In the Media
Professor Kira Lawrence Coauthors Paper Published in Nature
Hollis Miller ’15 (Fort Washington, Pa.) is in the basement lab of Van Wickle Hall, extracting organic material from mud deposited on the ocean floor millions of years ago. She inserts a steel cell, which looks like a mouse-size dumb bell, into a machine called the accelerated solvent extractor. “A fancy coffee pot is how [...]
Kevin Mandia ’92, CEO of Mandiant Cybersecurity Firm, Featured in The New York Times
Kevin Mandia ’92, founder and CEO of the Mandiant cybersecurity company, has been featured in the top story on the New York Times website. Mandiant has released a 60-page report claiming that a military unit in China’s People’s Liberation Army located in an office just outside Shanghai is responsible for numerous cyber attacks on American corporations, [...]
Lafayette in the Media
From a first-of-its-kind conference on the future of liberal arts education, to the vice president’s visit, to a literary flash mob and a live, student-run election night broadcast on PBS, Lafayette College was featured or mentioned more than 3,000 times in international, national, regional, and local media in 2012. Some of those outlets include The [...]
Media Features Franz Kline Exhibit Curated by Professor Robert Mattison
Franz Kline: Coal and Steel, a major exhibit at the Allentown Art Museum curated by Robert S. Mattison, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art History, has received significant coverage in the media. Reviews and interviews have appeared in ArtDaily, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Morning Call, WFMZ TV Channel 69 (Lehigh Valley), and WVIA-FM radio (Wilkes-Barre, [...]
Bloomberg BusinessWeek Calls Lafayette a Great Investment
“Is college worth the cost?” At Lafayette, the answer is a resounding yes. In a new in-depth report on the value of a college degree, Bloomberg BusinessWeek places Lafayette in the top tier of schools with the highest return on investment. Lafayette is No. 17 among 1,248 colleges and universities nationally—within the top 1.5 percent—and No. 2 [...]
Professor D.C. Jackson Appears on PBS’ American Experience April 3
D.C. Jackson, professor of history, will appear as an on-camera expert on the PBS American Experience program “Grand Coulee Dam.” The segment is scheduled to air nationwide 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 3. Watch the preview Jackson, an expert on the history of water resources, was interviewed in New York City by a crew from Insignia Films [...]
Lafayette Attracts National Media Attention
Lafayette made national news for its decision to hire new faculty when other schools are holding the line, its stunning libraries, and the country’s first for-credit study-abroad program to North Korea. Since July, the College has been featured three times in The Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as in the New York Times, Wall Street [...]
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