Oct 17, 2017
There’s No Place like Dome
By Bryan Hay and Bill Landauer During Homecoming Weekend teams of faculty and students will erect a 40-foot geodesic dome on the Quad to celebrate the…
News and Features
Oct 17, 2017
Hip-Hop Troubadour
By Bryan Hay Baba Brinkman describes himself as a hip-hop version of the troubadour, a latter-day practitioner of the oral art of the epic poets who uses…
Oct 17, 2017
Celebrating 1,000 Nights
First-year students turned out in their finest and danced the night away at the annual 1,000 Nights event marking the days left until graduation. Photos…
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 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…
Oct 6, 2017
A Rising Tide
By Stephen Wilson With the stadium lights flooding Fisher Field, students run, flick, and cheer. Ultimate Frisbee, a club team at Lafayette, is in full…
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…
Oct 4, 2017
For Whom Shall We Pray?
By Bill Landauer Just before noon on Thursday, a cluster of Lafayette students, faculty, and guests gather on the Quad and wonders aloud: For whom should…
Oct 3, 2017
Fruits of Labor
Story and photos by Stephen Wilson Hip hop pumps from two speakers, and the smoke from a large grill fills a gravel parking lot in Easton’s West Ward…
Oct 2, 2017
A Difficult Time in the World
President Alison Byerly emailed the following message to the campus community this afternoon: Today we woke up to the news that more than fifty people…