Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental Scientists: Mellon Scholars Program Provides Students with Hands-on Experiences Locally and Abroad
There are worse places to spend the summer break than on a Caribbean island. Brooke Kohler ’13 and Jephord English ’12 spent part of their summer on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, but they weren’t there to lounge on the beaches. Kohler and English are part of Lafayette’s interdisciplinary Summer Mellon Scholars program, [...]
Architectural Designer and Actor Nick Groch ’01 Stars in The Spade of Reason
Throughout his participation in Lafayette’s civil engineering program, Nick Groch ’01 found an “oasis” of creativity—exercising his gifts for writing and acting as he juggled technical coursework. A decade later, Groch’s life continues to sway between art and science. Groch, an architectural designer with Blackney Hayes Architects, Philadelphia, stars in the lead role in his [...]
Professor David Brandes and Interdisciplinary Team Receive Pennsylvania Conservation Award
As golden eagles travel through Pennsylvania along the Kittatinny Ridge on their migratory path between Quebec and southern Appalachia, some are wearing backpack-style tracking units that tell researchers on the ground where they have flown. The data is giving David Brandes, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and an interdisciplinary team of scientists a [...]
Collaborative Research Works to Improve the Water Quality of Wetlands Using Bacteria
After she graduates from Lafayette, Andrea Mikol ’13 (Wind Gap, Pa.) plans to attend graduate school to study environmental engineering. She has already started compiling an impressive resume by working on an interdisciplinary research project and making a presentation at the American Water Works Association Pennsylvania Section conference. This was the first professional conference Mikol [...]
Sustainability Scholars: Student Group Works to Solve Environmental Problems
For Austin Weidner ’12 (Kutztown, Pa.), being involved with the Society of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (SEES) made sense because “solving environmental problems locally, as well as globally, requires a united effort. One person cannot make a large change, but rather many people making one small change.” Weidner serves as a project leader for SEES, [...]
Brian Peacock ’12 Receives Third National Honor for Environmental Research
Civil engineering major Brian Peacock ’12 (Haddonfield, N.J.) has recently been awarded a third national-level honor recognizing his work in environmental research. After receiving a 2011 Udall Scholarship and an Environmental Protection Agency-Greater Research Opportunity fellowship, last month Peacock received an Undergraduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. The society’s division [...]
Interdisciplinary Team Works to Bring Mobile Banking System to Jamaica
Not far from the well-developed and modern city of Kingston, Jamaica’s rural areas lack basic infrastructure such as paved roads and even running water. Because of the widespread poverty, banks do not have any incentive to set up branches there. Without banks nearby, villagers must make a day-long trek to a city where they can [...]
Engineering Work in Rural Honduras Gives Students Fresh Perspectives on Life on College Hill and Beyond
When he was a first-year student, Juan Hernandez ’13 (Vineland, N.J.) remembers receiving tons of emails soliciting new members for student clubs and organizations. The one from the student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) really caught his eye, and after learning more about its work in Honduras, he signed up. “I was not an [...]
Spotted on Campus With …Caitlin Mitchell ’13
Field hockey Second Team All-Patriot League defender Caitlin Mitchell ’13 (Plymouth, Vt.) discusses the challenges of chemistry and her secret plan to score a goal. What is your major and what do you like about your major? I am a civil engineering major. I enjoy it because it is based around problem solving, and most [...]
Students Lay Groundwork for Arsenic-Removal Project in Bangladesh Next Year
When Thafhim “Muna” Siddiqua ’13 (Silver Spring, Md.) and Taneesha Tate-Robinson ’13 (Bowie, Md.) learned about the devastating effects of arsenic poisoning due to contaminated drinking water in Bangladesh, they decided to put together a service project to help. In preparation for their Save Me from Arsenic project, the students teamed up with John Greenleaf, [...]
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