Mar 22, 2024
Leaving the campus, and the world, better than she found it
Natalie Beckford ’24 shares her educational journey, including making Lafayette history as the College's first student to earn a Payne Fellowship.
Academic News
Academic News
Mar 19, 2024
A world of learning
From Hawaiian volcanoes to Senegalese cities, these students and their faculty and staff mentors had a chance to explore educational opportunities.
Mar 19, 2024
A world of learning: London and Belfast
In London and Belfast, 18 students explored the topics of race, gender, and colonialism through visiting cultural sites and analyzing related media.
Mar 19, 2024
A world of learning: Portugal
Students had a chance to learn how processes, both technical and nontechnical, make the world go round.
Mar 19, 2024
A world of learning: Peru
El Valle Sagrado de los Incas and Cusco were the temporary homes of 24 students who spent three weeks exploring the modern lives of Indigenous groups in…
Mar 19, 2024
A world of learning: Madagascar
For over a decade, Lafayette students have been traveling to Madagascar to mentor Malagasy students in preparation for pursuing higher education in the…
Mar 19, 2024
A world of learning: Senegal
Eighteen students spent three weeks learning about the experience of modernity in a West African city.
Mar 19, 2024
A world of learning: The Hawaiian Islands
For 23 students, January was spent island-hopping across the Big Island, Maui, and Oahu, studying the morphology of the islands.
Mar 18, 2024
Prof. Mónica Salas Landa to deliver March 25 Jones Faculty Lecture
A little-known petroleum geologist from Texas who explored oil fields in Mexico is the inspiration for Prof. Mónica Salas Landa’s Jones Faculty Lecture…
Mar 11, 2024
Skillman’s Japanese postcard collection attracts international attention
The 400 postcards in the collection were written in Japan in the months immediately after the end of World War II.