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Fosbenner ’10 and Minckler ’10 Named Finalists for Marshall Scholarship
Stephanie Fosbenner ’10 (Perkasie, Pa.) and Max Minckler ’10 (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) have been selected as finalists in the 2010 Marshall Scholarship competition. Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to 40 scholars are selected each year to study at the graduate level at a U.K. institution in any field of study. Each scholarship is held for two years. Fosbenner and Minckler are both scheduled to be interviewed by a regional Marshall selection panel this month.
Nov 06, 2009
Tiffany Patafio ’10 Explores the World of Finance
Mechanical engineering major Tiffany Patafio ’10 (Staten Island, N.Y.) got a taste of life in the finance industry during a summer internship with Daniel Kilmurray ’75 at UBS Financial Services in New York City. "This opportunity not only exposed me to the world of finance, it also helped me to network and connect with people in all different fields. I worked with so many wonderful people who had so much advice to offer about possible career paths and how to approach my upcoming job search. I learned so many valuable things about the finance world and gained so many beneficial contacts in all industries, that I truly feel this internship will help to shape my career and, consequently, the rest of my life," she says.
Nov 04, 2009
Computer Science Students Develop Software to Aid Peers Soon students taking Introduction to Engineering and Public Policy and Introduction to Policy Studies will have a new software program at their disposal called Urban Development Tools (UDT). The twist is that fellow students studying computer science are creating the program. Miguel Haruki Yamaguchi ’11 (Akashi, Japan) and Rhodes Baker ’10 (Columbus, Ohio) developed the UDT concept and a basic prototype this past summer as EXCEL Scholars under the guidance of Chun Wai Liew, associate professor and head of computer science.
Nov 03, 2009
Team-Taught Course Will Merge Russian Art, Culture, and History A new team-taught course will provide students with a look at Russian and Eastern European art, government, history, literature, music, and religion, both in and out of the classroom. The interdisciplinary class, which includes a free trip to Russia, will allow students to experience the country firsthand. History, Art, and Culture of Russia and Eastern Europe, taught by Joshua Sanborn, associate professor of history, andIda Sinkevic, associate professor of art, will allow students to learn from experts in two different disciplines in the same classroom.
Nov 02, 2009
Students Will Explore the Inner Workings of the Nation’s Economy A team of six students will travel to Maryland Nov. 2-4 to compete in the regional College Fed Challenge competition held at the Baltimore branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. The students will become monetary policymakers as they assess current economic conditions, determine Federal Reserve goals, and develop a monetary policy that addresses these goals. They are scored on content, responses to judges’ questions, research and analysis, presentation, and teamwork. “Students learn about the nature of monetary policy and how it is conducted,” says James DeVault, associate professor of economics and team co-adviser. “They also learn how to put together a persuasive presentation and how to work together as a team.”
Oct 30, 2009
Students Will Compete in Computing ‘Battle of the Brains’ Two teams of Lafayette students will be challenged to use their programming skills, creativity, and business sense as they compete in the regional round of the world’s most prestigious computer programming competition. Sponsored by IBM, the 34th annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) for the mid-Atlantic region will take place Nov. 7 at Wilkes University. The “Battle of the Brains” is based on a competition first held at Texas A&M University in 1970 and requires student teams to write programs to solve as many complex, real-world problems as possible within a five-hour time limit.
Oct 29, 2009
Emergent Patterns
Oct 29, 2009
Professor Donald Miller Helps Bring WWII History to Big and Small Screens
This fall, Donald L. Miller, John Henry MacCracken Professor of History, will welcome the premiere of two projects he’s worked closely on to preserve the rich stories of World War II. The film Beyond all Boundaries will debut at the National World War II Museum Nov. 6-8, and the 10-hour series WWII in HD will begin its run Nov. 15 on the History Channel. Miller served as writer and creative consultant on the film, traveling to California to meet with Tom Hanks about the project. Miller was writer and chief historical consultant for WWII in HD. He worked with Lou Reda Productions of Easton on the full-color, high-definition series, which is one of the History Channel’s most ambitious projects to date. It is narrated by Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise.
Oct 27, 2009
Students Will Visit the Far East in January Faculty-Led Course
For three weeks in January, students will be immersed in Japanese culture through a new winter interim-abroad course led by Paul Barclay, associate professor of history, and Naoko Ikegami, visiting instructor of foreign languages and literatures. The course is being offered as part of the College's new interdisciplinary Asian studies major. While in Japan, the students will tour temples, shrines, gardens, monuments, and natural vistas of Western Japan, with a concentration on Kyoto. They will watch demonstrations of and participate in Zen mediation; the art of Kimono, ceramics, paper-making, and calligraphy; traditional martial arts; and fine Japanese cuisine and tea ceremony. They also will practice communicating using Japanese and Japanese-friendly English.
Oct 26, 2009
Professor Jamila Bookwala Will Present Jones Faculty Lecture Oct. 28 Jamila Bookwala, associate professor of psychology, will present this year’s Jones Faculty Lecture 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104. A reception will follow. Her talk, “Our Relationships, Our Health,” will focus on her research looking at the link between personal relationships and health during the middle and late adulthood years. In particular, her research examines the interconnections among marriage, stress, and psychological and physical health in adults aged 50+ years. The talk is sponsored by the Thomas Roy and Lura Forest Jones Faculty Lecture and Awards Fund, established in 1966 to recognize superior teaching and scholarship at Lafayette.
