Engineering Studies
Lafayette Takes Second in Sustainable Design Competition
A team of Lafayette students placed second in the 2012 Sustainable Design Competition sponsored by the Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC), successfully competing against teams from graduate school programs. Developing the design for a community recreation center were Gabriela Lachapel ’12, who graduated with an A.B. with majors in engineering studies and economics; Katie Reinhardt [...]
Lafayette Honors Students for Academic Excellence
Lafayette honored more than 120 students for academic excellence at the annual All-College Honors Convocation April 29 in Colton Chapel. Awards and prizes recognized outstanding academic success in all four of Lafayette’s academic divisions—engineering, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. This spring, 47 students will join Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most respected undergraduate [...]
Joelle Neilson ’12 Takes Patriot League Championships in Triple and Long Jump
Joelle Neilson ’12 (Philadelphia, Pa.) took first place in both the triple and long jump at the Patriot League Indoor Track and Field Championships Feb. 17-19 at Bucknell University. She was named Female Field Performer of the Meet. Neilson, who was also Patriot League Champion in the triple jump during the 2010-11 outdoor track and [...]
Global Banking: JJ Houldin ’12 and Michael Trejo ’12 Go Inside JPMorgan Chase
Joseph “JJ” Houldin ’12 (Philadelphia, Pa.) and Michael Trejo ’12 (Falls Church, Va.) spent the summer exploring the world of global banking as interns with Martha Heinze ’86, executive director of treasury and securities services at JPMorgan Chase in New York City, and a member of the Lafayette Board of Trustees. Houldin, an American studies [...]
Curiosity and Wonder about the Natural World Go a Long Way for Professor Benjamin Cohen
In his office, Benjamin Cohen displays a quote by author A.S. Byatt: “The world is full of life and light, and the true crime is not to be interested in it.” A research engineer early in his career, he quickly realized he didn’t want to “do” engineering but was fascinated by studying the reasons for [...]
Michael Leff ’07 Creates Website with Support of Entrepreneurial Mentor Jim Fisher ’77
In your favorite city looking for a restaurant with fusion cuisine or a bar specializing in tropical martinis? The new website barHappy.com has the answers. The brainchild of Michael Leff ’07, barHappy.com is a guide to restaurants and bars in 18 major cities across the country. It features not only the name and location of [...]
Student Bloggers Share Thoughts and Experiences Abroad and On Campus
Morgan West ’13 (Huntington Beach, Calif.), a neuroscience major with a minor in health care and society, is traveling to Switzerland, India, China, and South Africa this semester for a comparative health care study. In addition to her studies, highlights of her time in Basel, Switzerland, include “an amazing public transport system, fantastic wursts, and [...]
Danlami Gomwalk ’01 Helps Build a Better Nigeria
By Kevin Gray When Danlami Gomwalk ’01left his native Nigeria to attend Lafayette College, he was looking to gain international education and employment experiences. He accomplished that mission and more. Through immersion in the College’s unique brand of global education, his eyes were opened to the dynamic nature of the international job market and the [...]
Joelle Neilson ’12 Explores Her Future Career at Clark Construction with Curt Allen ’79
“Ever since I was a kid I had a fascination with drawing robots and building structures. I love solving problems and getting that feeling of accomplishment after it is resolved. It has always been a desire of mine to look back at a stadium, school, bridge, or even skyscraper and say, ‘I helped build that,’” [...]
Meet the New Faculty
This fall, Lafayette welcomes 11 new professors, bringing the College’s total to 213 full-time, tenure-track faculty members. Over the past several years, the College has been hard at work on the initiative in the 2007 strategic plan to increase the size of the permanent faculty by 20 percent and decrease the student-to-faculty ratio from 11:1 [...]
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