Dec 5, 2018
The Class: “Coffee”
By Bryan Hay What’s it about? More than a delivery system for caffeine, coffee has been a highly traded commodity for centuries, generates wildly different…
Innovative Teaching and Learning
Dec 5, 2018
First-Year Seminars
Lafayette’s First-Year Seminar (FYS) program gives new college students the opportunity to think critically, write clearly, and contribute to thoughtful…
Jul 6, 2018
Simply Sustainable
By Bryan Hay Students in Mary Wilford-Hunt’s Sustainable Solutions class traveled to Cuba this past semester to take a deep look at how traditional rural…
Jan 19, 2018
A Life Story
By Stephen Wilson Russell wraps his hands around a warm Wawa coffee. Wracked with arthritis, the knuckles on each finger splay in different directions…
Jan 19, 2018
The Protection Seekers
By Bill Landauer It’s a plight that’s all too familiar. The voices resonate, no matter the language. Voices. Die Schutzsuchenden (The Protection Seekers)…
Jan 14, 2018
Iceberg, Hamburg, & Carbon Footprint
By Bryan Hay A class of fourth-graders at Cheston Elementary School silently gathers around a small tub as a chunk of ice slowly melts, inundating a tiny…
Jan 9, 2018
Solutions for Seniors
By Bryan Hay Marie DuPont could barely contain her delight when Maddie Holden ’21 and Ashley Wilk ’21 revealed their design for a rain protector for…
Jun 20, 2017
Searching for Patterns in Chaos
By Mark Eyerly Noah Steinberg ’17 traces his fascination with the brain to a seventh-grade biology class, in which a substitute teacher showed a movie…
Jun 13, 2017
Students Synthesize Spirited Sounds
More than a dozen students from majors as diverse as music and electrical engineering worked together to create Spirit Guide, an interface to enable a…
May 1, 2017
Students Explore New Gene Editing Technology in PBS39 Broadcast
Imagine being able to change the future by altering DNA right now. With the discovery of new genetic technology called CRISPR-cas9, it’s possible. But…