http://www.lafayette.edu RSS Feed For Lafayette Campus News Neil deGrasse Tyson, noted astrophysicist and broadcast journalist, will deliver the annual John and Muriel Landis Lecture on Feb. 23. Free and open to the public, the Landis Lecture is a major event on the Colleges calendar. Established by Trustee Emeritus John Landis '39, the lectureship focuses on issues of technology and international cooperation. Tyson is the first occupant of the Frederick P. Rose Directorship of the Hayden Planetarium and is host of the PBS show NOVA ScienceNow. In 2004, NASA honored him with its highest award, the Distinguished Public Service Medal and in 2007, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14368 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14368 James T. Campbell, the Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History at Stanford, will deliver the Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Visiting Lecture on March 23. Free and open to the public, his talk will be on Race and the Politics of Memory: American Universities Confront their Pasts. The lectureship was established by Trustee Emeritus Thomas Roy Jones to provide students with the opportunity to hear presentations each year by individuals of exemplary accomplishment in the academic world or in public life. A specialist in the history of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, Campbell was named a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in history for his book Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14369 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14369 Lafayette took first place in the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's annual College Fed Challenge Nov. 16. The Colleges team defeated James Madison University and University of North Carolina to win the Fifth District title, and will advance to the national competition Dec. 2 at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. Lafayette defeated teams from 14 regional schools in the preliminary round held Nov. 2-4 at the banks Baltimore branch. Teams included American University, Elizabethtown College, Gettysburg College, and Lehigh University. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14358 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14358 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14364 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14364 Independent filmmaker Bette Gordon will discuss the challenges of directing, breaking into the film industry, and her latest film Handsome Harry noon Friday, Nov. 20 in Pardee Hall room 320A. The film, which stars Jamey Sheridan and Steve Buscemi, will be screened at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 in Oechsle Hall room 224 and 10 a.m. Nov. 20 in Limburg Theater in Farinon College Center. The events are free and open to the public. They are sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Film and Media Studies Committee. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14360 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14360 Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx and president of her own green collar economic consulting firm, was on campus for a two-day residency Nov. 12-13. On Nov. 12, she delivered a talk to an overflowing crowd in Oeschle Hall titled Green the Ghetto: And how much it wont cost us."  On Friday, Nov. 13, she met with students and faculty during an open forum and an environmental workshop for members of the Lafayette and Easton communities. In addition to the residency activities, a bus of students, faculty, and members of the Easton community went to the South Bronx on Oct. 30 to see the work being done there. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14359 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14359 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14353 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14353 Millie Barry 10 and Julie Pollack 11 attended the National Resolve to Fight Poverty Conference Nov. 5-7 at Loyola University in Chicago and came away with ideas to strengthen and reinvigorate the Colleges efforts during National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week Nov. 14-20. The activities next week, which are organized by the Landis Community Outreach Center, will include students sleeping outside in a hut on the Quad, making and delivering sandwiches to homeless people in Philadelphia, fasting for 30 hours to feel hunger, collecting used clothing and canned goods, and answering trivia questions online to earn rice for hungry people in Third World countries. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14340 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14340 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14334 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14334 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14335 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14335 Internationally acclaimed author and philanthropist Dominique Lapierre 52 presented the lecture From the India of Gandhi and Mother Teresa to the South Africa of Nelson Mandela, Fifty Years of Historical Encounters and Philanthropic Engagement Nov. 9. He discussed his numerous humanitarian efforts in India, Africa, and South America, which are funded mainly through his book sales, and his latest book, A Rainbow in the Night, which traces the history of South Africa from its European colonization to the end of apartheid. The talk was Lafayettes Lives of Liberty Lecture for 2009-10. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14327 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14327 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14319 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14319 Art historian Barbra Larson will speak on Darwins Sexual Selection and the Jealous Male in Fin de Siecle Art 4:10 p.m. Nov. 12 in the Williams Center for the Arts room 108. The lecture is one of many events this year marking Charles Darwins 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his work, On the Origin of Species. It is presented in conjunction with the exhibition From Scales to Feathers: The Evanescent Presence of Sculpted Wings by environmental artist Brandon Ballengee, which runs through Dec. 12 in the Williams Center Art Gallery. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14311 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14311 As part of Lafayettes yearlong celebration of Charles Darwins 200th birthday, environmental artist Brandon Ballenges From Scales to Feathers: The Evanescent Presence of Sculpted Wings will run through Dec. 12 in the Williams Center Art Gallery. The 18 photographs were printed by art major Sydney Peyser 10 (Livingston, N.J.) and Lew Minter, director of the art department media lab. An artist talk, "Darwins Sexual Selection and the Jealous Male in Fin de Siecle Art," will be 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6 with a reception following from 4-6 p.m. A guided tour of the exhibition will take place 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14310 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/14310