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Installation View of Senior Exhibition Work
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Baccalaureate 2025
No full textProgram:
Prelude
Benjamin K. Keating ’25, organ
Land Acknowledgement
Noemi Delgado, Director of Accessibility Services
Musical Selection
Vesper Sparrow | Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980) 8AVES Tanvi Thatai ’25, soprano Sarah K. Ruiz ’26, soprano Ava K. A. Wadia ’26, alto Sam Dill ’25, alto Benjamin K. Keating ’25, tenor Matthew J. Carlson ’25, tenor Alexander Z. Alden ’25, baritone Curtis R. Anderson ’25, bass
Call to Prayer
Reeshi Bhattacharjee ’25 and Shreeya S. Tilva ’25 – Hinduism Nazlee D. Harunani ’25 and Fariah Jannat ’25 – Islam Danielle C. Bruce ’25 – Judaism Madeline N. Markham ’25 and Allison A. Juárez Wunderlin ’25 – Christianity Miranda R. Lawson ’25 – Paganism
Jazz Trio
April | Reese Pike (b. 2002) Reese Pike ’25, piano Vivian Shanley ’26, bass Owen E. Finch ’25, drums
Welcome and Introduction of the Speaker
Laurie A. Carter, President of Lawrence University
Address to the Class of 2025
Robert McDonald ’73
Jazz Trio
Wheatland | Oscar Peterson (1925–2007)
Closing Reflection
Terra Winston-Sage ’00, Julie Esch Hurvis Dean of Spiritual and Religious Life
Postlude
Helen Y. Panshin ’25, organ
Speaker Biography
Robert McDonald ’73, an accomplished pianist on the world stage, will address graduates at the 2025 Baccalaureate service and will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music Arts degree.
McDonald has been a sought-after pianist for decades, performing in concerts and presenting masterclasses around the world. He has performed and recorded with Isaac Stern and Midori, as well as with numerous high-profile ensembles.
He is on the faculty at The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he holds the Penelope P. Watkins Chair in Piano Studies. He has been the recipient of the gold medal at the Busoni International Piano Competition, the top prize at the William Kapell International Competition, and the Deutsche Schallplatten Critics Award. In addition to being the artistic director of the Taos School of Music and Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico, he has participated in the Bergen, Lucerne, and Salzburg festivals in Europe, the Four Seasons, Marlboro, and Brevard festivals in the United States, the Steans Institute at Ravinia, as well as at the Banff Center in Canada and the Music Academy of the West.
McDonald holds degrees from Lawrence, the Curtis Institute of Music, and Juilliard. He has taught at Juilliard since 1999 and the Curtis Institute since 2007. He was honored by Lawrence in 1990 with the Nathan M. Pusey Distinguished Achievement Award and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music in 2018.
In advance of a 2022 performance at Bowling Green State University, McDonald talked about how his Lawrence experience prepared him for what was to come. It was the first time, he said, that he had role models for a life in music.
“The Lawrence experience set me on the right path,” he said.
He continues to stay connected to Lawrence. When the Conservatory of Music took its 150-year celebration to New York City during the recent spring break—11 students spent four days in NYC attending masterclasses, one-on-one sessions, and performing at Manhattan School of Music—McDonald was among the alumni working with the students.
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Music Acknowledgement
Vesper Sparrow was commissioned and premiered by Grammy award-winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth in 2012. The work was inspired by Sardinian “cantu e tenore” vocal techniques and includes an imitation of the call of the vesper sparrow. Farnoosh Fathi’s poem Home State weaves in and out of the texture. The work was recorded for Roomful of Teeth’s Grammy-nominated album Render.
Production Acknowledgements
A very special thank you to the following: Alvina Tan ’06 and Brent Hauer ’10 for their assistance with production. Andrew Mast and Daniel E. Schwandt for organizing our musicians
Gangliogenesis in Biomphalaria glabrata
No full textBiomphalaria glabrata, a freshwater snail belonging to the phylum Mollusca and the class gastropoda, is an intermediate host to the parasite Schistosoma mansoni, one of the species causing the disease schistosomiasis in humans. Research on B. glabrata has mainly focused on the host-parasite interaction and the immune response to S. mansoni, with very little research done on the development of the nervous system in B. glabrata-the embryonic and the ganglionic nervous systems. This project aims to examine the development of the central nervous system in B. glabrata from an embryonic nervous system, consisting of a network of neurons, to a ganglionic nervous system, consisting of clusters of neuronal cell bodies known as ganglia – gangliogenesis. Immunofluorescence is used to study the localization and the morphology of the central nervous system in the snail, allowing the determination of the onset of gangliogenesis. Additionally, through the analysis of transcriptomes (RNA sequence-data) we were able to investigate genes potentially involved in the development of the nervous system and hypothesize which genes may play a role in regulating gangliogenesis in B. glabrata. Hence, the cumulative data acquired using immunofluorescence and RNA sequencing we were able to determine the onset of gangliogenesis around 5-6 days post hatching juveniles, demonstrate for the first time that synapsin can be used as a neural marker in B.glabrata, the genes that potentially play a role in gangliogenesis, and that a ganglionic central nervous system is apparent around 27-28 days post hatching juveniles
The Public Perception and Efficacy of the Insanity Plea, 1835-1882
Full text linkMy project is an essay exploring the early development of the insanity plea in American courtrooms, centering several cases between 1835 and 1882. I argue that it largely failed to serve its intended purpose and was foiled by misuse and prejudice. In each case I cover, I examine what form it took (what was the criteria to be criminally insane at the time?), the reaction of the public to the plea (did the public approve of its usage?) and whether or not it worked (did it acquit the defendant; did he deserve to be acquitted; was he truly insane?). I also present its development more broadly and describe its general perception in contemporary newspapers and fiction
