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  Dear Lawrentians, Students are transformed during their time at Lawrence. They enter the college at a time when they are actively forging their identities and seeking their places in the world. They leave as informed, independent thinkers, as concerned, responsible citizens. Just as the Lawrence experience is transformative for students, it has been transformativeContinue Reading

Lawrence pulled out all the stops for a two-day More Light! campaign finale that brought hundreds of alumni, parents and friends to campus. From the moment President Jill Beck announced the campaign total to the final good-byes, campus was buzzing with excitement and bursting with pride. The More Light! finale weekend kicked off with theContinue Reading

Lawrence President Jill Beck reflects on the close of the academic year.

Dear Lawrentians, “Innovation Through Collaboration” is our theme for the 2010-11 academic year at Lawrence. Whether it’s an alumnus reaching out to bolster students’ preparation for life after Lawrence, students and community members joining together to enhance the campus or local educators sharing their knowledge as part of a student’s Senior Experience, the collaborations demonstrateContinue Reading

It was a unique, if not somewhat eerie, moment of Bennett Pang’s ’11 summer research experience. Working in a sterile environment, he peered into the microscope in search of “natural killer” cells — in a sample of his own blood. Working with human blood brings an inherent set of risks due in part to theContinue Reading

Dear Lawrentians, In January, scores of Lawrence students participated in a day of community service, turning the holiday set aside to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., into a “day on,” rather than a day off from scheduled classes. Some students worked with the Rebuilding Together organization to paint and clean at Holy Spirit SchoolContinue Reading

Twelve months ago, in the depths of the economic crisis, Lawrence trustees, administration and faculty were keenly focused on developing plans to reduce expenses and, at the same time, preserving the vibrant academic and artistic core of the college and conservatory. We were successful in that regard. Navigating through these difficult challenges made the positiveContinue Reading

When she attended opening convocations at the University of California, Irvine during the late 1990s, Jill Beck contemplated the unintended message new female students were receiving. The convocations were revealing, she recalls, as almost all of the convocation speakers were senior administrators and, most notably, they were all men. With a 10:1 ratio of menContinue Reading