Oct 23, 2009
Lew Minter and Amanda Smith ’10 Reconstruct Altarpieces by Painter Vivarini Lew Minter, director of the art department's media lab, and art major Amanda Smith ’10 have produced digital reconstructions of two altarpieces by Italian Renaissance Painter Antonio Vivarini. The reconstructions will be exhibited at the Gemäldegalerie museum in Berlin and were published among a broader discussion of the context of the polyptychs in the Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 2008 (Year Book of the Berlin Museums, published 2009). A detailed article focusing on reconstruction problems will be published, along with color reproductions, in a museum journal.
Oct 22, 2009
Experimental Printmaking Institute Begins Innovative Internship Program The Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI) has hired three student interns this semester, starting a program which Curlee Raven Holton, professor of art and director of EPI, hopes will become a model for the future. The program provides students with an experience that is both interdisciplinary and very “real world” in nature. The interns, who are not art majors, will not only learn about the art industry, but also will be in charge of EPI’s business management, marketing, public relations, and research and documentation. Holton believes the internship program fits in with EPI’s student-centered mission.
Oct 21, 2009
Civil Engineering Professors Receive $280,000 National Science Foundation Grant Muhannad Suleiman and Anne Raich, assistant professors, and Steve Kurtz, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, have received a $279,275 National Science Foundation grant to research the use of pervious concrete in foundations supporting structures and highway facilities which are constructed on poor soil. Experimental and analytical research will be conducted in Lafayette's new Soil-Structure Interaction Facility, which is funded by a $222,487 National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant. At least four students will be involved in the research project.
Oct 20, 2009
Professor Katalin Fabian Authors New Book about Women's Movements in Hungary In her new book, Katalin Fabian, associate professor of government and law, contrasts the stages of development in organization, membership, and activism of Hungarian women’s groups over the last two decades. Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality will be released this month by Johns Hopkins University Press. The work focuses on the role of women's activism in a country where women have been traditionally under-represented in formal political institutions.
Oct 08, 2009
Claudia Rinciog '10 Publishes Research in National Scientific Journal Claudia Rinciog '10 (Galati, Romania) has published research she worked on with Steven Mylon, assistant professor of chemistry, in the national chemistry journal Langmuir. The article addresses the difficulty of disinfecting water supplies contaminated with bacteria-eating viruses. Rinciog and Mylon studied the virus MS2, which can be found in aquatic environments and act as a disease carrier. Because it is the size of a nanoparticle, the virus poses a great challenge to purifying water supplies. The objective of the project is to understand more about the virus' stability.
Oct 07, 2009
Artwork by Professor Curlee Holton in Major Exhibit at University of Delaware Two pieces of art by Curlee Raven Holton, professor of art and director of the Experimental Printmaking Institute, have been included in the exhibition Sound: Print: Record: African American Legacies in theMechanical Hall Gallery of the University of Delaware. The exhibit, which runs through Dec. 6, is devoted to the visual arts and black musical traditions. It juxtaposes historical, documentary photographs of musical performers with modern and contemporary artworks that engage the legacy of African American music. Holton’s pieces, the ink drawing Blues For A Serpent's Love and the etching/collage Quilt, are from his 1997 Blues series.
Oct 06, 2009
Students and Faculty Continue Rebuilding Efforts in New Orleans Four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Lafayette students and faculty are working with the community's residents on numerous initiatives meant to rebuild the area as a sustainable community, including designing a green lifestyle center. Led by Gladstone (Fluney) Hutchinson, associate professor of economics, and David Veshosky, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students have been assisting the Lower Ninth Ward and Holy Cross Neighborhood on several projects through Lafayette's Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP).
Sep 30, 2009
Professor Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger Receives National Teaching Award In recognition of her excellence in incorporating technology into her teaching, Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, professor and head of foreign languages and literatures, will receive the ACTFL/Cengage Learning Faculty Development Programs Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology with IALLT. It will be presented during the annual convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Nov. 20 in San Diego, which will be attended by nearly 6,000 language teachers and administrators. Lamb-Faffelberger takes advantage of the technology available in the department’s multimedia resource center, designing high-tech activities to complement the texts and workbooks used in her courses.
Sep 29, 2009
Chemistry Faculty Excel at Publishing Research in Scholarly Journals A recent study in the Journal of Chemical Education draws attention to the chemistry department’s exceptional record of publishing research articles in academic journals. The study, “The Change in Publication Rates at Undergraduate Institutions during the Last Three Decades,” summarizes and analyzes the number of publications arising from chemistry departments at 55 prestigious, predominately undergraduate institutions. During the most recent time period analyzed, 1996-2005, Lafayette’s chemistry department ranked second in total number of publications. Among the schools that were strictly undergraduate, Lafayette had the most publications with 166 during the 10-year period.
Sep 24, 2009
Chemistry Professors Receive $200,000 National Science Foundation Grant
Students and faculty in the chemistry department will soon have two new pieces of equipment available for their research, thanks to a Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation. The $199,666 grant was acquired through the efforts of Yvonne Gindt, associate professor of chemistry; Dave Husic, Larkin Professor and head of chemistry; William Miles, professor of chemistry; and Jennifer Rutherford, assistant professor of chemistry. The equipment is primarily intended for students working with faculty members on a one-on-one basis through independent studies, honors projects, and the EXCEL Scholars program.
Sep 17, 2009
