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Sara Walter ’09 Places Third in National Essay Contest Sara Walter ’09 (Kempton, Pa.) took third place in the 2007-2008 Independent Women’s Forum College Essay Contest. Her essay was chosen from hundreds of entries submitted from full-time, female undergraduate students across the nation. She will receive a $1,000 award. Students were asked to answer the question, “What role should “women’s issues” play in the 2008 elections and how do you define women’s issues?” Read her entry.
May 12, 2008
Searching for the Cause of Genetic Mental Disorders. By Daryn Carp ’10
Over the past year, Daryn Carp ’10 (Montclair, N.J.), a psychology major, has worked as an EXCEL scholar with Lisa Gabel, assistant professor of psychology, testing the memory capabilities of female mice. Carp and Gabel’s work focuses on Fragile-X syndrome, the most common form of inheritable mental retardation, and how the syndrome in mice could be represented in the form of human mental retardation. Carp’s future plans include attending broadcasting school and working for a network. This summer, she plans to intern at CNBC in New York City.
May 08, 2008
Five Seniors Receive Fulbright Grants
Deirdre Maher ’08 (Merrick, N.Y.), Stephanie Morillo ’08 (Bronx, N.Y.), Michael Zboray ’08 (Montvale, N.J.), Danielle Horowitz ’08 (Princeton Junction, N.J.), and Diana Galperin ’08 (Warminster, Pa.) have been awarded Fulbright Grants to study and teach at various locations around the globe. Lafayette has had 20 students receive Fulbright Grants in the past nine years.All the students received English Teaching Assistantships to teach conversational English to high school or college students as well as improve their knowledge of the United States.
May 07, 2008
Meredith White ’06 Receives National Defense Graduate Fellowship
Meredith White ’06 was recently awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Run by the Department of Defense, the fellowship program is committed to increasing the number and quality of the nation's scientists and engineers. Lafayette is one of four exclusively undergraduate liberal arts and engineering colleges among the 108 institutions whose students were honored. The three-year NDSEG fellowship, sponsored specifically by the Office of Navel Research, includes full tuition to any U.S. graduate school and a stipend of over $30,000 for each year.
May 06, 2008
Technology Clinic Researches Improvements to Urban Ecology of West Ward
Six students comprising this year’s Technology Clinic are researching potential improvements to the urban ecology of Easton’s West Ward. The team has also designed an entry for the international “Reinventing Grand Army Plaza” competition, an initiative focused on generating ideas for the redesign of Grand Army Plaza in New York City. Tech Clinic is a hands-on course founded in 1986 that brings together students from different majors to help solve real-world problems of a business, non-profit organization, or government body. Urban ecology deals with the interactions of plants, animals, and humans with each other and with their environment within urban settings.
May 05, 2008
RISE Continues to Motivate Young Entrepreneurs in Easton
Felix Forster ’09 (Rostock, Germany) has been helping Easton teenagers start up their own businesses for over a year now. He has been working through Resources for Independence and Social Entrepreneurship (RISE), a continuation of DreamsWork, which Forster developed last spring as a member of the student organization Collaborative Freedom (formerly FAAP). RISE is a community outreach program that provides local teenagers with microloans in order to design, launch, and maintain small business ideas. RISE is being co-funded by the economics and business department’s Hunsicker Entrepreneurship Studies Fund as part of the new Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP).
May 05, 2008
Students Will Screen Documentary Films May 12
Students in the documentary film class taught by Andrew Smith, assistant professor of English and chair of American studies, will screen their original films during the Student Film Festival 8 p.m. May 12 in the Williams Center for the Arts. This is the festival’s fifth anniversary, and the six 10-15 minute documentaries premiering this year will bring the total to 40 original films produced since 2004. The festivities will include a question and answer session with student filmmakers, an awards ceremony, and a reception following the screening. Previous festivals have had hundreds of people in attendance.
May 02, 2008
How Engineering and Medicine Mesh
During the interim-session, Carolyn Stolfi ’09 (Chatham, N.J.) spent a week shadowing Charles Gatt Jr. ’85, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (UMDNJ-RWJ) in New Brunswick, N.J. "As an mechanical engineering major, I felt that I may seem out of place in an environment dedicated to medicine and health. After meeting my host, Dr. Charles Gatt, I quickly discovered that would not be the case, as I learned that he graduated from Lafayette as a chemical engineering major looking toward medical school," says Stolfi.
May 01, 2008
Professor Curlee Holton Produces Print for New Play Another River Flows Curlee Raven Holton, professor and head of art and founding director of the Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI), has engaged in a collaboration with Touchstone Theatre and the Lehigh Valley Black African Heritage History Project (LVBAHHP). Holton has created a limited edition fine print inspired by the Touchstone-produced play Another River Flows – Stories, songs and a celebration of the Lehigh Valley Black Experience. This play has grown from the work of LVBAHHP, which has been collecting oral histories from local African-American residents since 2001. The print, All Hands Held Together to Know the Truth, will be on display and available to purchase at the play’s three venues. proceeds will benefit EPI and Touchstone Theatre.
May 01, 2008
Jacquelyn Molendyke ’10 Designs Sustainability Logo for Orientation
Jacquelyn Molendyke ’10 (West Chester, Pa.) and other students in the graphic design course taught by Lew Minter, director of the art department’s media lab, recently had the chance to use their design abilities to help the College’s new sustainability initiative. Each of the students designed an environmentally-themed logo for a contest hosted by Hannah Stewart-Gambino, dean of the College. Molendyke’s winning logo will be printed on reusable water bottles that will be distributed to each incoming class beginning with the Class of 2012, as well as the print and web material for Class of 2012 Orientation.
