Mar 4, 2011
Student Writing Associates Learn Much by Helping Residents Improve Writing Skills
A 21-year-old mother of two came to ProJeCt of Easton’s Fowler Literacy Center for help with a very special writing project. She was keeping a journal…
Community-Based Learning and Research
Feb 11, 2011
Students Are Helping Hurricane-Devastated Neighborhood in New Orleans Rebuild as a Green Community
Professor David Veshosky is driving a rented red Borrego SUV through the empty streets of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward on a cloudy day in early January…
Jan 28, 2011
Overcoming Barriers: Lafayette Peer Mentoring Program Helps Malagasy Students Attend College in the U.S.
For high school students in Madagascar who have aspirations of attending college in the United States, the application process can be extremely daunting…
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…
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…