Dec 5, 2018
Exploring First-Year Seminars
By Stephen Wilson How do professors teach college students to write? Or for that matter to form a mindset of intellectual curiosity? For Suzanne Westfall…
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Academic News
Dec 5, 2018
The Class: “Coffee”
By Bryan Hay What’s it about? More than a delivery system for caffeine, coffee has been a highly traded commodity for centuries, generates wildly different…
Dec 5, 2018
First-Year Seminars
Lafayette’s First-Year Seminar (FYS) program gives new college students the opportunity to think critically, write clearly, and contribute to thoughtful…
Dec 4, 2018
Making Beautiful Music
The Concert Choir and Chamber Singers presented their fall concert Saturday under the direction of Jennifer Kelly, director of choral activities, at the…
Dec 3, 2018
FilmStruck’s Demise Could be Good for Movies
The Washington Post published an opinion piece today by Katherine Groo, assistant professor of film and media studies, titled “FilmStruck’s Demise Could…
Dec 3, 2018
Linking Health and Racism
Research has shown that experiencing discrimination increases risk for stress, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and early mortality. So how does one mitigate…
Dec 2, 2018
Iuliia Vasileva ’18 Wins Best Paper Award at International Economic Conference
By Bryan Hay Iuliia Vasileva ’18 (economics and international affairs) took home the prestigious Best Undergraduate Paper Award at the fall International…
Nov 27, 2018
New Jersey Closer to $15/hour Minimum Wage
Adam Biener, associate professor of economics, appeared on a recent WFMZ-TV 69 News report about how the proposed minimum wage raise in New Jersey might…
Nov 9, 2018
Pizza and Politics
By Bryan Hay There’s nothing like pizza and conversation on Election Night to bring together civic-minded young voters from across the political spectrum…
Nov 9, 2018
The History and Media Portrayal of Thugs
By Kathleen Parrish In the 1939 movie Gunga Din, the villains were a secret society of turban-wearing assassins. For many western movie-goers, it was the…