Category Archives: Spring 2012

College Fair Volunteers Get the LU Word Out In banquet halls, cafeterias and gymnasiums from Burbank, Calif., to Watchung, N.J., alumni are volunteering to represent Lawrence at college fairs, chatting with prospective students and their parents and helping to raise the college’s visibility. Each year Lawrence receives invitations to hundreds of college fairs across theContinue Reading

Lawrence’s annual Report to the Community showcases some of the meaningful connections made between the college and the Fox Valley during the past year. This year’s event, held at the Warch Campus Center in October, put the spotlight on several collaborative efforts. They are extraordinary examples of community engagement—and of the positive things that canContinue Reading

“Service above self,” the Rotary International ethos, is embraced by Lawrence and developed in its students, five of whom recently received the prestigious Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship. The Appleton Downtown Rotary Club has supported three of the students who have gone on to transformational international experiences. These scholarships, offered by the Rotary Foundation to improveContinue Reading

For 15 years the Mielke Summer Institute in the Liberal Arts has enabled local teachers to explore topics such as the philosophy of education, environmental awareness and educational themes embedded in film and television. The community outreach program is supported by the Mielke Family Foundation. Each year the institute, under the direction of Associate ProfessorContinue Reading

From reducing large-scale patient misuse of emergency department services to preventing heart disease, many important health care issues confront the Fox Valley medical community. For the past 35 years, Lawrence students have teamed up with local health care providers through the Kasel Health Professions Summer Research Program to tackle some of these topics. Since 1976,Continue Reading

Submitted by Anna Stowell Belyaev ’91 In 1991, Lawrence received a $10,000 grant from Campus Compact to start the Lawrence Assistance Reaching Youth (LARY) program, a one-on-one, needs-based mentoring program for students at Edison Elementary School in Appleton. Since then, the LARY program has matched more than 700 students with Lawrence mentors. Anna Stowell BelyaevContinue Reading

Lawrence students, faculty, staff and local alumni volunteers contributed 507 hours of service on January 16 as part of the nationwide Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. A total of 630 Appleton-area students participated in a special age-appropriate curriculum focused on diversity and social justice issues that was developed by Marika Straw ’13. TheContinue Reading

A Freshman Studies Reunion in Cyberspace Submitted by Christopher Korbel ’88 On a warm August afternoon, surfing Facebook, I received a post from Brad Gottschalk ’87: “Fellow Lawrentians: I just finished re-reading As I Lay Dying. (And at my suggestion, so did my wife Erica Neuendorf-Gottschalk ’87). This was one of the first works ofContinue Reading

A new $2.7 million Lawrence University initiative—designed to foster the professional development of faculty members in the humanities and attract recent Ph.D. recipients in the humanities for the Lawrence Fellows Program—has received a $425,000 boost from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Lawrence was awarded a highly competitive NEH Challenge Grant to support theContinue Reading

Happy Birthday, Lawrence! LU pride was riding high on Tuesday, January 17 as Lawrence celebrated Founders Day—the anniversary of the college’s founding. The annual celebration was a huge success with alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and friends posting birthday wishes and sharing Lawrence memories on the college’s Facebook page. Many wore Lawrence apparel at homeContinue Reading