Aug 14, 2017
Civil Engineering Majors Know How to Win
By Heather Morton Travis Shoemaker ’18 was confident that his research presentation went over well with the judges when they asked, “Are you a master’s…
News and Features
Aug 8, 2017
Beautiful Scenes From Study Abroad
By their senior year, more than half of Lafayette’s students will have studied abroad. Here are photos submitted by students who took short-term Lafayette…
Aug 4, 2017
She’s a Pepper!
Valerie Melson ’17 calls the opportunities she received during her stellar college career a combination of “sheer luck and niceness.” The 22-year-old…
Aug 4, 2017
Meet the New Dean of Equity and Inclusion
By Kathleen Parrish If you want to know Chris Hunt‘s approach to life and work, you need only look at a piece of art hanging in his office. It depicts…
Aug 4, 2017
Eugene DeLoatch ’59 Named Black Engineer of the Year
When Eugene DeLoatch ’59 graduated from Lafayette, less than 1 percent of all engineering graduates in the country were black. His desire to change that…
Aug 2, 2017
Research Yields Key Findings on States’ Immigration Crackdowns
Do tighter controls on immigration improve the job market for American workers? The answer is no, according to research by Josh Silver ’17—at least…
Aug 1, 2017
Esther Flavian ’20 Awarded McDonogh Scholarship
By Kirsten Dahl ’19 Home has always been important to Esther Flavien ’20. That’s because she and her family came to America from Haiti in 2005 to find…
Jul 25, 2017
Long Journey
Some roads into higher education are longer than others, but the commitment to pursue a Lafayette College degree seems somehow more significant when the…
Jul 25, 2017
Mike Summers Named Career Services Assistant Vice President
Mike Summers, most recently director of employer relations at Wake Forest University, has been selected as Lafayette’s new assistant vice president of…
Jul 18, 2017
Get to Know Sustainability Director Marie Fechik-Kirk
By Kevin Gray Marie Fechik-Kirk was introduced as Lafayette’s first director of sustainability last November. Fechik-Kirk came to Lafayette from the…