llan Peleg, Charles A. Dana Professor of Social Science, was one of ten national experts featured on the OpEd pages of the San Francisco Chronicle in an article marking the third anniversary of the Iraq war.
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Susan Averett, professor and head of economics and business, was interviewed live by host Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today” show about her research that links birth order and teens’ risky behavior. The research appears in the April edition of the journal Economic Inquiry.
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Lafayette’s Engineers Without Borders  team was one of only six college and university teams nationally to be awarded a $75,000 grant through the Environmental Protection Agency’s P3: People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability. The competition was judged by the National Academy of Sciences.
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Lafayette was featured extensively in a The New York Times article on the Posse Foundation, an organization that recruits and trains student leaders from urban public high schools to form multicultural teams called “posses.” The teams enroll at top-tier colleges and universities nationwide to pursue their academics and help promote cross-cultural communication
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Lafayette’s women’s novice and varsity four-oared crew teams took first and second place, respectively, at the 68th Dad Vail Regatta along the Schuylkill River. With more than 3,000
students from 116 colleges and universities from across
the nation participating, Dad Vail is the largest
collegiate regatta in the United States.
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The New York Times featured Donald L. Miller, MacCracken Professor of History,
in a cover story of Week in Review section, which looked at those displaced by Hurricane Katrina from a historical perspective.
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President Dan Weiss’ art-history seminar, Pilgrimage and Crusade in Medieval Art, was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The class discussed the cartoons
of the Prophet Mohammed that have sparked outrage in the Muslim world, looking at the complex role of images in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions and exploring the
reasons for the violent response.
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As part of the ongoing celebration of Lafayette’s Experimental Printmaking Institute’s 10th anniversary, EPI is exhibiting More Than a Book at the Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano
(Costa Rican-American Cultural Center) in San Pedro, Costa Rica.
Art major Sara Smith-Katz ’07, student curator, traveled to San
Pedro with Curlee Holton, professor and head of art, for the installation.
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Diane Cole Ahl, Rothkopf Professor of Art History, has been granted three academic fellowships for this summer and next school year, which she will use to research and write her next book. The awards will take her to Venice and Florence, Italy, as well as Princeton, N.J.
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