News
Digest
September 12, 2005 - Click
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Response to Hurricane Katrina:
The University's Web site will track St. Lawrence response to the devastating
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Fundraising events and volunteer efforts
have been organized at St. Lawrence to assist organizations and areas
affected by Hurricane Katrina. Here's
the news release with information updated through Friday, Sept. 9.
Keep checking the Hurricane Katrina Web site for more updates this week.
St. Lawrence University has enrolled 5 visiting students
with no charge for tuition, room, board and fees, for the fall semesters.
Each has been welcomed to campus in a personal way by staff and faculty
Campus
Events
 Philip
D. McMichael, professor and chair of the development sociology department
at Cornell University, is the keynote speaker of the 2005 Hays and
Margaret Crimmel Colloquium at St. Lawrence University. His talk,
"The World As A Stage: Rehearsing for Global Citizenship," will be
on Tuesday, September 27, at 8 p.m. in Eben Holden on the St. Lawrence
campus. It is open to the public, free of charge. Full
Story |
 Author
Lorrie Moore, a 1978 graduate of St. Lawrence University, will begin
the 2005-2006 St. Lawrence University Writers Series with an appearance
on Wednesday, September 21, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes
Residence Hall on campus. A Sesquicentennial Celebration Event, the
talk is open to the public, free of charge. Full
Story |
 James
Garbarino '68, the Maude C. Clarke Chair in Humanistic Psychology
at Loyola University in Chicago, will give two presentations in Canton
on September 19, one on campus and one at Hugh C. Williams High School.
Full
Story |
Campus News
 St. Lawrence University
students are getting a taste of the North Country on campus – literally.
More and more local products have been added to the offerings in
campus dining facilities and plans are under way to expand the
program further. Last year, over $38,000 of the University's total
food budget was spent purchasing local products.
Full
Story |
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Faculty News
 The
National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded St. Lawrence University
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics
Michael E. Schuckers a $51,670 grant to purchase new computing equipment
that will assist in an ongoing collaborative research project in biometrics.
To date, this group and their collaborators have received over $3.5
million in funding from the NSF. Full
Story |
 The
National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded St. Lawrence University
Associate Professor of Biology Joseph S. Erlichman a $315,000 grant
to conduct research, assisted by undergraduate students, on studying
glial cells in the brain. The grant has been made through the NSF's
program for research at undergraduate institutions. Full
Story |
 Visiting
Instructor of Geology Sean Cornell was recently awarded the 2005 Margaret
Hawn Mirabile Memorial Best Student Paper Award by the American Association
of Petroleum Geologists(AAPG). His paper, entitled "Comparative Sequence
Stratigraphy of the Black River to Lower Trenton Group Interval (Upper
Ordovician): Implications for Climatic and Associated Faunal Changes,"
was co-authored with Carlton E. Brett from the University of Cincinnati.
Cornell presented the paper at the AAPG Eastern Section Meeting on
October 3-5, 2004. Full
Story |
 An
online home-study course by Emeritus Professor of Education Hugh Gunnison
has recently been approved for licensed pyschologists by the American
Psychological Association and Amedco, of St. Paul, MN. Full
Story |
 Chapin
Professor of Geology J. Mark Erickson recently had research in
two different areas of paleontology published in scholarly journals.
For more |
Alumni
News
 The
Securities Industry Association (SIA) has announced the appointment
of St. Lawrence Trustee Melissa MacGregor '98 as assistant vice president
and assistant general counsel in its Washington, DC, office. MacGregor
comes to SIA from Crowell & Moring LLP, where she worked as an
associate in the securities regulatory and enforcement group. Full
Story |
St.
Lawrence In The News
An opinion piece on the state of labor unions by Professor of Government
Alan Draper ran in the Watertown Daily Times on September 2
and the Syracuse Post-Standard on September 5. For
more |
St. Lawrence's efforts
to assist students displaced by the effects of Hurricane Katrina
have been noted on special Web sites developed by:
- Colleges
of Distinction:
- The Center
for Student Opportunity
-National
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU)
-National Association of Student
Financial Aid Administrators
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The University's Sesquicentennial Celebration has begun and a dedicated
Web site is live, with regular updates planned. News Digest will
have Sesqui feature each week. We hope you'll visit the Sesqui
Web site on your own regularly!
This week: Campus Landscapes
Then and Now: Each month we'll feature a new selection of archival
images and contemporary versions of the same images. Check the Web
site for some special campus scenes. |
