Dr. Jon Rosales and three St. Lawrence students conducted research on indigenous communities in Alaska that have been facing the effects of global climate change. “The focus is to be advocates for indigenous communities in Alaska who are being severely influenced by climate change,” said Rosales. He explained that melting sea ice, increased storm activity, erosion, [...]
By LETTIE STRATTON Chris Shrope ’13 and Tom Duggan ’13 were in New Zealand together last fall when they first started brainstorming ideas for a new theme house on campus. I sat down with them by the fireplace in this new house—the L.I.G.H.T. house—located at 17 College Street, to talk about what the house is [...]
Welcome to Lab Notes! This is a new Hill News column in which we will be featuring a student and/or faculty research team on campus each week. Check back weekly for new updates on the sciences at SLU! At first glance, Johnson Hall of Science is a vast, sleek expanse of glass and natural light, [...]
By LETTIE STRATTON Are you confused about how to properly recycle your glass bottle in the student center? Do you simply not recycle because you heard that everything eventually ends up in the same bin anyway? Fear no more! SLU will soon be adopting a new three-bin recycling system, according to Louise Gava, coordinator of [...]
By NATALIE DIGNAM During winter break, Jordan Pescrillo ’12, president of Literacy for Nepal, spent a month in Nichuta, a rural village in southern Nepal. This was Pescrillo’s second time in Nepal, after a trip in 2009 when Brijlal Chaudhari, ’10 and 10 members of Literacy for Nepal spent six weeks building a library for [...]
By JASMINE WALLACE The Occupy Panel Presentation, sponsored by Amnesty International and The Weave, was held this past Tuesday and allowed the St. Lawrence community to hear different perspectives on the issue of “occupation” around the world. “The purpose was to show that it’s not just Occupy Wall Street, but it’s a global issue,” said [...]
By LETTIE STRATTON Ten SLU students and two professors spent three weeks of this past summer in India. Funded by the Mellon grant, they conducted a class called Engaging India’s Globalization while abroad. “The idea was to study sustainable agriculture in India and examine how it ties into globalization,” Emma Rentz ’12 said. Upon returning [...]
By Catie Matson The second annual Coloriffic party is back this Friday, December 2nd from 10pm- 2am. At Coloriffic participants dress in the color that expresses their mood from pink, which means unstoppable to black, which means sophisticated and sexy. The event is located in the Winston room and will be hosted by Helping Out [...]
By LETTIE STRATTON and SAMANTHA FOSTER Governor Cuomo will decide in December whether or not to allow hydraulic fracturing in the state of New York. Often referred to as “fracking,” hydraulic fracturing is the process of extracting natural gas from underground rock formations to be used as an energy source. According to long-time Environmental Action [...]
By LETTIE STRATTON Representatives of the Ugandan Water Project (UWP), along with the SLU and Potsdam communities, collected over $7,000 during a week-long fund raising effort. This money will provide two brand new water tanks for struggling Ugandan towns that previously had limited or no access to clean drinking water. The prevalent water-borne diseases are [...]
