International Students
Providing Students with Better Educational Opportunities
My service work in Kenya this summer. By Nganga Muchiri ’09 Nganga Muchiri ’09 (Nairobi, Kenya) and Catherine Munyua ’10 (Kanjuku via Thika, Kenya) spent their summer working to expand opportunities for students in a high school in Ikutha, Kenya. Their project was sponsored by a $10,000 grant from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis 100 Projects [...]
Scholarships Connect International Students with Lafayette
Priyanka Nair ’08 and John Mumo ’08 are the first members of the Davis United World College Scholars Program to graduate from the College For the last four years, the Davis United World College Scholars Program has helped international students pursue a quality undergraduate education at Lafayette. On May 24, Priyanka Nair ’08 from India [...]
Nine Students Present Research at Economics and Business Conference
Annual Omicron Delta Epsilon undergraduate conference held April 18 Nine students presented research at the 19th annual Omicron Delta Epsilon undergraduate economics and business conference at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa., April 18. Susan Averett, Dana Professor and head of economics and business, and James DeVault, associate professor of economics and business, accompanied the students. [...]
Student Travels from Ecuador to Join Collaborative Perchlorate Research Project
Nadia Cumbal joins Lafayette students for ongoing research on contaminated groundwater and hopes to help other students do the same Nadia Cumbal, a biotechnology engineering major from Polytechnic School of Army in Quito, Ecuador, is spending nine weeks at Lafayette to participate in an ongoing research project on Perchlorate reduction. According to Arthur Kney, associate [...]
Flavia Carla Benedek ’09 and Ivan Dimitrov ’10 Explore Consequences of WWI
EXCEL students worked under the guidance of Joshua Sanborn, associate professor of history Two students are providing unique help to Joshua Sanborn, associate professor of history, for his latest book on World War I. Flavia Carla Benedek ’09 (Woodside, N.Y.) is providing research and translation of Romanian documents while Ivan Dimitrov ’10 (Pavlikeni, Bulgaria) is [...]





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