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Professors, Students Honored with Historic Preservation Award for Helping Local Community
An anthropology professor, her students, and a chemistry professor have been recognized for their expertise and commitment to preserving one local village’s history with the New York State Historic Preservation Award for Excellence in Archaeological Stewardship.
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SLU Anthropology Faculty Affirm Commitment to Racial Justice
We, the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at St. Lawrence University, condemn the ongoing police violence against Black people across the United States. The murders of Rayshard Brooks, George...
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Anthropology Prof., Students Honored for Expertise, Integrity in Work with Local Remains
A St. Lawrence University anthropology professor and more than 20 of her students were recognized by local elected officials on Wednesday, Jan. 15, for their enthusiasm to help a community when it needed them most.
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Anthropology Prof., Students Exhume Skeletal Remains in Heuvelton
When the Village of Heuvelton began a project to replace its existing water tower, construction crews stumbled onto something rather unexpected: skeletal remains. That’s when St. Lawrence University’s Mindy Pitre, associate professor of anthropology and J. Ansil Ramsay Professor of Public Health, received a call from the St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department.
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McNair, CSTEP Scholars Present at Research Conference
St. Lawrence University students enrolled in the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program and the New York State Collegiate Science and Technology Program (CSTEP) recently completed an eight-week summer research internship and presented their work at the 25th-annual University at Buffalo Undergraduate Research Conference.
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Five Students Receive Saints Start Challenge Grants
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.
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Anthro Faculty-Student Team Examined 3,700-Year-Old Pregnant Skeleton
Associate Professor of Anthropology Mindy Pitre and students in her Forensic Anthropology course conducted the preliminary skeletal analysis of a 3,700-year-old woman and her fetus unearthed in Egypt...
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Anthropology Students Attend Women in STEM Conference
Four anthropology student majors attended the Public Leadership Education Network’s (PLEN) Women in STEM Policy Seminar in Washington, D.C., which took place Jan. 2 to Jan. 6, 2018.
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Students Intern Through SLU PIC, Intern Fellows Programs
Even as a teenager growing up in New York City, Oscar Castillo ’19 would often wander into one of the city’s many notable museums, such as the Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Eventually, he would go on to intern at both while he was still attending high school.
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NSF Grant to Fund Study of Ancient South Asian Trade
Shinu Abraham, associate professor of anthropology, was part of an intercollegiate team of scholars who were awarded a National Science Foundation grant to conduct research into ancient trade and exchange in South Asia and around the Indian Ocean and its relationship to the development of social complexity in the region.
