May 7, 2012
Students Serve Communities Around the World through Alternative School Break
By Michele Tallarita ’12 Doing farm labor under the hot sun, waking up when the rooster crowed, chowing down on rice and beans, and relaxing by the campfire…
Community-Based Learning and Research
Apr 24, 2012
Students Receive $10,000 Grant for Arsenic-Removal Project in Bangladesh
Safe drinking water is a necessity that most Americans take for granted. But, in some parts of the world, like Barisal, Bangladesh, it is a luxury many…
Apr 9, 2012
Taking Root: Students Help Honduras Coffee Project Come Full Circle
Rural Honduras is a long way to go for a good cup of coffee. But for a team of Lafayette students representing the College’s Economic Empowerment and…
Mar 19, 2012
Changing Lives: Lafayette Peer Mentoring Program Helps Malagasy Students Prepare for College
In most Malagasy villages, it’s a tradition to share a drink from a coconut with visitors. So when a group of 10 Lafayette students visited a village…
Feb 21, 2012
Prof. Chris Phillips Explores Reading Habits of 19th Century Eastonians, One of the First Studies of Its Kind in the Country
Until a year ago, the emerging research field of the history of reading was largely circumstantial, based on diaries or sales figures. A public database…
Jan 30, 2012
Tech Clinic: Sweat + Creativity = Stronger Communities
Five students rolled up their sleeves and got their hands dirty—literally—through a series of art projects over the last year. The Technology Clinic…
Jan 6, 2012
Technology Clinic Applies Interdisciplinary Approach to Local Fish Farming
A Technology Clinic class is using the wide-ranging expertise of its members to make a fish-farming operation more economically and environmentally efficient…
Dec 16, 2011
Students Help the Local Community Using Math and Economics
Nine students combined their math knowledge with economics to help others in the community this semester. Through Case Studies in Math Modeling, a course…
Nov 4, 2011
Photo Gallery: Students Host Halloween Costume Party for Easton Families
Students in the Single Motherhood course held a Halloween costume party in the Marlo Room for the families they work with from the Easton community. View…
Nov 4, 2011
Community-Based Learning and Research Helps Students Apply Classroom Knowledge in Real-World Settings
Professors are always looking for ways to make classroom lessons more relevant to life beyond College Hill. Through Lafayette’s Community-Based Learning…