Feb 12, 2018
Philanthropic Support Endows Interdisciplinary Engineering Professorship
President Alison Byerly tonight announced multiple gifts totaling $3 million from the Air Products Foundation ($1.5 million), Air Products Chairman, President…
Mathematics
Feb 7, 2018
Saturday Morning Math
By Katie Neitz You don’t have to be a mathematician to know that free doughnuts + free pizza + cash prizes = a strong incentive package. Indeed, 17 students…
Nov 10, 2017
Positioning Students for Success
By Joseph McDermott As a West Coast native attending an East Coast college, Heidi Ludwick Hanson ’91 learned the challenges of being separated from family…
Nov 6, 2017
STEM Stars
Lafayette faculty members and students are actively working on innovative projects and research initiatives that demonstrate the College’s commitment…
Nov 6, 2017
A New Approach to STEM Education
By Katie Neitz How do you make a great thing greater? Make it more inclusive. Stats from the National Science Foundation show a dramatic disparity between…
Oct 31, 2017
Study Break
10:10 a.m. It’s understandable why students like to hang out on the second floor of Pardee between math classes. In room 218, the student lounge, they…
Oct 10, 2017
On the Frontiers of Discovery
Undergraduates work alongside faculty on substantial research projects, like the effect of steroid hormones on male zebra finches or developing a solar…
Oct 4, 2017
Keeping Up with Fast-Moving Field of Data Science
By Katie Neitz Every day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are produced. And the volume and speed at which that is happening will only grow. This has fueled…
Mar 22, 2017
The Meaning behind Math
You can navigate the Xs and Ys, know your cosines from your coefficients, and rattle off theorems like nobody’s business. But what does it all mean?…
Jan 26, 2017
Math’s Best Friend
If you haven’t spent much time on the second floor of Pardee Hall, a snapshot on the wall of a faculty member of the Math Department might make you look…