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News Digest June 22, 2009 View this email as a web page A reminder that News Digest is your weekly collection of news releases and Web feature stories. To stay updated on campus events schedules, check out what's happening by linking to our Master Calendar of Events. Keep up with news releases and web features from past weeks St. Lawrence News and Features Be updated on St. Lawrence's national visibility St. Lawrence In the News Read all about the Saints teams at Saints Athletics
Campus News New Music By SLU Prof Released On CD 'Grain' Grain, compositions by St. Lawrence University Associate Professor of Music Michael Farley, has been released on CD by Innova Music. Farley also performs on the disc. For more
New Volume Edited By Neal Burdick and the late Paul Jamieson The Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) has released the third edition of The Adirondack Reader, a collection of writings that spans more than 400 years of the region's history and literature and reflects changing attitudes toward wilderness. Edited by the late Paul Jamieson, who was emeritus professor of English, with University Editor Neal Burdick '72, this edition includes the work of some 30 new writers as well as the classic entries of Adirondack explorers and philosophers for which the book is known. A 32-page color insert features classic and contemporary Adirondack paintings, illustrations, etchings and photographs. For more
St. Lawrence in the News Professor of Religious Studies Mark MacWilliams was quoted in a June 14 story in the Japan Times, the largest English-language daily in Japan. He was one of a number of academic sources quoted in a story headlined "Scholars worldwide react to plan," which ran alongside a story about plans for a National Center for Media Arts in Japan. For more Laurentians In the News
Web Site NEW Features, Updates, and Reminders NEW FEATURES! SLU Media Room: We've collected up and created a central location for all St. Lawrence videos! Now you can visit our Media Room to see Student Views Videos by Chelsea Nuffer '10, the SLU helicopter video and any other videos we create over the next months. This week, Chelsea interviews summer student research fellows. UPDATES SLU Live! includes features such as the Laurentian Singers performing our school songs, recording of the Bacheller Memorial Chimes, links to our admissions video and new helicopter video, our photo albums, our blogs, and our Web cam. Blogs Keep you Up to Date with SLU! Admissions Counselor John Gursky is blogging. Read more from John The Weave, created by Global Studies, is a public intellectual project that brings together a range of perspectives on local, national and global issues and on mainstream and independent media coverage of those issues. Projet Blog en France details life in Rouen for our students in residence there. SLU blog desde Espana has some new entries from Spring semester. Check it out! Student, faculty and alumni profiles Every other month, we post about 30 new profiles of students, faculty and alumni. We've been posting profiles for over three years and more than 400 profiles are available throughout the Web site. You'll find profiles in such pages as Graduates, Faculty, Students, Arts, Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Research Opportunities, and many more. Check out the NEW profiles throughout the web site. REMINDERS Helicopter Video View of the North Country! St. Lawrence collaborated with several regional institutions to commission a helicopter video of the North Country. Enjoy the video tour that begins with a bird's eye view of our varsity crew team practicing on the St. Lawrence river, then shares the Thousands Islands region, Canton, the St. Lawrence campus, the foothills of the Adirondacks, Canaras and the Upper Saranac Lake region. The Spring issue of the St. Lawrence magazine is entitled The Chronicle of a Legacy, and features highlights of the ways St. Lawrence has grown and been strengthened in the years 1996-2009. As a special web-only feature, view our photo album: A Photographic Tribute to the Sullivan Legacy. We're on Facebook! Join the 2,841 fans of SLU on Facebook and sign up for RSS Feeds: 1. Go to http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Canton-NY/St-Lawrence-University/7323146307 2. In the menu to the right of the St. Lawrence logo, click on Become a Fan 3. To subscribe to one of our RSS feeds for either regional Saints Network events or student blogs, click on the link that says Subscribe to this feed in your RSS Reader associated with the item you're interested in. St. Lawrence YouTube site: You can watch SLU videos in many ways, including links on our own Web site's SLU Live! page, and now, on an SLU YouTube site. St. Lawrence is now on LinkedIn! LinkedIn is an online network of more than 25 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. Make connections today! 360 Virtual Tours! We've photographed 15 spaces throughout campus to show each in a 360-degree panoramic view.

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