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![Estelí Gomez models the necklace she'll be wearing to the 2024 Grammy Awards.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-02/Esteli%20grammy%20photo%20web.jpg?h=f3e0028b&itok=WxJY_VTN)
Lawrence University voice professor Estelí Gomez and her vocal ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, won a Grammy Award on Feb. 4 in the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance category for the album Rough Magic.
![Ruha Benjamin gestures as she speaks to an audience.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-01/Ruha%20Benjamin%20convo%20speaker.jpg?h=c93ed73f&itok=ceRqjix_)
Dr. Ruha Benjamin, speaking on the power of "viral justice," said consequential change can happen one person, one neighborhood, one community, one idea at a time. She spoke at Lawrence's Winter Term Convocation.
![Lawrence alumni hold Happy HoLUdays signs at a gathering in San Francisco.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-02/HoLUdays%20San%20Francisco%20group%20photo.jpeg?h=345d7002&itok=cnO9-qp5)
Nearly 130 Lawrentians in seven Alumni Communities across the country hosted festive gatherings during December and January. Dubbed “HoLUdays” celebrations, the regional gatherings brought plenty of joy.
![Estelí Gomez models the necklace she'll be wearing to the 2024 Grammy Awards.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-02/Esteli%20grammy%20photo%20web.jpg?h=f3e0028b&itok=WxJY_VTN)
Estelí Gomez, a voice professor in the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, is a 2024 Grammy Awards double nominee. She and the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth will be in Los Angeles Feb. 4 for the Grammy ceremony.
![Jill and Paul Wilke pose for a photo with Charlotte Ho, a student from Vietnam.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-01/FriendshipFamily1.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=bElre7q3)
Lawrence University's Friendship Family Program looks to match international students with local families to help the students transition to life in Appleton. The students and families share meals, enjoy events, and learn about each other's cultures.
![Ruha Benjamin gestures as she speaks to an audience.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-01/Ruha%20Benjamin%20convo%20speaker.jpg?h=c93ed73f&itok=ceRqjix_)
Dr. Ruha Benjamin, who specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and social inequity, will speak at Lawrence's Winter Term Convocation.
![Marjory Irvin speaks with students in class in the early 1970s.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-01/MarjoryIrvin%20crop%20web.jpg?h=244bcf4c&itok=DwJlDykH)
Lawrence University is mourning the death of piano professor emerita Marjory Irvin, who taught for 40 years, first at Milwaukee-Downer College and then at Lawrence. She passed away Jan. 21 at the age of 99.
![Eitan Price is pictured with linguistics computations behind him.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-02/Eitan-Price_StandardHero_202401.jpg?h=cc60c702&itok=BU3eQY0K)
Lawrence University sophomore Eitan Price, a linguistics major, attended the Linguistics Society of America’s (LSA) Summer Institute, an “intellectual summer camp” that annually gathers top professionals and students in linguistics studies.
![Kate Newmyer gets a kiss on the cheek from a sled dog.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-01/Kate%20and%20Ukulele%20sled%20dog%20web.jpg?h=340201f0&itok=aYiQK3EZ)
Kate Newmyer '94, a teacher in Clear Lake, Texas, has used her love of dogs in her teaching for years. Now she's heading to Alaska as the 2024 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail.
![A giant snowman was built on Main Hall Green.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-01/Winter_CampusSnow_3.jpg?h=efaad4b0&itok=tcRYl4wG)
Winter in the Fox Cities can be an experience all its own. We think that’s a good thing. Here's a quick guide to getting out and enjoying the winter season on and off campus.
![Maddie Guest poses for a photo in an illustration with the words "Once Upon a Trivia"](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-01/Trivia%20Maddie%20crop%20downsize.jpg?h=d5d02efb&itok=SsqpTlQl)
Led by Lawrence University senior Maddie Guest and a team of trivia masters, the 59th running of the Great Midwest Trivia Contest is set for Jan. 26-28. The 50-hour scavenger hunt of obscure information is steeped in tradition.
![Still from the film "The Monk and the Gun"](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-01/Monk-And-The-Gun.jpeg?h=c74750f6&itok=d9lncaOm)
Lawrence University alumnus Pawo Choyning Dorji ’06 is again drawing Oscar buzz. His second film, again set in Bhutan, The Monk and the Gun, has been shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination for International Feature Films.
![Matthew Stoneking poses for a portrait in front of Youngchild Hall as the snow comes down.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-01/StonekingMHG_webAaron%20Lindeman.jpg?h=029634e9&itok=xlwMLO4A)
Lawrence University Professor of Physics Matthew Stoneking has spent much of the past decade splitting his professional time between the Lawrence campus in Appleton and a physics research institute in Munich, Germany, all in pursuit of a novel kind of plasma.
![Schuyler Thornton '14 holds her flute as she poses for a photo.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-01/Schuyler%20Thornton.jpg?h=94930a26&itok=UCpFB1Ts)
Schuyler Thornton ’14 returns to Wisconsin as a member of the Les Misérables Broadway tour, with multi-day stops at both Madison’s Overture Center for the Arts and Appleton’s Fox Cities Performing Arts Center. It's a big moment for the talented flutist.