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Visual Brand 101 – Logos

Download all versions of the university logos on the Communications SharePoint.

Lawrence University Logo

The official university logo is used in all business correspondence and collateral. For example, it is used in the Letterhead, Policy Documentation, Business Cards, Email Signatures, etc. 

The three logo formats include Primary, Horizontal, and Condensed. The Primary logo should be used in most, if not all, instances, except when the Horizontal or Condensed versions better fit the allotted space.

Lawrence University Logo with /Brilliant Move tagline

Fox Valley Newcomer Project

Tuesday, Jan. 30 | 6-8 p.m.
Briggs 420

Help us uplift the ideas of Newcomers in the Fox Cities!

Join Hilary Haskell ’12 to learn about the variety of Newcomer communities across the Fox Cities. Jump into the Newcomer Community Project as we look at our first set of data from Newcomers and organizations across the community.

Dinner will be provided.

This event is open to students interested in working with immigrant and refugee populations. They will get a chance to learn about the community-based research project, engage with the data, and eat in fellowship with others that evening. 

We are asking for people to register by Jan. 19, but all are welcome to attend the evening of!

The mission of this program is to create a thriving community by connecting and supporting refugee and immigrant populations with the necessary resources and relationships.

We believe that true support and connection can only be achieved when we work together. By identifying the strengths, understanding the unmet needs, and recognizing the underutilized assets within our refugee and immigrant communities, we can pave the way for a brighter future.

Make a frog!

Thursday, Feb. 1 | 7:30-10 p.m.
Warch 226

A medium-sized arts and crafts event where students can use materials and instructions to make small stuffed frogs! Or, buy a pre-made frog at the maker’s booth! Hosted by ilLUstrator and Frog Club. All proceeds will go towards materials.

Performing Arts Series: Escher String Quartet

Friday, Feb. 2 | 7:30-9 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

The Escher String Quartet is acclaimed for their insightful music and beautiful tones. They have been recognized as a former BBC New Generation Artist and have received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. They have performed at prestigious venues like the BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall, and Wigmore Hall. In New York, they are season artists for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Currently, the quartet is extensively touring the U.S., including notable venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Bohemian National Hall, the Library of Congress, and the Harris Theater. They are also performing in international locations such as Wigmore Hall, St. John in the Virgin Islands, and San Miguel De Allende in Mexico.

Guest-faculty recital: Kyungwha Chu, piano, and Colin Carr, cello

Saturday, Feb. 3 | 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Colin Carr appears throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher. He has played with major orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, the orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia, Montréal and all the major orchestras of Australia and New Zealand. Conductors with whom he has worked include Rattle, Gergiev, Dutoit, Elder, Skrowasczewski and Marriner. He has been a regular guest at the BBC Proms and has twice toured Australia.

Award winning pianist Kyungwha Chu performs as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe. Her performances have included appearances at New York’s 92nd street Y, Kennedy Center Washington D.C., Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall New York.

She has appeared as a soloist with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Institute of Music orchestra, and Royal Conservatory of Music Orchestra. Her awards include top prizes in the Korean Broadcasting System competition, Cleveland Institute of Music concerto competition and Royal Conservatory of Music concerto competition. She has participated in the professional training workshop at Carnegie where she worked with Yo-Yo Ma and Pamela Frank. In 2010 she was one of seven students of Leon Fleisher to perform all 32 Beethoven piano Sonatas in a single-day marathon concert. During the summer of 2014 she participated in the Pearlman Music Program, working with Itzhak Pearlman and Donald Weilerstein.

Great Midwest Trivia Contest

Trivia LIX will begin at 10:00:37 p.m. Central Time on Friday, Jan. 26 and end around midnight on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2023.

The contest will be streamed live on Twitch.

Participants can also join the official Trivia 59 Discord Server.

Additional resources can be found on Linktree.

Registration

Official registration will take place at 8 p.m. on the first night of the contest (Jan. 26). Latecomers can register throughout the contest but will be at a points disadvantage.

