We are very proud of alumni Barbara Tewksbury (‘73), who received the Carnegie Teaching Award for
                                1997. The St. Lawrence Plaindealer ran this article about her:

                                SLU Graduate Wins Carnegie Teaching Award Clinton, NY - The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
                                of Teaching announced that a Hamilton College Professor and a 1973 St. Lawrence University graduate
                                Barbara J. Tewksbury has been named the 1997 New York Professor of the Year. Tewksbury is the Stephen
                                Harper Kirner Professor of Geology at Hamilton College, where she has been a member of the faculty since
                                1978. She is a national leader in science pedagagy reform. This highly coveted award is a great honor for
                                Professor Tewksbury and for Hamilton College, said President Eugene M. Tobin. Barbara is a passionate,
                                creative, and truly innovative teacher, and her ideas about science pedagogy have earned her a national
                                following. Her selection for this award is further testimony of Hamilton’s emphasis on teaching excellence.
                                Tewksbury is immediate past president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, an organization
                                for 2,000 educators from all levels committed to the teaching of geoscience. During her tenure as head of the
                                organization, she helped secure funding from the National Science Foundation to hold workshops on
                                innovative and effective teaching methods. She also has been part of the NAGT’s Distinguished Speakers
                                Series, which promotes curricular reform, and received three Dwight D. Eisenhower Title IIA awards from the
                                New York State Education Department to co-sponsor week-long summer in-service training institutes for
                                secondary school earth science teachers.