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…
News and Features
Dec 11, 2018
Enriching the Campus with Structures that Inspire
By Jill Spotz Live Connected, Lead Change, the most successful fundraising campaign in Lafayette’s history, turned asphalt roads into campus-defining…
Dec 10, 2018
The Most Meaningful Gift
Some are memories, others are experiences; some are homemade, and others are bought. No matter their cost, these gifts are priceless treasures. In the…
Dec 8, 2018
Sweet Tooth Squared
Photos and story by Stephen Wilson Cheston Elementary first-graders joined mathematics students and Trent Gaugler, assistant professor of mathematics,…
Dec 7, 2018
Becoming a Poet
By Kathleen Parrish Jovante Anderson ’19 won the Young Writers’ Prize for Poetry at the inaugural celebration of World Poetry Day in Jamaica this year…
Dec 6, 2018
Hidden Figures Week
Hidden Figures Week explored issues related to women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) through a roundtable faculty discussion, a lecture…
Dec 6, 2018
You’re Not the First
By Kathleen Parrish In December 2010, Margot Lee Shetterly and her husband were paying a holiday visit to her parents’ home in Hampton, Va., when her…
Dec 6, 2018
Invisible Hands
By Kathleen Parrish If you think algorithms are neutral bits of data and code devoid of bias, consider that a 2015 study discovered Google’s online advertising…
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
Exploring First-Year Seminars
By Stephen Wilson How do professors teach college students to write? Or for that matter to form a mindset of intellectual curiosity? For Suzanne Westfall…