Class of 2009
Xiao Cui ’13 Learns Importance of Confidence to Economy through Credit Suisse Internship
As Maurice Bennett ’06, an equity sales and trading analyst at Credit Suisse in New York City, will tell you, an internship with the bank is “a real job in the real world and not an experience just anyone gets.” This summer, three Lafayette students landed 10-week internships with Credit Suisse through its innovative virtual [...]
Marissa Halderman ’09 Achieves Early Success in the World of Art
By Margie Peterson The ink was barely dry on her Lafayette diploma when Marissa Halderman ’09 sold her first painting to a private collector for $1,500. The piece was part of an exhibition at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in fall 2010. The show featured her work and that of her late great-grandfather, Maxo Vanka, [...]
NSF Graduate Research Fellow Alyssa Batula ’09 “Teaches” Robots to Dance
Isaac Asimov’s enduring vision of life-like robots is taking a step closer to reality through research by Alyssa Batula ’09. A third-year Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Drexel University, she is not only advancing artificial intelligence foretold in Asimov’s I, Robot series, but is deepening science’s understanding of human creativity. A National Science Foundation [...]
Photo Gallery: College Theater Presents Rossum’s Universal Robots
Lafayette College Theater presented its production of R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots last weekend in the Williams Center for the Arts. Written in 1920 by Czech author Karel Capek, the play is an expressionistic journey into genetic engineering on a mass scale and predicted a mechanized world without emotions and without individual rights. It introduced the [...]
Jazz Composer Jack Furlong ’05 Releases New CD; Alumni Quartet Performs Oct. 7 in New York City
By Geoff Gehman ’80 Lafayette’s James Bond of jazz, Jack Furlong ’05 is on a mission to deliver intrepid entertainment whether he’s arranging 007 movie tunes for the Jazz Ensemble, jazzing up “The A-Team” theme for the Pep Band, or performing a bebopping march about his mechanic with his all-alumni band. His latest accessible adventure [...]
Alumni from Top Ranks in the Financial World Give Students Career Advice
Being prepared to answer probing and thoughtful questions about the financial world, the company where you are being interviewed, and your own professional aspirations are crucial aspects for a successful interview. More than 50 students absorbed that prescription, which was just one part of the intense and pointed discussion provided during a spring semester Finance [...]
Brandon Cochenour ’03 Develops Underwater Laser-Radar Systems
By Matt Sinclair ’90 The effect is so commonplace that it’s easy to miss its significance: Drive on a foggy night, switch on the high beams, and see the light scatter. Even a new driver learns quickly that low beams are better for driving through fog. Now imagine using a laser under water to communicate [...]
“Zoom” by Bill Griese ’91 Is Soundtrack for Fujifilm TV Commercial; Phil Silverberg ’09 Plays Keys for Video
“Zoom,” a new song on the soon-to-be-released CD Too Long Coming by Bill Griese ’91, is the soundtrack for two Fujifilm TV commercials. The spots, which began airing Nov. 14, advertise the company’s line of long-zoom digital cameras. On a day in late October when the music video for “Zoom,” was to be filmed in [...]
Frank Sabatini ’09 Selected to Harvard Law Review, One of Five Lafayette Graduates Attending Harvard Law School
Of the several hundred law students who apply to Harvard Law Review each year, only about 40 are chosen. Frank Sabatini ’09 is one of those 40. “I was inspired to enter the competition because I enjoy reading legal scholarship,” says Sabatini, who was informed in late July that he had been selected, “and I [...]
Designing their Own Major Gives Lafayette Students an Edge
Working as an analyst in currency operations at Goldman Sachs, Treyvon Jackson ’10 is certain that creating his own major had a lot to do with getting the job. At Lafayette, Jackson designed an interdisciplinary major in performance studies, which explores the political implications that the performing arts have on society. “I strongly believe that [...]
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