Basic HTML Version
On Campus
4 W
INTER
2012
.
S
T
. L
AWRENCE
U
NIVERSITY
M
AGAZINE
A year and a half
after their gradua-
tion, 93.2 percent of
the Class of 2010 are
either employed or furthering their edu-
cation in graduate schools
, according to
a survey conducted by the career services
staff. Education was the top field for both
employment and graduate/professional
school enrollment. Carol Bate, assistant
dean of student life and director of career
services, noted that “despite the poor
condition of the job market, members of
the Class of 2010 fared well, given that it
had been estimated that hiring would be
down by 8 to 10 percent.” For more: www.
stlawu.edu/studentlife/departments/
career-services.
For the third time in
four years, a St. Law-
rence student has won
the Marleigh Grayer
Ryan College Student
Writing Prize for best
student paper dealing
with Asia, from the
New York Conference on Asian Studies.
Nora Langan ’12 is the 2011 winner, for
her paper, “Sino-African Relations: Mutu-
ally Beneficial?” It was written for the
course China’s Rise, taught by Assistant
Professor of Government Grace Huang.
A new articulation agreement with
the graduate physician as-
sistant program at Clarkson
University
expands options for careers
in health care for graduates of St.
Lawrence. Space will be made available
for two qualified St. Lawrence graduates
in each cohort of the Clarkson program,
which leads to the Master of Science
degree in physician assistant studies in 28
fyi
months. For more on the program: www.
clarkson.edu/pa/.
The University is supporting the expan-
sion and renovation of Canton-Potsdam
Hospital's facilities at its E.J. Noble site
in Canton
, with a donation of $100,000,
payable over the next four years. The Uni-
versity’s Board of Trustees approved the
measure at its fall meeting October 22.
Works by Viebranz
Visiting Professor of
Creative Writing Mark
Slouka were celebrat-
ed in two separate
venues on the same
night in New York
City
last October. His
2010 book
Essays from the Nick of Time:
Reflections and Refutations
won the PEN/
Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art
of the Essay, marking the first time in five
years that the organization has bestowed
the award. And his story “The Hare’s
Mask” was read aloud by a professional
actor at Symphony Space. It was selected
for
The Best American Short Stories 2011
,
edited by author Geraldine Brooks, and
Brooks chose it and one other from the
anthology for the Symphony Space/Na-
tional Public Radio series.
Assistant Professor
of Mathematics Sam
Vandervelde has
won
a 2011 Henry
L. Alder Award, for
distinguished teach-
ing by a beginning
college or university
mathematics faculty member. The award
is given by the Mathematical Association
For more on these and other stories, go to www.stlawu.edu/news.
St. Lawrence has fared well in
recent rankings. The University:
X
Was named a “best value” in private
higher education by
Kiplinger’s Person-
al Finance
magazine (December issue),
one of only 100 liberal arts institutions
to earn the designation.
X
Has moved up two spots in the
U.S. News &World Report
ranking
of national liberal arts colleges, to
Number 53 among the 252 best, most
prestigious liberal arts colleges in the
nation. The University is in the top 20
percent of its peer group.
X
Has again been ranked among the
best schools in the nation in
Forbes
magazine’s annual ranking of Top
Colleges. Among 650 schools—the
top 20 percent of all undergraduate
institutions—St. Lawrence was 64th
overall, 58th among private colleges
and 34th in the Northeast.
X
Is rated as one of the nation’s best in-
stitutions for undergraduate education
by
The Princeton Review
.
X
Is one of the country’s “greenest”
colleges in rankings by
Sierra
, the
magazine of the Sierra Club.
In related developments, the Ad-
irondack Semester was the subject of
a feature story in
Sierra
’s September/
October “Cool Schools” issue, and St.
Lawrence’s annual list of “green’ tips for
residence hall life was featured on the
Huffington Post website.
—MD
of America. For more about him: myslu.
stlawu.edu/~svanderv/.
Associate Professor of
English Pedro Ponce
has been awarded a
Creative Fellowship in
Prose
by the National
Endowment for the
Arts. The award, for
$25,000, is one of only
40 granted, from a field of 1,179
applications.
—MD
%