Parents & Families
News from the Chapters: Updated Aug. 9, 2010
Alumni chapters bring together Lafayette graduates, parents, and friends to begin and renew friendships with one another and strengthen bonds to the College. They enjoy sports outings, luncheons, and dinners featuring faculty or alumni speakers, networking events, museum trips, welcoming receptions for incoming students, events with President Daniel H. Weiss, service projects, tailgates, happy hours, [...]
Spotted on Campus With…Jared Katz ’12
This week, Spotted on Campus took a departure from its normal Q&A by having fencer Jared Katz ’12 fill GoLeopards.com fans in on his world travels. What’s your major and what do you like about your major? I am double majoring in archaeology and history. My major is extremely interesting because it has allowed me [...]
Caitlin Flood ’12 Writes about Her Summer Internship with New York’s Midtown Community Court
Caitlin Flood ’12 (Bellerose Terrace, N.Y.), a double major in government & law and philosophy, is spending the summer as an intern with the Midtown Community Court. A part of New York’s Center for Court Innovation, the court issues community service sentences for quality-of-life offenses, such as prostitution, illegal vending, graffiti, shoplifting, and vandalism. I [...]
Professor Sharon Jones and Lindsay Weir ’11 Featured in International Educator Magazine
Work by Professor Sharon Jones and Lindsay Weir ’11 and the College’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) to develop locally sustainable drinking water resources in Malawi and Honduras has been featured in the July/August edition of International Educator magazine. The article, “Water, Water…Anywhere?” focused on students and faculty who are helping people in the [...]
Prof. Gladstone Hutchinson Named Director-General of Jamaica’s Planning Institute
The Government of Jamaica is calling upon Gladstone Fluney Hutchinson, associate professor of economics at Lafayette and founding director of the College’s Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project, to spearhead policy-formulation leading toward sustainable development in that nation. Hutchinson has been appointed director-general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica. Under the Office of the Prime [...]
A Robotic Punxsutawney Phil? Students Design Shadow-Detection Device
Chris Nadovich was reading the news online last January when a letter from Gemma Vaughan of the animal rights group PETA caught his eye. Saying it was cruel to expose the most famous prognosticator, Punxsutawney Phil, to screaming crowds and the blinding flash of cameras each Ground Hog Day, Vaughan suggested an animatronic doppelganger. There [...]
Nancy Freeborne-Brinton ’83 Shares Podium with First Lady
When First Lady Michelle Obama announced new preventive care provisions made possible through the Affordable Health Care Act at a press conference held July 14 at George Washington University, Nancy Freeborne-Brinton ’83 also spoke. Mrs. Obama, joined by Jill Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, stressed that preventive care is key to [...]
Scenes from Equestrian Team’s Standout Season
The Lafayette College Equestrian Team finished the 2010 season with a good deal of success. The team placed first in its regional competition and 10th in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association’s national tournament. Erin Duggan ’13 (Oradell, N.J.), Danielle Miranda ’12 (Mendham, N.J.), and Michela Torchio ’12 (Redding, Conn.) all placed in the top 10 [...]
185 Students Named to Patriot League Academic Honor Roll
In the College’s 13 Division I spring sports 185 students were named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll. To be eligible for the honor roll, student athletes need to record at least a 3.20 grade point average during the semester. The baseball team tied with Bucknell for most honorees of any school in the [...]
Lafayette and Easton Receive $200,000 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Lafayette and the City of Easton were awarded a $200,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host an arts festival that will be the first of its kind in the U.S. The grant was awarded through the NEA Mayors’ Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative (MICD 25). Called the “Art of [...]
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