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Gabrielle Claus, a physics major, found supportive professors when she used independent study projects to help chart her own course.
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Chloe Thomas, a double major in English (literature track) and ethnic studies, turns knowledge into tangible practice with hands-on service to benefit underrepresented communities.
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Lawrence University has announced the hiring of 10 new tenure-track faculty, all beginning at the start of the 2021-22 academic year.
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Our annual guide—updated—to Lawrence University's First-Year Studies reading list has arrived.
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The Lawrence University Summer Research Fellows Program has come roaring back following a year in which summer research was either limited or strictly remote because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Travis Dillon ’21 has received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) award that will assist the mathematics major as he heads to graduate school and pursues a doctorate.
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A new tenure-track faculty member will join Lawrence University in the Spanish department beginning this fall, Provost and Dean of Faculty Catherine Gunther Kodat announced.
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Two Lawrence University seniors, Ricardo Jimenez' 21 and Ben Portzen' 21, have been named national recipients of prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowships, setting them up for a year of global travel and immersive learning.
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“What structural changes are you willing to make?” said Love, author of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom and an endowed professor at the University of Georgia.
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While much of the Lawrence University campus has been quiet since Fall Term ended, there has been a bustle of activity happening in and around academic research projects.
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Disasters That Made the Americas, a 400-level history course that is focused mostly on Latin America, is being offered again in the upcoming Winter Term, and Frederick said the pandemic and the wildfires will certainly be incorporated into the class discussions.
![Mindara Krueger-Olson ’22 works through a rehearsal with classmates in a music education class in the Lawrence Conservatory of Music via zoom.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-11/MusicEducation2-new.jpeg?h=8222eea2&itok=JANTiN3b)
Leila Ramagopal Pertl ’87 and Betsy Kowal connect Pertl’s Lawrence music education students with Appleton youngsters.
![David Pickar ’23 plays an upright bass on the steps of Shattuck Hall](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-05/Music-practice1-new-1536x1031.jpg?h=e2c443c8&itok=5Lt71wEq)
Conservatory faculty have found creative ways to safely educate and motivate student musicians, on campus or scattered around the world.