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Applications open for funded summer experiences

Student applications for funded summer internships and summer projects are open!

There are two categories of funds we distribute:

  1. Sites at which Lawrence has per-arranged opportunities (applications and acceptance are still required for funding)
  2. Sites which are open competition with other students at other institutions, and Lawrence provides Lawrence students with funding if successful in application.

Exclusive for Lawrence students

The following opportunities have internships that are reserved exclusively for Lawrence students, are funded by Lawrence University, and the internships are at specific sites.

LU-Funded Internship Sites

Students apply on Handshake. Deadline to apply is March 29, 2024

  • Bread for the World (Washington, D.C.)
  • Hope Street Coalition (Tentatively remote with a potential trip to Washington D.C.)
  • Safe Passage Project (New York, NY)
  • Her Next Play (Twin Cities, MN)
  • Broadway Cares (New York, NY)
  • Merit School of Music (Chicago, IL)
  • New York Jazz Academy (New York, NY)
  • Carnegie Hall (TBD)
  • Center for Deep Listening (Remote, in-person at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or hybrid) 

Diversity in Conservation internship sites

All sites are in Wisconsin.

Students apply on Handshake. Deadline to apply is February 1, 2024.

Learn more about Diversity in Conservation

  • Badgerland Bird Alliance
  • Gathering Waters
  • International Crane Foundation
  • Lake Michigan Bird Observatory
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • UW-Madison Arboretum
  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Natural Heritage Conservation
  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Office of Applied Science
  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Wildlife Management
  • Zoological Society of Milwaukee

Colorado College Institute

Students are placed upon being accepted to the program. Deadline to apply is January 26, 2024.

Learn more about CO College Institute


For more information about these internships or application instructions, visit the Lawrence website or email Michelle.m.buchinger@lawrence.edu .

Other opportunities

The following funds are for summer internships and summer projects at sites that are open competition with other students at other institutions, and Lawrence provides Lawrence students with funding if successful in application.

These funds all have the priority deadline of March 29, 2024. 

Students must return to campus and be enrolled for at least one term after the funded experience to be eligible. There are several options of funding in this category to which students can apply:

Summer Experience Funding – For students accepting low or non-paid internships or research projects over the summer. The internship or project must be supervised and meet each grant’s criteria.

Dennis Huebner Pre-Law Fund – This stipend can offset or cover expenses related to exploring or pursuing opportunities related to a career in the legal profession. This grant prioritizes supporting juniors and returning seniors.

Eloise Frick Cherven Fund – This fund supports student projects and research that pursue some line of investigation or other activity that would broaden their experience or knowledge, help others, and prove of future value. Projects in any area are eligible, though preference will be given to students majoring in or projects related to geology.

Class of 1968 Peace & Social Activism Project Fund – This fund supports individual or collaborative projects by students and faculty that address these issues in a historical or contemporary context from a local, regional, national, or global perspective. Examples of the issues and topics that are addressed through these projects include the prevention of conflict, non-aggression, race, gender, ethnic identity, religious tolerance, and the environment.

Priority deadline for students to apply for these funds is March 29, 2024.

For more information funding opportunities or application instructions, visit the Lawrence website or email Michelle.m.buchinger@lawrence.edu .

Visual Brand 101 – Color

The Communications SharePoint site is your one-stop-shop for resources and best practices related to brand and visuals!

Download official logos, submit project request forms, learn about official fonts and colors, and so much more.


Pro Tip of the Week

Color Palette

Lawrence colors are as unique and distinctive as the logo. Consistent use of Lawrence’s official colors is required in all communications. No variation is acceptable for use with the Lawrence logo except black and white.

The colors pictured above illustrate the hierarchy of the Lawrence University color palette. Navy and Blue are the primary colors, followed by gold and terra cotta. Orange and green are to be used sparingly and as accent colors only.

