Mar 20, 2019
$70 Innovation
By Bryan Hay There’s no limit to innovative expression when you bring together AAA batteries, microprocessors, and the vivid imaginations from Lafayette…
Engineering
Jan 27, 2019
Bridge Building Starts Early at Lafayette
Story and photos by Bryan Hay Whether it’s a tied-arch, a girder, or a truss, steel bridges and sparks from welding joints get in the bloodstream early…
Jan 18, 2019
Built for Speed, Engineered for Precision
By Bryan Hay Things weren’t going quite as planned for Carolyn Pye and her teammates. Their miniature aluminum-framed dragster, representing the skills…
Jan 14, 2019
Amid Construction, Rockwell Already Inspires
By Bryan Hay Although Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center doesn’t open until fall semester 2019, it’s already providing unique learning opportunities…
Jan 6, 2019
Bringing Brownfields Back to Life
By Bryan Hay More than a month after Lafayette’s participation in a statewide brownfields conference, the experience is still inspiring students and…
Dec 6, 2018
Hidden Figures Week
Hidden Figures Week explored issues related to women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) through a roundtable faculty discussion, a lecture…
Nov 6, 2018
Troubled Water
By Stephen Wilson Fifth-grade students from Cheston Elementary use a salt shaker to sprinkle the roads on a plastic rural model and cover the roadways…
Nov 5, 2018
STEM Stars
The future of STEM is here: Meet Lafayette’s innovators in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. They are creative thinkers and persistent…
Oct 31, 2018
Gratitude From His Posse
Eleven alumni honor the former mentor of their New York Posse group, retired professor Javad Tavakoli, by creating a scholarship in his name to support…
Oct 29, 2018
An Internship for the Professor
By Bryan Hay Reflecting one day on his career as an academic, Steve Kurtz realized he was missing something. “I’m in the shower and thinking about…