St. Lawrence University and its faculty, staff and students are
often cited in the national media; highlights of recent stories
in major news media follow.
 The
New York Times ran a feature story about St. Lawrence's Adirondack
Semester on November 7.
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An October 28 Associated Press story about college courses
that offer intensive, hands-on experiences included St.
Lawrence's Adirondack
Semester program.
The November/December issue of Sierra, the magazine
of the Sierra Club, focuses on the "green" movement at colleges,
and includes St. Lawrence's Adirondack
Semester program in an article about hands-on environmental
study. |
The national Associated Press newswire carried a story, with
photos, about Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela
Thacher's study showing that pulling
all-nighters does not help students achieve higher grades, December
14, was picked up by hundreds of news organizations' online
sites, including CNN/Time, the Wall Street Journal, USA
Today, the "Today" show, the New York Times, CBS
News Radio, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, Inside Higher Education,
the Wall Street Journal, the Hartford Courant and
regional TV and radio newscasts across the nation. The story
was among the 10 most-e-mailed stories from the Yahoo! News
Web site on Friday, December 14. It has also been cited and
appeared on hundreds of blogs. |
 A
feature story about Associate Professor of Anthropology John
Barthelme's course on Neandertals appeared in USA Today on
November 6.
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the story.
An article on the course, and comparing what students
learn to the portrayals in insurance-company commercials
and a network sit-com, appeared in The Chronicle of
Higher Education's issue dated October 19, 2007. Another
story about the course was published in the Chicago Tribune on
October 21. |
 An
essay by President Daniel F. Sullivan, on merit aid and access
to higher education, was published in the online newsletter Inside
Higher Education on April 19.
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the piece.
An
essay by President
Sullivan, titled "Why IT Matters To Liberal
Education," is the "Leadership" column in the January/February
2008 issue of Educause Review, a national magazine
for the higher education information technology community.
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the essay.
President Sullivan was a guest on the National
Public Radio show "The Best of Our Knowledge," produced
by WAMC radio in Albany, New York, on July 9, on a program
about higher education access and accountability. President
Sullivan provided a four-minute commentary for the program, which
is available for listening online.
The June issue of University Business includes
an article by President Sullivan on sustaining the
town-gown relationship.
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the article.
On May 21, the New York State Associated Press newswire
carried a story about President
Sullivan's 2007 Commencement speech, in which
he was highly critical of U.S. Department of Education Secretary
Margaret Spellings and her policies. Among publications that
ran the story was New York Newsday. The online publication
Inside Higher Education also
ran a news item on the speech, which generated a number
of readers to respond with comment. Regional newspaper the Watertown
Daily Times ran a lengthy excerpt from the talk on its
May 24 editorial page, as its weekly "North Country
Perspective," and the Blogger
News Network carried a story about the speech as well. |
 Dana
Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was quoted in a front-page
story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune on March 26,
about his recently published study
comparing the effectiveness of federal agencies versus the
private sector in Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. Canada's National
Post newspaper ran a story about the study on March
28. Horwitz was interviewed by Federal News Radio in Washington,
D.C., on March 27 about the study, and an interview with Horwitz
appeared March 31 on the "Homeland Security Today" Web site.
Other outlets reporting on the study are ConsumerAffairs.com
and MSN Money (April 2); the Rutherford Show, a live news radio
show in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (April 1); the national Mark
Levin radio show (March 30) and Hispanic Business (March 28).
News of the study has also been reported on a number of Internet
blogs and Internet-only news sites, including Democratic Underground,
FreeRepublic.com, Homeland Security Today, the Federal
Times, National Review Online's "The Corner," and Reason magazine's "Hit
and Run."
Read
the Times-Picayune story.
Listen
to the Federal News Radio interview.
A commentary titled "Are Our Graduates College-Writing Ready?
