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Mauriah Donegan Kraker, a lecturer of dance at Lawrence University, has been selected for a prestigious month-long MacDowell Fellowship. It runs mid-March through mid-April.
Six Lawrence University faculty members have been granted 2023 tenure appointments. All six will be promoted to associate professor at the start of the 2023-24 academic year.
Lawrence seniors Amber Newman and Madeline Taylor took the research they did last summer with geosciences professor Relena Ribbons and presented at the recent American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in Chicago.
Lawrence University senior Brock Daumler won first prize in the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers (WAC) contest for his composition, Via Negativa.
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.
Rob Neilson is heading to Israel in late December, one of nearly three dozen scholars from across the U.S. selected for an intensive two-week Faculty Fellowship program.
Peter Blitstein has been named Lawrence’s provost and dean of faculty. He previously served as associate dean of faculty, beginning in 2019, and has taught on the History faculty since 2001.
Nora Lewis ’99, an accomplished musician, has been teaching oboe in the Lawrence Conservatory of Music since 2018. She's also providing key leadership among the Lawrence faculty, now serving as the associate dean of faculty.
Kristi Koshuta has joined Lawrence as its first first-year dean, focused on collaborations across campus that will elevate the first-year experience for Lawrentians.
Lawrence University is introducing a new business and entrepreneurship major, built through the lens of the liberal arts. It'll be available beginning with the 2023-24 academic year.
Meet Gustavo Fares, a member of the Spanish faculty whose background includes training in law, painting, and printmaking, as well as a Ph.D. in Latin American literature.
Constance Kassor, associate professor of religious studies, focuses much of her teaching on Buddhist thought and Asian religious traditions and has been a frequent collaborator across departments since arriving at Lawrence in 2016.
Doing Nothing, a newly launched weekly course aimed at teaching students about best practices in disconnecting from technology and being fully present, is drawing wide interest on and off campus.
It's not just students who are in learning mode during a First-Year Studies class. Faculty are stretching themselves well beyond their comfort zones, learning alongside their students.