Academics

20,000 years in a blink of an eye: The past, present, and future of the Great Lakes

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.

Douglas Martin: How to Build a Microscope

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!

Ojibwe place based perspectives on air, land, water, and fire – Mike Wiggins Jr.

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.

If you are planning to apply to the London Centre for any term next year, please submit your application no later than Tuesday, Feb. 20. Students should submit their applications even if their recommendations have not been finalized.

If you have any questions on the application process or the program, please contact Off-Campus Programs by emailing offcampusprograms@lawrence.edu.

Northern Ireland and Oxford

Wednesday, February 21 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Program provider Arcadia Abroad will be tabling on campus, providing information and answering questions about their Northern Ireland – Conflict, Peace, and Transition and Oxford programs. They will be tabling outside the Commons.

In the Northern Ireland program, students examine the work of justice, reconciliation, and repair through the lens of the Northern Ireland conflict. While living in Derry-Londonderry, students will take classes and participate in a seven-week-long internship.

Chicago Center – Urban Student Teaching Program

Thursday, February 22 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

If student teaching will be in your future, consider the Chicago Center’s Urban Student Teaching Program. With this program, students will complete their student teaching practicum and seminar in the culturally diverse urban Chicago environment. Placements are made in both public and private central-city Chicago schools. To learn more, stop outside the Commons in Warch to talk to a Chicago Center representative.

Organizing in Indian Country: Past, Present and Future

Tuesday, Feb. 13 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Steitz 102

Anahkwet (Guy Reiter) is the Executive Director of the Menominee non-profit organization Menikanaehkem and a community organizer, activist, author, amateur archaeologist, and lecturer.

Sunday, Jan. 28 | 1-8 p.m.
Warch 204 – Cinema

Sponsored by Off Campus Programming Offices, this event will help communicate and replicate an immersion experience of the Senegal, so that students interested in studying abroad in Senegal have a better idea of what they have to look forward to and better visual life in Senegal.

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.