What High Schools Could Do To Help," by Horwitz, was published
in the September 5 issue of Education
Week magazine. The piece was cited on the "Great College
Advice" Web site on September 8; the site is
a project of Montgomery
Educational Consulting. |
The St. Lawrence women's ice hockey team was featured on
the National Public Radio show "Only A Game" on March 15, as
they made their way into post-season play.
Listen
to the show. |
St. Lawrence was included in a story in the March 10 issue
of Greenwire, an energy and environmental policy publication,
about how colleges and universities are incorporating sustainability
education into their curricula and campus life. |
Dana Professor of Biology David
Hornung appeared in an episode of "The Nature of Things," the
science program on CBC-TV in Canada. The program is carrying
a series about the five senses; Hornung was featured in the
episode, which aired January 24, on the senses of taste and
smell.
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more about the program. |
Trustee Kenneth Okoth '01, a native of Kenya, was interviewed
on the National Public Radio program "Bryant Park" on January
3, about the political unrest in Kenya; the interview included
reference to his education at St. Lawrence. Read
or listen to the story. He has also been interviewed by WUSA, the
CBS affiliate television station in the Washington, D.C. area,
where Okoth lives, and on the National Public Radio program "Talk
of the Nation," on January 8. |
| An article titled "Flight of the Hunter: A Report on the
State of Hunting in the Adirondack Park," in the December 2007
issue of Adirondack Life magazine refers several times
to research conducted by Cynthia Green '01 for her senior honors
thesis in economics. The research, by Green, former Assistant
Professor of Economics Stephan Kroll and Therese Grijalva,
was published in the journal Human Dimensions of Wildlife. |
An essay by Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial
Aid Terry
Cowdrey, advising high school seniors who apply to their
first-choice colleges under "early decision" programs to have
a back-up plan, was published in the Albany, NY, Times
Union December 23.
Read
the essay. |
The December issue of Spirit, the in-flight magazine
of Southwest Airlines, included a story about the bequest of
Kim Gannon '24, designating that one-third of royalties earned
by his compositions go to St. Lawrence; he was co-composer
of the holiday classic "I'll Be Home For Christmas." Gannon
also wrote the University's alma mater. |
Gilbert Maurer '50 was among individuals profiled in a December
1 story in the Financial Times of London, about "strategic
philanthropy." The story included information about the Maurer
Professorship of Speech and Rhetoric at St. Lawrence.
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the story. |
Associate Professor of History Anne Csete was quoted in a
November 23 story in The Wall Street Journal, about
efforts to save the culture of the Li people in China. Csete
studies U.S. efforts to preserve the island culture and heritage. |
| The
Chronicle of Higher Education Web site and the
Web site Inside
Higher Education both included St. Lawrence in stories
posted on November 8, about colleges that plan to submit
proposals to the William J. Clinton Foundation, for funding
of energy-efficient projects on campuses. The same story
ran in the print edition of The Chronicle of Higher
Education dated November 16. |
A positive review of Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen
O'Donoghue's forthcoming book, The Sky Is Not A Ceiling appeared
in the November 5 edition of America, the national
Catholic weekly magazine.
Read
the review. |
"The Diane Rehm Show," on WAMU American University Radio
(public radio) included in its October 29 broacast a panel
discussion on "Going Green In the Private Sector." Among the
show's guests was Jon Moore, CEO of Juice Energy, which supplies "green
energy" to St. Lawrence; Moore discussed the firm's relationship
with the University on the program, and cited St. Lawrence
as an example of a customer that wants to be enviromentally
responsible.
Listen
to the program. |
| The Buildings and Grounds news blog on the Web site of The
Chronicle of Higher Education September 13 included
an item about St. Lawrence's student-published "Green Guide" and
voluntary environmental audits conducted on residence hall
rooms. The item also appeared in the print edition of The
Chronicle of Higher Education, in the October 26 issue. |
| A story in the New York Times September 12, about
colleges that notify parents when students abuse alcohol, included
a mention of St. Lawrence as an institution that notifies parents
when students are transported to medical facilities. |
An article titled "Writing Programs That Work," by Dana Professor
of Economics Steven Horwitz and Director of the Munn Center
for Rhetoric and Communication Hillory Oakes was published
on the Web site of The John William Pope Center for Higher
Education Policy on August 29.