To register, a team representative will call the appropriate phone line. A Trivia Master will answer and take the team’s name and a team representative’s contact information (name, phone number, and email). The teams will be assigned a team number–on-campus team numbers will start at 1, and off-campus numbers will start at 101.

Teams should use the registration period to find out if they have a significant delay in their signal. The official time for Trivia is time.gov.

Phone numbers

  • Head Master Phone Line: (920) 419-TRIV a.k.a. (920) 419-8748
  • Complaint Phone Line: (920) 419-6727
  • On-Campus Phone Line: (920) 832-7140
  • Off-Campus Phone Line: (920) 832-7148

Order LIX Trivia merch!

Guest recital: Duo Montagnard

Saturday, Jan. 27 | 8-9:30 p.m.
Harper Hall

Duo Montagnard was formed in 2002 and has performed over 350 concerts in 50 states, eight Canadian provinces, and twenty countries on six continents. Festival performances include the Chautauqua Institution, Scandinavian Saxophone Festival, Hartwick College Summer Music Festival, North-West University New Music Week (South Africa), UNC-Wilmington New Music for Guitar and Saxophone Festival, Radford University International Guitar Festival, and the Alexandria Guitar Festival. The duo has commissioned, premiered and recorded more than forty works for guitar and saxophone.


Joseph Murphy has been the saxophone professor at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania since 1987, where he has also served as Department Chair and Director of Bands. He received the Bachelor of Music degree from Bowling Green State University (OH), and the Master of Music and Doctoral of Musical Arts degrees from Northwestern University. Dr. Murphy was the music director of Tiffin (OH) Calvert High School from 1983-85. In 1985-86 he received a Fulbright Award for a year of study in Bordeaux, France, where he received a Premier Prix. In June 1996, Dr. Murphy performed a solo recital at Lincoln Center. He has performed in Europe, Taiwan and Japan. He is a clinician for the Selmer Corporation and has been recorded on the Erol (France), Opus One, and Mark Record labels. Dr. Murphy’s memberships include Music Educators National Conference, Music Teachers National Association, North American Saxophone Alliance, National Association of College Wind & Percussion Instructors, College Band Directors National Association, Phi Mu Alpha and Kappa Kappa Psi. Murphy has been involved in commissioning and premiering more than twenty new works for the saxophone, including pieces by Libby Larsen, Michael Colgrass, John Harbison, Bernard Rands, and Gunther Schuller.

Matthew Slotkin is an acclaimed performer, teacher, and scholar, and has appeared in leading venues on six continents. A commitment to contemporary music has resulted in premieres of numerous works by composers including Linda Buckley, John Anthony Lennon, Scott Lindroth, John Orfe, and many others. Recent performances include tours of South Africa, Poland, Germany, Argentina, Uruguay, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Greece, as well as concerts at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the Walled City Music Festival, the Monadnock Music Festival, the Chautauqua Institution, the Guitar Foundation of America, and the World Saxophone Congresses in Scotland, Thailand and Slovenia. He has performed on numerous classical guitar society concert series including New Zealand (GANZ), Montreal, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Iowa, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the Great Lakes. He has given performances with many prominent chamber ensembles including Cantata Profana, Metropolis Ensemble, Mallarmé Chamber Players, Duo Montagnard and Dez Cordas. Recordings on the Summit, Centaur, and Liscio labels have been praised as “wonderful…a very enjoyable disc” (Soundboard), and “a magnificent achievement…the concept of this program is brilliant” (American Record Guide). Soundboard magazine called him an “exceptional” player, and a recent concert review from the Classical Voice of North Carolina praised his “fine sensitivity and facile technique.” Slotkin is an Associate Professor of Music at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA, where he has directed the guitar program since 2004. He has given masterclasses at numerous institutions and festivals including the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Northwestern University, Victorian College of the Arts (Australia), ESMAE (Portugal), National University of La Plata (Argentina), the Alexandria Guitar Festival, and many others. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Music, and Bachelor of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied guitar with Nicholas Goluses.