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  1. Rosie Johns hugs her mother goodbye on move-in day of college.

    First Person: Don't Worry, It's Going to Be More Than Okay

    Rosie Johns '23

    Sometimes in life, we fear the things that will change our lives for the better. I received my acceptance to St. Lawrence on a chilly day in March of 2019. It was a day like any other—a long eight...

  2. A group of Saint Lawrence students, attending a St. Lawrence University career connections event, stand in front of the Golden Gate bridge in California.

    First Person: No Ordinary University, Connections with Faculty and Staff

    ZACHARY MAZUZAN '20

    I have always found the dynamic between teachers and students fascinating. Growing up in a household with two parents who worked in the public school system, I quickly gained an understanding of the...

  3. Seven Saint Lawrence students.

    First Person: Finding Home

    EMMA STECHSCHULTE '19

    For the past four years, when asked where I go to college, the responses are the same. “Woah,” they’ll say getting wide-eyed, “You weren’t kidding when you said Upstate New York.” Nope, I wasn’t, but...

  4. A group of Saint Lawrence students in the first-year program attend a picnic.

    First Person: How to Make the Most Out of Your First Year at SLU; To The Class of 2022

    LEARITZA TORRES '20

    1. You Don't Need to Have Your Major/Career Figured Out The beauty of going to a liberal arts school is you get to get a taste of every major. St. Lawrence offers so many interesting classes and one...

  5. A Saint Lawrence student, wearing graduation attire and sunglasses. high-fives a fellow member of the graduating class.

    SLU Again Named a 'College That Creates Futures'

    Out of nearly 1,000 colleges that The Princeton Review considered for the second edition of its book, Colleges That Create Futures: 50 Schools That Launch Careers by Going Beyond the Classroom, St. Lawrence University was again selected as one of the schools that made the cut.

  6. Seven Saint Lawrence students, wearing rain jackets and hats, stand on the summit of a mountain, in the rain, holding a Saint Lawrence University flag.

    First Person: 19 Facts That Make Us Fall in Love With SLU All Over Again

    LEXI BULLEN '16

    From the moment I arrived on campus, I knew St. Lawrence was the school for me. From its stunning buildings to the friendly people, SLU had taken my breath away. Now a junior, I’m a chemistry major...

  7. A Saint Lawrence University student, wearing a lab coat, examines a vial in a research lab.

    St. Lawrence Ranked 10th in State for Graduation Rates

    Buffalo-based Business First magazine ranked St. Lawrence University as having the 10th highest graduation rate of all upstate New York colleges and universities. Business First also ranked St...

  8. St. Lawrence Awards Spring 2015 Innovation Grants

    St. Lawrence University announced the Spring 2015 Innovation Grant award recipients on Tuesday, which include an intergroup dialogue project, ecologically sustainable landscape signage, LCD screens for Sullivan Student Center conference rooms, workshops to learn how to computer coding and a grammar video project for first-year students.