If you see them on campus, please welcome them to Lawrence!
New Employees
Kyungwha Chu – Lecturer of Music
Aliyah Danielle – Lecturer of Music
Cheyenne Koscher – International Student Services Coordinator
Shola Adegbite – Assistant Dean of Spiritual & Religious Life
Molly Pokwinski – Lecturer of Education
Rich Marshall – Assistant Director of the Career Center – Internships
Rehires
Claire Schmidt – Conservatory Logistics Coordinator
Zachary Beaver – Bon Appetit
The EXPLOREsophoMORE (EXso) program brings together a small group of sophomore students for a weekly dinner catered from various local restaurants, activities, and dialogue.
This program focuses on the unique challenges sophomore students face, including topics like community, identity, and belonging.
Visit this webpage for more information about the program or fill out this form to join. Please let us know if you’re interested no later than January 19, either by filling out the form above or emailing Asher at asher.b.mcmullin@lawrence.edu.
Thursday, Jan. 11 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Steitz Hall 102
Karen Lutsky and Sean Burkholder will present excerpts and insights from their recently published book, Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin.
Both landscape architecture professors who have been working and studying the shorelines for many years, the book shares their practice of exploring and “meeting” five different bays within the basin as richly layered and complex places. Through a mix of theory, history, experiential documentation, and representational methods, the book shares their explorations of each bay; and argues for pluralistic and transcalar methods of knowledge creation in order to better design with these critical, dynamic places.
Wednesday, Jan. 10 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Main Hall 401
Wriston and West scholarships are awarded to Lawrence students of “exceptional promise.” Fellowships, which fund incredible opportunities like research, study abroad, and public service, can help you live out that promise.
Come to this workshop to learn about what fellowships are, the benefits of applying, and even get a small start writing a personal statement.
Wellness Services is pleased to offer subsidized full-body therapeutic massage services for winter term.
Appointments are available for 50 minutes and cost $30 on campus and at the YMCA.
Massages are available for all students and employees.
You must sign up to be eligible for the discounted price. E-mail Erin Buenzli or wellnessservices@lawrence.edu to schedule an appointment. Limit one per term.
Tuesday, Jan. 16 | 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Wriston Auditorium
Artist Kayla Bauer discusses her art practice and exhibition, The End of Somewhere, on view in the galleries.
Reception with refreshments to follow.
Friday, Jan. 19 | 7-8:30 p.m.
Warch Campus Center – Esch Hurvis
Saturday, Jan. 20 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Warch Campus Center – Esch Hurvis
SET GO is a Contact Improvisation Research and Performance ensemble founded in 2016 by dancers Shura Baryshnikov, Aaron Brando, Paul Singh, Bradley Teal Ellis, and Sarah Konner. Though all are interdisciplinary artists, each identifies Contact Improvisation as a primary practice and are lead researchers and educators in the field, both nationally and internationally. Collectively, setGO has been practicing the form of Contact Improvisation for over 60 years.
The setGO ensemble shares a love for whimsical, whole-hearted, virtuosic improvisation; they have been dance-making together since 2009. The group has performed at the Moving Arts Lab (Earthdance, MA), the RISD Museum Open Rehearsals, for the Institute for the Study of Environment and the Society at Brown University, Providence Fringe Festival, and the Everybody Moves Festival at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, MA. They have developed pedagogy together as part of the CI Ground Research laboratory project since 2010.
In addition to directing their own companies, setGO artists have danced with other choreographers and companies including Amy Chavasse, Heidi Henderson, Chris Aiken, Faye Driscoll, Douglas Dunn, Gabriel Forestieri, and Headlong Dance Theater, and are currently on faculty, as well as artist-residents at universities across the United States. Members of the ensemble teach at acclaimed dance festivals nationally and internationally and offer regular classes in their local areas.
Wednesday, Jan. 10 | 2-3 p.m.
International House
Join Asher from Spiritual and Religious Life and Vijay from Wellness Services in casual conversations about a wide range of topics, with the goal of learning to think and speak more deeply about important issues. We will also have tea!
Wednesday, Jan. 10 | 8-9:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Nancy Zeltsman is a professor at joint institutions Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She has taught marimba at both schools since 1993 in positions that were created for her. Since 2013, she has been regular guest professor of marimba at Conservatorium van Amsterdam; since 2021, a Guest Artist teaching two weeks per year at University of Michigan; and from fall 2023, a Visiting Lecturer at Boston University School of Music.
Nancy first came to prominence as the marimbist of the duo Marimolin. She has presented master classes at institutions across the United States and Europe, and in Japan, China, Mexico and Brazil – including The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Lawrence Conservatory of Music (Appleton, WI), Cleveland Institute of Music, Royal College of Music (London), Académie supérieure de musique (Strasbourg, France), and Escola Superior de Música (Lisbon, Portugal). She has performed or presented at 12 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions and at PAS chapter events in 17 states and Stockholm, Sweden. Performance venues have included the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Ravinia Festival, subscription concerts with the San Francisco Symphony, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall (New York), Shenzhen Concert Hall (China), and Harmony Hall (Fukui, Japan).
This event is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, Jan. 9 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Steitz 202
Professor Brad Postle from the University of Wisconsin Madison will be giving a research seminar on the the cognitive neuroscience of perception.
The seminar is free and open to the public
