News
Digest
December 17, 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
Today's edition will be the last News Digest of 2007. Our staff wishes everyone a happy, safe holiday season, and a prosperous new year!
|
Campus
News
SLU Government Honorary Wins Two Grant Awards
St. Lawrence University's chapter of the national political
science and government honor society, Pi Sigma Alpha, has been awarded
two grants by the organization's national office. For more |
Alumni in the News
 Viggo
Mortensen '80 Gets First Golden Globe Nomination
Viggo Mortensen '80 has received his first nomination for a Golden
Globe award, for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture,
Drama, for his portrayal of a Russian mobster in Eastern Promises.
Nominations were announced December 13. For more |
 Douglas
Dempster '77 Named Dean At U-Texas/Austin
Douglas Dempster '77,
who had been acting interim dean of the College of Fine Arts at the
University of Texas at Austin since fall 2006 and senior associate
dean of the college since 2001, has been appointed dean of the college.
Dempster, who holds the Marie and Joseph D. Jamail Senior Regents
Professorship and the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Fine Arts
as a professor in the college's department of theatre and dance,
was named after a national search.
For more |
St. Lawrence in the
News
 St. Lawrence is well represented in the January 2008 issue of the
national magazine Rowing News. The cover photograph, taken
at the Head of the Charles, shows the St. Lawrence varsity men's
8+; the issue includes an essay about rowing at the University by
Chelsea Isdell '07; and a photograph of Kathleen Oscadal '06 is included
as an illustration with an article about technique. |
 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. |
 A study by Associate
Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher, showing that pulling all-nighters
does not help students achieve higher grades, made the national news last week in a BIG way. A national Associated Press story on December 14 resulted in 248 news Web sites from around the world carrying the story. Among them: CBS News Radio, MSNBC, Fox News, CBS News, CNN/Time, USA Today, New York Times.com, NPR, the weekend Today show, 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.
For more
Laurentians in the News |
Saints
Athletics
 Men's
basketball earned a hard-fought 85-81 overtime victory at Ithaca
to close out the first semester. Men's hockey lost 4-3 in overtime
to Vermont, after holding a 3-2 lead in the third period. Women's
hockey, which entered the weekend No.4 in the nation, dropped 4-1
and 3-1 decisions to Minnesota-Duluth, the No. 3 team in the country.
For
More Athletics news |
Web
Site Updates and Features
Take SLU with You! Check out our NEW podcasts. New this week are favorite holiday tunes as sung by the Laurentian Singers, and a special feature story on the University's varsity golf team. Our podcasts also are available on iTunes. Podcasts are just one of the many features of SLU Live! which has links to our admissions video,
our photo albums, our student blogs, and our Web cam.
Keep up with our bloggers! St. Lawrence has become a veritable snow globe--the snow began falling on Sunday, and it has only recently begun to taper off. The campus looks absolutely beautiful covered in the glistening snow...and I've finally acclimated to the colder temperatures. (I never thought I would consider 20* comfortable!) Besides making me smile every time I walk outside, the snow serves as a great source of comic relief. Snowball fights, sledding, skiing on the golf course, and making snow sculptures are the new sources of entertainment on campus. The colder weather also makes it easier to stay inside and do work...as finals week nears, this becomes increasingly important. I suppose I'm so fascinated and obsessed with the winters at St. Lawrence, because they are completely different than what I grew up with in Kansas. I think the winters were what I feared the most about coming to SLU, and I'm quite positive they will be one of the things I miss after I graduate!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.
|
