Nov 4, 2010
Spotted on Campus With…Ryan Stasiowski ’11
Cross country runner Ryan Stasiowski ’11 (Hanover, Md.) discusses civil engineering, his favorite classes, and how to make somebody run faster. What…
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Oct 29, 2010
Students Use $10,000 Projects for Peace Grant to Run Summer Youth Program in Colombia
Four students used a $10,000 Davis Foundation “Projects for Peace” grant this summer to spend five weeks in Bogotá, Colombia, and run a youth program…
Oct 1, 2010
Getting Their Hands Dirty: Students Work to Build a Sustainable Future in Honduras
Before he traveled to Honduras and began the grueling work of digging into the earth and lugging wood and rocks to build latrines, even before he had learned…
Oct 1, 2010
Professor David Brandes Analyzes the Threat Wind Turbines Pose to Migrating Raptors
As energy-producing wind turbines rise in ever greater numbers throughout the world, scientists have become increasingly concerned with their effects on…
Sep 17, 2010
Project Combines Economics, Computer Science, and Engineering to Enhance Environmental Policymaking
Several Lafayette students worked this summer on an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that combines aspects of economics, computer science, and engineering…
Sep 3, 2010
Students Lessen Negative Effects of Land Development on Environment
Alec Bernstein ’11 (Colts Neck, N.J.) spent much of the spring semester planting trees, shrubs, and wildflowers in a small wetland area in Easton’s…
Jul 30, 2010
Professor Sharon Jones and Lindsay Weir ’11 Featured in International Educator Magazine
Work by Professor Sharon Jones and Lindsay Weir ’11 and the College’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) to develop locally sustainable drinking…
Jul 8, 2010
Lafayette Places Seventh in Nation at Steel Bridge Competition
Lafayette’s Steel Bridge Team took seventh place at the 2010 National Student Steel Bridge Competition held at Purdue University. This is the fifth time…
Jun 23, 2010
Civil Engineering Students Present Research at Environmental and Water Resources Congress
When Michael Thompson ’12 (Shokan, N.Y.) stood up to share his research with a room full of civil and environmental engineering professionals, he was…
Jun 9, 2010
Turning Food Scraps into Compost
Jennifer Bell ’11 (Purcellville, Va.) is crouched near a row of bell peppers at Lafayette’s student-run garden in Metzgar Fields, pulling thin weeds…