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March 5, 2007
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Eric Williams-Bergen selected for prestigious information services leadership institute
St. Lawrence University Launders Library Science Librarian
Eric R. Williams-Bergen has been selected to participate in the
2007 Frye Leadership Institute, a leadership initiative focused
on developing creative leaders to help guide information services
for higher education in the 21st century. For more
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 Students inducted into psychology honor society
Psi
Chi, the psychology honorary society, recently held a ceremony to
induct eight new members.
For more |
 Announcing the WORD Studio
The mission of the Munn Writing Center has expanded to include tutoring for students working on essays, presentations, research projects, visual work (such as posters or PowerPoint), and more. To better reflect its new mission, the Writing Center is also assuming some new names: Formally the Munn Center for Rhetoric and Communication, the students will now know it as the WORD Studio—the acronym “WORD” standing for Writing, Oral Communication, Research, and visual Design. Beginning at Orientation this past fall, the WORD Studio tutors began advertising their expanded services, and students took notice: during fall semester 2006, tutors hosted over 900 separate tutorials dealing with papers and presentations. The WORD Studio's web site soon will be updated to reflect the new name and expanded services. |
Campus
Events
 Writers Series welcomes Lynn Freed
Lynn Freed, author of the novels House of Women, The Mirror, The Bungalow,
Home Ground and Friends of the Family, will speak and read from
recent work in an appearance at St. Lawrence University on Monday, March 12,
at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event, part of the
St. Lawrence Writers Series, is open to the public, free of charge.
For more |
Child Abuse Identification and Reporting Workshop
A
workshop on identifying and reporting child abuse and maltreatment
will be held at St. Lawrence University on Tuesday, April 3, from
4 to 6:45 p.m. in Atwood Hall, Room 32.
For more |
Alumni
News
 Okey'86 receives Pew Fellowship
Thomas Okey '86, a senior quantitative marine ecologist at the Department of
Marine and Atmospheric Research at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Queensland, Australia, has been awarded
a 2007 Pew Fellowship in marine conservation for climate change research.
For more |
St. Lawrence In the
News
 An
article about and photos of the Johnson Hall of Science is
included in the February 2007 issue of Absolutely Business magazine;
the focus of the issue is the construction business in northern New
York State.
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 A review of co:lor,
an exhibition of work by Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Kasarian
Dane at rowlandcontemporary in Chicago, appeared in the February
issue of ArtForum magazine. The review, by James Yood, states "The
artist often sets up situations in which a color seems to echo within
a a painting, or even in a nearby work...his fidelity to the endless
subtleties of tone, shape and pattern is both earnest and accomplished,
exuding the sense of a knotty problem brought to hard-won resolution...the
allure of Dane's project is that each subsequent instance will be
as difficult to achieve and interesting to witness as the first." |
 An article by Henry
Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue, titled "God
In Machines," was published in the March 5 issue of America,
the national Catholic weekly magazine.
More Laurentians
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Athletics News
 The
women's track team, led by a first-place finish in
the 4x800 relay, won St. Lawrence's first-ever ECAC Indoor Track Championship
Saturday. The men's
basketball team won its first NCAA tournament game at home
over Elms, but dropped a decision to Brockport in the second round.
The women's basketball team saw its season end in
the first round of the NCAA tournament, 65-57 to Rochester.
The women’s
hockey team beat Harvard, 4-3, in the ECACHL semifinals, but
dropped a 7-3 decision to Dartmouth in the title game. The Saints
will play at New Hampshire in the first round of the NCAA playoffs
Saturday at 1 p.m. Senior Jamie McAvity became the first men's
squash team member to win a major title at the Individual Nationals, winning
the Molloy Consolation title. For more, visit the Athletics
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What's new on the Web Site?
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Announcing The Weave
The Weave is an independent news media analysis project featuring individual blogs by students enrolled in Associate Professor of Global Studies John Collins's Global News Analysis course in Spring 2007, building on their study of mainstream and alternative media coverage. Each has chosen a single underreported story to follow throughout the semester. Other Global Studies students are blogging on the Weave as well. Anyone may join the conversation by visiting the blogs and posting comments on the analysis and commentary found there. The students have already been blogging for a couple of weeks, and they are anxious to open up the conversation to as wide a range of voices as possible.
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