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April 16, 2008

22 Students Invited to Present Research at National Conference on Undergraduate Research

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Only two other exclusively undergraduate private liberal arts and engineering colleges among those in attendance had more students invited than Lafayette A total of 22 students were invited to present their research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held April 10-12 at Salisbury University in Maryland. Only two other exclusively undergraduate private liberal [...]

Lafayette College

August 6, 2007

Jenny Boyar ’08 Examines Generational Attitudes toward Body Image

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English and psychology double major worked with Jamila Bookwala, associate professor of psychology Women’s insecurities about their appearances drive advertising for everything from makeup to underwear. Women of all ages are obsessed with looking young and beautiful. But perhaps there is a distinction between how women of different generations think about their own bodies. Jenny [...]

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