Join us for a study group on whiteness, racism and strategies for developing an anti-racist identity. Event details are as follows:
Thursday, March 9
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Nathan Marsh Pusey Room, Warch Campus Center
Please RSVP to michelle.l.lasecki-jahnke@lawrence.edu by Tuesday, March 7.
Peace Corps info session: Monday, March 6
Peace Corps regional recruiter Jason Lemburg will host an info session for students who would like to learn more about opportunities with the Peace Corps, including combining graduate school and Peace Corps service through the Master’s International program. Current student Melissa Rooney ’17 has just joined the Peace Corps and will be on hand to talk about the application/interview process at noon in Schumann 126. Register on LUWorks. Sign up for 1:1 chats in Career Services following the info session.
Fox Cities Magazine info session: Tuesday, March 7
Hear firsthand about Fox Cities Magazine‘s editorial internships available for this summer from senior editor Amelia Compton Wolff. Gain magazine publishing, writing, web and social media experience while getting an inside look at the workings of a monthly publication at 11 a.m. in Kraemer 308. Registration in LUworks for this event is appreciated. 1:1 chats in Career Services will follow the info session.
Epic Systems info session: Thursday, March 9
Andrea Singletary ‘04, technical services at Epic Systems Corporation, will be on campus to answer questions about technical and non-technical positions with Epic, a global company that builds software for the health care industry at 11 a.m. in Career Services (Chapman Hall Room 202). Please register via LUworks as pizza will be provided! Sign up for 1:1 chats later that afternoon.
Upcoming internship deadlines
See the latest Career Services newsletter for upcoming application deadlines for internships, several being offered by Lawrence alumni and friends.
Cecile Despres-Berry, Leah McSorley, and Laura Zuege, will present Intercultural Competence on March 3 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Esch Hurvis Room.
Lawrence is home to over 200 students with global backgrounds, nearly 200 students that have studied in another country and faculty and staff with a wide range of international professional and personal experiences. Because these varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences make up our community, the skill of global/intercultural competence can help us interact effectively across cultures.
The Cultural Competency Lecture Series at Lawrence features our faculty, students and staff sharing their expertise related to the knowledge and skills necessary to take a culturally competent, equity-minded approach to the work and learning in which they are engaged at Lawrence. Bring your lunch and learn!
Please join us by sending a RSVP to michelle.l.lasecki-jahnke@lawrence.edu by March 2.
Technology Services is closely monitoring an unfolding and wide-reaching security disclosure from the internet content delivery company Cloudflare. The underlying incident — dubbed “Cloudbleed” — potentially exposed sensitive information from internet sites that used Cloudflare during the period of September 22, 2016 through February 20, 2017.
Lawrence does not use Cloudflare, so Cloudbleed affects none of the university’s sites and services like the Lawrence website or Voyager. We are not aware of any impact on third-party service providers who work with Lawrence at this point.
Because Cloudflare serves over 2 million websites, it is possible that you will receive notification from sites and services you use if those services determine that any private information leaked because of Cloudbleed. Compared to other breaches, bugs, and vulnerabilities over the past year, Cloudbleed appears to be a mostly low risk to individual users. Fully understanding the coverage from media outlets can be difficult, but security researcher Ryan Lacky provides good advice for individuals who are concerned about what Cloudbleed means for them:
From an individual perspective, this is straightforward —the most effective mitigation is to change your passwords. While this might not be necessary (it is unlikely your passwords were exposed in this incident), it will absolutely improve your security from both this potential compromise and many other, far more likely security issues. Cloudflare is behind many of the largest consumer web services (Uber, Fitbit, OKCupid, …), so rather than trying to identify which services are on Cloudflare, it’s probably most prudent to use this as an opportunity to rotate ALL passwords on all of your sites. Best practice is to use a long random string for each password, unique for each site, and to manage that collection using a “password manager”, such as 1Password, LastPass, or the built-in password managers in modern web browsers. Users should also log out and log in to their mobile applications after this update. While you’re at it, if it’s possible to use 2FA or 2SV with sites you consider important (using something like TOTP/Google Authenticator or U2F), that’s a meaningful security upgrade, too.
(from the article Cloudbleed: How to deal with it — https://medium.com/@octal/cloudbleed-how-to-deal-with-it-150e907fd165#.7mysif5j1).
Technology Services will continue to track the Cloudbleed incident and will provide further recommendations if necessary.
For those interested, more information is available at the following locations:
What happens after graduation? Recent alumni Mike Pope ’12, Val Neff ’13 and Dr. Richard Amankwah ’06 will discuss how they transitioned to life after Lawrence. Learn what life was like after graduation, how they started their careers, found places to live, made new friends and more! This session starts at 6 p.m. in the Warch Cinema. Registration in LUworks is appreciated.
Help provide legislative and administrative support to the government relations policy analyst(s) responsible for international humanitarian and poverty-focused development assistance issues at Bread for the World. Through the generosity of Leota Ester P’78, this opportunity pays a $5,000 stipend. Apply in LUworks.
The Caravel Autism Health staffing coordinator will share information about flexible, paid part-time opportunities for students who want to work in autism behavioral therapy roles in the Fox Cities. Caravel uses the applied behavior analysis (ABA) process of applying interventions. Visit the info table in Warch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Register for 1:1 chats in LUworks.
Join Kate Harrell to celebrate Heart Health Awareness month with a discussion on heart-healthy eating strategies on Friday, Feb. 24 from noon to 12:45 p.m. in the Warch Campus Center’s Kraemer Room.
Do you know or work with any talented, multi-interested students? Of course you do! Or are you a student who’s interested in a career in marketing, journalism, public relations, photography or graphic design? The Office of Communications is seeking freshmen, sophomores and juniors to apply for a new fellowship opportunity in our office.
This selective internship, which we’ve named the Resonance Communications Fellowship, will allow students the opportunity to work in several communications disciplines in support of the college’s reputation enhancement and related communications activities. They will be assigned a lead mentor and will have the opportunity to work with several staff members over the course of their fellowship. Fellows will be expected to make substantive contributions to the work of the department, with particular emphasis on storytelling—in a variety of forms—from the student perspective. Fellows will be assigned projects ranging from but not limited to: stories in Lawrence magazine, photo portraits, video editing, student blogs, social media campaigns, building/editing of the lawrence.edu website, admissions materials and promotional print materials for other offices.
Expectations of fellows will be similar to those of salaried staff, including regular, prompt attendance and the preparation of regular progress reports. Since much is expected of them, fellows will receive a salary above that of paid student workers.
If you know of a student who would be a great fit for this new opportunity, feel free to email Resonance coordinator Kasey Corrado at kasey.r.corrado@lawrence.edu and/or refer the student to the position posting on LUWorks.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion welcomes the campus community to participate in a Critical Issues Forum on Tuesday, Feb. 21.
What is Race? will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Warch Campus Center’s Esch Hurvis Room.
Please join us by sending a RSVP to michelle.l.lasecki-jahnke@lawrence.edu by Feb. 17.
