Aug 4, 2014
Hollis Ashby Named Director of the Performance Series
Hollis Ashby, former associate director of Cal Performances at U.C. Berkeley, has been named director of the Performance Series at the Williams Center…
Faculty and Staff
Jul 25, 2014
Three Professors’ Books Reviewed in The New York Times
Three professors have had their books favorably reviewed recently in The New York Times. The Tao of Humiliation by Lee Upton, Professor of English and…
Jul 25, 2014
A Fulbright for Combining Fact and Fiction
Art professor Karina Skvirsky will teach and create a film in Ecuador placing her great-grandmother in a historical narrative. In 1906, Karina Skvirsky’s…
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…
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…