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  1. 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.

  2. Minde Pitre, in a classroom of Saint Lawrence University students, examines skeletal remains.

    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...

  3. Elena Brzozowski, Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan, Haley O'Brien,  and Kylie Clancy.

    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.

  4. Student working with local youth

    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.

  5. 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.

  6. Two St. Lawrence Faculty Awarded Walker Research Fellowships

    Two St. Lawrence University faculty members were awarded T. Urling and Mabel Walker Research Fellowships for 2015.