Nov 13, 2017
A Summer of Reality TV, Rap Music, and More
By Stephen Wilson Somali immigrants in Maine. Reality love television. Post-WW2 advertising. Jews welcomed to Islamic states. Jamaican dancehalls. A disappearing…
Academic News
Academic News
Nov 10, 2017
Positioning Students for Success
By Joseph McDermott As a West Coast native attending an East Coast college, Heidi Ludwick Hanson ’91 learned the challenges of being separated from family…
Nov 9, 2017
The Drowsy Chaperone
College Theater took Buck Hall audiences back to the 1920s last Thursday through Sunday with The Drowsy Chaperone, a play parodying Broadway musicals…
Nov 9, 2017
United Nations Taps Prof. Rex Ahene’s Expertise
By Katie Neitz Rexford Ahene has been running a marathon at a sprint pace. Fortunately, the finish line is nearly in sight. In June, the professor of economics…
Nov 8, 2017
The Ink of Kings
By Stephen Wilson A single sheet of yellowed onion-skin paper sits atop a table in the Special Collections reading room at Skillman Library. Dated June…
Nov 6, 2017
STEM Stars
Lafayette faculty members and students are actively working on innovative projects and research initiatives that demonstrate the College’s commitment…
Nov 6, 2017
A New Approach to STEM Education
By Katie Neitz How do you make a great thing greater? Make it more inclusive. Stats from the National Science Foundation show a dramatic disparity between…
Nov 5, 2017
Understanding U.S.-North Korea Relations
By Stephen Wilson In a filled Oechsle Hall auditorium on a Friday afternoon, Seo-Hyun Park, associate professor of government and law, and Il Hyun Cho…
Nov 1, 2017
Life as a Leopard
We picked a random day—Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, to be exact—and checked in on Lafayette students in action. Can you keep up? Story by Bill Landauer…
Nov 1, 2017
Using Brainwaves to Control a Wheelchair
Simone Khalifa '20 is using her interests in art and electrical & computer engineering in a research project to develop a brain-computer interface designed…