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New hires and job changes

The following colleagues have been hired, rehired or have a new position within the last two weeks. If you see them on campus, please welcome them to Lawrence!

  • Amy Shoremount-Obra, lecturer in music
  • Andrea Guenther-Pal, staff counselor
  • Bryce Woldt, assistant women’s soccer coach
  • Catherine Kaye, assistant women’s basketball coach
  • Erica Van Riper, assistant men’s and women’s tennis coach
  • Jordan Atkins, assistant men’s and women’s cross country coach
  • Julie Kairys, human resources assistant
  • Kimberly Scott, Title IX coordinator
  • Kyle Dockery, Björklunden assistant
  • Liliana Guevara, admissions counselor
  • Richard Jazdzewski, associate dean of students for health and wellness
  • Ryan Wockenfus, assistant men’s basketball coach

Viking happy hour is back!

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The Staff Connections Committee would like to invite you to wear your LU gear and/or blue and white and join us at the Viking Room Happy Hour on Friday, Sept. 30 from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

If you attend while wearing your blue and white, your name will be entered into a drawing for some sweet prizes. Plus, you get to enjoy FREE pretzels and buy one, get one free drink specials!

Check in at the Staff Connections table for your chance to win!

Lunch @ Lawrence Series 2016–17

The Lunch at Lawrence series is back this year with an amazing lineup of LU faculty and staff. Lunches are $16.50 each or $82.50 for all six (a $99 value). Join us for lunch and learn something new. Register.

Oct. 7: Arnold Shober, associate professor of government
Unexpected but Not Unprecedented: Upheavals in American Politics From 1856 to 2016

Nov. 4: Christyn Abaray, athletics director
Adding Tools to the Toolbox of Life Skills: Development of Effective Communication Skills Through Sport

Feb. 10: Monica Rico, associate professor of history
Environmental History, Environmental Challenges: Looking at the Fox Cities and Wisconsin

March 10: Rob Neilson, Frederick R. Layton Professor of Art and associate professor of art
Public Art: People, Process and Product

April 14: Carla Daughtry, associate professor of anthropology
Cooking Schools and Culinary Tourism: Status, Memory and Identity in a Dish

May 12: Brigetta Miller, associate professor of music
Decolonization, Activism and Hope: Changing the Way We See Native America

Applications being accepted for KIPP Academy internships

Students interested in a career in education should consider applying for the KIPP Academy internship over D-Term.

Spending time at KIPP Academy in Boston provides Lawrence students interested in education careers with several important takeaways, including exposure to an innovative system of education, experience with education of inner-city children from diverse minority backgrounds and observation of various teaching styles and techniques.

Hours would be the same as faculty hours: 7 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday–Friday and evening work as needed. Students are expected to do any and all work supportive of the teachers, including work with individual and small groups of students, but also copying class materials and grading classwork.

Deadline to apply is Oct. 24. Visit LUworks for more information and application instructions.

What about those spiders?

You may have heard that brown recluse spiders were discovered in the Facilities Services building in early August. These spiders are not native to Wisconsin, and they can deliver a nasty bite that should not be treated lightly. This was so unusual that local media (the Appleton Post Crescent and Green Bay TV stations) all reported the story.

To put everyone’s mind at ease, here’s the current situation:

  • When the spiders were first seen, LU worked with a pest control company to trap and then confirm that these were, in fact, brown recluse spiders.
  • The building was treated and additional traps were set.
  • As a precaution, staff, faculty and summer residents were notified and traps were set in all campus buildings.
  • The Facilities Services building was treated a second time to ensure that the problem was addressed.
  • No other campus buildings were affected, and no other brown recluse spiders have been confirmed on campus.

Since most of us have never seen a brown recluse spider, descriptions can be found on bulletin boards around campus. If you think you’ve seen a brown recluse spider, leave it alone and contact Facility Services at x6602.

Hiring students for Fall Term?

As the new academic year begins, incoming first-year students, returning students and especially students eligible for financial aid are searching for on-campus employment. If you plan to hire student workers for Fall Term and have not already posted your opening(s), please do so on LUworks as soon as possible.

FOR FIRST-TIME USERS:

FOR RETURNING USERS:

If you have any questions about the log-in process, please call Career Services at x6561.

 

LU art students to be featured at Appleton’s Trout Museum

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Photo by
Glenn McMahon ’17

The photographic talents of 10 Lawrence students will be featured in the exhibition Out of the Darkroom from Sept. 16 to Dec. 31 at the Trout Museum of Art in downtown Appleton.

Nearly two dozen images will be shown in the museum’s Regional Artist Gallery. The featured students are: Natalie Cash ’18, Michael Hubbard ’17, Cherise John ’17, Regan Martin ’17, Glenn McMahon ’17, Nick Nootenboom ’17, Penn Ryan ’18, Torrey Smith ’17, Chloe Stella ’16 and Sadie Tenpas ’17. All are students of Associate Professor of Art John Shimon.

Welcoming Laurie Ehlers, our new nurse educator

Beginning this fall, the Wellness Committee, Benefits Advisory Committee and the HR team are happy to announce the addition of an on-site health nurse educator as part of our wellness benefits for faculty and staff. The nurse educator will provide coaching and education to individuals and groups through educational sessions. Primary areas of focus will initially be nutrition and stress, following priorities identified in health screening results from the prior years. Tobacco cessation and other programs will also be available.

We are pleased to welcome Laurie Ehlers, R.N., to Lawrence as our ThedaCare occupational health nurse. Laurie started Sept. 13.

Laurie will be available at the following location and times:

Memorial Hall: (Room 102—watch for the ThedaCare sign!)
Tuesdays, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Wednesdays, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

To schedule an appointment, contact Laurie at laurie.ehlers@lawrence.edu or 920-832-7498.

Lawrence has contracted with ThedaCare to provide this on-campus resource for faculty and staff. Anything discussed during your visits is completely CONFIDENTIAL.

For more information, read this nurse educator frequently asked questions document.