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  1. Five students in business clothing stand in front of a sandstone building.

    St. Lawrence Fed Challenge Team Earns National Runner-Up Honors

    St. Lawrence University’s Fed Challenge team earned second place out of 85 colleges and universities in the 17th annual national College Fed Challenge, the Federal Reserve announced on Friday, Nov. 20.

  2. Gretchen and Claire.

    St. Lawrence Students Sweep Awards at 2020 Geological Society of America Conference

    Two St. Lawrence University students swept the awards for best presentations at the 2020 Geological Society of America (GSA) Conference—its first remote meeting in its 125-year history. 

  3. Sarah Campbell, sitting at a desk, looks at a laptop with professor Michael Shuckers.

    Student-Faculty Collaboration Leads to Published Paper

    When Sarah Campbell ’19 was deciding which of her two majors would be best for an independent research project her senior year at St. Lawrence, one of her professors showed her that she didn’t have to choose.

  4. Class of 2020 Member Publishes Research Paper in Dental Journal

    When future dentist Tabitha Barr ’20 set out on her study abroad adventure in London, she never imagined it would lead to conducting research alongside one of the United Kingdom’s most renowned scholars and having those findings published.

  5. Two students, in a psychology class, view two live rats in a container on the desk.

    First Person: Facing My Fear of Rats

    Maddie Robb '22

    I would like to start off by saying I am an avid animal lover and the proud owner of two amazing dogs. There are just a couple of animals that make me uncomfortable to even think about. Every animal...

  6. A group of 20 Saint Lawrence students stand with their professors as they receive an award.

    Anthropology Prof., Students Honored for Expertise, Integrity in Work with Local Remains

    A St. Lawrence University anthropology professor and more than 20 of her students were recognized by local elected officials on Wednesday, Jan. 15, for their enthusiasm to help a community when it needed them most.

  7. An illustration of a microchip looking device with several lines of pathways extending out of it that form the shape of a leaf.

    Crunching the Numbers

    RYAN DEUEL

    From artificial photosynthesis to simulating molecular behaviors of rare platinum metals, St. Lawrence is calculating the future with a new NSF-funded high-capacity computer.

  8. A photo of a student set up and working at a desk in the desert that has multiple devices plugged in.

    The Details are in the Devils

    RYAN DEUEL AND DEBORAH DUDLEY

    Student researchers discover Laurentian and Martian connections while studying dust devils in the Nevada desert.

  9. A photo of St Lawrence student on the beach with a half of the rainbow in the sky looking like the end is on the student's palm.

    The Extra Mile

    CHLOE MITCHELL ’21

    How enrichment travel grants give students a chance to go further.

  10. Faculty member and students doing field work

    Anthropology Prof., Students Exhume Skeletal Remains in Heuvelton

    When the Village of Heuvelton began a project to replace its existing water tower, construction crews stumbled onto something rather unexpected: skeletal remains. That’s when St. Lawrence University’s Mindy Pitre, associate professor of anthropology and J. Ansil Ramsay Professor of Public Health, received a call from the St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department.