Jul 12, 2013
Professor Brett Hendrickson Introduces Students to World’s Religious Diversity
Teaching introductory courses isn’t something Brett Hendrickson tries to avoid. While the material may be basic, it has the potential to help shape the…
Faculty Profiles
Jun 3, 2013
Professor Rachel Brummel Combines Love of Natural World with Curiosity about People and Politics
Connection is at the center of everything Rachel Brummel does. And that makes her a perfect fit as Lafayette’s first professor hired specifically for…
Jun 3, 2013
Professor and Novelist Daniel Quirós Encourages Students to Grow Together as Intellectual Community
Zipolite, the second novel by Daniel Quirós, which he expects to publish soon, tells the parallel stories of the main character, Julio Flores. In the…
Jun 3, 2013
High-Tech X-Ray System Improves Research Capabilities for Faculty and Students
High-tech X-ray equipment funded by a $265,000 National Science Foundation grant is opening up valuable opportunities in classroom instruction and research…
May 1, 2013
Professor Nandini Sikand Receives National Postdoctoral Fellowship for New Book
The American Association of University Women has awarded Nandini Sikand, assistant professor of film and media studies, a postdoctoral American Fellowship…
Apr 29, 2013
Art Professor Karina Skvirsky Featured in Two Exhibitions
Karina Skvirsky, assistant professor of art, has two exhibits showing this spring in three locations. The Bloomfield Avenue Hotline, a participatory art…
Apr 19, 2013
Professor Skip Wilkins Always Ready for the Unexpected on European Jazz Tour
Whirlwind doesn’t even begin to describe the last two years of Skip Wilkins’ life. He performed and gave workshops during his sabbatical last academic…
Apr 19, 2013
Professor Kira Lawrence Coauthors Paper Published in Nature
Hollis Miller ’15 (Fort Washington, Pa.) is in the basement lab of Van Wickle Hall, extracting organic material from mud deposited on the ocean floor millions…
Mar 15, 2013
Professor Neha Vora Challenges Students to Think Differently about the World
Students may not expect to walk into a classroom and learn that places like Dubai and Qatar are not that different from the U.S. But that is exactly what…
Mar 15, 2013
Religion Professor Eric Ziolkowski Lectures Internationally on Søren Kierkegaard and the Bible
Within in a two-year span, Eric Ziolkowski, Dana Professor of Religious Studies, will have traveled to 11 cities on three continents delivering lectures…