Development

The LU grants team is pleased to announce recent faculty and staff grant awards. If you are interested in applying for an external grant to support your research, creative activity, or program idea, please contact Amy Kester at amy.kester@lawrence.edu or x6816.

Please join me in congratulating our colleagues on their grant awards:

·        Karen Bruno (academy) received a $3,000 grant for the Academy of Music Tutti Fund from the Green Bay Packers Foundation.

·        Erin Buenzli (wellness) received $1,000 from Well City to support WELCOA’s On the Move Challenge for Lawrence employees again in spring 2019.

·        Alyssa Hakes (biology) received two grants to support her research examining Cirsium pitcheri seed viability patterns and the impact of the invasive Larinus carlinae weevils across the dune landscape of Lake Michigan : a $650 grant from the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin and a $668 crowdfunded grant from experiment.com.

·        Lori Hilt (psychology) was awarded a $368,196 grant from the National Institutes of Health for her 3-year clinical trial to test a mindfulness mobile app intervention to address adolescent rumination on negative thoughts.

·        Arnold Shober (government) received $7,000 from UW Stout to support Lawrence’s second year as a Participating Institution in Stout’s Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation initiative to “promote the discussion and study of civil liberty and related institutions and innovations.”

·        Katie Schweighofer (gender studies) was awarded a $4,000 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society. The grant will support expenses to visit the Kinsey Institute archives in Indiana to complete the first full analysis of the correspondence collection of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a world-famous sexologist. The project will utilize a feminist and queer historical analysis.

·        Claudena Skran (government) was awarded a $6,000 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society. Funds will support expenses to utilize archives in England for her research on the role of private, voluntary organizations in relation to two early twentieth century refugee emergencies: the Russian refugee crisis of 1921-22 and the Greek refugee exodus from Turkey of 1922.

·        Copeland Woodruff (opera) received three grants for the opera “Mass:” gift-in-kind advertising worth $4,200 on 91.1 The Avenue and a $2,500 Bright Idea Grant and $1,500 Jewelers Mutual Fund grant from theCommunity Foundation for the Fox Valley Region.

Date: Thursdays 10 AM – Noon

Location: Briggs Hall

Are you interested in applying for a grant to fund a new program, research project, or artistic work? Faculty and staff are invited to stop by and meet with either Anna Simeth, Ariela Rosa, or Amy Kester to discuss grant ideas on Thursdays between 10 am and noon (with the exception of holidays or during convocation)—no appointment required. In April we are in the Steitz Hall Atrium, and in the month of May we will be located in the main entry of Briggs Hall; please look for the table with the “grants” sign.

If you have any questions or would like to schedule a time to discuss external funding during a different time slot, please email amy.kester@lawrence.edu or call x6816. We look forward to connecting with you!

Date: Thursdays 10 AM – Noon

Location: Steitz Hall Atrium

Are you interested in applying for a grant to fund a new program, research project, or artistic work? Faculty and staff are invited to stop by and meet with either Anna Simeth, Ariela Rosa, or Amy Kester to discuss grant ideas on Thursdays between 10 am and noon (with the exception of holidays or during convocation)—no appointment required. In the month of April, we will be located in the Steitz Hall Atrium; please look for the table with the “grants” sign.

If you have any questions or would like to schedule a time to discuss external funding during a different time slot, please email amy.kester@lawrence.edu or call x6816. We look forward to connecting with you!

Date: Thursdays 10 AM – Noon

Location: WCC – Kaplan’s Café

Are you interested in applying for a grant to fund a new program, research, or artistic work? The LU grants team is pleased to announce that we will be piloting weekly open office hours in Kaplan’s Café in the Warch Campus Center on Thursdays beginning November 15 through the end of June 2019. Faculty and staff are invited to stop by and meet with Anna Simeth, Ariela Rosa, or Amy Kester to discuss grant ideas on Thursdays between 10 am and noon (with the exception of holidays or during convocation)—no appointment required.

If you have any questions or would like to schedule a time to discuss external funding during a different time slot, please email amy.kester@lawrence.edu or call x6816.

Thank you to the 196 of you who supported Lawrence students on Giving Day! We are grateful for your contributions. The day wouldn’t happen without all of you!

We now invite you to join in supporting both Lawrence students and the United Way. If you haven’t already and would like to make a gift to Lawrence, United Way, or both, please complete the pledge form and return it via campus mail or email to the Development Office in Brokaw Hall. We would greatly appreciate your support of both campaigns by Monday, November 26.

Thank you for considering these giving options as a way to support our students and community. Should you have any questions about either opportunity, please don’t hesitate to contact Stacy Mara.

Thank you to the 196 of you who supported Lawrence students on Giving Day! We are grateful for your contributions. The day wouldn’t happen without all of you!

We now invite you to join in supporting both Lawrence students and the United Way. If you haven’t already and would like to make a gift to Lawrence, United Way, or both, please complete the attached pledge form and return it via campus mail or email to the Development Office in Brokaw Hall. We would greatly appreciate your support of both campaigns by Monday, November 26.

Thank you for considering these giving options as a way to support our students and community. Should you have any questions about either opportunity, please don’t hesitate to contact Stacy Mara.

Thank you to the 196 of you who supported Lawrence students on Giving Day last week! We are grateful for your contributions. The day wouldn’t happen without all of you!

We now invite you to join in supporting both Lawrence students and the United Way. If you haven’t already and would like to make a gift to Lawrence, United Way, or both, please complete the pledge form and return it via campus mail or email to the Development Office in Brokaw Hall. We would greatly appreciate your support of both campaigns by Monday, November 26.

Thank you for considering these giving options as a way to support our students and community. Should you have any questions about either opportunity, please don’t hesitate to contact Stacy Mara.

Date: Thursdays 10 AM – Noon

Location: WCC – Kaplan’s Café

Are you interested in applying for a grant to fund a new program, research, or artistic work? The LU grants team is pleased to announce that we will be piloting weekly open office hours in Kaplan’s Café in the Warch Campus Center on Thursdays beginning November 15 through the end of June 2019. Faculty and staff are invited to stop by and meet with Anna Simeth, Ariela Rosa, or Amy Kester to discuss grant ideas on Thursdays between 10 am and noon (with the exception of holidays or during convocation)—no appointment required.

If you have any questions or would like to schedule a time to discuss external funding during a different time slot, please email amy.kester@lawrence.edu or call x6816.

Thank you to the 196 of you who supported Lawrence students on Giving Day last week! We are grateful for your contributions. The day wouldn’t happen without all of you!

We now invite you to join in supporting both Lawrence students and the United Way. If you haven’t already and would like to make a gift to Lawrence, United Way, or both, please complete the pledge form and return it via campus mail or email to the Development Office in Brokaw Hall. We would greatly appreciate your support of both campaigns by Monday, November 26.

Thank you for considering these giving options as a way to support our students and community. Should you have any questions about either opportunity, please don’t hesitate to contact Stacy Mara.