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10/6/03

TWO AT ST. LAWRENCE APPOINTED TO NAMED PROFESSORSHIPS

CANTON – Two faculty members in the mathematics, computer science and 
statistics department at St. Lawrence University have been appointed 
to named professorships, each for a 10-year term.
	Patti Frazer Lock is the recipient of the Cummings Professorship 
of Mathematics, established in 1888 by Columbus R. Cummings, of 
Chicago, to honor and support an outstanding faculty member in 
mathematics. A member of the St. Lawrence faculty since 1981, Lock 
is a graduate of Colgate University, with a master's degree and Ph.D. 
from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In 1994, she received 
the J. Calvin Keene Award, given annually to a faculty member in 
recognition of "high standards of personal scholarship, effective 
teaching and moral concern." Her main areas of research are graph 
theory and mathematics education, and she is the co-author of a series 
of textbooks on strategies for teaching algebra, calculus, multivariable 
calculus, applied calculus and precalculus.
	A. Michael Sheard is the recipient of the Rutherford Professorship 
of Mathematics, established in 1968 with a gift from Dr. and Mrs. John 
Crane in memory of General and Mrs. Harry K. Rutherford, to honor and 
support an outstanding faculty member in mathematics. A faculty member at 
the University since 1986, Sheard is a graduate of Yale University, with 
a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley. 
While on a sabbatical leave from St. Lawrence in 1999-2000, he was a 
visiting scholar at Dartmouth College. Sheard also studies graph theory, 
and teaches courses in computer science as well as mathematics.

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