Dec 27, 2018
The Class: “The Year 1971-72 in Music, Art, and Literature”
By Bill Landauer Take us there: The war in Vietnam is hurtling toward its ambiguous end. The nation is still bruised from the Kent State massacre the year…
Interdisciplinary
Dec 23, 2018
Claire Grunewald ’20 Earns Prestigious Boren Scholarship
Grunewald, a double major in international affairs and mathematics, is the second Lafayette College student to receive this highly competitive scholarship…
Dec 19, 2018
The Class: “Spectacles of Revenge”
By Kathleen Parrish The backstory: It was Shakespeare who wrote, “And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?” Who hasn’t fantasized about raining…
Dec 18, 2018
Signal and Noise
Story and photos by Stephen Wilson A message from the College is received by a 17-year-old via social media. A variation of that message is being sent…
Dec 15, 2018
The Class: “The Dog Course”
By Kathleen Parrish What’s it about? Humans’ complicated relationship with dogs. While they may be good for us—some scientists believe without them…
Dec 12, 2018
The Classes: “Baseball: The One Constant through All the Years” and “Baseball”
By Mark Eyerly What’s the focus? Both courses provide a historical perspective on baseball, through which students explore economics, statistics, racism…
Dec 5, 2018
The Class: “Psychology and the Media”
The gist: It can be tricky to navigate a media-saturated world, where a constant stream of information is carefully crafted to influence and shape beliefs…
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…
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…
Oct 8, 2018
The Octopus Meditations
Biology professors explain in this video why they wanted Prof. Ed Kerns' series of paintings on permanent display in Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center…