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  1. St. Lawrence University Inducts New Members to Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Honorary Society

    Matt Highman

    SLU is one of the first liberal arts colleges to have a chapter of the Statistics Honorary Society

  2. Dan Look, wearing a blazer and a green t-shirt, smiles and stands in front of shelves filled with transformer action figures.

    Professor Dan Look Defies Math Stereotypes

    Dan Look is well aware he doesn’t present like a typical math professor. But that observation has roots in the stereotypes about the discipline and those who study it that the Rutherford Professor of Mathematics, through his dynamic personal and pedagogical style, seeks to undo.    

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  3. Four students sit at a table, engaged in a discussion. They are wearing matching red Saint Lawrence University shirts, and several iced coffee drinks are on the table. The background shows a bright classroom with a colorful abstract design on the wall.

    Rewriting the STEM Equation for North Country Girls

    When St. Lawrence math professors Patti Frazer Lock P’08 and Daniel Look started planning the 2024 Math & Everything event, they knew they had their work cut out for them. Keenly aware of the misperceptions often associated with mathematics, statistics, and computer science majors and career paths for women, Lock and Look were determined to give high school women from across the North Country an opportunity to see their potential from a variety of new angles.

  4. Rafael Castillo Bejarano, Patti Fraser Lock, Tyler S. Rife, Richard Lauer, Gisele El Khoury, Howard Eissenstat, Pedro Ponce. Faculty Focus, Saint Lawrence University.

    Faculty Focus-December 16, 2024

    Faculty members put their knowledge into action so students and others are able to benefit from it. Recently, faculty published journal articles, presented at academic conferences, wrote fiction stories, and were interviewed by international media.

  5. Professor Patti Frazer Lock Gives Invited Presentations at Three Recent Conferences

    Patti Frazer Lock

    Professor Patti Frazer Lock, in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics, recently gave keynote or invited addresses at three conferences. Professor Lock gave an invited keynote...

  6. A group of Saint Lawrence University alums stand together and hold up a brown Saint Lawrence University flag. They are inside an office at a technology company.

    Coding Connections: How a Professor and His Student Built a Tech Talent Pipeline

    When Geoff Baum ’10 joined Veoci, a tech startup based in New Haven, Connecticut, as one of its first employees, he had no idea he’d eventually help turn it into a hotspot for fellow St. Lawrence University graduates.

  7. Nikolai Edkov ’27, JJ Ignac ’27, and Leon Lin ’26 (as depicted left to right), competed at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) alongside seven other teams from RIT

    Three St. Lawrence students attended the annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) at RPI

    Dr. Choong-Soo Lee

    Sponsored by IBM, the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is an annual, multi-tiered competitive programming competition among universities worldwide. The contest commenced at Texas A&M University in 1970 and has since expanded to encompass branches and chapters globally.

  8. Mu Sigma Rho F24 Inductees

    St. Lawrence University Inducts New Members to Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Honorary Society

    SLU is one of the first liberal arts colleges to have a chapter of the Statistics Honorary Society.

  9. A collage featuring Jeff Frank, Anna Fahr, and Jon Rosales. There is a scarlet bar across the bottom of the image with text that reads, Faculty Focus and Saint Lawrence University.

    Faculty Focus-September 17, 2024

    Faculty members put their knowledge into action so students and others are able to benefit from it. Recently, faculty have been podcast guests, debuted films, and received lifetime achievement awards.

  10. Ed Harcourt and Norah Kuduk sit in a classroom and focus on a large wall-mounted screen displaying a coding interface and a mobile app prototype.

    A Computer Scientists Perspective on AI

    Charles A. Dana Professor of Computer Science Ed Harcourt has been working with AI for more than three decades, starting in grad school. These days, he says upper-level students are leveraging the...