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Josh Oshinsky ’00 Wins National Sports Emmy for TV Series
At the 33rd Annual Sports Emmy® Awards ceremony, Josh Oshinksy ’00 and his team took home the top award in the outstanding edited series/anthology category for “The Franchise: A Season with the San Francisco Giants.” These top awards in 33 categories of sports television production were presented April 30 at the Lincoln Center in New [...]
Vice President Joe Biden Discusses American Innovation
By Geoff Gehman ’80 U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gave a rousing speech Wednesday at Kirby Sports Center about the grand possibilities of future progress through American ingenuity. View photo galleries chronicling Biden’s visit Watch Biden’s address Speaking before a capacity crowd and many members of the media, Biden linked four eras of revolutionary changes [...]
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Philosophy Program Develops Well-Prepared Students for Law School and Careers
Like many philosophy majors, Jamie Flaherty ’12 (Harvard, Mass.) didn’t know she wanted to be one until she took a class, Philosophy 102, Basic Social Questions. The curriculum challenged her, she says, and taught her how to deconstruct and evaluate the strength of an argument. “Some of the essays we read were so complex,” says [...]
Lafayette Serves the Community during Lafapalooza
Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and alumni helped community organizations in Easton and cities across the country last month during Lafapalooza ’12: Lafayette’s National Day of Service. Students in the Easton Community Students volunteered for projects benefiting Easton Area Community Center, Easton Area Neighborhood Center, Easton Nursing Center, Family YMCA of Easton and Phillipsburg, Firth [...]
Lafayette Will Award Four Honorary Degrees at the 177th Commencement
Lafayette will award honorary degrees to four distinguished leaders, including three who have special ties to the College, at the 177th Commencement Saturday, May 19. John and Marianne Loose of Forks Township, Pa., the founders of Lauren’s First and Goal Foundation, each will be awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Public Service. The foundation [...]
Students Serve Communities Around the World through Alternative School Break
By Michele Tallarita ’12 Doing farm labor under the hot sun, waking up when the rooster crowed, chowing down on rice and beans, and relaxing by the campfire were just a few of the ways Monica Manglani ’13 (Woodbury, N.Y.) spent her winter break. Through Lafayette’s chapter of Alternative School Break (ASB), Manglani led an [...]
Professor Rachel Goshgarian Shows Students the Vibrant Diversity of the Middle East
If you don’t know where the Hagia Sophia is, that the English word “alcohol” comes from Arabic, or the fact that Saladin (a “hero” of the counter-crusade) was an ethnic Kurd, then you probably haven’t taken a class with Rachel Goshgarian. Newly hired as an assistant professor of history, Goshgarian, who has a Ph.D. in [...]
Students Have Life-Changing Experiences in Africa
To learn about another culture, you can watch the documentaries, read the books, study the maps and artifacts, listen to the experts—but nothing can come close to the experience of actually being there. Nothing can match taking an early morning jog near your hotel and crossing paths with two giraffes or visiting Oldupai gorge, the [...]
Professor of German Ed McDonald Lives to Learn
At the end of each semester, Ed McDonald usually poses the same question to his students: “Who learned the most in this course?” He finds it amusing how students tend to look at him somewhat bewildered until they hear him exclaim, “That’s me!” McDonald has received satisfaction over the years from researching the ever-changing course [...]
Self-Designed Majors Allow Students to Chart Unique Courses of Study
Since high school, Jared Katz ’12 (Stoneham, Mass.) has been interested in history and how past people lived day to day. Archaeology is the perfect fit, combining his enthusiasm for the past with the chance to travel and work on sites thousands of years old. Lafayette doesn’t offer a major in archaeology, but that wasn’t [...]
Students Get a Head Start on College through Summer Program to Advance Leadership
“The decision to participate in the Summer Program to Advance Leadership has been one of the best decisions that I have made so far. Not only was it an introduction to Lafayette but it allowed me to have a head start academically in this new place,” says Scarlett Jimenez ’15, a mechanical engineering major. Summer [...]
Joel Lefever ’12 Researches Cutting-Edge Techniques to Treat Brain Disease
By Michele Tallarita ’12 Joel Lefever ’12 (Lancaster, Pa.) is spending his senior year tackling a topic that researchers have pursued for over 30 years. A mechanical engineering major, Lefever is creating a computerized model of a health condition called hydrocephalus as his honors thesis under the guidance of Joshua Smith, assistant professor of mechanical [...]
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