http://www.lafayette.edu RSS Feed For Lafayette Academics http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12205 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12205 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12206 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12206 Margarita Karasoulas '08 (Harrison, N.Y.) has completed an honors thesis examining Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's life and artwork through a political lens. The art and history double major worked with Robert Mattison, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art History, as her adviser. "Writing an honors thesis this year has been an invaluable experience. It provided me with the opportunity to commit to sustained research on a single project, and to work with the esteemed members of the art department. Seeing my research come to fruition has given me an enormous sense of pride," says Karasoulas. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12202 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12202 Members of College Theater were able to take advantage of Lafayette's close proximity to New York City by presenting a special production of Museum at the Chelsea Art Museum in April.For a number of weeks in March and early April, Lafayette students, faculty, and alumni traveled to the city to rehearse alongside professional actors. "I was able to attend my classes and then hop in a van that took me directly into the city," English major AJ Ernst '09 says. "The commute is short and it was awesome to be able to have dinner in New York, have rehearsal, and then get back in time to do some work and go to bed." http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12203 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12203 David Sunderlin, assistant professor of geology and environmental geosciences, has received a grant from the Keck Geology Consortium to co-lead a multi-institutional expedition to Alaska in July to study high latitude, ancient terrestrial ecosystems. "One of the primary purposes of the trip is to provide undergraduate students at various institutions with the opportunity to cut their teeth on real and rigorous field research in the earth sciences," explains Sunderlin. "All students in this research will be preparing their own research study for execution in the field/lab and then reporting in oral and written form in an undergraduate geoscience research symposium in mid spring 2009." http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12199 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12199 Sara Walter '09 (Kempton, Pa.) took third place in the 2007-2008 Independent Women's Forum College Essay Contest. Her essay was chosen from hundreds of entries submitted from full-time, female undergraduate students across the nation. She will receive a $1,000 award. Students were asked to answer the question, "What role should "women's issues" play in the 2008 elections and how do you define women's issues?" Read her entry. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12193 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12193 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12187 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12187 Over the past year, Daryn Carp '10 (Montclair, N.J.), a psychology major, has worked as an EXCEL scholar with Lisa Gabel, assistant professor of psychology, testing the memory capabilities of female mice. Carp and Gabel's work focuses on Fragile-X syndrome, the most common form of inheritable mental retardation, and how the syndrome in mice could be represented in the form of human mental retardation. Carp's future plans include attending broadcasting school and working for a network. This summer, she plans to intern at CNBC in New York City. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12182 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12182 Deirdre Maher '08 (Merrick, N.Y.), Stephanie Morillo '08 (Bronx, N.Y.), Michael Zboray '08 (Montvale, N.J.), Danielle Horowitz '08 (Princeton Junction, N.J.), and Diana Galperin '08 (Warminster, Pa.) have been awarded Fulbright Grants to study and teach at various locations around the globe. Lafayette has had 20 students receive Fulbright Grants in the past nine years.All the students received English Teaching Assistantships to teach conversational English to high school or college students as well as improve their knowledge of the United States. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12174 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12174 Meredith White '06 was recently awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Run by the Department of Defense, the fellowship program is committed to increasing the number and quality of the nation's scientists and engineers. Lafayette is one of four exclusively undergraduate liberal arts and engineering colleges among the 108 institutions whose students were honored. The three-year NDSEG fellowship, sponsored specifically by the Office of Navel Research, includes full tuition to any U.S. graduate school and a stipend of over $30,000 for each year. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12169 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12169 Felix Forster '09 (Rostock, Germany) has been helping Easton teenagers start up their own businesses for over a year now. He has been working through Resources for Independence and Social Entrepreneurship (RISE), a continuation of DreamsWork, which Forster developed last spring as a member of the student organization Collaborative Freedom (formerly FAAP). RISE is a community outreach program that provides local teenagers with microloans in order to design, launch, and maintain small business ideas. RISE is being co-funded by the economics and business department's Hunsicker Entrepreneurship Studies Fund as part of the new Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP). http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12163 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12163 Six students comprising this year's Technology Clinic are researching potential improvements to the urban ecology of Easton's West Ward. The team has also designed an entry for the international "Reinventing Grand Army Plaza" competition, an initiative focused on generating ideas for the redesign of Grand Army Plaza in New York City. Tech Clinic is a hands-on course founded in 1986 that brings together students from different majors to help solve real-world problems of a business, non-profit organization, or government body. Urban ecology deals with the interactions of plants, animals, and humans with each other and with their environment within urban settings. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12165 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12165 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12156 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12156 Senior swim captain Jaryd Freedman has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. The biochemistry major currently holds a 3.96 grade-point average and is a three-time Patriot League Academic Honor Roll performer. He is also the recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship, the nation's premier undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. Freedman is Lafayette's second student-athlete in five years to win both the Goldwater and NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. Meghan Ramsey '04 was also awarded both honors. Stephen Bono '05, co-captain of the 2004 Patriot League championship football team was also awarded the postgraduate scholarship in 2005. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12157 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12157