Tuesday, April 23 | 5:15-6:15 p.m.
Warch 414 – Runkel
As you prepare to leave Lawrence and embrace exciting new opportunities, we understand that adjusting to a new job and/or community can be both exhilarating and challenging.
In this session, we’ll explore essential aspects of succeeding in your new job, relocating, making new friends, and ensuring a smooth transition as you embark on this next chapter of your life.
Tuesday, April 23 | 8-9 p.m.
Warch 325 – Pusey
Join the Campus Advocate for a fun Bingo Night! Test your knowledge on topics like consent, relationship goals, campus resources, safer sex, and more. Bring your friends, win some prizes, and learn more about healthy relationships.
Thursday, April 25 | 7:30-9 p.m.
Wriston 224 – Auditorium
Humans tend to rely heavily on vision to navigate, but blind individuals must make use of other senses. In this lecture, Dr. Moss will present details on the sound features that are used for echolocation by animals and blind humans and the acoustic cues they use to localize objects in the environment. She will also discuss the contribution of spatial attention and memory to the execution of behavioral tasks without vision. By comparing echolocating animals and humans, we can identify biological specializations and general principles that operate to support spatial navigation
Learn more about the Visiting Scholars Program and Dr. Cynthia Moss.
Friday, April 26 | 3:10-4:30 p.m.
Warch 204 – Cinema
As we move through the natural environment, our distance and direction to objects continuously change. How does movement influence perception of the surroundings? Decades of research on perception has measured performance of stationary subjects viewing visual stimuli, and far less is known about perception of freely moving animals that rely on auditory information to guide their actions in the physical world. Dr. Moss’s lecture will attempt to bridge this gap by considering the behavior of animals engaged in natural tasks in complex environments. She will present a variety of examples but will focus on echolocating bats, animals that produce high frequency sounds and process auditory information carried by returning echoes to guide behavioral decisions for object localization, target discrimination, and navigation. I will present research findings that demonstrate the remarkable spatial resolution of animal sonar, which exceeds that of human vision along some dimensions.
About Dr. Moss
Dr. Cynthia Moss received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Ph.D. from Brown University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Tübingen, Germany and a Research Fellow at Brown University before joining the faculty at Harvard University in 1989. At Harvard, Moss received the Phi Beta Kappa teaching award and the NSF Young Investigator Award. In 1995, she moved to the University of Maryland, College Park, where she served as Director of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program. In 2014, Moss joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where she is professor of psychological and brain sciences. Her recent awards include the Hartmann Award in Auditory Neuroscience (2017), the James McKeen Cattell Award (2018), and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize (2019).
Saturday, April 27 | 8 p.m.-Midnight
Warch 324 – Somerset
Join us for the annual President’s Ball! The theme this year is “Alice in Wonderland.”
Friday, April 26 | 7:30-9 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Praised by Opera News for “high notes with ease, singing with a luxuriant warm glow that seduced the ear as he bounded about the stage with abandon,” American tenor David Portillo has established himself as a leading classical singer of his generation. In 2022-23, David Portillo will showcase his talent for concertgoers and in a range of notable projects, including performances as Tamino in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera, Ferrando in Così fan tutte with The Dallas Opera, Nadir in The Pearl Fishers with Austin Opera, and assume the title role in Handel’s Jephtha with Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque.
Wednesday, May 1 | 6 p.m.
Wriston Auditorium
Join us for an evening of reflection with Dr. Alphonso Simpson, Associate Professor and Director of African American Studies from University Wisconsin, Oshkosh. His talk on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be accompanied by a performance by NOIR and spoken word poetry by Monique Johnson.
The City of Appleton is looking for input from everyone who lives, works, and/or spends a significant amount of time in Appleton to take Appleton’s Community Concerns survey. The data collected will help us better understand the needs and assets in Appleton, especially as they relate to the Social Determinants of Health and wellbeing.
We’ll share this information with our community partners who will work together to address these needs and commemorate the assets. The survey is translated into the top six languages used by families in the Appleton Area School District.
Find the survey and more information on the city of Appleton’s website.
Tuesday, April 30 | 6:30-8 p.m.
Door County Economic Development Corporation | 185 E Walnut St | Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
Meet members of the Peninsula Arts & Humanities Alliance (PAHA) for a round table conversation moderated by Julie Gilbert, President and CEO of Destination Door County. This is a rare opportunity for community members to listen to leaders of our arts organizations share the specifics of the recent report on “The Economic Impact of the Arts for Door County” in 2023. The panel will share, in conversation, the cultural and economic importance of the arts in our lives.
Panel members are:
This discussion is free and open to everyone. Light refreshments will be served.
This year’s 42nd annual American Cancer Society Sole Burner 5K walk/run will be taking place on Saturday morning, May 11 at City Park. They will be using a good part of their “traditional” course utilizing the College Avenue Bridge for the first and last thirds of the event. Streets on the route will likely be blocked off starting around 8:55. a.m. Walkers and runners will start from City Park at 9 a.m., and it is expected that all walkers will be past the bridge by 9:40 a.m. Streets on the route will likely open before that time when the last walker goes by. Note that streets directly around City Park will be blocked off earlier.
For those of you in the Lawrence area south of College, Lawe Street is open and there is access to Lawe Street from Alton Street. However, Lawe Street will be closed at the Newberry trail from approximately 9-9:55 a.m. The Newberry trail is also the middle part of the course.
Listed below are expected closed times:
There is about a 10-15 minute window of no way out of the downtown area, except for emergencies.
We hope this notice will help with your morning planning. If you are home, we’d love to have you come out and cheer on the participants as we attempt to raise over $200,000 to fight cancer.
Can’t beat us? Join Us! As a thank you for your support, please use the discount code 24NEIGHBOR to get $5 off your registration fee when you register for the Sole Burner 5K Walk/Run at www.soleburner.org.
Wellness Services is pleased to offer subsidized full-body therapeutic massage services for spring term.
Appointments are available for 50 minutes and cost $30 on campus and at the YMCA.
Massages are available for all students and employees just once per term.
You must sign up to be eligible for the discounted price. E-mail Erin Buenzli to schedule an appointment. Limit one per term.
