CANTON â A St. Lawrence University anthropology professor, her students, and a chemistry professor have been recognized for their expertise and commitment to preserving one local villageâs history with the New York State Historic Preservation Award for Excellence in Archaeological Stewardship. Mindy Pitre, associate professor of anthropology and the Universityâs J. Ansil Ramsay Professor of Public Health, was called in as a bioarchaeological consultant in 2019 when the Village of Heuvelton began a project to replace its existing water tower and construction crews stumbled upon skeletal remains. Pitre was charged with excavating and analyzing any recovered remains and collaborated at the site with Tim Abel, Ph.D., a local archaeologist, and chose to involve her students in the historic experience because they all had backgrounds in human osteology thanks to the courses Pitre regularly offers.