Jan 7, 2011
Community Fellows Work with Local Organizations to Improve Easton
While working as an intern with Lafayette’s Green Design Laboratory last summer, Ben Boyer ’11 (Lebanon, Pa.) learned a lot about the importance of…
Community-Based Learning and Research
Jan 3, 2011
Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education
A feature-length article in The Chronicle of Higher Education highlights the multidisciplinary approach Lafayette’s Economic Empowerment and Global Learning…
Dec 17, 2010
Technology Clinic Brings Students Together to Solve Real-World Problems
After he graduates, Chris Kelly ’13 (Boyertown, Pa.) plans to work in the field of environmental politics. A double major in geology and international…
Nov 18, 2010
Students and Local Residents Help Spruce Up Raspberry Park
Members of Lafayette’s Technology Clinic and the Landis Community Outreach Center worked with Easton’s West Ward Neighborhood Partnership and West Ward…
Nov 1, 2010
Weaving Together Art and Understanding: Students and Female Inmates Learn From Each Other
Through the Landis Community Outreach Center’s Journey Home program, Lafayette students and female inmates from Northampton County Prison held an informal…
Oct 15, 2010
Students Bring Honduran Coffee Project Full Circle
For the past several years, members of the College’s Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP) have collaborated with rural villages in…
Oct 1, 2010
Students Design Computer Software and Exhibit for New Flood Museum
Last spring, Franklin “Scott” Stinner ’11 and the 23 classmates in his software engineering class found themselves immersed in a project designing…
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…
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…