Apr 30, 2008
Richard Krebs ’08 Co-Authors Research in Sociology Compass
Richard Krebs ’08 has published research on trends in welfare reform with Rebecca Kissane, assistant professor of anthropology and sociology, in the academic journal Sociology Compass. The article, “Assessing Welfare Reform, Over a Decade Later,” looks at the positive developments and remaining challenges concerning welfare reform focusing on economic outcomes, psychological and physical health issues, and family issues. Lafayette’s focus on close student-faculty interaction has made it a national leader in undergraduate research. Many of the hundreds of students who participate in the College’s honors, independent study, and EXCEL programs each year publish their work in academic journals and present at regional and national conferences.
Apr 30, 2008
Jaryd Freedman '08 Awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Senior swim captain Jaryd Freedman has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. The biochemistry major currently holds a 3.96 grade-point average and is a three-time Patriot League Academic Honor Roll performer. He is also the recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship, the nation’s premier undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. Freedman is Lafayette's second student-athlete in five years to win both the Goldwater and NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. Meghan Ramsey '04 was also awarded both honors. Stephen Bono '05, co-captain of the 2004 Patriot League championship football team was also awarded the postgraduate scholarship in 2005.
Apr 29, 2008
Towne ’09 Receives Tau Beta Pi Engineering Scholarship
William (Ben) Towne ’09 has received an undergraduate scholarship from Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. Lafayette is the only exclusively undergraduate liberal arts and engineering college among the 85 institutions whose students were honored. Tau Beta Pi scholarships are awarded on the competitive criteria of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. Towne is also one of 80 students nationally to be awarded a 2008 Morris K. Udall Scholarship. Lafayette is the only exclusively undergraduate liberal arts and engineering college among the 64 institutions whose students were honored with Udall Scholarships.
Apr 29, 2008
Patrick D. Kelley ’09 Receives Beinecke Scholarship
Patrick D. Kelley ’09 is one of 22 students nationally to receive a 2008 Beinecke Scholarship, a leading national award for graduate studies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Lafayette is the only exclusively undergraduate liberal arts and engineering college among the institutions whose students were honored. Kelley plans to attend graduate school for music composition and become a college professor. A double major in mathematics and music, he also plans to continue performing and composing jazz. Alex Gendler ’06, a double major in English and philosophy, was awarded a Beinecke Scholarship in 2005. Lafayette is the only exclusively undergraduate liberal arts and engineering college with multiple Beinecke winners over the past four years.
Apr 28, 2008
Jim Toia Opens New Exhibit at Kim Foster Gallery in New York City
Jim Toia, director of the art department’s community arts program, is opening his latest exhibit titled At the Mercy of the Gate at the Kim Foster Gallery in New York City. The exhibit will run May 3-31.Toia’s exhibit evokes the raw, unpredictable quality in nature’s underlying processes and structures. “As humans, we’ve developed structures and multiple kinds of security blankets that keep us sheltered from nature and many of its processes that we constantly think of ourselves as separate from nature,” Toia says. “That is until we encounter a natural force that’s much stronger than us and breaks our structures and walls, such as a hurricane or tsunami."
Apr 25, 2008
Learning and Living in Germany. By Dennis Waldron ’10
Dennis Waldron ’10 (Owings, Md.) an electrical and computer engineering is currently studying engineering and German language and culture in Bremen, Germany, with 33 other students. The faculty-led program at Jacobs University Bremen (JUB) is being headed by Erol Ulucakli, associate professor of mechanical engineering. "Over spring break, I had a great revelation: I am in Europe. It finally hit me as I sat on the edge of a jetty looking over the Atlantic Ocean in Porto, Portugal. As I looked out over the ocean, listening to the waves break gently below me, sea salt spraying in the warm breeze, I slowly began to grasp the fact that this was the other side of the ocean," he says.
Apr 24, 2008
Our Proximity Advantage: Externships in NYC – Pfizer
During the interim session, Amanda Nardo ’08 (Mahopac, N.Y) spent two days with Vince Petitto ’89, senior manager of customer operations at Pfizer in New York City, as a part of the externship program offered by Career Services. A total of 74 students participated in externships at 39 business firms, government agencies, and other organizations in nearby New York City this January. "My externship with Pfizer made me think that I could enjoy a career in the pharmaceutical industry and I am highly considering that option upon graduation. I would definitely recommend the externship to future students who are looking for exposure to the workings of a major corporation," she says.
Apr 24, 2008
Senior Design Project Combines Engineering with the Liberal Arts
Students working on this year’s electrical and computer engineering capstone project are learning about the industry while tackling real-world engineering problems. This semester, they are designing a prototype controller for an urban transit system.The senior design course presents students with an industrial problem that they might encounter out in the workforce. The course is completely hands-on with a final product which is designed by the students. The students will hold a public presentation and demonstration of the prototype at 11 a.m. April 28, in Acopian Engineering Center room 429.
Apr 23, 2008
Helping People Reach Their Potential
Danielle Horowitz ’08 (Princeton Junction, N.J.), a government & law and Spanish double major, is interning at New Options/New Choices, which is based at Northampton Community College. The program helps returning adult students, especially women, select a career and make the transition into the educational system. "The Lafayette class single motherhood in the U.S. peaked my interest in the study of education as one of the ways out of the poverty cycle. Studying federal welfare laws and working with single/teenage mothers helped me understand that attaining some form of higher education is more beneficial (to everyone) than pursing low wage work and receiving government assistance," says Horowitz.
Apr 22, 2008
