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Professor Denise Galarza Sepúlveda Uncovers 17th Century Spanish Sermon Condemning Provocative Women’s Clothing
Even in 17th-century Spain, there were fashion police. While working on her current book project on an 18th-century Peruvian “clandestine history,” Professor Denise Galarza Sepúlveda discovered a manuscript that decries the scandalous new clothing styles popularized in the 17th century. Before now, no scholar has analyzed or published on the sermon. Written by Franciscan priest [...]
Students Use $10,000 Projects for Peace Grant to Run Summer Youth Program in Colombia
Four students used a $10,000 Davis Foundation “Projects for Peace” grant this summer to spend five weeks in Bogotá, Colombia, and run a youth program for 80 school children ages 5 to 16. They worked with Fundación Ayuda por Colombia (FAC), a nonprofit organization that operates an afterschool program for these children during the school [...]
Gabriel Valentin ’02 Finds Success in Paris
By Kate Helm Colgate’s slogan “bright smile, bright future” could well be used to describe the career of Gabriel Valentin ’02, senior brand manager at Colgate-Palmolive, based in Paris. In only six short years, he’s risen to the top of the international marketing ranks. Valentin, who has been with the company almost a year, is [...]
Professor Osvaldo Cleger’s New Book Explores the Impact of Blogs on Literature
While working on his doctoral dissertation at the University of Arizona several years ago, Professor Osvaldo Cleger stumbled upon what would become the topic of his book, Narrar en la era de las blogoficciones [The Art of Narrating in the Age of Blog-Fictions]. He kept a miscellaneous blog in which he chronicled his dissertation research. [...]
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 [...]
Renowned Novelist and Poet Julia Alvarez Will Meet with Students and Discuss Her Work March 31
The author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of Butterflies will present the 2010 President’s McDonogh Lecture Julia Alvarez, an award-winning novelist and poet, will be on campus Wednesday, March 31, to meet with students and read and discuss her work. Her talk, “I, too, Sing America,” will be [...]
Students Will Study Engineering and Spanish Culture in New Faculty-led Semester in Madrid
James Ferri, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, will host the program’s first trip in spring 2010 This spring, James Ferri, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, will lead a new semester-abroad program in Spain. Twenty-five students, consisting mostly of second-semester engineering sophomores, will study at Saint Louis University’s Madrid campus. “Engineering students [...]
Professor Sidney Donnell Works to Reconstruct 400-Year-Old Play
He will travel to Spain, Portugal, and France to perform archival research A copy of a copy is never quite as good as the original. Working from that premise, Sidney Donnell, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, is studying copies of copies of copies to get as close as possible to the original version [...]
Exploring the Social and Economic Impact of Redevelopment
Emily Esteve ’10 is part of an interdisciplinary research team providing support for residents of Easton’s Delaware Terrace redevelopment project Emily Esteve ’10 (Skillman, N.J.), a psychology and Spanish double major, is working on an interdisciplinary team studying the impact of the demolishing and rebuilding of Easton’s Delaware Terrace housing project. Her portion of the [...]
Providing the Tools to Succeed
Joey Haymaker ’09 writes about his research on the Lafayette World Languages Portfolio Project with Professor Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci Joey Haymaker ’09 (Hellertown, Pa.), a Spanish and economics & business double major, spent his summer as an EXCEL Scholar working with Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, on the Lafayette World Languages Portfolio [...]
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