Aug 29, 2017
First Day of Class
By Bryan Hay 7:45 a.m. You can almost feel the curiosity, maybe a little anxiety, in Room 115 at Hugel Science Center. It’s Aug. 28, the first day of…
Engineering Studies
Aug 28, 2017
Yusuf Dahl Takes Helm of IDEAL Center
Entrepreneur Yusuf Dahl has been named director of Lafayette’s IDEAL Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Dahl will work with the campus community…
Mar 28, 2017
Managing the Nitrogen Cycle
An interdisciplinary group of students researching the nitrogen cycle is considering composting as a way to relieve the effects of excess nitrogen on campus…
Mar 3, 2017
Students Learn and Have Fun During National Engineers Week
National Engineers Week gave students the opportunity to learn more, teach others, and have fun with engineering. Throughout the week, students took part…
Dec 7, 2016
Empowering Women Engineers
Emily Maj ’18 (Staten Island, N.Y.) used to dread someone asking her why she decided to major in civil engineering. But over the last 10 weeks – “junior…
Nov 1, 2016
Engineering Looks to the Future
The ideals of Lafayette engineering have changed very little over the last century and a half. Early on, its founders made it the goal “to educate not…
Aug 23, 2016
Bow Tie Innovation
When a woodcutter teaches students to chop wood, he tells them focus on the chopping block, not the wood. It’s more accurate to say they are not chopping…
Jun 21, 2016
Making Beautiful Music
Don Mildrum ’53 took up the clarinet in high school so he’d get into football games for free with the band. He also had played the violin since age…
May 31, 2016
Darryl Clark ’82 Innovates in Technology and Music
Just as a jazz tune evolves as it progresses, Darryl Clark ’82 moves forward in his career as a technology manager and in his art as a bassist. “In…
May 5, 2016
Students Honored for Academic Excellence
Lafayette honored 138 students for academic excellence at the annual All-College Honors Convocation May 1 in Colton Chapel. Awards and prizes recognized…