Newswise — Three distinguished graduates of St. Lawrence University will be awarded honorary degrees by their alma mater at Commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 16.
Honorary degrees will be awarded to:
Hitchcock, who is also the co-host of the WAMC public radio program "The Best of Our Knowledge," earned her St. Lawrence degree in biology. She holds a Ph.D. in anatomy from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, has published extensively in her research field of cell and developmental biology, and has received numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Hitchcock was president of SUNY Albany from 1996 to 2004 and has won numerous awards throughout the course of her career.
Klett's St. Lawrence degree is in geology, and he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from SUNY Buffalo. Klett is the chief photographer of the Rephotographic Survey Project, a comparative photographic survey of the American West following the 1870s work of William Henry Jackson and Timothy O'Sullivan. A Regents Professor of Art at Arizona State University at Tempe, Klett has exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art, the Light Gallery, and the International Center for Photography in New York City; the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; the George Eastman House in Rochester; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. His photographs have also appeared in national magazines and in a series of books he has authored.
Moore, Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, earned her degree at St. Lawrence in English, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University. She is the author of the books Self-Help, Anagrams and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, as well as the story collections Like Life and Birds of America. Her work has been published in the collections The Best American Short Stories 1998 and Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards, in addition to many magazines. Moore is also the editor of the short-story collection I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood by Contemporary Writers. In addition, she has served as an editor for Ploughshares, Tri-Quarterly and Mid-American Review literary magazines.
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