News & Events

Four students won a Davis Projects for Peace grant to install solar panels and educate the community about renewable energy at a rural health clinic in Swaziland, with the hope that doing so will prevent the clinic from losing precious AIDS/HIV treatments that often spoil during lengthy power outages.

The College honored its latest class of graduates at the 134th Commencement ceremony, with Hon. Richard Posner delivering the main address. You can watch the recording from our live feed, or check out some of the posts on Twitter to experience some of the happenings from the day.

Watch a video about the course Chicago: The Food City in which students learned about the history and significance of food in the city and participated in food-based tours in neighborhoods there. Chicago: The Food City is part of the College’s residential In The Loop program.

The popular Soup & Stories series, sponsored by the Office of Intercultural Relations (OIR), wrapped up this year’s programming with a presentation titled “Tug of War: Balancing Black Identity in College and in the Black Community.”

Lake Forest College’s Relay for Life and Ry’s Run brought together more than 700 participants and raised over $50,000 for the American Cancer Society. See the photos from last month’s events.

The College community honored students who have excelled as leaders on campus at the annual Spring Leadership Awards Ceremony on Monday, April 30, 2012. 

Check out the photos from this year’s Gates Day of Service on April 14, when 500 Forester faculty, students, and staff joined forces with families in North Chicago for a day of fun activities. 

Mario Baldassari ’11 publishes findings from his senior thesis exploring memory for humor in the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research.

New app offers a GPS campus audio tour in English, Spanish, and Mandarin, along with listings of the latest events, direct streaming to WMXM FM 88.9 and more.

Beran ‘03 named Breakout Chef of the Year in Time Out Chicago’s annual EAT OUT awards.

A Rosalind Franklin Medical School expert on Parkinson’s disease joins BIO346 Molecular Neuroscience students as these students role-play world famous neuroscientists at a unique annual scientific research conference on April 28 at Lake Forest College from 8 am - 5:15 pm in Johnson Science Center Room 200 and at McCromick Auditorium. This workshop celebrates the inauguration of Gamma Chapter of Illinois of Nu Rho Psi(the national neuroscience honorary) at Lake Forest College. The public is invited.

Social and collaborative memory research by Lake Forest professor Matthew Kelley and students Kayla Ahlstrand ’12 and Carliann Pentz ’13 to be published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology.

Lake Forest College will offer two sessions of college-level summer classes as well as the popular Writing and Thinking Workshop for high-school students.   

Sydni Cole `12 won first prize at the Chicago Society for Neuroscience (CSfN) meeting’s 10th Annual Undergraduate Poster Competition. Thirty-two undergraduates presented posters from several major midwest institutions, including three other Lake Forest College students. 

“President of the Year” and “National Service Project of the Year” awards were announced at the annual Association of College Unions International meetings, held in Boston earlier this month.

Shaak ’13 placed 15th in the 400-IM at the 2012 NCAA Division III National Championship last week, earning Honorable Mention All-American for the third time in her career. She also posted the second-fastest time in Forester history in the 100-breaststroke and finished 36th in the 200-IM.

The winning design by Fallynn Orusa ’12 will appear on 2012 graduation announcements and are now on sale at the bookstore and in the Office of Visual Communications.

The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) released their 2011-12 All-American Teams and Lake Forest College’s Travis Clark was a second-team selection. He is the program’s first All-American in more than 50 years.

College adopts campus-wide food theme for the 2012-13 academic year.

Elise Beckman ’13 describes life in Botswana, where she’s studying with the ACM’s program in Goborone, on her blog. Beckman’s posts explore the impact of being in a different culture and how she’s learning from these challenges. She writes in one post, “If I hadn’t left my comfort zone, the place in which I thrive, I would never know what else is out there in the world for me to discover.”

On the brink of their 50th anniversary, the Lake Forest College Phi Beta Kappa chapter has announced the group of students who will be inducted into their ranks this spring.

Download the free Lake Forest College app and take an audio tour of campus, in either English, Spanish, or Mandarin, and catch up on the latest news, events, and photos from campus.

The Department of Biology celebrates the 2012 edition of Eukaryon, the College’s undergraduate research journal of life science scholarship, Tuesday, March 6.

The judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit will give the commencement address to graduates of the Class of 2012 and their families on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at Ravinia Festival Park in Highland Park, Illinois. 

The men’s basketball and women’s hockey teams will be hosting postseason tournament games on Friday and Saturday. The women’s basketball and men’s hockey teams will be traveling for their contests. And the handball teams are currently competing in the national championship at Missouri State University. Stay tuned to goforesters.com and @ForesterScores on Twitter for results and schedules.

Lake Forest College is proud to announce that journalist and author Tom Miller will give the Annual Latin American Studies Lecture on Tuesday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Meyer Auditorium in Hotchkiss Hall on Middle Campus.