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![Mattigan Haller swings a softball bat during a media day photo shoot.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-06/MattieHaller%20media%20day.jpg?h=8cd77aff&itok=YFR5C14G)
Mattigan Haller heads into her senior year on track to pursue a medical career. She has done so by following her academic passions while playing softball and connecting with the medical world while studying in Mexico.
![Students Anna Cardon and Felix Spaniol do a dive while gathering data in the waters off of Bonaire.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-05/LUMP%20Felix_Anna_Diving%20web.jpg?h=ab6e298f&itok=6qGwFV7E)
A music element was added this spring as 14 students and three faculty members spent two weeks in the Caribbean doing field research on marine life, the latest academic adventure in the Lawrence University Marine Program.
![Safiya Grant makes her pitch to the judges at The Pitch in The Fox Club at Fox Cities Stadium. Students like Safiya who are entrepreneurship majors, study entrepreneurship in college, and earn a business and entrepreneurship degree.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-04/Pitch%20Safiya%201.jpg?h=e13b6a45&itok=dOFpHdM6)
Lawrence University senior Safiya Grant, a biology major, finished in the money in The Pitch, an annual business startup competition for college students. Grant pitched her idea for Muse, an all-natural skin-care line of products.
![Jodi Sedlock poses for a photo on Main Hall Green.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-04/On%20Main%20Hall%20Green%20Jodi%20Sedock.jpg?h=d7a3438e&itok=jjB4SAVp)
Jodi Sedlock, professor of biology at Lawrence University, has been listening to bats as she and students pursue research in sensory ecology in forests, caves, and biodiverse rice fields.
![Caitlin Williamson holds four turtles while doing field work.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-12/CaitlinWilliamson1%20downsized.jpg?h=59417b6e&itok=Bho0HTJq)
Cait Williamson ’11, director of conservation programs for the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin, builds collaborative networks that are bolstering diversity, equity, and inclusion in statewide conservation efforts.
![Judith Humphries poses for a portrait while standing in front of Main Hall.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-01/Judith-Humphries_202401.jpg?h=78bb0e4f&itok=O8scXSTD)
Judith Humphries, associate professor of biology at Lawrence University, spends much of her research studying the freshwater snail, Biomphalaria glabrata. Outside of class, you might find her in a drumming ensemble.
![Brian Piasecki stands for a photo on the sidewalk leading to Main Hall.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-02/PiaseckiMHGNewVersion.jpg?h=8942ab2c&itok=GWe5Fqhz)
Brian Piasecki, associate professor of biology, believes in learning by doing. He takes that approach into the biology lab as he collaborates on research with Lawrence students.
![Bella Goland poses for a photo in the apiary in SLUG.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-11/BellaGoland_202210%20%281%29.jpg?h=2b5c962f&itok=potlaG1p)
Junior Bella “Bee” Goland, a biology major, has played a leading role in improvements in the Sustainable Lawrence University Garden, including development of the apiary.
![Eleanor Meng and Reese Lavajo cruise Trout Lake in a small boat as do research.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-08/Trout%20Lake%20Meng%20Lavajo%202022%202crop%20%281%29.jpg?h=a628216d&itok=pX8geZIk)
A summer research project at Trout Lake in northern Wisconsin on migration patterns of the microscopic zooplankton species Daphnia brought together Lawrence students, faculty, and alumni.
![Lawrence students scuba dive in the waters of Bonaire as part of their research into marine life.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-07/Meng%20scuba%202%20Bonaire%281%29.jpg?h=5b74db99&itok=epz-O6Ha)
Sixteen students and two biology professors spent two weeks on the Caribbean island of Bonaire doing field research. It continued a four-decade effort through the Lawrence University Marine Program (LUMP).
![Visitors to Biofest gather around students presenting their work on standing white boards.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-06/BioFest2_202205%20%281%29.jpg?h=6a83b953&itok=j_DH1_v2)
Biofest is an annual end-of-the-year tradition at Lawrence, giving biology students a chance to show their work to others and hone their communication skills.
![Israel Del Toro poses in front of a bee house on campus.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-05/DelToroIsreal_202109%20%281%29.jpg?h=56377efd&itok=XlvGRYlh)
Led by biology professor Israel Del Toro, pollinator research at Lawrence is helping the No Mow May movement gain national attention as more communities adopt the practice that started in Appleton.
![Maggie McGlenn works with cloth materials in Lawrence's theater costume shop.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-03/Maggie%20McGlenn_202010%20%281%29.jpg?h=1a83c04a&itok=Nv6Y0qkM)
Senior Maggie McGlenn has been named a 2022 recipient of a Watson Fellowship. She is the 77th Lawrentian over the past 53 years to earn that honor.
![Beth De Stasio poses for a portrait on Main Hall Green.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-03/DeStasio_202203%20%281%29.jpg?h=cc174f2f&itok=HHfnbMMi)
Meet Beth De Stasio, the Raymond H. Herzog Professor of Science and professor of biology. She has been a leading faculty voice in the sciences at Lawrence for three decades.