News Digest
February 14, 2005 - Click on an image for a larger version

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Campus Events St. Lawrence University's Laurentian Singers will tour and perform in New Orleans, Louisiana, during spring break, and will give a "pre-tour" concert Saturday, February 26, at 4 p.m. at the Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake. The performance is open to the public, free of charge. The Laurentian Singers Tour is supported by the Christie Family Laurentian Singers Endowment. For more

St. Lawrence University Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Jon Rosales will lead a presentation, with students, on the topic "The Kyoto Protocol Comes Into Force: So What?" on Wednesday, February 16, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium (Room 218) of Hepburn Hall. The event is open to the public, free of charge. For more

Artist Siona Benjamin will give a talk titled "Finding Home and the Dilemma of Belonging" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 24, in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center at St. Lawrence University. The event is open to the public, free of charge. For more

"Incongruent: Contemporary Art from South Korea" will be on exhibition in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University from February 28 through April 2. An artist's lecture by Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Young Min Moon, the exhibition curator, will be on Tuesday, March 1, at 7 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center. It is open to the public, free of charge. For more

Laurentians In the News Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Amy Hauber and two students in her sculpture class participated in the 2005 New York State Snow-Sculpting Championship, held in Glens Falls, New York, January 28 through 30. Hauber, Blythe Stoecklein '05 (of Pittsburgh, PA) and Ryan Conroy '05 (of Bantam, CT) – also known as "Team Larry" – created a piece called "Penny Atop A Cake," inspired by Hauber's pug dog, Penny. For more

Elm Leaves, a newspaper in Elmwood Park, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), carried a feature story on February 9 about Kelly Nipp '07 and her experience in St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester.

A profile of Jeffrey Seely '76, chairman and CEO of ShareBuilder, appeared in the Money section of USA Today on January 10. The piece noted that he holds a degree from St. Lawrence.

Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue was quoted in a piece in the November/December issue of the journal Science & Spirit, on the role that Islam has played in the history of science.