St. Lawrence University: University Communications

Contact Us Find People Site Index Homepage

News Digest November 13, 2007 View this email as a web page. News Digest is your weekly collection of news releases and Web feature stories. For more resources on campus events and programs, check these Web sites: Master Calendar of Events St. Lawrence News and Features St. Lawrence In the News Saints Athletics Click on an image for a larger version
Campus News Physicist Aileen O'Donoghue Explores Her Spiritual Journey In New Book The Sky Is Not A Ceiling, a new book by St. Lawrence University Priest Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue, is the story of her personal spiritual journey, as she struggles to answer the question, "what's out there?" For more
Student Work On Leica Company Web Site Eight photographs taken by St. Lawrence students with the University's Leica confocal scanning microscope are on the Leica company's Web site. For more
Alumni News Shari Worthington '80 Wins Leadership Award Shari Worthington '80 received the Emerging Leader Award at the ISA Honors and Awards Gala, held in October. The award "recognizes up-and-coming leadership benefiting the society and its members." For more
St. Lawrence in the News The New York Times ran a feature story about St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester on November 7. The full-page story also featured three large photographs. To read the story, you'll need a free subscription to the on-line New York Times. Check it out today!
A feature story about Associate Professor of Anthropology John Barthelme's course on Neandertals appeared in USA Today on November 6. Read the story.
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 campus. More Laurentians in the News
Saints Athletics Four St. Lawrence cross country runners - graduate student Liz Ludovici, first-year Wendy Pavlus, senior Erik Donohoe and first-year student Eli Howard - qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships after strong performances at the regionals. Shawn Fensel scored with .2 seconds (yep, two-tenths of a second!) left on the clock to give the men's hockey team a stunning comeback tie against Quinnipiac, after beating Princeton 4-3. The women ran their win streak to seven with shutout wins over RPI and Union. Men's football capped its season with a 24-13 victory over WPI, finishing 4-5. For More Athletics news
Web Site Updates and Features This Month in St. Lawrence History: Visit our Tradition page with more on history and tradition! 1901 First home football game, a 0-0 tie with Middlebury. 1928 Forestry program begun with gift of red pine seedlings for Sandbanks area. 1999 Men’s soccer, in the midst of a 60-game unbeaten streak, wins the national championship with the first perfect season (22-0-0) in the history of NCAA soccer. 2002 St. Lawrence hosts NCAA Division III men’s soccer Final Four SLU Live! Laurentian Singers performing our school songs, recording of the Bacheller Memorial Chimes, links to our admissions video, our podcasts, our photo albums, our student blogs, and our Web cam. Be sure to check out the new Johnson Hall of Science interactive tour, linked from our Johnson Hall Dedication page! Keep up with our bloggers! Here's an excerpt from Ben von Reyn's blog: I have also been attending more campus events, most recently the Wall Street 101 program. This program was last Friday, and alumni who work at Morgan Stanley came to campus to explain the various avenues one can take in finance as well as which personalities typically fit best in various divisions. As a student interested in entering this competitive field, I found this presentation to be incredibly helpful. Read more. St. Lawrence has a MySpace page! Join today!

News Digest Archive
News Digest is a weekly compilation of the news releases and Web feature stories created in the past week. It is released, generally, every Monday.

In an ideal location, St. Lawrence is a diverse liberal arts learning community of inspiring faculty, serious students and accomplished graduates, guided by tradition and focused on the future.

St. Lawrence University · 23 Romoda Drive · Canton, NY · 13617 · Copyright · University Communications · 315-229-5585