Jun 20, 2017
Searching for Patterns in Chaos
By Mark Eyerly Noah Steinberg ’17 traces his fascination with the brain to a seventh-grade biology class, in which a substitute teacher showed a movie…
Engineering
Jun 13, 2017
Students Synthesize Spirited Sounds
More than a dozen students from majors as diverse as music and electrical engineering worked together to create Spirit Guide, an interface to enable a…
May 9, 2017
China Bound
Stacey-Ann Pearson ’15 is the recipient of a prestigious Schwarzman Scholarship for graduate study at a leading university in China known for its scientific…
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…
Jan 24, 2017
Going with the Flow
In a room on the bottom floor of Acopian Engineering Center, students cluster in the slim space around what looks like a mammoth fish tank draped in electronics…
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…
Dec 5, 2016
Into the Stars
Mae Jemison was raised in Chicago during the 1960s, a turbulent time when the civil rights and antiwar movements sparred in her back yard. In 1992, when…
Nov 28, 2016
Living Out Her Dream
During her childhood in Pakistan, her father instilled in Aleeza Ajmal ’18 a dream of pursuing higher education in the U.S. “Both of my parents work…
Nov 28, 2016
Shifting Expectations
James Roberts '18 took part in an InternShift with Joe Heaney '85, owner of Walden Associates environmental consulting firm. Through InternShift, Lafayette…