Aug 14, 2017
Civil Engineering Majors Know How to Win
By Heather Morton Travis Shoemaker ’18 was confident that his research presentation went over well with the judges when they asked, “Are you a master’s…
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Aug 9, 2017
Helping Students Achieve Their Dreams
As a high school sophomore in Madagascar, Donovan Rasamoelison ’19 learned strategies from visiting Lafayette students for applying to college and doing…
Aug 8, 2017
Beautiful Scenes From Study Abroad
By their senior year, more than half of Lafayette’s students will have studied abroad. Here are photos submitted by students who took short-term Lafayette…
Aug 2, 2017
Research Yields Key Findings on States’ Immigration Crackdowns
Do tighter controls on immigration improve the job market for American workers? The answer is no, according to research by Josh Silver ’17—at least…
Jul 18, 2017
Research Compares Views of Energy Security in East Asia and Europe
By Kevin Gray The availability of affordable energy, or energy security, is one of the biggest challenges facing governments today. Il Hyun Cho, assistant…
Jul 6, 2017
Exploring Sustainable Management in Tanzania
A study abroad scholarship provided Aliza Furneaux ’17 with insights that brought clarity to her focus on sustainable development. Her Lafayette course…
Jun 29, 2017
Grant Will Explore Lives of the Lehigh Valley
A grant to Lafayette will unite six colleges and three cultural institutions in a four-year effort to explore life in the Lehigh Valley through the arts…
Jun 20, 2017
Students Earn Prestigious Fellowships and Scholarships
A chance to study alternative energy and biotechnology at a research university. A summer job with a political action committee in Washington, D.C. A yearlong…
Jun 20, 2017
Searching for Patterns in Chaos
By Mark Eyerly Noah Steinberg ’17 traces his fascination with the brain to a seventh-grade biology class, in which a substitute teacher showed a movie…
Jun 13, 2017
Students Synthesize Spirited Sounds
More than a dozen students from majors as diverse as music and electrical engineering worked together to create Spirit Guide, an interface to enable a…