Each year the St. Lawrence University Libraries sponsor a contest for outstanding undergraduate research projects focusing on Northern New York, including the Adirondacks. Three awards are presented for research in the Arts & Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. To be considered for this prize, the student work must focus on topics, issues, or concerns having to do with Northern New York or with St. Lawrence University history, and must demonstrate that the author made use of archives, books, journals, research databases, or other resources associated with the University Libraries. Eligible projects include traditional research papers, online projects, fiction, poetry, or multimedia works.
The winners of the North Country Research Awards for 2024 are:
Arts & Humanities
Morgan Aubel, "Paris to Castorland: French Émigrés in the Western Adirondacks: 1790s-1810s"
Natural Sciences
Marliese Baer, Olivia Bernier.and Daniel Jestes, "Solar Farm Development Within the A2A Corridor: Impacts on Biodiversity and Solutions"
Social Sciences
Neva Bettinger, "A Breath of Fresh Air: Edward Livingston Trudeau’s Lasting Legacy on Health,
Environmental Conservation, and Tourism in the Adirondacks"