Mar 18, 2014
Wetlands Project Receives Pennsylvania’s Top Conservation Award
Sullivan Park in Easton was named Pennsylvania’s 2014 Green Park of the Year thanks in part to Lafayette civil engineering students who installed a wetlands…
Community Outreach
Mar 9, 2014
Photo Gallery: Literacy Day Cultivates a Passion for Reading
Last weekend, local children took part in a variety of student-organized activities based on the book Falling Up by Shel Silverstein during Lafayette’s…
Nov 22, 2013
Pi Beta Phi Dances for Charity
Last weekend, students danced the night away for a good cause during Pi Beta Phi’s 35th annual Dance Marathon in Farinon Center. The 24 hours of music…
Nov 12, 2013
Campus Will Fight Hunger and Homelessness Nov. 12-22
By Sean Grim ’14 The Lafayette community will join ranks to fight poverty during the College’s Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, Nov. 12-22.…
Nov 4, 2013
Lafayette Gets Spooky: Greeks Host Charity Haunted House
Delta Gamma sorority and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity hosted the fourth annual Haunted House fundraiser. Visitors took a tour through Haunted Hill Asylum,…
Oct 30, 2013
Students and Faculty Work with Honduran Villagers to Minimize Effects of Flooding
By Michele Tallarita ’12 This summer, an interdisciplinary team of students and faculty worked with residents of Lomitas, Honduras, to help improve stormwater…
Oct 30, 2013
Closing the Food Loop: LaFarm Contributes to Student Learning and Campus Sustainability
On a Wednesday afternoon early in the fall semester, students from LaFarm delivered 175 pounds of fresh potatoes to Lafayette Dining Services. Those organic…
Oct 25, 2013
Phi Psi Swimmers “Turn the Tide Against Cancer”
By Sean Grim ’14 Patti Mortiati was diagnosed with breast cancer in February. Alone and uninsured, she reached out to St. Vincent’s Medical Center…
Oct 16, 2013
Students Learn about Nonprofit Management
It was not until this summer that Benjamin Triscuit ’14 (Erie, Pa.) truly understood what it means for an organization to be a nonprofit. He interned…
Jul 12, 2013
Students Address Community Needs through Alternative School Break
Composting to create rich soil, building barbed wire fences, and creating spaces to allow horses to be free-range animals were just a few of the ways Lara…