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Remington Museum 2024 Student Juried Art Exhibit Opening Reception
Robert K. FosterThe Remington Museum 2024 Student Juried Art Exhibit will be holding an online Opening Reception on March 1, 2024. The reception will take place via Zoom on Friday, March 1 from 6:00 to 7:00pm. Eleven students from St. Lawrence University submitted works that are included in the exhibit.
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Dr. Eissenstat Featured in News Outlets
Associate Professor of History Howard Eissenstat wrote a couple of short articles for The Middle East Institute’s (MEI) Weekly Briefing. His first piece titled “ A Year After Devastating Earthquakes...
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Dr. Haugh's Research in Uganda
Associate Professor of Anthropology Wendi A Haugh was recently interviewed and featured in a radio story published through "National Public Radio" (NPR) and published by The World. The story titled “...
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Dr. Pitre's Research Published
Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology Dr. Mindy Pitre is part of team that discovered one of the world’s earliest cases of rheumatoid arthritis in ancient Egypt. Her paper “A case of...
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Eliza Brown '24 and Assistant Professor of Math, Computer Science, and the Statistics Department Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins Present Art at the Joint Mathematics Meetings.
Eliza Brown '24 and Assistant Professor of Math, Computer Science, and the Statistics Department Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins recently returned from San Francisco, where they presented two art pieces at the JMM Art Exhibition. The pieces, Bohemian Algebraic Starscapes No. 4 and No. 7, stem from Eliza’s summer research fellowship, which involved computing and visualizing the eigenvalues of families of integer matrices, and were made using linear algebra, number theory, and high-performance computing.
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SLU Alum is a finalist in Big Data Bowl Competition
Shane Hauck ’23 is finalist in the National Football League ’s (NFL’s) 2024 data analysis competition, the Big Data Bowl. This year’s competition focused on tackling. Hauck and his team wrote an analysis of NFL tackling entitled “No Edge, No Chance: The Impact of Setting the Edge on Zone Run Plays.” The annual Big Data Bowl is a data analysis competition meant to generate innovative statistical methods in football. “Contestants in each year’s Big Data Bowl compete for prizes ranging from game tickets to cash, including a $100,000 prize for the competition.” Hauck and team are finalists in the Coaching track. They are one of five teams of finalists that will present their work to judges and NFL teams at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, IN on February 28th.
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New Members are inducted into Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Honorary Society
On February 2, 2024 four new student members were inducted into the Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Honorary Society.
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SLU Faculty presented at Joint Statistical Meetings
Several St. Lawrence University (SLU) faculty presented at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meeting in Toronto. The Joint Statistical Meeting is the largest gathering of statisticians in North America. Three SLU faculty gave presentations.
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Nikolai Ruskin was a guest speaker in the Arab Society's class
This past week, the "Arab Society through Graphic Novels and Films" class had the privilege of having Nikolai Ruskin, a multi-instrumentalist and expert in Middle Eastern instruments, as a guest speaker.
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Schuckers gives talk on assessing equity and fairness in biometrics at BIOSIG 2023
The talk entitled “Statistical Methods for Testing Equity of False Non Match Rates across Multiple Demographic Groups” discussed statistical methods for comparing whether or not differences between demographic groups, e.g. ethnic groups or age groups in their ability to access a biometrically based device were statistically discernible.
