Friday, May 16 | 2-7 p.m.
Warch 324-Somerset Room
At this event, senior biology, biochemistry, and neuroscience students will present their self-designed Senior Experience projects to the Lawrence University community.
This is a come-and-go event where you can drop in and attend for as long as you are able. Students will be presenting posters as well as other products to display their senior experience projects.
Wednesday, May 7 | 4:30-6 p.m.
Main 201
This talk provides an overview of dual language immersion in the U.S., with a focus on two-way immersion (TWI) programs. In TWI programs, a balanced number of students from each target language group are enrolled in a class, allowing for greater exposure to the second language through peer interaction compared to one-way immersion programs. This study examines how elementary school children in a Japanese-English TWI program in the U.S. develop their speaking skills, as measured by the ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL), and their pronunciation accuracy, assessed through acoustic analysis (i.e., voice onset time).
Thursday, May 8 | All Day Event
Meet at Wriston Turnaround, then go to Milwaukee (transportation provided)
Regardless of your major or class year, you’re invited to spend a day connecting with professionals in the visual & performing arts (VPA) at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and the Museum of Wisconsin Art! Not only will you get to network with employers, but this trek will provide a valuable learning experience in terms of both career exploration and professional development! See Handshake for details and to register by May 4.
Tuesday, May 6 | 6:30-8 p.m.
Fox Commons B&E Center
The Entrepreneurship Circle Workshops are biweekly meetings of Lawrence’s entrepreneurship student group. Each meeting, we have a different guest help us learn about entrepreneurship skills, challenges, and interesting examples.
We will welcome alumnus Emmanuel Buah ’04, a serial entrepreneur. At Lawrence, Emmanuel majored in computer science and math. He held jobs in software engineering and architecture before founding his first company in 2012. He went on to co-found 2 more start-ups, including his current business, Airfordable, “payment plans for flights before departure.”
Come hear about Emmanuel’s life after Lawrence, his journey as an entrepreneur, and advice to students. Food and drinks provided.
RSVP to irene.strohbeen@lawrence.edu.
Monday, April 28 | 4-6 p.m. (doors open at 3:30 p.m.)
Fox Cities Stadium
The Pitch is a startup business pitch competition among college student teams in Northeast Wisconsin. Competing teams have advanced from their campus competitions and have the opportunity to win cash and in-kind services to further their entrepreneurial pursuits.
Representing Lawrence this year are:
Participating schools include:
The Pitch is open to all!
Thursday, May 1 | 4:30 p.m.
Wriston Art Galleries
An active scholar and instructor, Professor Gustavo Fares has taught in the Spanish Department at Lawrence since 2000, and he also has a vigorous visual art practice. He will discuss his current exhibition, Abstract-Organic, on view in the Wriston Art Galleries through May 17.
According to the artist, “The Abstract Organic series appeals to nature in the ways in which the works are made as well as in the images they present. The images are built around “indexical images,” that is, images constructed with the impression on the painting’s surface of real objects, which in this case are tree branches.
Thursday, April 17 | 7 p.m.
Coffee Wizardz | 800 S Lawe St, Appleton
Marcia Bjornerud (geology) and Austin Segrest (English) will be reading from their new books, Turning to Stone and Groom, respectively.
Their new memoirs will take readers on journeys through their respective fields, geology and poetry. An animate earth, a survival—Marcia Bjornerud’s Turning to Stone and Austin Segrest’s Groom articulate the emergence of new understandings of the relationships and environments that shape us.
Mark your calendars and join us for low-key, 20-minute lunchtime tours of the current art exhibitions in the galleries. Relax and learn something new. Each tour is unique!
The Galleries are open during academic year exhibitions:
Galleries are free and open to the public and located in the Wriston Art Center.
The H.K. Babcock Award is presented annually to one Lawrence alumnus, administrator, trustee, faculty member, or staff member who has demonstrated exemplary engagement and excellence in their role within the university as recognized by the Lawrence student body.
The winner will be presented with the award and invited to speak at the annual Honors Convocation.
Please submit your nominations by 5:30 p.m. on April 14!
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Thursday, May 29 | 4:30 p.m.
Main Hall 201
You may have heard about the $500,000 Mellon grant recently awarded to support collaboration between LU colleagues and the College of the Menominee Nation. This event will give us a chance to learn more about the work and the thinking that led to the grant. It should also give us a chance to talk about one of the main concerns of the grant: issues of environmental justice and sustainability.
Presenters will include Greg Hitch (Environmental Studies), Claire Kervin (English), and Sigma Colon (Environmental Studies and Ethnic Studies). All are welcome, so please join us!
