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Academic News
Aug 15, 2018
Biofilm Project Takes Aim at Erosion Control
By Bryan Hay An interdisciplinary group of students is tending to a bacteria nursery as part of an innovative research project aimed at controlling the…
Aug 13, 2018
Closing in on Rockwell
Precast concrete panels are now being installed on the $75 million Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center, future home to the biology, computer science, and…
Aug 11, 2018
‘Maroon Monster’ a Smashing Success
By Bryan Hay Dave Mante pinned a $10 Wawa gift card on a whiteboard. In the late afternoon shadow of the towering “Maroon Monster,” he asked students…
Aug 6, 2018
More Funding to Investigate Neurodegenerative Diseases
By Katie Neitz Justin Hines, associate professor of chemistry, is the recipient of a prestigious Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award from the Camille and…
Jul 23, 2018
Improving Driverless Cars
Two students are conducting research using a driving simulator to enhance technology that can help autonomous cars prevent collisions with animals. (VIDEO)
Jul 23, 2018
Our Students Share Their Research Discoveries
Twenty Lafayette students presented their research findings at this year’s National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). In a five-part series…
Jul 20, 2018
Reviving Ragtime, an American Original
By Bryan Hay There’s a certain nostalgic purity about ragtime, musical qualities that inspired Josh Kwak ’18 to complete some posthumous business on…
Jul 16, 2018
New York Times Cites Study by Prof. Matthew Larsen
The New York Times cited a study co-written by Matthew Larsen, assistant professor of economics, about the positive effects of reform efforts in New Orleans…
Jul 15, 2018
Learning Latin from Leopards
By Bill Landauer Markus Dubischar’s Elementary Latin class is seldom so elementary. Krista Yetter’s fifth-graders from Cheston Elementary School in…
Jul 11, 2018
Research is Gold Standard for Scholarship Winner
By Kathleen Parrish Chenyu Zhang’s passion for scientific research started with a bag of potato chips. A 15-year-old high school student in Singapore…