Students applying to study off-campus at any point during the 2024-2025 academic year are encouraged to apply for the Off-Campus Programs Scholarship. The application is due April 5.
To apply, go to the OCP Scholarship Application on our website. For any questions, contact OffCampusPrograms@lawrence.edu.
Off-Campus Programs will be accepting applications for the Francophone Seminar in Dakar, Senegal, through April 1. For more information on how to apply, go to our Applications and Deadlines page.
The Senegal program is open to all students who will have completed French 202, or the equivalent, by the start of the program. You do not need to be a French major to apply.
On this program, students will travel to Dakar, Senegal, with Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies Sarah Gamalinda and spend the entire term immersed in French language and Senegalese culture. For more information on the program, go to the Francophone Seminar in Dakar, Senegal page.
Wednesday, March 13 | 5:30-7 p.m.
Virtual Link
Meeting ID: 490 300 1737
VIRTUAL EVENT – Join our incredible panelists as they delve into their experiences as women in STEM. Learn about the nuances and impacts of gender and implications for the future of women in STEM.
This panel features:
Presented by I.D.E.A.S.
Do you like trivia (not the Great Midwest kind)? It’s fun!
Quizbowl is a team knowledge competition. Players use a buzzer system to score points for their team by answering questions on a wide range of academic topics. Lawrence University Quizbowl meets during the week for informal practice on real questions and travels throughout the year to compete against teams from schools across the country.
Join us for a meeting at 3 p.m. every Tuesday in Steitz 230.
Monday, March 4 | 4:30 p.m.
Steitz 102
The lecture will begin 4:30 p.m. in Steitz 102 immediately followed by a reception and celebration of the book launch of The 1951 Refugee Convention: A Commentary in the Steitz Atrium.
This event is free and open to the public.
Evan Easton-Calabria is a Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She has conducted research with refugees and displaced communities, including work at the intersection of climate, conflict, and vulnerable populations. She holds a Masters and PhD in International Development. She is the author of over 75 publications aimed at policy, practitioner, and academic audiences. This includes two books, Refugees, Self-Reliance, Development: A critical history (Bristol University Press, 2022) and The Global Governed: Refugees as providers of protection and assistance (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Dr. Easton Calabria recently published, with co-author Prof. Claudena Skran, a chapter on “The Historical Development of International Law,” in The 1951 Refugee Convention: A Commentary ed. by A. Zimmermann and T. Einarsen.
Friday, March 1 | 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Wriston Art Center 105 (Lower Level)
Come in and support local artists for this one-day event! There will be a variety of limited edition prints and ceramic pieces by both professional and student artists along with several workshops.
This is a family-friendly event for people of all ages. Free and open to the public!
Cash, check, credit cards, and Venmo are accepted. Spread the word, and we’ll see you at the sale!
Friday, March 1 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Steitz 102
Title: From dimension 2 to 3 and back again
In this talk, Marissa Kawehi Loving will tell us a little bit of Thurston’s beautiful story connecting the dynamics of finite-type surface homeomorphisms with the geometry of 3-manifolds. She will then share some more recent work which connect the dynamics of infinite-type surface homeomorphisms with the geometry of 3-manifolds.
Her aim is for the talk to be accessible to a broad audience with many illustrations to help build intuition without getting too far into the technical weeds.
There will be snacks offered 4-4:30 p.m. in Steitz Atrium.
Tuesday, Feb. 27 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Steitz 102
Titus Seilheimer ’00 is a fisheries specialists with the Wisconsin Sea Grant. Since graduating from Lawrence in 2000, he has earned a PhD. from McMaster University and worked on many projects relating to fish habitat, aquatic ecology, and water quality all around the Great Lakes region and beyond. As an aquatic ecologist and fisheries scientist, he studies the ecology of streams, rivers, wetlands, and the Great Lakes.
Monday, Feb. 19 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Youngchild 115
Optical microscopes were first used to observe single biological cells 350 years ago. Contemporary research microscopes have improved about 100-fold in resolution, field of view, and color sensitivity, yet remain limited to major research projects due to cost and complexity.
This talk presents an open-source microscope my colleagues and I have developed and built from off-the-shelf and 3D printed parts. This OSM is capable of: seeing single molecules and molecular motors; watching living cells divide (and imaging the entire mitotic process); and recreating Einstein’s experiment that demonstrated the existence of atoms. There will even be a live demo!
Thursday, Feb. 22 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Steitz 102
Mike Wiggins Jr. was recently appointed the Site Director at the Madeline Island Museum. Previously, he served 12 years as Tribal Chairman/Executive Director of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. He recently ended his last term in November of 2023.
Wiggins is a major advocate for the conservation of natural resources and the protection of water. In his time as Chairman, there were many environmental protection issues that the Tribe proactively stood up for including issues with mining, oil pipelines, CAFO’s and water privatization.
Before becoming the Chairman of the Bad River Band, Wiggins served as a conservation warden for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission and oversaw a Bad River AODA Prevention Program working with Tribal Youth.
Wiggins got his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from UW-Superior in 1992, and in 2019 he was honored as an Outstanding Alumni of UW-Superior. In his free time Wiggins enjoys playing guitar and utilizing the hunting, fishing, and gathering Treaty Rights his Ojibwe ancestors reserved around the Lake Superior region.
