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…
News & Features
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…
Dec 22, 2017
Courage in Education
By Katie Neitz In honor of his efforts to promote political and intellectual diversity at Lafayette, the Steamboat Institute has presented Brandon Van…
Dec 22, 2017
Healing Racial and Economic Schisms
By Bill Landauer Hazleton needed entrepreneurs. The central Pennsylvania city wasn’t looking for someone to move to town and build a smartphone factory…
Dec 21, 2017
President Alison Byerly Joins Higher Ed Leaders in Immigration Effort
President Alison Byerly has joined more than 175 higher education leaders in The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, dedicated…
Dec 19, 2017
Celebrating the Season in NYC
By Jill Spotz 583 Park Avenue was aglow with maroon and white on Thursday as Lafayette celebrated the season at the third annual NYC Holiday Party. More…