Dec 3, 2015
The Science of Preserving Art
Through the IDEAL Center’s Cultural Conservation and Nanotechnology program, students learn to apply innovative methods to preserve art and cultural…
Engineering
Dec 3, 2015
100 Years of Chemical Engineering
In the 1880s, decades before he started the chemical engineering program at Lafayette, Edward Hart was already at work building what would become its educational…
Nov 25, 2015
Liberal Arts Make Angela Wnek ’13 a More Confident Engineer
It can be intimidating for a young professional starting her career to speak up and express her ideas to management. But Angela Wnek ’13 brings a lot…
Nov 25, 2015
Fueling the Future
Biofuels – fuels derived from biological sources such as plants or algae – have a lot going for them, most notably their environmental friendliness…
Oct 20, 2015
A Life that Mattered
If George Bailey, the kind-hearted but frustrated savings-and-loan manager, had never been born, his hometown of Bedford Falls would have fallen into the…
Aug 6, 2015
STEAM Campers Create & Innovate
Camp leaders Marlin, film & media studies and English, and Meng, civil engineering, personify the synergy of incorporating arts into science/engineering…
Aug 6, 2015
Increasing Perspectives
A liberal education introduces a wide range of methods of inquiry: “ways of knowing” the human condition and the world. These methods include, for…
Jun 23, 2015
Brian Manning ’96 Turns Traditional Businesses into Digital Leaders
When the digital revolution began in the late ’90s, Brian Manning ’96 recognized the rumblings. He was project manager for the launch of Barnes & Noble’s…
May 12, 2015
Students Honored for Academic Excellence
Lafayette honored 129 students for academic excellence at the annual All-College Honors Convocation May 3 in Colton Chapel. Awards and prizes recognized…
Apr 30, 2015
Engineering Program Will Teach Entrepreneurial Mindset
Lafayette is integrating “entrepreneurially minded learning” into its engineering programs as a partner in the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network…