Aug 30, 2018
NPR Reports on Prof. Sue Wenze’s Research
NPR recently reported on the research of Sue Wenze, assistant professor of psychology, who is working to better understand the mental-health needs of new…
Research
Aug 30, 2018
Listening to the Public Record
By Stephen Wilson Just after midnight Dec. 7, 1982, Charlie Brooks Jr. was the first man to be executed by lethal injection in the United States. While…
Aug 20, 2018
Kung Fu Witch Train
By Stephen Wilson Mention the word “anime” to people and it conjures different images. None more striking than the associations between white and black…
Aug 11, 2018
‘Maroon Monster’ a Smashing Success
By Bryan Hay Dave Mante pinned a $10 Wawa gift card on a whiteboard. In the late afternoon shadow of the towering “Maroon Monster,” he asked students…
Aug 6, 2018
More Funding to Investigate Neurodegenerative Diseases
By Katie Neitz Justin Hines, associate professor of chemistry, is the recipient of a prestigious Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award from the Camille and…
Jul 23, 2018
Our Students Share Their Research Discoveries
Twenty Lafayette students presented their research findings at this year’s National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). In a five-part series…
Jul 20, 2018
Reviving Ragtime, an American Original
By Bryan Hay There’s a certain nostalgic purity about ragtime, musical qualities that inspired Josh Kwak ’18 to complete some posthumous business on…
Jul 11, 2018
Research is Gold Standard for Scholarship Winner
By Kathleen Parrish Chenyu Zhang’s passion for scientific research started with a bag of potato chips. A 15-year-old high school student in Singapore…
Jul 6, 2018
Simply Sustainable
By Bryan Hay Students in Mary Wilford-Hunt’s Sustainable Solutions class traveled to Cuba this past semester to take a deep look at how traditional rural…
Jul 5, 2018
Shedding Light on the Dark
By Katie Neitz Christopher J. Lee, associate professor of history, has been awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend…