Dec 21, 2015
It’s Race Time!
Student teams from the Manufacturing and Design course competed in a year-end drag race. The project challenges mechanical engineering students to design…
Undergraduate Research
Dec 3, 2015
100 Years of Chemical Engineering
In the 1880s, decades before he started the chemical engineering program at Lafayette, Edward Hart was already at work building what would become its educational…
Apr 17, 2015
Dana Lapides ’16 and Zachary Sporn ’16 Receive Goldwater Scholarships
After Zachary Sporn ’16 (Athens, Pa.) graduates next year, he plans to become a physician and perform research on neurodegenerative disorders. Dana Lapides…
Apr 1, 2015
NSF Grant Will Help Prof. David Nice Unlock Mystery of Gravitational Waves
Thanks to a $14.5 million National Science Foundation grant, Professor David Nice and his team of student researchers may be one step closer to understanding…
Mar 26, 2015
Reducing Our Carbon Footprint: Lauren Cesanek ’15 Channels Passion for Environment into Research
Childhood vacations to the beaches at Wildwood, N.J., created more than fond family memories for Lauren Cesanek ’15 (Whitehall, Pa.)—ocean and beach…
Mar 26, 2015
Alaskan Paleontologists
David Sunderlin has a special connection to Alaska, one that dates back 55 million years. The associate professor of geology studies fossil leaves and…
Feb 24, 2015
Students Introduced to DNA Sequencing
Eric Ho is employing the latest in DNA sequencing technology to uncover more effective treatments for Lyme disease and breast cancer. Lafayette’s first…
Jan 27, 2015
Major Grant Aids Faculty-Student Research on Diseases Like Alzheimer’s
Professor Justin Hines and his team of student researchers could be one step closer to understanding neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and…
Dec 10, 2014
Prof. James Dearworth Instills Research Confidence in Students
As a graduate student, James Dearworth became fascinated by the idea of doing experiments that address how a turtle’s eye and brain work. He also was…
Dec 8, 2014
Prof. Megan Rothenberger Coaches Students through Course-Based Research
For Megan Rothenberger, the best way to coach students as they put the scientific method into action is through course-based research. The students in…