Jul 25, 2014
Prof. Kristen Sanford Bernhardt Receives National Engineering Honor
Kristen Sanford Bernhardt is this year’s recipient of the George K. Wadlin Distinguished Service Award given by the Civil Engineering Division of the…
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Jul 21, 2014
Michael Kiser Named Vice President for Marketing and Communications
Michael D. Kiser, vice president for communications at Colby College, has been named vice president for marketing and communications at Lafayette. The…
Jul 8, 2014
Prof. Lindsay Soh Receives NSF Grant for Biodiesel Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Lindsay Soh a three-year, $100,710 grant as part of a collaboration with Yale University and University…
Jul 7, 2014
Yolanda Griffith to be Inducted into Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame
Women’s basketball assistant coach Yolanda Griffith was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame June 14 in Nashville, Tenn. Griffith played…
Jun 18, 2014
Prof. Bruce Murphy’s Biography of Justice Scalia Featured in National Media
Scalia: A Court of One, the latest biography by Bruce Allen Murphy, Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights, is receiving national media attention…
Jun 18, 2014
Vivid Memories Aren’t Necessarily Reliable
Professor Jennifer Talarico disproves misconceptions about “flashbulb” recollections Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001? Chances are your memories are extremely…
Jun 18, 2014
Supreme City, Supreme History: Donald L. Miller’s Monumental Book about Manhattan in the ’20s
By Geoff Gehman ’80 Donald L. Miller believes that cities can be read like books. The historian thinks that histories of cities should read like novels…
Jun 16, 2014
Pard Tracks: Meet Custodian and Cartoonist Joe Swarctz
Artist by day, Lafayette custodian by night, Joe Swarctz is hoping an animated cartoon he created called “NIGHTBAT: The Almost Hero of Echo City” will…
May 29, 2014
Rothkopfs’ Gift Honors Wendy Hill
Former Lafayette President Arthur Rothkopf ’55 and his wife, Barbara Rothkopf, have provided a gift to name the neuroscience lab in Oechsle Hall in honor…
May 27, 2014
Educational Entrepreneur of the Arts: Ellis Finger Reflects on 31 Memorable Years
By Geoff Gehman ’80 Ellis Finger helped make Lafayette’s Williams Center for the Arts a multimedia mecca. Over 31 years the building’s only director…