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LIME Program Featured in USA TODAY
The Lafayette Initiative for Malagasy Education (LIME) was featured in the June 13 edition of USA TODAY College. The article, “American Students Pave Way for High Schoolers in Madagascar,” highlights the work Lafayette students have done in the country over the last three years. Read the USA TODAY article Read more about LIME The program [...]
Video Profile: Professor Jenn Rossmann Receives National Attention for Wiffle Ball Aerodynamics Research
To provide her students a fresh way to look at fluid dynamics, Jenn Rossmann, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, began using Wiffle balls in her classes and labs. In 2007, she published her work with students on the forces that affect the trajectory of a Wiffle ball in American Journal of Physics. The publication drew [...]
Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education
A feature-length article in The Chronicle of Higher Education highlights the multidisciplinary approach Lafayette’s Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP) takes toward its community redevelopment initiatives. Read the article. EEGLP brings together students and faculty from Lafayette’s four academic divisions of engineering, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences to work hand in hand [...]
Professor Donald L. Miller Is Screenwriter and Historical Consultant for History Channel’s WWII in HD: The Air War
Donald L. Miller, John Henry MacCracken Professor of History, is screenwriter and historical consultant for the History channel’s latest installment of its Emmy award-winning series WWII in HD. Inspired by Miller’s book Masters of Air (2006), The Air War will premiere at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10. Watch the theatrical trailer. Narrated by actor Rob [...]
Ears To You Founder Ruth G. Crane ’93 Featured in Ladies Home Journal
When Ruth Gilbert Crane ’93, of Medina, Ohio, wasn’t wearing her wig or earrings, she felt even more vulnerable than the breast cancer had already left her. Accessories allowed her to feel “normal,” and she knew she wasn’t alone. In 2008, Crane founded Ears To You, a jewelry donation program for women undergoing chemotherapy. To [...]
History Professor Donald Miller Involved with Emmy-Winning Miniseries The Pacific and New PBS Documentary
Professor Donald Miller served as a historical consultant and on-camera expert for the documentary Make No Little Plans, premiering Monday, Sept. 6, on PBS, and as consultant and writer for accompanying historical material for the HBO miniseries The Pacific, which has won eight Emmy Awards. Miller, John Henry MacCracken Professor of History, is chief historical [...]
Quote by Biology Professor Chuck Holliday Appears in Numerous National Media Outlets
Chuck Holliday, professor of biology, has been quoted in an article about a sighting in Pennsylvania of a rare pink katydid. The article appeared in media outlets across the country, including MSNBC, PhillyBurbs.com, Yahoo News, The Boston Globe, Anchorage Daily News, and Maclean’s in Canada. Read the article. Katydids, which are close relatives to crickets, [...]
Professor Sharon Jones and Lindsay Weir ’11 Featured in International Educator Magazine
Work by Professor Sharon Jones and Lindsay Weir ’11 and the College’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) to develop locally sustainable drinking water resources in Malawi and Honduras has been featured in the July/August edition of International Educator magazine. The article, “Water, Water…Anywhere?” focused on students and faculty who are helping people in the [...]
Student Work in Honduras Featured on Channel 69 News
The Lafayette student-run water and economic infrastructure projects in the Yoro region of Honduras have been featured in three segments over the last month on WFMZ-TV Channel 69 News and Edicion en Espanol. Watch the June 21 segment Watch the May 20 segment part 1 (in Spanish) Watch the May 20 segment part 2 (in [...]
Lafayette Students Featured in Two Segments on WFMZ’s Edicion en Espanol
Students provide commentary in Spanish on their economic and environmental work in Honduras Students involved with Lafayette’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and the Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP) were interviewed for two segments on WFMZ’s Edicion en Espanol appearing 11 p.m. Wednesday, May 19 and Thursday, May 20. Civil engineering majors [...]
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