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Press ReleasesCheck out our 'Green' Press Kit! Composer William Price To Speak & Present Music At St. Lawrence
SLU Hosting Talk On Modern Thai Buddhism Bone-Marrow Donor Registration Drive At SLU March 17 Poet Christian Bök At St. Lawrence For Writers Series SLU Film Series Focuses On Climate Change 1963 March On Washington Recalled In SLU Gallery Exhibition 'Flag International' At St. Lawrence's Brush Art Gallery St. Lawrence Named 'Campus Sustainability Leader' 'U.S. News & World Report' Lists St. Lawrence Among Best Colleges Princeton Review Cites St. Lawrence University In 'Best Colleges' Book |
FeaturesSLU's Own DIY Network: Students Build Computers For Lab Biology Honor Society Inducts 11 New Members Winners Of Math Jeopardy For $500, Alex! Many Laurentian Connections To Vancouver Olypics Prof. Chiarenzelli Presenting Series Of Talks NCPR's Sommerstein Awarded Fellowship To 'Food Boot Camp' Prof. O'Donoghue To Speak At NYC Symposium On Science & Faith Article By Prof. McConnell Published In Journal Psychology Honor Society Inducts 18 Students |
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Award-winning composer William Price will give a talk and participate in an electronic music presentation at St. Lawrence University.
A talk titled "The Patron Saint of Bangkok: Magic, Mantras and Talismans in Modern Thai Buddhism" will be given by Justin McDaniel, associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, at St. Lawrence University on Tuesday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall. The event, supported by the Freeman Foundation, is open to the public, free of charge.
Poet Christian Bök will speak and read from recent work in an appearance at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, March 18, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event, part of the University's Writers Series, is open to the public, free of charge.
An exhibition of 48 photographs by Stanley Tretick, "And Freedom for All: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," will be on exhibition in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University from January 18 through March 25.
An exhibition of Lauri Lyons' photographs from "Flag: An American Story" and the multi-media "Flag International" will be in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University from January 18 through March 25. Lyons will give a talk about the works on Monday, February 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Carnegie 10. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
St. Lawrence University has been named a Campus Sustainability Leader by the Sustainable Endowments Institute in its 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, one of just 80 schools to achieve the designation.
When Associate Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Ed Harcourt said he wanted his computer science students to "get their feet wet and their hands dirty," he wasn't kidding. The dozen students in the fall 2009 course High-Performance Linux Computing Systems, co-taught with Assistant Professor Richard Sharp, built 55 computers for three labs, from scratch, motherboards to monitors.
Eleven students were inducted into Beta Beta Beta, the biology honor society on February 26, 2010.
St. Lawrence University's Math Jeopardy team took first place in a competition held February 19, as part of a two-day mathematics symposium held at Clarkson University. The team beat competitors from Clarkson, SUNY Potsdam, Nazareth College, St. John Fisher College and SUNY Brockport at the event.
Associate Professor of Geology Jeffrey Chiarenzelli '81 gave the Science Today lecture at SUNY Oswego February 3, on environmental forensics and possible methods of restoration on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, primarily with regard to persistent organic pollutants and biogenic hydrocarbons, such as crude oil and various other forms of petroleum spills.
North Country Public Radio's David Sommerstein is one of 12 journalists from around the nation selected as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow on the topic of food. The "Food Boot Camp" takes place March 23-26 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue is among the scholars who will speak at "Monuments to Science and Faith," the 20th Annual Symposium of the Monuments Conservancy, to be held March 19 at the Time & Life Building in New York City.
An article by Assistant Professor of Government Shelley McConnell has been published in the February 2010 issue of the journal Current History. The issue is devoted to topics related to Latin America. McConnell's article is titled "The Return of Continuismo?"
Psi Chi, the psychology honor society, inducted 18 new members recently. To be eligible for membership, students must have an overall average of at least 3.3; a psychology average of at least 3.4 (based on a minimum of four psychology courses completed at St. Lawrence) and be in the top 35 percent of their class.