Dec 6, 2010
News from the Chapters: Updated Dec. 1, 2010
Holiday outings and NHL hockey fill the winter calendar. Alumni chapters bring together Lafayette graduates, parents, and friends to begin and renew friendships…
News and Features
Dec 3, 2010
Students Help Developing Communities in Honduras through Engineers Without Borders
Someday soon, the residents of El Convento, Honduras, will be able to enjoy what people in the developed world take for granted: fresh clean water in their…
Dec 3, 2010
Acopian Engineering Center Provides Collaborative Student-Faculty Experiences
Lafayette’s 90,000-square-foot Acopian Engineering Center includes laboratories designed specifically for student-faculty research, high-tech classrooms…
Dec 3, 2010
Samantha Pollard ’11 Gets a Sneak Peak at Her Future at BNY Mellon
Samantha Pollard‘s summer internship with BNY Mellon helped solidify her plans to pursue a career in banking. “I’ve been much more proactive in planning…
Dec 3, 2010
Students Strive to Live Greener Lives as Part of the TREEhouse
Believe it or not, 18 Lafayette students live together in a treehouse right here on campus. Well—not quite. But they are residents of the TREEhouse special…
Dec 3, 2010
English Professor Alix Ohlin Encourages Student Writers to Take Risks
When Alix Ohlin was in graduate school at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, she had an idea for a novel, but lacked the confidence to start…
Dec 3, 2010
Professor John McCartney Uses Political Experiences in Bahamas to Enlighten Students about Democracy
When John McCartney talks about the political struggles of the Bahamas and other Caribbean nations, he’s not reciting facts from a textbook. That’s…
Dec 3, 2010
Research and International Conferences Help Prepare Farhan Abedin ’11 for Grad School
When Justin Corvino, associate professor of mathematics, received a National Science Foundation grant, he envisioned using part of it to support student…
Nov 30, 2010
Students Win LVAIC Mathematics Competition
Two teams of Lafayette students took the top two places at the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges Mathematics Competition held at Moravian…
Nov 30, 2010
Kenya Allen ’02 Is a Rising Star with the Social Security Administration
By Kate Helm Early in his career with the Social Security Administration (SSA), Kenya Allen ’02 made a difference in people’s lives but wanted more…