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Students from the Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Japan are spending three weeks at St. Lawrence College’s Kingston campus this August as they complete the SLC Summer School English program. While SLC has a foreign exchange agreement with Nagoya University and sent and received students for semester exchanges prior to the pandemic, this is the first time Nagoya students have come to Kingston for the SLC Summer School English program.

SLC Chef Professor Ryan Brown recently spent three days of intensive learning with Toronto artisan chocolate maker, ChocoSol, which will hopefully be the start of a new culinary partnership at the College.

SLC Nursing professors Karin Zekveld and Dr. Renee Berquist have had their research published as the featured article for July in the AORN Journal, an academic journal dedicated to perioperative nursing. Their article, "Perioperative Nurse Recruitment: An OR Placement Program for Fourth-Year Nursing Students in Ontario,"  discusses SLC’s placement program for undergraduate students with local hospitals to enhance training in operating room procedures, and its success in SLC grads being hired.

The impact of donations on our students’ lives is immeasurable. Every year Alumni and Development reports on the donations and support received in the College’s Annual Report and highlights the impacts the generosity of SLC employees, retirees, alumni, and friends, as well as community organizations and industry, have on SLC students through philanthropy.