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Welcome Week ’23 will kick off Sept. 5 as Lawrence University welcomes incoming students in advance of the start of the 2023-24 academic year. Making connections will be the focus of orientation activities.
Lawrence University and Trout Museum of Art will partner to build a new four-story mixed-use building in the 300 block of E. College Avenue, providing a vibrant new home for the museum, new academic spaces for Lawrence, and market-rate housing.
Lawrence University is mourning the loss of Robert A. Anker ’64, a trustee emeritus and longtime friend and supporter of the university. He passed away Aug. 4 at age 81.
Lawrence University was once again front and center as Mile of Music took over downtown Appleton for four music-filled days and nights. We have a photo gallery from the 10th edition of the all-original music festival.
Lawrence University is mourning the loss of Sumner “Sub” Richman, a professor of biology for 38 years before retiring in 1995. He taught aquatic biology during a brilliant career at Lawrence.
The 10th edition of Mile of Music returns to downtown Appleton Aug. 3-6, and once again Lawrence University will be all in with music education workshops, multiple venues, and must-see performances.
Copeland Woodruff, director of opera studies at Lawrence University, has received a prestigious honor from The American Prize, a celebration of his “sustained excellence” in opera theater.
Lawrence professor Constance Kassor has debuted an online lecture series on Tibet with Wondrium. The 24-part series, which teaches about the history, culture, religion, and political contention of the Tibetan plateau, was two years in the making for the religious studies scholar.
Lawrence University’s Sydney Closson is rocking her undergraduate studies with help from a NASA Wisconsin Space Grant Scholarship. It ties in with her interest in studying other planets.
A new solar array, tucked in the woods at Björklunden, began gathering power from the sun this spring. It is the latest step in Lawrence's Net Zero Björklunden project. It follows the arrival of high-speed internet at the Door County campus.
Lawrence University will host the Lawrence Music Camp in mid-July, adding to a musical summer that will include the annual Decoda Chamber Music Festival and participation in downtown Appleton’s Mile of Music.
Martha Helen Schmidt ’79 recently composed a song cycle that is featured in a PBS documentary filmed in Minnesota and Iceland. The documentary focuses on Icelandic-American writer, poet, and teacher Bill Holm.
Lawrence University was given an A+ in Forbes’ recently released 2023 report on financial grades for private colleges. Lawrence was the only Wisconsin college and one of 111 nationally to earn an A+.
Betsy Schlabach, associate professor of history at Lawrence University, has followed the publication of her book, Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women’s Work in Chicago’s Policy Game, with news that she's received a travel grant to extend her research.