ in Flint, MI; KMTT in Seattle, WA; and WGTD in Milwaukee, WI. He has also appeared on the syndicated radio programs "Cable Talk" on Cable Radio Network; "Daybreak USA" on the USA Network; and "Business Talk This Morning" on the Business Talk Radio network. An interview with Cowser aired on the National Public Radio show "Only A Game" on November 6. Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures Roy Caldwell was quoted in a story on the Fox News Web site October 25, about the influence of American popular culture on France. Read the Story. In the October 22 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, four scholars were asked "to discuss the book or books that have most influenced their fields" for an article called "The Short List." The four scholars included Professor of English Natalia Rachel Singer, who cites works by George Orwell, James Baldwin, Susan Griffin and Alix Kates Shulman. In a story on "the secret lives of academics" in the October 15 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser's "other career" as a semi-professional football player is detailed. Professor of Psychology Alan Searleman was quoted in an October 10 story in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, on tips for remembering computer passwords, PINs and other necessities of modern life. A story about Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser's book Dream Season appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune on October 10. The October 1 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education included an excerpt from Associate Professor of English Natalia Rachel Singer's new book, Scraping by in the Big Eighties. E-mail questions or comments to Coordinator of News Services Macreena Doyle. Updated: January 21, 2013
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