LU NAVY 
C100 M88 Y42 K52 
R0 G12 B52 
HEX #000C35 
PMS 282
BLUE 
C100 M90 Y0 K0 
R33 G64 B154 
HEX #213F99 
PMS 072
GOLD 
C11 M39 Y100 K0 
R227 G159 B0 
HEX #E39F00 
PMS 130
TERRA COTTA 
C32 M80 Y81 K32 
R131 G60 B46
HEX #833C2E 
PMS 1815
ORANGE 
C4 M70 Y94 K0
R233 G110 B46
HEX #E96E2E 
PMS P 37-8
GREEN 
C94 M56 Y67 K63
R20 G52 B50 
HEX #143432 
PMS 627

Since colors often shift depending on the medium or reproduction method, specific designations have been identified: 

  • CMYK and PMS (print)
  • RGB and HEX (digital needs such as web, ppt presentations, and video)
CMYK refers to the four ink plates used in some color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black). CMYK is used for projects designed to be physically printed, not viewed on a screen. RGB is a color model referring to red, green, and blue. RGB is best for websites and digital communications.
PMS refers to the Pantone Color System. It is a standardized color matching system, which allows you to specify colors that cannot be mixed in traditional CMYK. These references are best for branding where perfect color matches are critical.HEX refers to a hexadecimal way to represent a color in RGB by combining three values: red, green, and blue.
  • The main difference between CMYK and PMS is the level of accuracy when it comes to the final color. Pantone will deliver the exact color every time, whereas CMYK can result in slight color variances.
  • There is no informational difference between RGB and HEX colors. They are simply different ways of communicating the same thing.

Read more on the Communications SharePoint site!

New Study Abroad Program Approved

Off-Campus Programs is excited to announce the approval of our latest study abroad program: IES Nagoya, Japan.

The IES Nagoya, Japan program offers a direct enrollment opportunity through Nanzan University’s Center for Japanese Studies, where students will choose between a Modern Japanese track or an Intensive Japanese track. Aside from language study, both tracks also offer students English-taught area studies courses, elective arts classes, and Japanese-taught seminar courses. Advanced-level Japanese language courses are available.

Look for this program application opening soon. If you have questions on this program, please Make an Appointment with an Off-Campus Programs advisor.

Winter 2024 Art Exhibitions

January 12 – March 8

Cori Nakamura Lin, BAKEKUJIRA from The Night Parade, 2023

Cori Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Leech Gallery 

What is an identity, but a story of self? As an artist with cultural ties to multiple empires, I am unwinding the mythologies of United States and Japanese nationalism that I’ve been taught, and am weaving new stories to tell about myself and my people. In the diaspora, I both yearn towards the past, longing for a stronger connection to my ancestors, and towards the future, desperately envisioning a future where me and my communities are rooted deeply enough in order to withstand the coming climate hardship. In this tension between past and future, I paint yōkai, the strange spirit creatures of Japanese myth. 

Yōkai are not exactly ghost, or monster, or spirit, but a wide umbrella category holding all of these and more. I am drawn to these creatures’ tendency to inhabit in between space, and I paint them to help me release rage, evoke cycles, channel joy, and remember what’s been lost. 

These paintings were originally commissioned as a set of 16 chapter headers for my sister Jami Nakamura Lin’s debut memoir The Night Parade (2023), published by Mariner HarperCollins. My goal in illustrating The Night Parade was to depict yōkai that had escaped the idealized, frozen concept of ancient Japan, and had re-rooted in the complexities of my second-and-fourth-generation Taiwanese, Japanese, and Okinawan American experience. Cori Nakamura Lin –  Artist Statement


Kayla Bauer, image from The End of Somewhere, 2023

Kayla Bauer, The End of Somewhere

Hoffmaster Gallery

The End of Somewhere uses San Francisco as a vehicle to explore multiplicities of identity, memory, and history; Kayla Bauer works with photography, text, and found imagery to create fragmentary narratives that may or may not be rooted in reality. Bauer is currently completing a Ph.D at UW-Madison and her MFA thesis exhibition, I Left My Heart…, was awarded the 2022 Russell and Paula Panczenko Prize.


