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Press ReleasesCheck out our 'Green' Press Kit! St. Lawrence Students Going Bald During Clips for Cancer 'Noon in the Chapel' to Honor Black History Month at St. Lawrence St. Lawrence Writers Series to Feature St. Lawrence Speaker to Present on Conflict, Peace in Northern Ireland St. Lawrence Awarded Grant For Sustainability Semester Classroom Facility Art & Hockey Exhibition At St. Lawrence's Brush Gallery Music Of 'Organ Masters' On Tap For January Recital At SLU Nominations For St. Lawrence University's North Country Citation Sought St. Lawrence Writers Series With Bernard Cooper Rescheduled for February 21 Seattle Baroque Soloists To Perform At St. Lawrence St. Lawrence President Joins Initiative Urging Gun Safety Legislation SLU Board Of Trustees Approves Site, Contractor For New Residence Hall Grace Potter & the Nocturnals To Perform '10-Year Anniversary' Show At SLU Study Shows St. Lawrence University Has $262 Million Economic Impact On Region |
FeaturesStudent Innovators Invited to Learn about North Country’s ‘Silicon Valley’ on Feb. 11 Students with big ideas for a potential business, or current and future entrepreneurs are invited to learn more at an information session hosted by the Shipley Center for Innovation on Monday, February 11, at 7 p.m. in the Hannon Room in the Sullivan Student Center. Steven Goldman '13, Physics Profs Participate In Astronomy Workshop In Puerto Rico Shelley Kandola '13 Receives Recognition For Research Presenation Sixteen Students Awarded Grants For Intercultural Research Ashley Grey '15 Participates In CSTEP Mini-Course Econ Faculty & Students Conducting Research In Nepal Website Collects Students' Interviews From English Course Marc 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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Rebecca Solnit, described by Utne Reader as one of the “25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World,” will speak and read from her recent work as part of the St. Lawrence University’s Writers Series on Thursday, February 14, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
Jon McCourt will discuss the role he played in bringing peace to his Northern Ireland community during a talk at St. Lawrence University on Wednesday, February 13, at 7 p.m. in the Griffiths Arts Center, Room 123. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
An exhibition called "Game On! Art & Hockey," curated by Associate Professor of Art and History Kasarian Dane, will be in St. Lawrence University's Richard F. Brush Art Gallery from January 21 through March 5. It is open to the public, free of charge.
Award-winning memoirist, novelist and short-story writer Bernard Cooper, who was originally scheduled to visit campus Jan. 31, will speak and read from recent work in an appearance at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, February 21, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. Part of the University's Writers Series, the event is open to the public, free of charge.
The touring ensemble Seattle Baroque Soloists will perform in 
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.
Steven Goldman '13, Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue and astronomer/lab coordinator Jeff Miller participated in the sixth ALFALFA Undergraduate Team Workshop at the Arecibo Radio Observatory, in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, in January. The National Science Foundation-funded workshop centers on research examining "cool" hydrogen in distant galaxies.
A presentation by Shelley Kandola '13 was chosen as an Outstanding Presentation by the judges of the undergraduate poster session of the Joint Mathematics Meeting held in San Diego in January.
Two economics professors and three students are spending part of the semester break in Nepal, studying the effect of remittances on literacy in that country.
Students in the course Reading the American West, taught by Visiting Associate Professor of English Jill Talbot, interviewed a dozen people who either live and work in the west or write about the region, and have published the interviews on a website. Each student contacted a person currently living and working in the west, or a writer who has written about the west, in order to broaden their study beyond the classroom and the required fiction and nonfiction readings, film viewings and discussions. "Students were encouraged to interview individuals with whom they shared an interest," Talbot says.
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.