Jan 8, 2018
Prof. Gary Gordon Receives Prestigious Mathematics Award
By Katie Neitz The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is honoring Gary Gordon, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor and head of mathematics, for excellence…
News and Features
Jan 5, 2018
Outside Thinking
By Stephen Wilson Sitting below the main roadside along Little Bushkill Creek near Newhart Park in Stockertown, Pa., is an old mill. The three-story limestone…
Jan 5, 2018
Crew Newcomers Race to Success
By Bill Landauer Growing up outside Boston, Emily Smith ’18 had only a vague idea of what rowing was. But Head of the Charles? The biggest two-day regatta…
Jan 4, 2018
Lafayette Introduces New Athletics Director Sherryta Freeman
Sherryta Freeman, who was named Lafayette's new director of athletics on Dec. 22, was formally introduced during a press conference this afternoon in Pfenning…
Jan 4, 2018
Expiration Opportunity
By Stephen Wilson You go to dinner. After an app, you can’t eat the full main course and side, so you get a doggie bag. That food gets lost behind a…
Jan 3, 2018
A Galactic Alliance
By Katie Neitz More than 60 astrophysicists from prestigious universities and research facilities around the country and Canada spent three days at Lafayette…
Jan 2, 2018
Climate Drivers, Ecosystem Change
By Katie Neitz, Bryan Hay, and Stephen Wilson It might seem like a night of numbers! 14 years. 3 courses. More than 100 students. 32 posters. Over 80 judges…
Dec 29, 2017
Standing Avant-Garde
By Bill Landauer Throughout early fall, columns of gnomes guarded an entrance to campus. Their white plaster bodies resembled miniature, rifle-toting members…
Dec 27, 2017
Dr. Hope
By Stephen Wilson A 12-year-old girl sits in a Rwandan hospital. She’s been there for a month being treated for malaria. Because symptoms are strikingly…
Dec 22, 2017
Sherryta Freeman Named Athletics Director
Sherryta Freeman, who has spent more than 15 years as a senior-level administrator at Temple, Penn, and Dartmouth, has been named the new Lafayette director…