Intercultural Experience
Photo Gallery: International Culture Comes Alive During Extravaganza Week
The International Students Association hosted its annual Extravaganza cultural festival last week. Activities throughout the week included a barbecue, brown bag discussions, a food tasting and celebration of international wedding traditions, a Carnival Dance Party, and the Grand Finale at the Williams Center for the Arts. Grand Finale View more images of the Grand Finale [...]
Photo Galleries: Black Heritage Month at Lafayette
Lafayette concluded its celebration of Black Heritage Month with its finale performance night in Farinon College Center. Hosted by the Association of Black Collegians, the event had a range of performances including singing, dancing, acting, poetry, and music. View and share more images of the finale on Flickr Black Heritage Month Finale The celebration’s keynote [...]
Latest Edition of McDonogh Voice Available Online
The latest edition of McDonogh Voice is now available on the College’s website. The magazine celebrates the contributions of black and African American alumni to the Lafayette community. The issue features the work of Pat Anderson Myers ’82, a control systems group leader for Philadelphia Energy Solutions; Maurice Bennett ’06, an equity sales and trading [...]
Lafayette Celebrates Black Heritage Month
Lafayette will celebrate Black Heritage Month in February with art, music, a research symposium on diversity, discussion forums, and performances. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.” According to John McKnight, dean of intercultural development, this captures the spirit and variety of programs that will celebrate the forward movement of blacks in [...]
Grossman House Provides Students with New Ways to Look at the World
Intellectually adventurous students have an exciting new campus living option in the Grossman House for Global Perspectives. Grossman House allows students to design their own programming with the guidance of faculty advisers to explore globalization and what it means to live in a multicultural world. One of the first orders of business for the 25 [...]
Trading Places: Project Boma Allows Students to Experience Different Cultures
Friends and roommates Sam Stuart ’13 (Wichita, Kan.) and Chao Wang ’13 (Changchun, China) grew up in different hemispheres and met on campus. As first-year students, Stuart helped Wang through a college writing course, and Wang tutored Stuart in his introductory Chinese course. They have learned a lot about each other’s cultures through their friendship, [...]
Photo Gallery: Students Come Together to Celebrate Eid-ul-Adha
Lafayette’s Muslim Students Association hosted a dinner in Farinon College Center to celebrate Eid-ul-Adha, the second of two major holidays in the Islamic calendar year. View and share more images of Eid-ul-Adha on Flickr
Photo Gallery: International Students Discover America
The International Students Association hosted a Discover America event, where students learn about and participate in activities that are popular in American culture. Check out a photo gallery of students cooking out, having an Easter egg hunt, making s’mores, and learning to square dance. View and share more images of Discover America on Flickr
Doctoral Candidate Alberto Luna ’08 Researches Motivation for Learning-Disabled Students
By Dan Edelen When students need a listening ear, Alberto Luna ’08 is there. Luna is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate and supplemental instruction supervisor in the school of psychology at University of Arizona, where he completed his master’s in 2010. He has also served as program developer for the honors college Xtreme Discovery Teams and [...]
Latest Edition of McDonogh Voice Available Online
The latest edition of McDonogh Voice is now available on the College’s website. The magazine celebrates the contributions of African Americans to the Lafayette community. The issue features the work of Terence Byrd ’74, president of the Healthfirst NJ managed care provider; Reco Collins ’05, vice president of public finance for PNC Bank; Danlami Gomwalk ’01, [...]
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