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Organic Garden Allows Students, Faculty, and Staff to Learn and Grow Together
The Lafayette College Organic Garden covers two acres on Sullivan Trail just south of the Metzgar Fields Athletic Complex. One acre is a community garden for faculty, staff, and families to tend their own plots. The other section is where students work together spring through fall to grow healthy produce without the use of chemical [...]
An Arts Infusion: Lafayette Kicks Off START Initiative
Lafayette kicked off its multi-year START Project this weekend with faculty workshops and a festival of arts-based displays, performances, and presentations in Anderson Courtyard and Acopian Engineering Center. Funded by an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the initiative will further integrate the performing and visual arts throughout the curriculum and co-curricular activities, [...]
College Adds Interdisciplinary Minor in Italian Studies
With the launch of the new interdisciplinary minor in Italian studies this fall, students on College Hill can make la dolce vita a part of their formal education. Lafayette students have held a longstanding interest in all things Italian. They regularly fill classes focused on Italian history and culture, and the short-term programs to Florence [...]
Gateway Helps Students Define Career Paths
For Joelle Neilson ’12, a summer internship and networking with Lafayette alumni directly led to her first job after graduation. Neilson, who graduated with an A.B. in engineering, had a winter externship with Jim Fusco ’79, senior account executive at Boland Trane. The connections she formed during the job-shadowing experience led to an internship with [...]
College Launches Two New Degree Programs in Environmental Studies
Each year during open house events, the faculty stationed at the environmental science poster field many questions from prospective students interested in majoring in environmental degree programs at Lafayette. Now those faculty will have exciting news to share. The College is adding two new offerings to its 47 major areas of study: an A.B. in [...]
Lafayette Will Enhance Study Abroad Opportunities with Support from Mellon Foundation
Lafayette will enhance its global education offerings with a $150,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. During the next three years, the College will develop international initiatives and enhance study programs in strategic areas of the globe, provide more students with opportunities to study abroad, and increase the number of faculty members taking part [...]
Reeder House Brings Together Diverse Students and Ideas
There’s a place where dinnertime is regularly accompanied by spirited conversations about topics like extraterrestrials, sustainability, the Meyers-Briggs personality test, and Occupy Wall Street. At the weekly dinner discussions of the Reeder Street Fellows, you never know where the intellectual curiosity of the “Reederites” will lead. The Reeder Street Fellows are a group of Lafayette [...]
Externships Help Students Explore Possible Career Paths
Before her externship with HarperCollins Publishers in New York City, Vanessa Davis ’12 hadn’t considered a career in publishing. But after observing the business first-hand, she can now see how the industry could be a good fit for her. Over winter break, Davis shadowed Alberto Rojas ’94, senior director of publicity at HarperCollins, experiencing the [...]
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