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LUaroo

Saturday, May 25 | 1-10 p.m.
Sunday, May 26 | 1-10 p.m.
Main Hall Green

LUaroo 2024 will fill Main Hall Green with music for two glorious days over the Memorial Day weekend. More than 20 bands will take the stage during the annual student-organized music festival.

Learn more at lawrence.edu.

Lineup

  • BLK ODYSSY
  • Stolen Gin
  • Otm Frenchyy
  • Hello Mary
  • Ocean Child
  • AIKAY
  • Eli Orion and The Everything
  • NOIR
  • Lyle’s Tree
  • LUMÉ
  • Fugu
  • The New Romantics
  • Larry’s Triangle
  • Tri Lopte
  • Crashbox
  • Deane Rising
  • Alot
  • Zen Jill
  • The Woebegones
  • Güch
  • Socks!
  • Judith

RABL Speaker: Love, lies, and lures

Monday, May 20 | 3:10-4:30 p.m.
Warch 204 – Cinema

Dr. Robert Mitchell from UW-Oshkosh will give a talk titled: Love, lies, and lures: Understanding the ecology and evolution of pheromones in beetles.

The Mitchell lab explores the chemical ecology of beetles and the evolution of smell and taste. Recent projects have focused on pheromone discovery, the ecological networks mediated by pheromones, and identifying pheromone receptors, especially within the large family of longhorned beetles.

Honors Convocation

Friday, May 24 | 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Mark Phelan, professor of philosophy, will give the Honors Convocation Address, titled “Knowing Others and Ourselves.” Phelan is the recipient of the 2024 Faculty Convocation Award.

Bag lunches for students, faculty, and staff will be available to-go in the Music-Drama Center lobby following Convocation.

See the full program at lawrence.edu.

Travis Dillon ’21 Talk

What atonal music theorists know about metric probability spaces

Thursday, May 23 | 4:30 p.m.
Steitz 202

You don’t need to know anything about music theory to understand the talk, and in spite of the fancy math words in the last paragraph, you only need to know some basic probability to follow everything.

In the early 20th century, a subversive composer and music theorist named Arnold Schoenberg began to compose in a radical new way, completely breaking with the centuries-old tenets of Western harmony. He inspired composers, musicologists, and music critics, and his ideas are taught at music schools around the world. His music practice was, to put it lightly, controversial, and it never caught on in popular music.

In spite of this, Schoenberg’s music and the music of his disciples have inspired a mountain of papers in a new kind of music theory, one that some have derided as too mathematical for musicians and too musical for mathematicians. But there is interesting, surprising math to excavate from this mountain nonetheless, and in this talk, we’ll see how a funny coincidence in the basic tenets of atonal music theory leads us from cyclic groups to surprises with spheres to abstract metric probability spaces and back to finite graphs. And maybe we’ll even listen to some of Schoenberg’s music along the way.

2024 Senior Art Show Opening Reception

Friday, May 24 | 4:30-6:30 P.M.
Wriston Art Galleries

An exhibition of selected works by Lawrence University’s 2024 senior studio art majors:

  • Juli Clarkson
  • Kiara Didier
  • Bella Goland
  • Tyler Johnson
  • Ellie Kane
  • Chloe Lamb
  • Tiago Leite
  • Alana Melvin
  • Blake Sadusk
  • Miranda Whitaker

Refreshments will be provided!

Gallery Hours

  • Monday-Friday | 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
  • Saturday | Noon-4 p.m.
  • Sunday | Closed
  • Open also after the Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, June 9

Campus Garage Sale

Wednesday, May 22 | 5-7 p.m.
Warch 225-226 | Esch Hurvis & Mead Witter

This Campus Garage Sale, sponsored by the LU Thrift Store and the LUCC Sustainability Committee, gives students the opportunity to sell their unwanted items at the end of the year!

Come shop for everything from minifridges to futons, rugs, mirrors, clothes, and much more!

Cash, Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, and/or PayPal are all available forms of payment.

PULSE Young Professionals May Coffee and Conversation

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 | 7:30- 9 a.m.
Warch Campus Center – Pusey Room

Come and grab coffee with other YPs! This casual meeting is a quick networking opportunity hosted by the Engagement Committee. Start your day with pleasant conversation and networking with other PULSE members while enjoying a nice coffee, tea, or smoothie.

Drinks are not provided, but can be purchased at the campus café.

Please register ahead of time so they can give the coffee shop an estimate on numbers.

Flyer promoting Coffee and Conversation event with picture of the Warch Campus Center.

Lawrence University Wind Ensemble: Al Fresco!

Friday, May 17 | 6 p.m.
Wriston Amphitheatre
Rain Site: Memorial Chapel

Conducted by Andrew Mast

Featuring familiar favorites of stage and screen, the final concert of the year for the Lawrence University Wind Ensemble will feature music from Star Wars, Phantom of the Opera, The Avengers, West Side Story, and many others. Professor of Saxophone Joe Connor (‘12) and Professor of Percussion Jean Carlo Ureña González will be featured in Catch Me If You Can, and the concert will close with music from the greatest musical of all time, The Music Man.

We’ll be in the Wriston Amphitheatre, which is right across the street from our usual location of the Memorial Chapel. Sit outside and enjoy great music, have a bite while you listen and enjoy a family-friendly, post-work time.

In the infinitesimally small chance of rain, we’ll be in the Chapel, but still at 6 p.m. But it’s not going to rain!

Support our amazing students and enjoy a beautiful spring evening!

Off-Campus Programs is hiring!

Are you passionate about study abroad? Off-Campus Programs is hiring student workers for the 2024-25 school year!

Job Openings

London Centre Student Assistant

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The Lawrence London Centre Student Assistant position consists of helping the Off-Campus Programs Office with various aspects of promoting the London Centre program. Students average around 5-10 hours per week.

Qualifications

  • Must have participated on a London Centre program 
  • Genuine interest in promoting the London Centre on campus in Appleton 
  • Excellent communication skills – Ability to articulate the benefits of a study abroad experience to prospective students to better facilitate cross-cultural competence   
  • Organizational skills – to help plan fun and engaging events for students to learn more about the program

Outreach Specialist & Special Projects Assistant

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The Outreach Specialist and Special Projects Assistant position consists of helping the Off-Campus Programs Office with various aspects of promoting the study abroad and off-campus programs experience. Students average around 10 hours per week.

Qualifications

  • Previous participation in an off-campus study program is strongly preferred
  • Should be able to articulate the benefits of a study abroad experience to prospective students to better facilitate cross-cultural competence.
  • Must be genuinely interested in promoting inclusion in off-campus study to all members of the Lawrence campus.
  • The student should also be experienced in social media management, especially Instagram.
  • Should be innovative and creative and not afraid to share ideas on new ways of marketing and outreach.