http://www.lafayette.edu RSS Feed For Lafayette Daily News English graduate Shoshana Cohen Stopek '00 works for Warner Bros. Global Publishing to ensure that publishers properly portray the company's many licensed characters—including Speed Racer, Harry Potter, Bugs Bunny, and Scooby Doo. "It's a natural progression that I ended up where I am because I'm working in the publishing business and writing on the side," she says. When a writer was needed for a series of books for children ages 2-4, Stopek's boss recommended her for the job. Those titles, Scooby Doo! New Friends at the Zoo, Scooby Doo! Your Everyday Hero, Scooby Doo! Team Player, and Scooby Doo! A Girl's Best Friend, help young children find their place in the world through the rhymed antics of the titular mutt. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12103 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12103 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 Lafayette has launched a new sustainability website called "What Can I Do" to promote a more ecologically friendly campus. The site allows members of the Lafayette community to sign the "What Can I Do" pledge to reduce their personal environmental impact, learn how to get involved, and read about current sustainability events, projects, and course offerings. "Lafayette is fully committed to creating a sustainable campus environment, and we are dedicating substantial resources to this crucial objective," says President Daniel H. Weiss. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12211 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12211 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12200 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12200 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12201 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12201 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12204 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12204 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 Members of the Alumni Association's London chapter hosted Qiong Wu '09 (Shanghai, China) for a weeklong externship. Jane Wiest '87 hosted him for his stay, and he had externship experiences with He Shen '97, Lloyds TSB; Vijay Rajguru '84, GoldenTree Asset Management; and Richard Landsberger S'77, Fairfield Greenwich Group. Lafayette President Dan Weiss and his wife, Sandra, will visit the chapter at a dinner and reception. The chapter plans to hold an event at the beginning of July for the 23 students in the summer interim course Ethical and Social Issues in Healthcare in the U.K. Peter M. Sullivan '82 is coordinating a Lafayette-Lehigh football telecast party in London this fall. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12188 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12188 Forensics Society placed ninth in debate and 10th in Division I for individual awards at the National Forensics Association's National Tournament in April at Tennessee State University.A total of 85 colleges and universities competed in the national tournament including, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Emerson College, Otterbein College, and Clemson University. Four students had high placements in their events. Also, Beth Wehler '09 (Gettysburg, Pa.) and Teevrat Garg '10 (Haryana, India) qualified to represent Pennsylvania at the Interstate Oratorical Association's Annual Competition April 25-26 in Madison, Wis. Wehler qualified for the semi-final round, making her speech one of the 12 best in the country. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12196 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12196 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12198 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12198 Dec, 8, 2000. Mitchell Berger '77 and Jeffrey Robinson '80 are riding in a van, chatting idly about the recent Lafayette-Lehigh football game. They seem oblivious to the television cameras trained on their every movement. That night, footage of the conversation appears on ABC's Nightline—sans sound—accompanying a story about how the Supreme Court of Florida had ordered the Circuit Court of Leon County to tabulate by hand 9,000 presidential election ballots in Miami-Dade County. Berger and Robinson were key members of the team representing Al Gore in a recount of votes in the contest between him and George W. Bush. Their roles are being reprised in Recount, an HBO original movie scheduled to debut at 9 p.m. May 25. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12192 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12192