Philosophy
Lafayette Honors Students for Academic Excellence
Lafayette honored more than 120 students for academic excellence at the annual All-College Honors Convocation May 1, in the Williams Center for the Arts. Awards and prizes recognized outstanding academic success in all four of Lafayette’s academic divisions–engineering, the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. This spring, 46 students will join Phi Beta Kappa, the [...]
Caitlin Flood ’12 Selected as Truman Scholarship Finalist
Caitlin Flood ’12 (Bellerose Terrace, N.Y.) has been named a finalist in the 2011 Harry S. Truman Scholarship competition. Truman Scholarships recognize students with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education, or elsewhere in public service. The scholarships provide up to $30,000 in funding to pursue [...]
Tania Torres ’11 Gets to the Heart of the Medical Field During an Externship with Cardiologist Ronald Fields P’08
Tania Torres ’11 (Sugar Land, Texas) got a sneak peak of a career in the medical field during a January externship shadowing Ronald Fields P’08, a cardiologist at Comprehensive Cardiology and St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa. Torres, a double major in philosophy and a self-designed major in classics, spent time in Fields’ office [...]
Book by Prof. Eric Ziolkowski Will Examine Writing of Danish Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard
Eric Ziolkowski, Dana Professor of Religious Studies, took an interest in Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard at an early age, first reading the 19th century philosopher and theologian’s Fear and Trembling at age 13. In graduate school, Ziolkowski studied his works in depth in a graduate seminar at University of Chicago with Kierkegaard authority Langdon [...]
Sarah Shuster ’12 Develops Web Site to Celebrate Lafayette’s 40 Years of Coeducation
You’ve come a long way ladies… At least that’s what Sarah Shuster ’12 (Queens, N.Y.) discovered while researching the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Lafayette this year. When Lafayette’s Board of Trustees considered admitting women in 1968, some of the all-male students initially resisted the idea, saying they had come to an all-male school and [...]
Caitlin Flood ’12 Writes about Her Summer Internship with New York’s Midtown Community Court
Caitlin Flood ’12 (Bellerose Terrace, N.Y.), a double major in government & law and philosophy, is spending the summer as an intern with the Midtown Community Court. A part of New York’s Center for Court Innovation, the court issues community service sentences for quality-of-life offenses, such as prostitution, illegal vending, graffiti, shoplifting, and vandalism. I [...]
Spurring Entrepreneurship in the Slate Belt
Technology Clinic strives to create jobs through manufacturing solar golf carts With the economy slowly rebounding from a downward spiral, job creation is a hot-button issue in regions throughout the country. Working with the Slate Belt Council of Governments and the Slate Belt Business Incubator Program, an ambitious Technology Clinic team of six students is [...]
Students Learn the Philosophy Behind Mathematics
Interdisciplinary course was taught by Joe Shieber, assistant professor of philosophy, and Lorenzo Traldi, Metzgar Professor of Mathematics A new team-taught course offered during the fall semester provided advanced philosophy and math majors with an introduction to the set theory, the logical foundation of mathematics, and the philosophical discussions of mathematics. The course was supported [...]
Eric Henney ’11 Explores the History of Aesthetics
English major writes about his assistance with a forthcoming book by Alessandro Giovannelli, assistant professor of philosophy English major Eric Henney ’11 (Clarksboro, N.J.) is performing EXCEL research assisting Alessandro Giovannelli, assistant professor of philosophy, on a book project titled Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers. At the end of the spring semester, after a crash course [...]
Five Golds for Forensics Society
Five Lafayette students took individual golds at the 2009 Pennsylvania Forensics Association’s state tournament. The team is now preparing to compete in the National Forensics Association’s national tournament next month. Joe Dudek ’09 (Honeoye Falls, N.Y.), a double major in mathematics and philosophy, was state champion in debate, repeating his championship of last year. Rachel [...]
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