News
Digest
January 16, 2005
2005-2006
is St. Lawrence's Sesquicentennial Year!
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Campus News
 St.
Lawrence University's Board
of Trustees approved a gift of $10,000 from the University to
the Canton Free Library Centennial Campaign. For
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Campus Events
 Although
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed on January 16, St. Lawrence
University will hold a service to mark the holiday on Monday, January
23, the first day of classes in the spring 2006 semester. The service
will be in Gunnison Memorial
Chapel on campus, beginning at 5 p.m. and will feature Honorary
Degree Recipient The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell and St. Lawrence
graduate David Blanchard '80. Both speakers will remain on campus
for academic residencies during the week as part of the University's
Sesquicentennial.For
more |
 "Time
Studies," an exhibition of photographs by Mark
Klett '74, will be in the Richard
F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University from Monday, January
23, through Saturday, February 25. Klett will give a lecture on his
work on Monday, February 6, at 7 p.m.; it is open to the public, free
of charge. The exhibition and his lecture are part of the University's
Sesquicentennial celebration. For
more |
 What's
in our own 7,000-piece art collection? Here's your chance to find
out. An exhibition called "One-of-a-Kind: Art and Artifacts from
the Permanent Collection" will be in the Richard
F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University from Monday, January
23, to Saturday, February 25. This exhibition is part of the University's
Sesquicentennial Celebration.
For more |
 Author
Stuart Dybek will speak and read from his work in an appearance at
St. Lawrence University on Thursday, January 26, at 8 p.m. in the
Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall, the first event in the University's
Writers Series for 2006. It is open to the public, free of charge.
For
more |
Faculty News
 Vice
President of the University and Dean
of Academic Affairs Grant Cornwell '79 spoke at a symposium of
the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
called "Recentering: Science and Global Learning in the Undergraduate
Curriculum." For
more |
Alumni News
 St.
Lawrence has an Olympian! Gina Kingsbury '04 will compete in the 2006
Winter Olympics, as a member of the Canadian Women's Hockey Team.
For
more. |
Sesquicentennial Then
and Now: Images of teaching and learning, then and
now, show a remarkable similarity over the years. Check out the
latest "Then and Now" installment on our Web site.
Mark Your Calendar: April 3 is Charter Day! Events
on campus and around the world--watch for details! Charter Day is
St. Lawrence's official birthday, the date in 1856 New York State
granted the University's charter, after years of hard work by Canton
citizens and leaders of the Universalist church.
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