Academic News
Joshua Sanborn, associate professor of history, has one very specific requirement of his student research assistants: they need to be able to read Russian…
A $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant is being used to support a multidisciplinary project focused on finding a cheaper method to remove the…
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) may learn a thing or two from Christine Moore ’08 (Fredericksburg, Va.). The civil engineering…
In the fast moving hard drive industry, what compels a manufacturer to pull a model from the market? Is it competition for market share from other companies…
Famous pop artist Andy Warhol transformed the art world in the 1960s by showing that a print is not simply a copy of a previous work, but a distinctive…
Trustee Scholar Brad Wertheim ’07 (Martinsville, N.J.) has held a lifelong interest in becoming a doctor. His mother, who was a biology teacher, cultivated…
Lafayette’s Formula One racecar team didn’t win its first Society of Automotive Engineers’ Formula SAE West competition, but that wasn’t its goal. According…
Two members of Lafayette’s engineering faculty have been elected as division chairs of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for the upcoming…
Javad Tavakoli, associate professor of chemical engineering, has recently received a $50,000 grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) to continue…
This summer, civil engineering major Veronica Escobar ’08 (La Paz, Bolivia) is synthesizing several recent graduates’ honors theses on construction management…