Lawrence University

Lawrence University senior Emma Jacobs has been researching the Teakwood Room in Chapman Hall for more than two years, part of her majors in history and art history. A presentation delivered recently in the historic space on Chapman's second floor was a culmination of her work to date.

Four Lawrence University neuroscience majors are immersed in cognitive research aimed at understanding how people in an information-rich world interact with visual stimuli and how that affects attention and memory. Den Boakye, a junior from Ghana, Vivian Khan, a senior from Waukon, Iowa, Fanta Jatta, a senior from Madison, Wisconsin, and Khayla Santiago, a senior from Morton Grove, Illinois, are working in the lab of Professor Chunyue Teng on research that aims to shed light on how the brain juggles the new information we see with information we remember.

Four Lawrence University neuroscience majors are immersed in cognitive research aimed at understanding how people in an information-rich world interact with visual stimuli and how that affects attention and memory. Den Boakye, a junior from Ghana, Vivian Khan, a senior from Waukon, Iowa, Fanta Jatta, a senior from Madison, Wisconsin, and Khayla Santiago, a senior from Morton Grove, Illinois, are working in the lab of Professor Chunyue Teng on research that aims to shed light on how the brain juggles the new information we see with information we remember.

Four Lawrence University neuroscience majors are immersed in cognitive research aimed at understanding how people in an information-rich world interact with visual stimuli and how that affects attention and memory. Den Boakye, a junior from Ghana, Vivian Khan, a senior from Waukon, Iowa, Fanta Jatta, a senior from Madison, Wisconsin, and Khayla Santiago, a senior from Morton Grove, Illinois, are working in the lab of Professor Chunyue Teng on research that aims to shed light on how the brain juggles the new information we see with information we remember.

Four Lawrence University neuroscience majors are immersed in cognitive research aimed at understanding how people in an information-rich world interact with visual stimuli and how that affects attention and memory. Den Boakye, a junior from Ghana, Vivian Khan, a senior from Waukon, Iowa, Fanta Jatta, a senior from Madison, Wisconsin, and Khayla Santiago, a senior from Morton Grove, Illinois, are working in the lab of Professor Chunyue Teng on research that aims to shed light on how the brain juggles the new information we see with information we remember.

Senior Adnan Sarancic, an international relations major from Gurnee, Illinois, has left his mark in both academics and athletics at Lawrence University. Now he's eyeing a career in the paralegal field.

Diana Van Gilder, a Lawrence University history major from Moraga, California, is heading to France this summer to present a paper at a conference that explores links between tourism and fiction.

Eitan Price was keeping good company last summer. The Lawrence University sophomore linguistics major from Carmel, Indiana, attended the Linguistics Society of America's (LSA) Summer Institute, a program mostly attended by graduate students. It is described as an "intellectual summer camp" by its organizers, made to forward the study of linguistics by gathering the foremost professionals and students in linguistics studies. Midway through his sophomore year at Lawrence, Price is now building on what he learned at the Summer Institute.

Following graduation in June, Lawrence University biochemistry major Charlie Bunch of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is headed to International Space University in France to pursue a master's program in space science and exploration.

Lawrence University students Amber Newman, a senior from Star Prairie, Wisconsin, and Madeline Taylor, a senior from Ames, Iowa, worked together to research microbial environments and present their findings at the recent American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in Chicago.

Jack Canfield was one of 50 national recipients of a $30,000 Watson Fellowship, which supports a wanderjahr of independent travel and exploration. His project will take him to French Polynesia, the Republic of the Congo, Norway and Tuva over the course of 12 months beginning in August.

Three Lawrence University students were part of a team of researchers who conducted a five-day-long experiment at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago on how liquids can solidify.

Three Lawrence University students were part of a team of researchers who conducted a five-day-long experiment at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago on how liquids can solidify.

Three Lawrence University students were part of a team of researchers who conducted a five-day-long experiment at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago on how liquids can solidify.

Senior Elizabeth Perry has been named the recipient of a United States Teaching Assistantship through the Fulbright Commission in Austria. Beginning in October, Perry will begin an eight-month appointment as an English teaching assistant at two secondary schools in Reutte, a small town in the Tirol region of western Austria.

Lawrence University senior Martha McDonnell has been selected as a member of the pit orchestra for the world premiere run of Sting's new musical "The Last Ship," which opens June 10 in Chicago. The production is loosely based on the 16-time Grammy Award winner's ship-building hometown of Wallsend, England. Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, "The Last Ship" is scheduled for a 38-show run in Chicago before heading to Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre in late September.