Mar 17, 2017
Using Art for Social Change
For Yolanda Wisher ’98, her visit to Lafayette in February was a return to a crossroads where she first gave in to the words bursting in her brain. “It…
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Feb 14, 2017
Alberto Luna ’08 Helps Patients Find Answers
Alberto Luna ’08 wanted to be a psychologist since age five. He remembers innocently aspiring to that career because “all I had to do was sit down…
Jan 31, 2017
Prof. Alix Ohlin Featured in “The New Yorker”
Prof. Alix Ohlin has had her short story “Quarantine” published in the Jan. 23 edition of The New Yorker. She was also interviewed for an accompanying…
Jan 24, 2017
Adventures in Journalism
William Gordon ’17 has explored immigration, the arts, the Supreme Court, and controversial campus issues.
Jan 10, 2017
Curtain Rises on Career Possibilities
It was at a time when Chanel Mowatt ’17 wasn’t quite herself that she found out who she truly is. In her first year at Lafayette, the English and anthropology…
Dec 12, 2016
Prof. Ian Smith Discusses Othello‘s Political Relevance
William Shakespeare wrote the play four centuries ago, but never has Othello seemed so current. According to Professor Ian Smith, recent tensions across…
Dec 1, 2016
‘For All Time’
When most of the modern world considers the age of Shakespeare, it thinks of William Shakespeare – perhaps the greatest playwright of all time – and…
Sep 6, 2016
Meet the New Faculty
Lafayette welcomes 12 new professors this fall. Learn more about them.
Aug 2, 2016
Poetic Justice
Ross Gay ’96, winner of Claremont Graduate University’s $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his latest…
Jul 12, 2016
Finding Comfort in Uncomfortable Places
Over two decades, Yolanda Wisher ’98 has built alliances as an English teacher, a performing poet, and a leader of one of America’s leading municipal…