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Press ReleasesCheck out our 'Green' Press Kit! SLU Board Of Trustees Approves Site, Contractor For New Residence Hall Composer Of 'I'll Be Home For Christmas' Graduated From SLU And Left Lasting Gift School Tour Planned For Play Written By St. Lawrence Professor Laurentian Singers Performing Christmas Concerts On Campus & At Edwards Opera House St. Lawrence University Candlelight Service December 12 Mathematician Family, Including Two SLU Profs & One Alum, Write Textbook Grace Potter & the Nocturnals To Perform '10-Year Anniversary' Show At SLU Study Shows St. Lawrence University Has $262 Million Economic Impact On Region St. Lawrence University Receives Grant for Community Partnerships Rockwell Kent Exhibition At St. Lawrence's Brush Gallery & ODY Library |
FeaturesMarc Delaney '13 Awarded Research Grant Latest Round Of Innovation Grant Awards Announced Prof. Horwitz Gets Honorable Mention For Journalism Prize Students Interview Women Authors, Publish On Website Katie Greene '14 Gives Presentation To Historical Society Mathematics Honor Society Inducts 29 New Members Five Students Participate In GEM Grad Lab At Cornell Prof. Graham's Essay In 'Best Food Writing 2012' Anthropology Lab Becomes 'CSI/SLU' Event In NYC To Launch Journal Issue Guest-Edited By Prof. White |
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Whether you favor a new take by "The Voice" country star Blake Shelton or the original by crooner Bing Crosby, the enduring popularity of the holiday song "I'll Be Home For Christmas" is good news for St. Lawrence University. The song's composer, J. Kimball "Kim" Gannon, graduated from St. Lawrence in 1924 and left the University a portion of his royalties from all of his compositions in his will.
An organization that works to create "peaceful schools" plans to tour New York State with performances of a play written by a St. Lawrence University professor that is based on a popular children's book with an anti-bullying message.
Statistically, it is improbable than an entire family of five would write a textbook together and get it published. Maybe that's why the Lock family, including Cummings Professor of Mathematics Patti Frazer Lock and Burry Professor of Statistics Robin Lock, were so determined to make it happen.
The Locks, along with all three children - Kari Lock Morgan, Eric Lock and Dennis Lock '08 - are the authors of the text Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data, published by Wiley.
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals will return to the place it all started 10 years ago - St. Lawrence University in Canton - for an anniversary show as part of their 2013 Roar Tour.
An exhibition called "Rockwell Kent: The Once Most Popular American Artist" will be in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery and Owen D. Young Library at St. Lawrence University October 15
through December 14.
Marc Delaney '13, of Clayton, N.Y., has been awarded a research grant by the Beta Beta Beta Foundation. A biology major with a minor in chemistry, Delaney will work with faculty mentor Assistant Professor of Biology Karin Heckman on a project studying cancer-fighting properties of lycopene, a substance found in tomatoes.
Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz received honorable mention in the Reason Foundation's 2012 Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The Bastiat Prize "celebrates writing that captures the spirit and creativity of Claude Frédéric Bastiat, a 19th-century French economist and classical liberal who used humor, satire and simplicity to make powerful cases for liberty and free markets that have stood the test of time."
Students in Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jill Talbot's class have conducted interviews with ethnic women writers and have published them on a website designed by Amy Yao '14.
Katie Greene '14, of Essex Junction, Vt., gave a presentation at the St. Lawrence County Historical Association's Annual Meeting on November 3. The meeting focused on the region's role in the War of 1812, and Greene's presentation was on "The Capitulation of the Village of Hamilton."
The Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science recently inducted 29 new members into the Mathematics Honor Society Pi Mu Epsilon. The University's chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, New York Epsilon, was established in 1935. The national organization is "dedicated to the promotion of mathematics and recognition of students who successfully pursue mathematical understanding."
An essay by Associate Professor of English Paul Graham '99 has been published in Best Food Writing 2012, published in October 2012 by Da Capo Press.
It's lab day for students in Forensic Anthropology, taught by Visiting Assistant Professor Mindy Pitre. Students have to learn how to record and catalogue a site, as they would have to if they were involved in an anthropological dig. Many profs would lay down a grid on a spot of land and assign students a square, with plants, wildlife, soil, etc. making up the items on their logs. Not so with Pitre.
The publication of a special issue of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, with Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures Steven White as guest editor, will be celebrated at an event in New York City November 16, the culmination of a three-day symposium that features contributors to the journal. The journal is published by the Americas Society in New York and the issue centers on eco-literature in Latin America.