Oct 17, 2017
There’s No Place like Dome
By Bryan Hay and Bill Landauer During Homecoming Weekend teams of faculty and students will erect a 40-foot geodesic dome on the Quad to celebrate the…
Engineering Studies
Oct 10, 2017
On the Frontiers of Discovery
Undergraduates work alongside faculty on substantial research projects, like the effect of steroid hormones on male zebra finches or developing a solar…
Sep 26, 2017
Engineering Program Continues Climb in U.S. News Ranking
By Bryan Hay Lafayette’s engineering program moved up to 12th place in the nation among primarily undergraduate programs in the latest ranking by U.S…
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…
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…