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In the National Limelight
Trustee Scholar Bryan Culbertson ’07 served a coveted internship with
Microsoft Live Labs in Redmond, Wash. A relatively new applied research lab that has close ties to Microsoft Research, Microsoft Live Labs is part of the industry research arm of Microsoft Corporation. Culbertson, a computer science major, and about 10 other interns spent 12 weeks working in the Machine Learning and Applied Statistics Group with 20 Microsoft researchers.
Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs named Sharon Jones, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and chair of A.B. engineering, Visiting Research Scholar in its Science Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) program. Jones will spend the next academic year at Princeton working on the development of a simplified method for
policymakers to evaluate the sustainability of water infrastructure systems.
The most recent book by Donald L. Miller, John Henry MacCracken Professor of History, garnered a glowing review in The New York Times. Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany, released by Simon & Schuster, is Miller’s eighth published work and third WWII book.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) named
William Jemison ’85, associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering, an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to microwave photonics for
radar and communications.” Jemison is among 268 new Fellows elevated this year. One of the most prestigious honors of the IEEE, the award is given to
a limited number of senior members who have made outstanding contributions to the electrical and information technologies and sciences for the benefit
of humanity and the profession.
Lafayette students got the chance to tell the government what to do about the nation’s economy in a mock-meeting for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Lafayette’s Fed Challenge team joined 11 other college teams from around
the region at the College Fed Challenge competition in Baltimore. Lafayette
took second place as a finalist.
Two of Lafayette’s mock trial teams won awards at the Yale Invitational Mock
Trial Tournament held at Yale University. The Yale tournament is the largest mock trial event in the country, hosting 70 teams from 34 colleges and universities nationwide. Lafayette’s first and second teams placed in the division’s top 10. History major Adam Pie ’09 and Trustee Scholar Carolyn Fast ’10 earned
individual awards for outstanding performances as a defense attorney and
defense witness, respectively.
Book reviewers at high profile publications have been giving out solid praise for Babylon and Other Stories, the second book by Alix Ohlin, assistant professor
of English. Babylon, published by Knopf, is a collection of 17 short stories set in
various locales from Montreal to the Southwest with a set of characters coming to terms with life’s epiphanies. The book has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York,
and The Montreal Gazette.
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Bryan Culbertson '07 (right) and Chun Wai Liew, associate professor of computer science
William Jemison '85 (left), associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Tahsin Hashem '07
Alix Ohlin, assistant professor of English, and Cole Hauptfuhrer ’07
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