May 2, 2011
Lafayette Honors Students for Academic Excellence
Lafayette honored more than 120 students for academic excellence at the annual All-College Honors Convocation May 1, in the Williams Center for the Arts…
Anthropology and Sociology
Apr 29, 2011
Beth Spitalny ’01 Brings Original Stories to Life as Award-Winning Filmmaker
By Kate Helm When Beth Spitalny ’01 was a little girl, she loved playing dress-up and make-believe, spending hours in the woods behind her house dreaming…
Apr 12, 2011
Vanessa Youngs ’07 Helps Manage the Big Apple Budget
By Robert Bruce Slater As a budget analyst for the City of New York, Vanessa E. Youngs ‘07 has the opportunity to participate in policy decisions…
Mar 16, 2011
Elizabeth Ponder ’04 Works to Turn Disease Research into Death-Preventing Reality
By Barbara Mulligan When Elizabeth Ponder ’04 arrived in Kenya’s North Eastern Province last May, she encountered a world far removed from the often-predictable…
Mar 9, 2011
Course Will Provide One-of-a-Kind Learning Experience in China, North Korea, and South Korea
This summer, a group of Lafayette students will explore the diverse and interconnected cultures of Northeast Asia through a new, faculty-led course to…
Feb 11, 2011
Anna Eisenstein ’13 and Kelsey Boyd ’11 Re-Create Lost Easton Neighborhood with Professor Andrea Smith
When an unexpected tip from the local historical society led Andrea Smith to research an old Easton community known locally as “Syrian Town,” she thought…
Dec 17, 2010
Technology Clinic Brings Students Together to Solve Real-World Problems
After he graduates, Chris Kelly ’13 (Boyertown, Pa.) plans to work in the field of environmental politics. A double major in geology and international…
Nov 12, 2010
The World Is Their Lab: Five Anthropologists Journey to Peru, St. John, France, Japan, and India
Why is a classical Indian dance dating from the 2nd century B.C. popular again? Why is the donkey, a non-native species, allowed to remain in the park…
Oct 1, 2010
History’s Sandbox: Jared Katz ’12 Works at Archaeological Dig Sites in Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico
In high school, Jared Katz ’12 (Stoneham, Mass.) quickly discovered a passion for history and was even more interested in how past people lived day to…
May 11, 2010
Spurring Entrepreneurship in the Slate Belt
Technology Clinic strives to create jobs through manufacturing solar golf carts With the economy slowly rebounding from a downward spiral, job creation…