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7/9/07
TWO SLU PROFESSORS AWARDED WALKER FELLOWSHIPS
CANTON - Two St. Lawrence University science professors have been granted awards
from SUNY Potsdam's Center for Regional Research and Community Education's T. Urling
and Mabel Walker Fellowship Program for North Country-based research projects.
Undergraduate students will assist with each of the projects.
Associate Professor of Geology
Jeffrey R. Chiarenzelli '81 was
awarded $4,960 to study the quality of drinking water in St. Lawrence County.
St. Lawrence senior Matthew
Zabik, of Stafford Springs, Connecticut, will assist Chiarenzelli in the research,
which will examine groundwater in the county. Collaborating are St. Lawrence County
Planner Jon Montan, a 1972 University graduate, and Myrna Barney, of the St. Lawrence
County Public Health Department.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Aswini Pai has been
awarded $4,798 to study the distribution and abundance of Iroquois medicinal
plants along hiking trails in the Adirondack Park. Ryan Ransom, a St. Lawrence
junior from Hogansburg, will assist Pai with the research project, as will high
school students from the Akwesasne Boys and Girls Club. The students from
Akwesasne will learn about an important part of their ecological and medicinal
heritage by photographing and creating a Web site about Iroquois medicinal plants.
They begin their work this summer, and information collected will be compiled
with a Geographic Information System (GIS), allowing for the creation of a
long-term database.
The purpose of the T. Urling and Mabel Walker Research Fellowship Program is
to encourage faculty from the region's 11 institutions of higher education to
undertake research on critical issues confronting North Country communities,
with the objective of making recommendations for their solutions. The
program is designed to provide the opportunity for faculty and staff to
use their expertise and training to analyze and propose solutions to the
region's social and economic problems. Additionally, faculty investigators
are encouraged to examine the roles which both the private and public
sectors play in providing solutions to regional problems.
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More information: Research Opportunities
Science at St. Lawrence
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