Apr 4, 2017
A Shield Bearer for the Commons
By Bill Landauer The shield for Alliance—one of the five Commons in Lafayette’s Connected Communities Program—looks like an expensive wooden relief…
News & Features
Mar 28, 2017
Managing the Nitrogen Cycle
An interdisciplinary group of students researching the nitrogen cycle is considering composting as a way to relieve the effects of excess nitrogen on campus…
Mar 22, 2017
Music Therapist Jackie Macri ’09 Interviewed on Harry Connick Jr. Show
Jackie Macri ’09, a board-certified music therapist with Shriner’s Hospital in Philadelphia, was interviewed about her work with children by Harry…
Mar 22, 2017
The Intersection of Art and Fish
Ray Troll’s love affair with fish began when he was a teenager. Troll fell for gasping gill faces the way some people fall for religion or a member of…
Mar 22, 2017
The Meaning behind Math
You can navigate the Xs and Ys, know your cosines from your coefficients, and rattle off theorems like nobody’s business. But what does it all mean?…
Mar 20, 2017
A Toast to the President’s Challenge
At Lafayette, March 9 has been a day of celebration and reflection on the College’s 191-year-old legacy. This year, Founders’ Day has taken on new meaning…
Mar 17, 2017
Using Art for Social Change
For Yolanda Wisher ’98, her visit to Lafayette in February was a return to a crossroads where she first gave in to the words bursting in her brain. “It…
Mar 16, 2017
College Mourns the Loss of Amanda Miner ’18
President Alison Byerly sent the following message to the Lafayette community March 16. It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that Amanda…
Mar 15, 2017
Fulfilling Her German Dream
As a middle school student growing up in Zhengzhou—a sprawling city on the Yellow River in east central China, about 350 miles due west of the Yellow…
Mar 14, 2017
Bring the Best to Lafayette
We’re launching the President’s Challenge for Financial Aid to set us on the path to admitting the most qualified applicants regardless of financial…