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![Faculty award winners, dress in regalia, include (from left) Matthew Stoneking, Kelly Culhane, and Matthew Michelic.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-06/Commencement%20AwardFaculty%20web.jpg?h=5687c0e9&itok=47p9Al0a)
Three Lawrence University professors—Kelly Culhane, Matthew Michelic, and Matthew Stoneking—are recipients of the university’s 2024 teaching awards. They were honored at Commencement on June 9.
![Joseph Carpenter poses for a photo in Steitz Hall of Science.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-04/Carpenter%20Joseph_Goldwater_1.jpg?h=7394e25c&itok=vRBjTCx4)
Joseph Carpenter, a Lawrence University junior studying mathematics and physics, is the recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship. He is the third Lawrentian to earn that honor in the past five years.
![Physics professor Megan Pickett is geared up for Monday's eclipse. (Photo by Danny Damiani)](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-04/Pickett%20eclipse.jpg?h=4cbfee48&itok=5JtDjx_E)
Physics professor Megan Pickett will set up camp on April 8 in Austin, Texas, which is on the path of totality for the much-anticipated total solar eclipse. She plans to livestream for all to see.
![Grace Weber poses for a portrait.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-03/GraceWeber_1.jpg?h=02f0ad61&itok=q9ilWUof)
Grace Weber, a physics major from Oshkosh, has used important microscopy research and a study abroad experience in Amsterdam to fuel her career plans for life after Lawrence. She is pursuing medical physics.
![David Smith poses with his cello in the atrium that connects Steitz Hall of Science and Youngchild Hall of Science.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-02/DavidSmith.jpg?h=b99ec22b&itok=6JHHz7as)
Lawrence University sophomore David Smith sought a college path that would allow him to study math and physics at a high level while remaining immersed in music. He found just that at Lawrence.
![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.
![The Warch Campus Center can be seen from the Trestle Trail](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-11/gettingtolawrence_b.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=Er3rOn8v)
Anmol Gupta ’18, Ada Stelzer ’21, and Sarabeth Brandt ’21 have been selected for prestigious fellowships in the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), providing funding to support their research.
![Main Hall provides a beautiful backdrop for Commencement 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-06/Commencement_Full.jpg?h=79bf20d2&itok=0K5VZ8Ur)
Three Lawrence University faculty members—Lori Hilt ’97, Megan Pickett, and Elizabeth Sattler—were honored during the June 11 Commencement ceremony with annual faculty awards.
![students working in groups in individual pods in the Science Learning Commons.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-12/YoungchildPhysics1_202111-2.jpg?h=9f0ef5b3&itok=Q4HDLRv_)
Lawrence University, in conjunction with two other universities, received a $600,000 National Science Foundation grant to help in efforts to elevate undergraduate physics education.
![Physics professor Matthew Stoneking poses for a photo with research equipment in his lab in Youngchild Hall.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-08/MattStoneking_202207%20%281%29.jpg?h=13cefaf9&itok=1oBwZwIR)
Physics professor Matthew Stoneking received a three-year, $431,200 grant from the National Science Foundation. He will expand his research on thermal equilibrium in non-neutral plasmas.
![A black and white photo of Elda Anderson is featured on a white coffee mug held by Megan Pickett.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-03/Elda2_202203%20%281%29.jpg?h=62b3f559&itok=TDCX3B-2)
As Lawrence celebrates 175 years, Megan Pickett is elevating the amazing legacy of former Milwaukee-Downer physics professor Elda Anderson.
![Megan Pickett poses for a photo on Main Hall Green while holding a small white board that reads Stand Here and Look There, with an arrow pointing to the sky.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-02/PickettMegan_202202%20%281%29.jpg?h=9a49d890&itok=WSg6i-qY)
Megan Pickett, associate professor of physics, is an educator of and an advocate for the night sky, inspiring students to pursue the wonders of astronomy.
![Students work together during Introduction to Physics class in new Science Learning Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-02/physics_hero_1600x900_C.jpg?h=8abcec71&itok=i1fc72dF)
A lecture hall has been remodeled into an interactive and technologically equipped classroom now called the Science Learning Commons. It's changing the way intro science classes are taught.
![Avery Greene stands on a sidewalk decorated with chalk drawings of constellations.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-12/AveryGreen_202109.jpg?h=55156e01&itok=Jutn32lx)
Avery Greene '24 is collecting stories and histories about constellations in the night sky as part of a research project.