Grant News
ALDEN TRUST GRANT AWARD FUNDS CYBERSECURITY LAB RENOVATION
Thanks to a recent $200,000 grant award from the George I. Alden Trust and project team led by Computer Science faculty members Ed Harcourt and Kevin Angstadt, St. Lawrence University’s new Cybersecurity Major will soon have a newly renovated classroom-lab space in Bewkes Hall. Expected to open to students in fall 2026, the Cybersecurity Lab will offer students hands-on, experiential learning opportunities through simulations, collaborative projects, and real-world problem solving in one of today’s fastest-growing fields.
MATH FACULTY TEAM SECURE RENEWAL GRANT FOR 2ND ANNUAL MATH OUTREACH EVENT
Mathematics Department Professors Patti Frazer Lock and Dan Look (with project evaluator Megan Carpenter, Psychology) received renewal grant funding from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Tensor Grant Program to support the second annual “Math is Everything” event in November 2025. More than 300 high-school students, teachers, and counselors visited campus and participated in an all-day series of interactive presentations, activities, and panels designed to help North Country girls envision a future for themselves in majors and careers involving the mathematical sciences, from math and physics, math and the environment, math and sports, math and TV, and more. Click here to learn more about the 2025 event.
DR. SHU JIANG, PSYCHOLOGY, AWARDED APS GRANT
Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. Shu Jiang, has received a prestigious grant from the Association for Psychological Science for her innovative educational initiative, “Psychology Unbound.” Her project will address two persistent gaps in undergraduate psychology education: 1. Students often struggle to see themselves represented in the field; and 2. Many are unaware of the wide array of nonacademic career paths available to psychology majors. To bridge these gaps, “Psychology Unbound” will develop a permanent, open-access digital library of professionally produced video interviews featuring contemporary psychologists from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, subfields of psychology, and career sectors.
FREEMAN FOUNDATION GRANTS SUPPORT FOURTH YEAR OF STUDENT INTERNSHIPS IN ASIA
Dr. Yanqiu Zheng, Associate Director of Asia and Pacific Programs, successfully led the Center for Intercultural & International Studies (CIIS) team in securing a fourth year of grant funding from the Freeman Foundation for student internships in Asia. In the summer of 2026, up to 10 St. Lawrence undergraduates will gain valuable international experience in fields ranging from marketing, communications, and AI data integration through their internship host sites in Vietnam and Thailand.
NETVUE GRANT AWARD SUPPORTS "PURPOSE-DRIVEN EDUCATION" COURSE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRAMS FOR FACULTY AND STUDENTS
St. Lawrence has received a two-year program development grant award from the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE). The Building a Campus Culture of Purpose-Driven Education (PDE) project is co-led by Dr. Mary Jane Smith, Faculty Director of the Sophomore Success Initiative and Associate Director of Career Education Michelle Gould, representing the overarching goal to strengthen the integration of campus academic and career-building programs and help students find purpose and meaning in their undergraduate experiences. Major project activities include creating a new PDE Faculty Learning Community, creating PDE-infused first- and second-year courses, and engaging students from underrepresented, first-generation, international backgrounds.
BIOLOGY PROFESSOR BRAD BALDWIN AWARDED GRANT FUNDING TO MITIGATE INVASIVE AQUATIC PLANTS
Professor of Biology Brad Baldwin has been awarded grant funding of $98,592 over 3 years from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC). The project, titled “Protecting the Fishery and Recreational Value of Black Lake through Early Detection and Reduction of Water Chestnut and other Aquatic Invasive Species,” focuses on early detection and mitigation strategies, particularly targeting water chestnut and other aquatic invasive species known to threaten the ecological balance of Black Lake, known as “the freshwater fisherman’s paradise.” Dr. Baldwin recently received additional funding of $15,000 from the St. Lawrence River Research & Education Fund (SLRREF) to support related work on invasive aquatic plants.
DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP TEAM RECEIVES A.I. COLLABORATION SPACE GRANT
The ODY Digital Scholarship team led by Eric Williams-Bergen and Nicole Roche has received a grant of more than $11,000 from the Northern New York Libraries Network (NNYLN) to create an “A.I. Collaboration Space for Digital Storytelling” within ODY Library’s newly renovated Digital Scholarship Suite. The collaboration space is intended to provide students and faculty with access to emergent A.I-driven apps and digital equipment, with both experimentation and critique as primary goals. Click here to learn more about this Digital Scholarship grant.