Feb 2, 2016
95 Students Named to Patriot League Academic Honor Roll
From the College’s seven Division I fall sports teams, 95 students were named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll. To be eligible for the honor…
Academic News
Academic News
Jan 19, 2016
Exploring the World
Almost 200 students are studying in China, England, Hawaii, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Madagascar, Peru, Russia, and South Africa during winter…
Jan 11, 2016
Matthew Maher ’16 is Hands-on in Hollywood
The tire on Tom Cruise’s motorcycle shrieks and the guitars kick in. “Bada, bada, bump b-b-bump b-b-bump …” At the opening strains of Led Zeppelin’s…
Jan 11, 2016
Collin Albershardt ’17 Named Academic All-Star
Collin Albershardt is one of 52 student-athletes in the nation named to the 18th annual Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association…
Jan 4, 2016
New Smart Geology Lab Reveals Minerals’ Mysteries
Tucked in Van Wickle Hall’s basement near a display of fossilized dinosaur bones and rock specimens, is Lafayette’s smartest new classroom—the Petrographic…
Dec 21, 2015
It’s Race Time!
Student teams from the Manufacturing and Design course competed in a year-end drag race. The project challenges mechanical engineering students to design…
Dec 15, 2015
The Sounds of the Season
The Music Department celebrated the holidays with winter concerts by its student ensembles. Students from any major can perform in a variety of groups…
Dec 3, 2015
The Science of Preserving Art
Through the IDEAL Center’s Cultural Conservation and Nanotechnology program, students learn to apply innovative methods to preserve art and cultural…
Dec 3, 2015
100 Years of Chemical Engineering
In the 1880s, decades before he started the chemical engineering program at Lafayette, Edward Hart was already at work building what would become its educational…
Nov 25, 2015
Fueling the Future
Biofuels – fuels derived from biological sources such as plants or algae – have a lot going for them, most notably their environmental friendliness…