Student Honors
24 Students Invited to Present at National Conference on Undergraduate Research
A total of 24 students have been invited to present their research at the 25th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held March 31-April 2 at Ithaca College. NCUR is the largest conference of its kind in the country with approximately 2,200 undergraduates from more than 250 colleges and universities in attendance. This is Lafayette’s [...]
Students Win LVAIC Mathematics Competition
Two teams of Lafayette students took the top two places at the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges Mathematics Competition held at Moravian College. Finishing first in the 21st annual event were civil engineering major Xuan Chen ’13 (Chengdu, China) and math majors Miao Wang ’12 (Cheng De He Bei, China) and Liang Zhang ’13 [...]
Ashley Juavinett ’11 and Meredith Castor ’10 Named Finalists for Marshall Scholarships
Ashley Juavinett ’11 (Blackwood, N.J.) and Meredith Castor ’10 have been selected as finalists in the 2011 Marshall Scholarship competition. Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to 40 scholars are selected each year to study at the graduate level at a U.K. institution [...]
Football Player Brandon Ellis ’12 Receives ESPN Academic All-District Recognition
Cornerback Brandon Ellis ’12 (Jeffersonville, Pa.) has been named to the ESPN Academic All-District II Football Team. Spotted on Campus With…Brandon Ellis ’12 An economics major, Ellis maintains a 3.34 overall GPA. He is taking African Cultural Institutions, Economics of Sports, Marketing Science, and Introduction to Film & Media Studies. Ellis serves as a peer [...]
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 [...]
Men’s Golf Team Honored for Academics by Coaches Association
The men’s golf team has been honored by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) for being one of the country’s outstanding academic golf programs in Division I. Lafayette finished with a 3.37 overall grade-point average (GPA). The reigning Patriot League Champions placed eight student-athletes on the Patriot League Golf Academic Honor Roll, led by [...]
Professor Sharon Jones and Lindsay Weir ’11 Featured in International Educator Magazine
Work by Professor Sharon Jones and Lindsay Weir ’11 and the College’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) to develop locally sustainable drinking water resources in Malawi and Honduras has been featured in the July/August edition of International Educator magazine. The article, “Water, Water…Anywhere?” focused on students and faculty who are helping people in the [...]
Research by Shrutarshi Basu ’11 Accepted at International Software Conference in Romania
Research by Shrutarshi Basu ’11 (Kolkata, India) on software programming was accepted for presentation and publication at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance held Sept. 12-18 in Timișoara, Romania. Basu, who is pursuing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. with a major in computer science, has worked on different [...]
Civil Engineering Students Present Research at Environmental and Water Resources Congress
When Michael Thompson ’12 (Shokan, N.Y.) stood up to share his research with a room full of civil and environmental engineering professionals, he was understandably nervous. Still, he describes his experience at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Environmental & Water Resources Institute 2010 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress in Providence, R.I., as a [...]
Students, Young Alumni Earn National Honors
Recent awards include Goldwater Scholarship, three National Science Foundation Fellowships, two Fulbright grants, and NCAA Scholarship A number of students and young alumni have been recognized recently for their academic excellence with funding for future studies. Recent awards include a Goldwater Scholarship, three National Science Foundation Fellowships, two Fulbright grants, and an NCAA Scholarship. Lauren [...]
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