Senga Nengudi, A.C.Q. – Cross Eyed; A.C.Q. – Cross Ban; A.C.Q. – Cross Waves, 2016-17, Refrigerator parts and nylon pantyhose, on loan from Art Bridges AB.2017.12

Organic / Inorganic

Kohler Gallery

An exhibition of sculptural works curated around Senga Nengudi’s multi-part A.C.Q. (Air Conditioning Queen), on loan from the Art Bridges FoundationA.C.Q. is a mixed-media installation, composed of found metal refrigerator parts and donated second-hand nylon pantyhose. This juxtaposition of the rigid-industrial-abstract and the elastic-intimate-human give us a means to think through ideas about gender and resilience. Sculpture and installation pieces by Monty LittleAnna Campbell, and Callie Kiesow present similarly startling juxtapositions, with isolated elements of the human body paired with and disrupted by pattern and abstraction; they also offer expansive ways of thinking about how these formal cues signal larger ideas about identity and survival.

The Lawrence Chamber Music Festival

Lawrence University is pleased to announce the inaugural Lawrence Chamber Music Festival, held in Appleton, Wisconsin from July 21 – August 4, 2024. Designed for advanced instrumentalists and pre-formed ensembles ages 18+, the festival offers:

  • Daily rehearsals, coachings, lessons, and symposia with world-class faculty
  • Festival performances in a wide variety of venues, including Lawrence University Memorial Chapel, Gibson Music Hall, and the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
  • A opportunity to curate unique performances in collaboration with local singer-songwriters from the Mile of Music Festival
  • Musical growth in an inspirational environment

Highlights

  • Dates: Sunday, July 21 – Sunday, August 4, 2024 
  • Ages: For advanced instrumentalists and pre-formed ensembles ages 18+
  • Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
  • Location: Lawrence University campus in Appleton, Wisconsin
  • Faculty: See below for our Summer 2024 faculty. Additional faculty and guest artists will be announced.
  • Audition required: See registration form for details.
  • Student Cost: Tuition is $2,150. Room & Board prices are set by Lawrence and will be announced at a later date.

Get more information and apply!

Off-Campus Programs Deadline Extended to February 5

If you are thinking about study abroad for next year, there is still time to apply! Off-Campus Programs has extended its deadline for affiliated program applications until February 5.

For a list of affiliated programs, please go to our Approved Programs list.

The deadline for London Centre and the Francophone Seminar in Dakar, Senegal programs remains February 20 and April 1, respectively.

More information on study abroad and a link to our application are available on the Off-Campus Programs website.

To make an appointment with an Off-Campus Programs advisor, please complete our Request a Meeting form.

Lawrence Live

Lawrence Live, our new virtual interview series, premieres Thursday, January 25 at 12 p.m.!

Through this series, you will be able to engage with candid stories from Lawrence alumni about their time as a student and life after Lawrence.

Join Matt Baumler, Associate Vice President of Alumni and Community Engagement, and Nathan Heffel, Lawrence class of 2002.

Register to attend Lawrence Live

Read more about Nathan Heffel

The Lawrence University Shoutbox

LUCC is bringing back the Lawrence Shoutbox, available through Facebook!

Welcome to The Shoutbox Redux, is a place for members of the Lawrence community to make an announcement or pose a question regarding any of the following categories:

  • Public events/concerts/parties
  • Community announcements (LUCC or otherwise)
  • Lost & found
  • Clubs & organizations
  • Life at Lawrence

Join the group

The Lawrence University Shoutbox logo

Staff Chili Cook-Off February 1

Mark your calendars! Save the Date! The annual Staff Chili Cook-Off event, sponsored by Staff Council, is scheduled for February 1, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Interested in participating as a cook this year and possibly winning the coveted Golden Crockpot Award? Then dust off your favorite chili recipe and look for information coming soon telling you how to sign up! This year promises to be bigger and better than ever, and we want YOU involved!

Sign up to cook for Chili Cook-Off

We have around 16 spots for cooks, so it is first come, first served!

If you have any questions regarding the chili cook-off or Staff Council, please email Staff_Council@lawrence.edu.

Lunch and Learn for Faculty & Staff

Wednesday, Jan. 17 | 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Briggs 127 (CTE)

How should I grade this?

Join our colleague Bob Williams (Education) for an engaging discussion on standards-based grading in the higher education classroom.

Bob will also delve into current trends in K-12 education regarding grading, shedding light on experiences with grading and grades that undergraduates bring to Lawrence.

Feel free to bring your own lunch, and don’t worry about beverages and dessert-we’ve got you covered with coffee, tea, and sweet treats!