Nov 5, 2013
Student Team Takes Fifth in Region in International Programming Contest
Last weekend, a student team placed fifth among 191 competitors in the Mid-Atlantic Regional portion of the annual Association for Computing Machinery…
Engineering
Oct 30, 2013
Students and Faculty Work with Honduran Villagers to Minimize Effects of Flooding
By Michele Tallarita ’12 This summer, an interdisciplinary team of students and faculty worked with residents of Lomitas, Honduras, to help improve stormwater…
Oct 30, 2013
Engineering Students Explore Future Careers as Interns with The Linde Group
This summer, chemical engineering major Molly Gondolf ’14 (Atlantic, N.J.) got a firsthand look at what her future career might be like. She hopes to…
Oct 30, 2013
Jason Sheng ’15 Explores Engineering Applications of Origami
By Sean Grim ’14 What do an ancient Chinese lute, engineering design software, and the Japanese art of origami have in common? The link is Zhe “Jason”…
Oct 8, 2013
$200,000 NSF Grant Will Enhance Interdisciplinary Science Research
Lafayette has secured a $205,020 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a state-of-the-art desktop scanning electron microscope. The microscope…
Sep 26, 2013
Derrick Hargwood ’14 Explores Design Engineering at West Pharmaceutical Services
Mechanical engineering major Derrick Hargwood ’14 (Metuchen, N.J.) got hands-on experience in his field as an intern at the product design and innovation…
Sep 20, 2013
Karen Pompanella ’88 Manages $6 Billion USPS Transportation Budget
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” reads the inscription…
Sep 20, 2013
Marquis Scholars Use Their Talents to Connect to the World
Michael Pinkard ’14 (Puyallup, Wash.) is as comfortable with a tenor saxophone in his hand as a telescope. At Lafayette, he has found plenty of opportunity…
Sep 16, 2013
Lafayette Receives Gift of $27.9 Million to Support Science and Technology
Lafayette College has received one of the largest contributions in the College’s history from Trustee Kent Rockwell ’66. The gift, made to a trust that…
Aug 20, 2013
Students and Faculty Harness the Power of the Mind
A group of students and faculty is working to give some control back to those who have lost the ability to move. In research that brings together neuroscience…