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International {OPEN} House

All campus faculty and staff are invited to drop by International House Thursday, December 5 between 3-6 p.m. for a casual open house. We’re celebrating our newly remodeled kitchen and are looking forward to sharing with you everything the historic International House has to offer!

Come by, enjoy some time with friends and colleagues, learn more about the teams who work at I-House, and find out how you can reserve and use the space with your classes and teams to cook together, meet, or just hang out in our Tea Corner.

Light hors d’oeuvres and adult beverages will be served. We look forward to seeing you!

Two New Off-Campus Programs Added for Fall 2025

Two new study abroad opportunities have been approved for students interested in applying for Fall 2025 or later off-campus study.

Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe, run by Carleton Global Engagement, is accepting applications for its Fall Semester 2025 program, which will run from late August to mid-November. On this program, students will explore European feminist and LGBTQ topics, feminist and queer theory, and cross-cultural feminist methodology while taking such classes as Socio-Political Systems and Gender Issues Across Europe, The Ethics and Politics of Cross-Cultural Research, and Gender and Biopolitics of Health Across Europe. Students will also have the chance to research a topic of interest to them within the field of Women’s and Gender Studies. This program spans multiple countries, as students spend several weeks in each of several locations: Utrecht, Netherlands; Berlin, Germany, and Prague and Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Russian Language and Area Studies in Estonia, run by American Councils, offers students of Russian an intensive, immersion-based Russian language opportunity in Tallinn, Estonia. On this program, students will receive approximately 20 hours per week of in-class instruction in Russian grammar, phonetics, conversation, and cultural studies. Participants will also complete coursework in the history and culture of Estonia and may elect to enroll in Estonian language study. The program features homestays, weekly excursions, travel to other regions outside the host city, conversation partners, and a wide range of opportunities to volunteer, pursue hobbies and personal interests in a Russian-language context. This program offers semester-based options, as well as an academic year and summer program.

Lawrence applications to study off-campus are due January 29, 2025. For more information, go to Off-Campus Programs.

Professor Megan Pickett to teach at the London Centre Fall 2025

Associate Professor of Physics, Megan Pickett, will be the Lawrence University guest faculty member at the London Centre in 2025-2026. Her classes, The Whirligig of Time and Nature’s Infinite Book will be offered in Fall Term 2025 to any interested students. There are no prerequisites for these classes, and The Whirligig of Time will satisfy the Natural Science lab GER.

To learn more about Professor Pickett’s classes, go to our London Centre Academics & Courses page. There you will find course descriptions as well as a brief interview with Professor Pickett about her upcoming term at the London Centre and what her courses will entail.

Applications for the 2025-2026 London Centre programs are now open and available on our Off-Campus Programs Application Portal. Applications will be due February 26, 2025.

For more information on study abroad or domestic study away, go to the Off-Campus Programs page.

Spring Term All-Staff Meeting April 30

Join us for the Spring Term All-Staff Meeting on Tuesday, April 30, from 10:30 a.m.-Noon in the Warch Campus Center Somerset Room!

Updates will be shared by faculty and staff from across campus.

If you are on campus, please plan to attend in person. If you are working off campus or unable to attend in person, please join us via the Microsoft Teams link found in the Outlook invite.

If you have any questions or if you need the Teams link sent to you, please contact Lindsey Wyngaard at lindsey.wyngaard@lawrence.edu.

Hope to see you there!

Study in Dakar, Senegal Spring 2025 – Applications Due April 1

Off-Campus Programs will be accepting applications for the Francophone Seminar in Dakar, Senegal, through April 1. For more information on how to apply, go to our Applications and Deadlines page.

The Senegal program is open to all students who will have completed French 202, or the equivalent, by the start of the program. You do not need to be a French major to apply.

On this program, students will travel to Dakar, Senegal, with Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies Sarah Gamalinda and spend the entire term immersed in French language and Senegalese culture. For more information on the program, go to the Francophone Seminar in Dakar, Senegal page.

London Centre Applications Due Feb. 20

If you are planning to apply to the London Centre for any term next year, please submit your application no later than Tuesday, Feb. 20. Students should submit their applications even if their recommendations have not been finalized.

If you have any questions on the application process or the program, please contact Off-Campus Programs by emailing offcampusprograms@lawrence.edu.

Off-Campus Programs Tabling

Northern Ireland and Oxford

Wednesday, February 21 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Program provider Arcadia Abroad will be tabling on campus, providing information and answering questions about their Northern Ireland – Conflict, Peace, and Transition and Oxford programs. They will be tabling outside the Commons.

In the Northern Ireland program, students examine the work of justice, reconciliation, and repair through the lens of the Northern Ireland conflict. While living in Derry-Londonderry, students will take classes and participate in a seven-week-long internship.

Chicago Center – Urban Student Teaching Program

Thursday, February 22 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

If student teaching will be in your future, consider the Chicago Center’s Urban Student Teaching Program. With this program, students will complete their student teaching practicum and seminar in the culturally diverse urban Chicago environment. Placements are made in both public and private central-city Chicago schools. To learn more, stop outside the Commons in Warch to talk to a Chicago Center representative.

Winter Term All Staff Meeting February 27

Join us for the Winter Term All-Staff Meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 27, from 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the Warch Campus Center Pusey Room!

Updates will be shared by faculty and staff from across campus. There will also be time at the end to ask questions.

If you are on campus, please plan to attend in person. If you are working off campus or unable to attend in person, please contact Lindsey Wyngaard at lindsey.wyngaard@lawrence.edu for the Zoom link.

Hope to see you there!