Jul 16, 2018
Renovations, Upgrades Planned for Acopian Engineering Center
By Bryan Hay When a family member moves out of the house, there’s usually an opportunity to do some renovations in the vacated space. Such will be…
Engineering
Jul 3, 2018
Return to College Hill
By Bryan Hay Lauren Anderson ’04 often returns to a very personal moment as a teenager when it became clear she was destined to become a bioengineer…
Jun 25, 2018
Big Gamble, Big Payoff
By Kevin Gray Walter “Terry” Lutz ’62 admits he isn’t much of a gambler. But in the early 1990s, he bet the future of his company on his strong belief…
Jun 22, 2018
Innovative Instructor
By Bryan Hay Polly Piergiovanni, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has won the prestigious and competitive William H. Corcoran Award…
Jun 11, 2018
Making a Global Impact
By Bryan Hay A group of senior chemical engineering majors and their advisers recently returned from a whirlwind trip to the Dominican Republic where they…
Jun 5, 2018
A Win for the Ages
By Bryan Hay After 10 years of inching ever closer to a national title, Lafayette’s steel bridge team beat out 44 others to claim first place in the…
May 31, 2018
On the Fast Track
By Bryan Hay Facing raw, rainy New England weather and other competitive engineering schools, Lafayette’s formula electric vehicle team brought home…
May 14, 2018
Gunning for the Championship
Story and photos by Bryan Hay Nine Lafayette civil and environmental engineering seniors are preparing for the 2018 National Students Steel Bridge Competition…
Apr 30, 2018
Up, Up, and Away
By Bryan Hay There’s a sense of adrenaline-spiked adventure inside Jon Wallace’s Cessna 172 Skyhawk, its single engine idling on the runway at Braden…
Apr 24, 2018
Hungry Cells
9:30 a.m. Tori Smith ’18, a chemical and biomolecular engineering major, seems to be working alone in the mammalian cell culture facility but in fact…