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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.
Three graduating seniors who took part in St. Lawrence University’s Collegiate Science & Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) have been accepted into medical school for the fall.
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.
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.
St. Lawrence University announced the Spring 2017 Innovation Grant award recipients, which include teaching about fire safety, improving energy efficiency and safety in theme cottages, enhancing student music performance space, training for website accessibility strategies, and understanding new opportunities for student and regional community engagement are the concepts that the committee found to be most well designed and innovative from among the dozen proposals.
Two rising juniors and a rising senior have been awarded funding from the Davis UWC Projects for Peace to carry out humanitarian efforts around the globe this summer.
A faculty-student team has been awarded funding to travel to and conduct research in Ghana this summer.
The Peace Corps has announced that St. Lawrence University for the first time ranked among its top 10 small schools on the agency’s 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list.
St. Lawrence University was one of five colleges in the national Campus Kitchens network that will receive $3,000 to address rural hunger in their community. The sub-grants totaling $15,000 are sponsored by Denver, Colorado-based CoBank.
Three St. Lawrence University McNair Scholars participated in the 25th annual Ronald E. McNair Research Conference and Graduate Fair from Oct. 28 to 30 in Delavan, Wisconsin.