CELEBRATING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE LAWRENCE COMMUNITY Congratulations to junior Ami Hatori, who is the firstplace winner of the Thursday Musical Club Young Artist Competition and the second place winner of the Schubert Club Student Scholarship Competition (Level 3, college freshmen through age 23). Ami is a piano performance major in the studio of Catherine Kautsky and a Community Music School piano student teacher. # Joe Kortenhof ’20, a former Lawrence cross-country and track standout turned heads with his performance in the Boston Marathon. He finished 52nd amid a field of more than 25,000 runners with a time of 2:25.01. It was only his second marathon. Ever. # Karen Bruno, director of the Lawrence Community Music School, has been named one of Insight Publications’ 2022 Women of Influence. # Senior Luther Abel was awarded a year-long fellowship with the National Review. He’ll follow that up by studying at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. # Brigetta Miller ’89, associate professor of music, has been named one of the 39 most influential Native American leaders in Wisconsin. # Katie Mahorney was awarded the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award-First Place in the 2021 Undergraduate Student Research Competition at the Geological Society of America's national conference. # George Mavrakis ’19 has built a large audience and carefully designed business enterprise around his saltwater aquarium YouTube channel. He's now reached 1,000,000 subscribers, earning the coveted Golden Play Button. # Jonathan Hogan, a senior majoring in German and government, presented his paper, Subversion in Die Taube auf dem Dach: Ambiguous Endings and New Beginnings, at the Undergraduate Research Conference in German Studies. His paper was selected as one of the year's best contributions and Jonathan was recognized with the Max Kade prize. 40
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# Lawrence University alumni doing graduate work in the sciences have been recognized by the National Science Foundation. Two were awarded highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships: Katie Kitzinger ’20, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina, is studying organic chemistry and pursuing research that focuses on reactions that rapidly build molecular complexity. Gus Lowry ’18, a graduate student at Duke University, is studying biochemistry with a focus on membrane biology. In addition to the awards given to Kitzinger and Lowry, three other recent Lawrence graduates earned honorable mention— Evan Cline ’20 (Dartmouth), Nabor Vazquez ’19 (Yale), and Nicolette Puskar ’19 (University of California, Berkeley) # Having one of your school’s choirs selected to perform at the American Choral Directors Association’s Midwest conference is a big deal. Having both Lawrence’s Concert Choir and Cantala get the invite is beyond impressive. # Katherine Meckel ’11 is the recipient of a six-year, $447,000 fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will allow her to continue her neuroscience research through her final two years as a doctorate student and then four years of postdoctoral work.
