Lawrence University News

The Neenah Rotary Club presented its annual service awards to Kristina Allen, Maria Schmitz, Lee Hillstrom and Margie Weis during the club's Changing of the Guard Banquet June 18 at the Best Western Bridgewood Resort Hotel and Conference Center, Neenah.

Marjorie May Fease, 91, passed away Tuesday afternoon, June 30, 2009, at Grand Horizons.

A Lawrence University researcher has been awarded a grant by the National Institutes of Health to support his research on asthma.

Danielle Sagor at Elmcrest: "Maturity, smarts and guts" My column today shares the tale of Danielle Sagor, a one-time foster child who recently earned a degree in neuroscience from St.

When Li Jin first moved to East Hampton from Yanji, a small town in northeastern China, in 2006, she rarely spoke in the hallways or classrooms of East Hampton High School, embarrassed about her minimal English.

Workers at Eastway Park put the final touches on artist Rob Neilson's sculpture.

Leading figures in music, including Lyle Mays, will sweep in for the two-week Zeltsman Marimba Festival starting today at Lawrence University in Appleton.

APPLETON - Two Lawrence University faculty members have been appointed to endowed professorships, which recognize teaching excellence and scholarly achievement.

St. Lawrence University economist and Reason contributor Steven Horwitz has just published a very interesting looking working paper at George Mason University's Mercatus Center titled "The Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomic Disorder: An Austrian Perspective on the Great Recession of 2008." From the abstract: This working paper makes the ...

St. Lawrence University has joined a group of six upstate liberal arts colleges in an effort to share services and cut costs.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 8:39am BY CRAIG FREILICH Hundreds of high school students in the greater Potsdam-Canton area take one of the biggest steps of their lives this week.

Lawrence University President Jill Beck served as guest speaker at the Clergy Appreciation Breakfast sponsored by Kiwanis Club of Appleton Golden K. More than 100 clergy, Kiwanis members, spouses and friends attended.

The Zeltsman Marimba Festival returns to Lawrence University in Appleton for the fourth time, offering two weeks of concerts, lectures and master classes, June 28-July 11.

As Warren Lilly tells it, the bomb that destroyed a church in his boyhood home of Birmingham, Ala., was so close it caused his house to shake.

St. Lawrence University has added four combined majors in international economics and foreign languages.

In his Lawrence University office, Rick Bjella, the campus conservatory's choral studies director, keeps a plaque he received from a member of the community-based White Heron Chorale, which he directs.

APPLETON - John C. Peterson has spent his legal career trying to protect individuals' rights, not those of companies or governments.

In a commencement speech to the Class of 2009, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert told Lawrence University graduates their generation faces a trio of tasks.

Dr. Daniel Sullivan retires from St. Lawrence University at the end of this month.

Wayne K. Fairbanks, age 78, of Hermon, passed away Wednesday, June 3, 2009, at his home.