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March 18, 2008

Professor Olga Anna Duhl Awarded Folter Fellowship from the Bibliographical Society of America

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Fellowship will fund research for forthcoming publication Olga Anna Duhl, professor of foreign languages and literatures, has been awarded the Folter Fellowship in the History of Bibliography from the Bibliographical Society of America. The funds will equip her to research the publication history of a 500-year-old rare book, La Nef des folles (The Ship of [...]

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March 5, 2008

Dream Job

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Kelly Cusick Sakmar ’06 embarks on career as wedding consultant after alumni-sponsored internship at Radnor Hotel As a certified bridal consultant, Kelly Cusick Sakmar ’06 finds that the most rewarding part of her job at the Radnor Hotel in the Philadelphia Main Line occurs several weeks after the wedding. “There were certainly points during my [...]

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February 26, 2008

Students Will Present Research at Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science

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Topics include cancer, eye studies, food-borne parasites, and the effects of alcohol Eleven biology majors and one neuroscience major will be presenting research papers with their faculty advisers at the 84th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science April 4-6 at the Holiday Inn in Grantville, Pa. Alison M. Boyd ’08 (Lafayette, N.J.) and [...]

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February 1, 2008

Joe Ort ’06 Helps Clients Find Financial Security

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Internship with Victor Goldman ’96 led to fulltime position with Lenox Advisors; both will return to campus March 1 for Orientation to Life program For Joe Ort ’06, an alumni-sponsored internship at New England Financial changed his life. He found not only an alumnus willing to take him under his wing in the business world, [...]

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January 25, 2008

Emeritus Professors Joseph Sherma and Bernard Fried Celebrate 20 Years of Collaborative Research

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Since 2001, they have published 44 papers with 19 undergraduate students Joseph Sherma, Larkin Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, and Bernard Fried, Kreider Professor Emeritus of Biology, are celebrating 20 years of completing research with Lafayette students with the publication of “Twenty Years of Collaborative Research in Invertebrate Biology and Analytical Chemistry at Lafayette College” in [...]

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December 18, 2007

Teaching, Studying, and Researching in Vienna

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<5>Briana Niblick ’06 discusses her experiences in Austria as a Fulbright Scholar Briana Niblick ’06 graduated with a B.S. civil engineering and A.B. with a major in German. Through a Fulbright Grant, she is spending September 2007-June 2008 teaching, studying, and performing research at BOKU, the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in [...]

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December 14, 2007

Catching Up with Diana Crai ’06

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She loves helping patients in their battles against cancer Sarah Costlow ’09, a double major in English and French who interned with the Office of Public Information during the fall 2007 semester, writes about her recent conversation with biology graduate Diana Crai ’06. I talked to Diana Crai ’06 recently to find out what it [...]

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October 2, 2007

Alumni, Students Older than 21 Invited to NYC Networking Event Thursday

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Nkrumah Pierre ’06 has organized function at Aspen lounge Alumni and students age 21 and older are invited to meet and network with young professionals 6-10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in New York City. Economics and business graduate Nkrumah Pierre ’06, president of Young Entrepreneurs Entertainment and a commercial real estate analyst with M&T Bank, [...]

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September 11, 2007

Professor Katalin Fabian’s New Book Takes Rare Look at Globalization

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Globalization: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe was released July 24 The latest book by Katalin Fabian, assistant professor of government and law, makes an insightful examination of the effects of globalization in Central and Eastern Europe from economic, political, and social perspectives. The work, entitled Globalization: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe, was released [...]

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August 22, 2007

In My Own Words: Serving in Namibia Is Life-Changing Experience for Laura Hagopian ’06

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She tutored, participated in medical care, and connected with Nangula Shejavali ’06 EASTON, Pa., September 27, 2007 — When I said goodbye to Nangula Shejavali ’06 at the end of my college career, I thought I would never see her again. After all, she has spent her time since graduation working in both South Africa [...]

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