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…
Engineering
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…
Oct 25, 2018
Project Catches Deer in Headlights of Driverless Cars
By Bryan Hay Alex Brown encountered deer almost every night driving along rural roads of central Pennsylvania during his graduate and postdoctorate work…
Oct 16, 2018
Expansion Tube Project Takes Flight
By Bryan Hay Alyssa Devin ’19 and Andrew Schmid ’20 spend about a half hour gripping and turning socket wrenches with both hands as they tighten 12…
Oct 7, 2018
Three Professors Honored
President Alison Byerly and Provost Abu Rizvi recently announced three faculty promotions. (These are in addition to appointments announced in the spring…
Sep 28, 2018
Beyond the Bean
Story by Bryan Hay; photos by Clay Wegrzynowicz Part professor, part barista, Joe Woo grinds and steeps chemistry, economics, and history from his coffee…