Join the WELLU Holiday Trio Challenge: Maintain, Don’t Gain
Sign up in teams of three or fewer.
Prizes for the team that maintains its weight and for a random participation drawing include: Fitbit, Bluetooth speaker, massages and more.
Weigh in: Nov. 18–22
Weigh out: Jan. 4–6
9:30 a.m.–noon and 1–4:30 p.m. at the Buchanan Kiewit Wellness Center
Email erin.buenzli@lawrence.edu for details.
Thank you to those who attended the Wellness Fair. Below are the winners of the prize baskets. Congratulations!
Lawrence’s third annual Giving Day is Tuesday, Nov. 15. Wear your LU gear, watch the live show from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and help support Lawrence by giving. We hope to have at least 100 faculty and staff donors on Giving Day. More information.
REMINDER to submit your submission for the President’s Award of Excellence. The award recognizes staff members who continually go above and beyond for the betterment of Lawrence.
Nominees must meet the following conditions:
You may nominate a staff member from your own department or another department by Nov. 11. Nomination forms are available on the PAE page and must accompany a one- to three-page, typed testimonial describing how the employee encompasses the award criteria.
The nomination form can be submitted by one of the following methods:
Email: Excellence@lawrence.edu
Fax: 920-993-6026
Interoffice mail: Rochelle Blindauer, Human Resources
Hand deliver: Rochelle Blindauer, Brokaw Hall Room 108
If you have additional questions, please see the President’s Award of Excellence FAQ page or contact Rochelle Blindauer at 920-832-6541.
As a part of the Midwest Conference Canned Food Challenge, the Lawrence University SAAC (Student-Athlete Advisory Committee) is collecting canned food items as well as monetary donations to donate to Blessings in a Backpack. LU SAAC is asking for the help of staff and faculty members to help collect these items on Thursday, Nov. 3 at 11:30 a.m. Each $1 donated will count as two cans in the MWC Canned Food Challenge.
On Thursday at 11:30 a.m., SAAC members will be going door-to-door to faculty and staff offices to collect canned food items or monetary donations at the following buildings:
If your office is not on this list or you will not be present at that time and would like to donate, please come to one of those buildings at 11:30 a.m. or drop your items off with a colleague!
Blessings in a Backpack is a program for local elementary schools who have a high number of students who are on assisted lunches or demonstrate a high need for extra food that they are unfortunately not getting at home. BIAB gives these kids backpacks of food each Friday during the school year to make sure they are getting enough to eat on the weekend. LU SAAC has already been in contact with the local BIAB chapter, and it will use the monetary donations or canned food items to help stock these backpacks at local Appleton elementary schools for students who are in need.
If you have any questions, please contact SAAC advisor Ashley Wellman (ashley.l.wellman@lawrence.edu).
The following job openings are available. If you are interested, please apply online or send a resume to humanresources@lawrence.edu. View full job postings on Lawrence’s job website.
Last-chance flu shot clinic!
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 11 a.m.–2 p.m.
Warch Campus Center, Esch Hurvis Room
If you were unable to make a flu shot clinic, you can contact Laurie Ehlers, RN educator, at laurie.ehlers@lawrence.edu to set up an individual appointment.
Get your LU gear—exclusively for staff before Nov. 5! Get yours now. Sale code: LUStaff. Samples available in the financial aid office on the first floor of Brokaw Hall.
SLUG (Sustainable Lawrence University Garden) is holding two end-of-the-term honey sales this month. (Honey can make a great holiday treat or gift!)
The sales will take place:
Friday, Nov. 11: 4:30–6:30 p.m. outside the VR
Thursday, Nov. 17: 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. in the Steitz atrium
A reminder to the campus community: Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey will speak at next Tuesday’s Convocation at 11:10 a.m. in Memorial Chapel.
Trethewey, whose talk is entitled The Muse of History: On Poetry and Social Justice, has combined her mixed-race background and profound writing skills to convey the plight of the southern black woman. Her first collection of poems, Domestic Work (2000), detailed working-class lives and jobs and won the Cave Canem Prize for a first book by an African American poet. In 2007, Trethewey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Native Guard (2006), an exploration of death and war. Other acclaimed works include Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002), a fictional narrative of prostitution in 1900s New Orleans; Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi (2010), a non-fiction collection; and Thrall (2012), an examination of mixed-race fathers and children.
In 2012, Trethewey was named the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate. She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and also has held teaching positions at Duke University, the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill and Yale University.
Trethewey earned a bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Georgia, a master’s degree in English and creative writing from Hollins University and a master of fine arts degree in poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
An informal question-and-answer session will immediately follow the Convocation in the Chapel.
