“Sometimes we discount youth, when really they have powerful thoughts and awesome ideas,” says Jessica Sierk, assistant professor of education at St. Lawrence. “Our youth can be change agents in our community.”
The Sophomore Success Initiative awarded five rising juniors Saints Start Challenge Grants to support students’ personally-developed independent research, creative, volunteer, and internship projects in the summer between sophomore and junior years.
Five St. Lawrence University faculty have been awarded stipends from the Mellon Wide Angle Learning Grant project. These stipends will support the development of new health humanities courses for the university’s minor in Public Health.