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4/21/08

Named Professorships Go To Johns, Erlichman At SLU

CANTON - 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.

Johns earned her bachelor's degree from Colby College and the Ph.D. from the University of Montana. She teaches courses in air and water pollution; sustainable agriculture; and environmental backlash; her research = much of which is done on the St. Lawrence River - focuses on the uptake of heavy metals by bivalves in freshwater ecosystems. Johns presents this work annually at meetings of the Society for Ecological Toxicology and Contamination and has published it in major scientific journals on the Great Lakes.

Erlichman earned both his bachelor's degree and master's degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Ph.D. from Dartmouth Medical School. Erlichman offers courses in comparative vertebrate morphology and human biology, while his current area of research is the brain's glial cells, which in the past have been little studied. Erlichman is investigating how the cells provide metabolic support to neurons and modulate their activity. Often, St. Lawrence students are involved in his research and he has frequently co-authored articles in journals with students.

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