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Press ReleasesSLU
Receives Over 5,000 Applications In Record-Breaking Year Fordham-Hernandez Selected Top Prof By SLU Seniors St. Lawrence University Commencement May 18 2008 Moving-Up Day Award-Winners Listed Newsman Tom Brokaw Speaks To Packed House At St. Lawrence St. Lawrence Security & Safey Adds ATV To Fleet Retiring Employees Honored By SLU SLU Honors 25-Year Employees SLU's Brush Gallery Exhibits Prints, Drawings By Senior Alexa Unser Jeffrey Young Named Piskor Lecturer At St. Lawrence Named Professorships Go To Johns, Erlichman At SLU St. Lawrence Professor McCarthy Awarded Fellowship At Naropa University |
FeaturesProf. Thacker Part Of Boise's 'Big Read' Dining Services Wins Award In National Competition Over 1,000 Trees Planted By Students
Mike Tudoreanu '09 Interns With British Labour Party St. Lawrence Celebrates Davis UWC Scholars Physics Honorary Society Inducts Four Students Maureen Collins Baker '57 Authors Brother's Biography Students Walking 60 Miles In Fund-Raiser North Country Public Radio Honored with Five 2008 Regional Murrow Awards Stephen Butler '79 Honored By Planners' Association Prof. Pomponio Gives Invited Talk In Italy University Fellows Selected For 2008 Students Awarded 'Projects For Peace' Grant Bookstore Story Hours Give Children Global View Joey Webb '09 Awarded Summer Research Fellowship |
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St. Lawrence University Assistant Professor of Performance and
Communication Arts Traci A. Fordham-Hernandez is the recipient of
the 2008 Owen D. Young Outstanding Faculty Award, as voted by
members of the senior class. The award is the only one given to
faculty that is chosen by students.
St. Lawrence
University's Contemporary Issues Forum presented a talk by NBC News Special
Correspondent Tom Brokaw on Wednesday, April 30, in Gulick Theatre.
The talk, called "Life Is Not Virtual," filled the 500-seat venue with students,
faculty, staff and community members.
An all-terrain vehicle (ATV) has been added to the fleet of the St. Lawrence
University security and safety department, allowing officers to reach wooded
areas of the 1,000-acre campus more efficiently.
Employees retiring from service at St. Lawrence University were
honored at a recent event held on campus.
Employees marking 25 years at St. Lawrence University were honored recently.
"Perched On a Thread Around a Spool," an exhibition of prints and
drawings by Alexa A. Unser '08, will be in the Richard F. Brush Art
Gallery at St. Lawrence University from April 17 through May 31. Unser
will give a talk on the exhibition, which is her senior-year project,
on Wednesday, April 23, at 5 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths Art Center;
the event, open to the public free of charge, will be followed by a
reception in the gallery.
A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics Jeffrey T. Young has been named
the Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecturer at St. Lawrence University and will
give a talk on campus next spring on the topic "Justice, Property and
Markets: Economics as Moral Philosophy."
St. Lawrence University Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Carolyn
Johns has been named to the Grace Fippinger Endowed Professorship in Science
and Associate Professor of Biology Joseph S. Erlichman has been named to the
R. Sheldon '68 and Virginia H. Johnson Professorship in the Sciences.
Professor of Canadian Studies Robert Thacker recently gave an invited talk
to the City Club of Boise, Idaho, for its "Big Read" of Willa Cather's My Ántonia.
St. Lawrence University Dining Services has, for the third straight year,
been honored by the National Association of College and University Food
Services (NACUFS) for being a national leader in campus dining.
More than 1,000 trees have been planted by students recently, on campus and
other University property, to serve as carbon off-sets and for future
sustainability efforts.
Mihnea (Mike) Tudoreanu '09, of Bucharest, Romania, worked for the British
Labour Party during the British election season as part of an internship
while participating in St. Lawrence University's program of study in
London for spring 2008.
Alumni Council member Maureen Collins Baker '57 has written a book,
Outrageous Hero, honoring the memory of her brother B.T. Collins,
former California assemblyman and Vietnam veteran who once served
as the chief of staff for then-California Governor Jerry Brown and
director of the California Conservation Corps.
Three members of the Class of 2011 will participate in a three-day event this
summer in Chicago to help find a cure for breast cancer. Sarah Holden '11,
Molly Wike '11 and Julia Logan '11 are planning to participate in the "Breast
Cancer 3-Day," benefitting Susan G. Komen For the Cure, August 8 through 10.
Their team is called SLU Ladies.
Stephen C. Butler '79, of Seattle, WA, will be inducted into the American
Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) College of Fellows on April 27. The
College of Fellows "recognizes individuals who have made exceptional
contributions to the planning profession."
Professor of Anthropology Alice Pomponio recently gave a talk, titled
"Informazione in pericolo: Una lingua minacciata di morte nel Pacifico
del Sud" (Information in Peril: An Endangered Language in the South
Pacific)," to graduate students in the philosophy and social sciences
department of the University of Siena, Italy. The talk was part of her
Fulbright Foundation Senior Lectureship.
Two St. Lawrence University students have been awarded one of the "100 Projects
for Peace" grants for 2008, in the second year of the program. Yuki Poudyal '09,
of Nepal, and Nicole Szucs '10, of Bolivia, plan a project that aims to
provide 20 to 30 young people living on the streets of Kathmandu with the
opportunity to be more productive and help them reintegrate into society.
Local children have the opportunity for some "armchair travel" through a program
at St. Lawrence University's Brewer Bookstore and students from a variety of nations.
Joey Webb '09, of Pleasant Grove, Utah, has been awarded a 2008 Summer
Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) at the University of Texas Southwestern.
Webb is a psychology and biology major.