Aug 30, 2010
President Daniel Weiss Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education
President Daniel Weiss was featured in the Aug. 29 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The article, “Running Jogs the Academic Mind,” focuses…
News & Features
Aug 27, 2010
Photos of Class of 2014 Orientation
Lafayette’s four-day orientation program for the Class of 2014 includes academic sessions, social events, move-in, competitions, and opening Convocation…
Aug 25, 2010
Welcome Class of 2014!
The 649 members of the Class of 2014 will begin their college careers Aug. 26 during the first day of Lafayette’s new student orientation. The students…
Aug 25, 2010
Party! College Will Celebrate the Marquis de Lafayette’s Birthday Sept. 7
Lafayette College will throw a big party on campus Tuesday, Sept. 7, to celebrate the birthday of the Marquis de Lafayette, in whose honor the College…
Aug 22, 2010
New Theater Major Puts Students at Center Stage
Lafayette’s new major in theater will allow students to apply rigorous academic inquiry to performance, production, theater practice, and dramatic literature…
Aug 19, 2010
A Guru of Wiffle Ball? Meet Professor Jenn Rossmann
Jenn Rossmann is living a double life: When she’s not studying fluid dynamics, she’s writing fiction. “I’m an engineer who likes words,” she…
Aug 19, 2010
Student-Faculty Team Strives to Improve the Technology Used to Diagnose Eye Diseases
Richard Koplin ’64, clinical associate professor at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, spent a year seeking someone to help complete research he began with…
Aug 19, 2010
Professor Chawne Kimber Removes the Intimidation from Math
Chawne Kimber has always liked math, but she hasn’t always admitted it. “I was one of the girls who had to hide it because it wasn’t cool at the…
Aug 18, 2010
Professor Skip Wilkins Returns from European Tour
Skip Wilkins, associate professor of music, has spent the summer performing throughout Europe with the Rostislav Fras – Skip Wilkins Quintet, promoting…
Aug 18, 2010
Professor Emeritus Elwyn E. Tilden Jr. Dies
Elwyn E. Tilden Jr., Helen H.P. Manson Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, died July 30 in Newville, Pa. Tilden joined the faculty in 1949 as an associate…