Jun 4, 2018
“Poetry is Flourishing”
By Bill Landauer Jill Bialosky, the acclaimed poet, novelist, memoirist, and editor, stood before an assembly of Lafayette students on April 24 and proclaimed…
Neuroscience
May 17, 2018
Beaming with Anticipation
By Bryan Hay Students, faculty, staff, and trustees on May 10 signed their names for posterity on a 10-foot I-beam for the Rockwell Integrated Sciences…
May 14, 2018
Be the Change
By Kathleen Parrish Sometimes you choose the book and other times the book chooses you. That’s what happened to Pepper Prize winner Kenzie Corbin ’18…
Apr 10, 2018
RISC on the Rise
By Bryan Hay On schedule and soon to take shape, Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center is entering a new phase with the arrival of a massive crane and the…
Mar 12, 2018
Consider the Octopus
By Bryan Hay Ed Kerns has been exploring levels of consciousness for years and using layers of paint to create an abstract understanding of awareness.…
Dec 7, 2017
What Turtles Can Teach Us About the Winter Blues
By Katie Neitz If the dark days of winter make you feel blue, low-level signaling by melanopsin may be to blame. Melanopsin, a light-sensitive protein…
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…
Oct 6, 2017
Unlocking the Code for Early Detection of Dyslexia
By Katie Neitz Despite research suggesting that poor readers can be identified by the first grade, the rate of false negatives in testing them is as high…
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…