Jan 7, 2013
Rebecca Citrin ’14 Gets Kids Excited about Science and Technology
Rebecca Citrin ’14 (Springfield, N.J.) loves to see kids get excited about science and technology. She has put countless hours into two projects to help…
Community-Based Learning and Research
Jan 7, 2013
Students Use Interdisciplinary Approach to Enhance Local Fish Farm
By Michele Tallarita ’12 A group of students from diverse majors is working to make a local fish farming operation more economically and environmentally…
Dec 3, 2012
Leaders Mentor Students Interning at Nonprofits
Six students who served internships in the nonprofit sector gained additional insight into the inner workings of nonprofit organizations through the Leadership…
Nov 30, 2012
Kelsey Lantz ’13 Takes on Water Management in Uganda
By Shehtaz Huq ’14 As a sophomore EXCEL Scholar, Kelsey Lantz ’13 (Washington, Pa) wanted to find empirical raw data to plug into the computer model…
Nov 30, 2012
Professor Mary Armstrong Receives NSF Grant to Study Underrepresented Minority Women in STEM Fields
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $100,000 grant to Mary Armstrong, associate professor of English and chair of women’s and gender…
Oct 23, 2012
Erin D’Amelio ’13 Helps Level the Playing Field
By Michele Tallarita ’12 Erin D’Amelio ’13 (Mount Bethel, Pa.) spent much of her childhood nose deep in books. Her love of the literary sprang from…
Sep 18, 2012
Building Community: Students Help Provide Clean Water to Impoverished Families in Haiti
Sometimes small changes are the best solution to grand challenges. That’s what three students learned this summer when they traveled to Haiti to improve…
Sep 5, 2012
Professor Deborah Byrd and Kristin Anderson ’14 Work to Design Housing Programs for Young Parents
“One of the things I’ve discovered in working with young moms and dads is that they are often in desperate need of safe, affordable housing, particularly…
Jul 13, 2012
Grand Challenges: Students Take on Water Issues in Haiti, Uganda, and Pakistan
The challenges facing society in this century are large, but not insurmountable, as three teams of Lafayette students are learning firsthand this summer…
Jun 14, 2012
Expanding the Classroom into Communities
With their Save Me from Arsenic project, civil engineering major Thafhim “Muna” Siddiqua ’13 (Silver Spring, Md.) and international affairs major…