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![Books that will be part of First-Year Studies beginning in Fall 2024.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-06/FirstYearStudies%20books.jpg?h=72b4337c&itok=fjg5IaTn)
First-Year Studies continues to evolve. Beginning in Fall 2024, the course required for all first-year Lawrence University students will undergo a significant realignment, all aimed at making the program more focused.
![Confetti and graduation caps fly as graduates celebrate at the close of Commencement.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-06/Commencement_1.jpg?h=312e2671&itok=Sjs1djAn)
Lawrence University celebrated its 2024 graduates at a June 9 Commencement held on Main Hall Green. Commencement speaker Pawo Choyning Dorji '06 urged graduates to always remain curious.
![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.
![Lawrence aerial view of campus](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-08/Main-Hall-Aerial-2.jpg?h=d08f423e&itok=XqRgswnW)
Two longtime professors at Lawrence are included in Research.com’s third edition of its ranking of top scholars in psychology: Peter Glick, the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of the Social Sciences and professor of psychology, and Gerald Metalsky, professor of psychology emeritus.
![Lawrence students interact with students in a schoolyard in The Gambia.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-05/Gambia1.jpg?h=08b866d1&itok=FHGktPV8)
Sixteen Lawrence students and two faculty members traveled to The Gambia this spring for research and community outreach, part of the Field Experience in Development course. The students later showcased their research in poster presentations.
![Constance Kassor poses for a photo on Main Hall Green.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-05/Kassor_375.jpg?h=ae683344&itok=ohyu9jHg)
A 24-part Wondrium video course on Tibet written and narrated by Lawrence University religious studies professor Constance Kassor has won a 2024 Telly Award in the Education & Training category.
![Aerial photo of Main Hall and Memorial Chapel](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-03/aebr.jpg?h=8abcec71&itok=USMU-fYX)
Lawrence University will honor five retiring faculty members at the 2024 Commencement: Psychology professor Beth Haines, anthropology professor Peter Peregrine, and music professors John Daniel, Matthew Michelic, and Steven Jordheim.
![A still from the video game Pentiment](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-01/JoshSawyerShipoffools.jpg?h=8f967d64&itok=2BhXJYNe)
Pentiment, the historical role-playing video game, has won a 2024 Peabody Award. Lawrence alumnus Josh Sawyer '98 led the design and history professor Edmund Kern and alumus Winston Black '99 were key consultants.
![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.
![Jose Lozano works with Annika Urness, a sophomore, to set up a virtual reality multiplayer game.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-05/Video%20game%20class%20VirtualReality_1.jpg?h=0c44e0c0&itok=qORk0OkV)
Lawrence University’s Film Studies 290 course, Introduction to Game Studies, allows students to pursue a passion and build community, all while gaining insights that touch on the history, culture, and business of video gaming.
![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.
![Collection of photos of the four Fulbright recipients.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-04/Fulbright%20new.jpg?h=5c1fa656&itok=wXPpiX-0)
Lawrence University senior Jonathan Bass and 2023 graduates Gunner Bauer, Miri Villerius, and Ayla Walther have been named 2024 Fulbright Scholars, a prestigious honor that provides funding to study or teach abroad.
![The Pitch hosts talk to the audience during the 2023 edition of startup business competition.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-04/ThePitch%20web.jpg?h=97f26b7d&itok=iRZ1GZaz)
Students from five colleges and universities in northeast Wisconsin will compete for $50,000 in prize money in a startup business pitch competition to be held April 24 in The Fox Club at Fox Cities Stadium.
![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.