Read
the article. |
The July issue of University Business magazine included
an article about the University's annual Faculty College; Associate
Professor of Government Karl
Schonberg was quoted in the story. |
| Associate Professor of Anthropology Celia
Nyamweru was quoted in a July 24 story in National Geographic
News, on an earthquake "swarm" in Africa. |
| St. Lawrence's Faculty College was cited as an example of
how American universities are re-emphasizing teaching as a
priority in a June 29 article in The Times of London's
Higher Education Supplement; Director of the Center for
Teaching and Learning Kim Mooney was quoted in the article. |
A "q-and-a" on college loans with Director of Financial
Aid Patricia Farmer was published on the Higher Education
Washington, Inc. Web site June 19.
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the interview.
Farmer was quoted in a May 15 story on
the Newhouse News Service news wire, with advice for students
and parents navigating the student-loan process. Among
outlets running the piece were the Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger and
New Orleans Times-Picayune. |
The May 31 online edition of The Christian Science Monitor included
a Letter to the Editor by St. Lawrence Chaplain Kathleen Buckley,
responding to an earlier editorial in the Monitor.
In the letter, Rev. Buckley discusses the University's Build
Your Own Beliefs program.
Read
the letter. |
 Vice President and Dean of Student Life Joseph Tolliver was
quoted in a June 1 story in The Chronicle of Higher Education,
about efforts to assist minority students academically, allowing
them to reach their intellectual potential. Tolliver is on
the Steering Board of the Consortium on High Achievement and
Success, a group of colleges with programs that assist students
of high ability who may be under-prepared for higher education. |
St. Lawrence students Nigel Fellman Greene and Abby Rose were quoted
in an August 17 story in the San Francisco Examiner, titled "Back to School: Green Lessons from Students." Subtitled "Getting Straight E's: Ecology, Economy, Ethics," the article included two photos from
the University and gave tips on living the eco-friendly life at college. |
Sierra Club Radio included an interview with St. Lawrence University Susatainability Coordinator Louise Gava on its August 16 edition, on a "green" back-to-school shopping list.
Listen to the show.
Gava also gave tips on living the "green" life at college on National Public Radio's "Living On Earth" on August 8, and got reaction from new student Willie Mook '12, of Augusta, Maine.Read the transcript, view photos and listen to the segment. |
Tips from St. Lawrence on how to save money - and the planet - when back-to-school shopping were included in an August 7 story in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Read the story. |
Homework for Profs: Perfect the Art of Teaching : Even at teaching-oriented colleges, writes Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Kim Mooney, it's essential for faculty members to rejuvenate their classroom skills. Prof. Mooney's essay was published in the August 1 edition of the on-line newsletter Inside Higher Education. Read the article. |
St. Lawrence University was named a Catalyst for Change in an article in the July 27 New York Times Education Life supplement, which listed seven colleges whose sustainability efforts are admirable. Dartmouth, Brown and M.I.T. are among the other colleges cited:
UNPLUGGING: In a program begun last fall by the student government, dorm rooms at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., are graded for greenness -- number of appliances plugged in, computer energy settings, recycling facilities, lighting and water use. On a scale of 0 to 95, most rooms score 38 to 56, with appliances and electronics the most common villains. High scorers, -- above 70 -- get green stars on their doors; low scorers get suggestions on how to do better. |
A recent $1 million gift to St. Lawrence from Kirk Douglas '39 is receiving national attention, including stories in the New York Daily News, the Trentonian, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Schenectady Gazette, Poughkeepsie Journal, Amsterdam Recorder, Miami Herald, Augusta (GA) Chronicle, Syracuse Post-Standard and Rome (NY) Daily Sentinel. |
Jonathan Cardinal '08 was featured in a story in the July 18 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, about colleges that have programs to subsidize students who have unpaid internships.
Read the story. |
