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The "Lafayette Miner" was born out of Lafayette College's now defunct mining engineering major. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections and College Archives)

Drilling into history of mining, metallurgy engineering

By Selma O’Malley, Managing Editor April 11, 2025

In an ever-changing technological environment, Lafayette College created an integrative engineering degree in 2019 to give students “the opportunity to study in interdisciplinary fields” and to intersect...

Psychology professor JJ Togans opened his research lab to students this year.

Researching your guilty pleasures

By Clara Witmer, Assistant News Editor February 28, 2025

Guilty pleasures: we all have them, yet few truly understand them. Assistant psychology professor JJ Togans hopes to change that. In the Guilty Pleasures and Ambivalence Lab, or "GPA Lab," Togans and...

Space Fest had a plethora of activities including stomp rockets and telescope viewings.

Annual Lehigh Valley Space Fest lifts off from campus

By Makenna McCall, News Editor October 25, 2024

The second annual Lehigh Valley Space Fest touched down at Lafayette from Oct. 12-13. “That was a pretty successful weekend,” co-founder and NASA Solar System ambassador Marty McGuire said. “So...

Engineering students are exposed to land-development surveying as part of the Lafayette engineering curriculum.

‘Land Development-Surveying’ students invade Quad with yellow tripods

By Isabella Gaglione, Editor-in-Chief September 13, 2024

Every fall, engineering students descend upon Lafayette College's campus grounds, armed with camera-like equipment and gigantic rods – much to the confusion of non-engineering bystanders. These students...

The conference helped students connect to over 100 engineering companies. (Photo courtesy of Emily Mastroly '25)

Women in engineering conference inspires female engineers

By Grace Hubler, Contributing Writer November 3, 2023

Women within Lafayette’s engineering program got the chance to learn and network at the WE23 conference held in Los Angeles last week. “It’s usually a three-day conference,” Grace Brokenshire...

'Silent Skies' was created by Serotonin Creative Consultancy. (Photo by Upendra Pandey '23)

‘Silent Skies’ tells soaring story of electric plane flyover

By Shirley Liu, Managing Editor April 28, 2023

Last year’s Rivalry Game made history — not because of who won, but because it was the backdrop to the world’s first crewed electric airplane stadium flyover. “Silent Skies: The First Electric...

LaFarm's greenhouse officially opened in January and has enabled cooperation with researchers. (Photo courtesy of @lafayettecollegefarm on Instagram)

LaFarm greenhouse spawns spotted lanternfly mitigation research

By Kristen Vincent, Assistant Culture Editor March 24, 2023

Spotted lanternflies have plagued Lafayette's campus and the Lehigh Valley as an invasive species since September 2014, wreaking havoc on the biodiversity of the area. However, a study of spotted lanternflies...

The Best Overall Hack Award was given to a team that made a website centered on mental health. (Photo courtesy of Anjeliqe Martinez '24)

Students take a byte out of 24-hour hackathon

By Paige Mathieu, Contributing Writer February 24, 2023

Most people would balk at the task of creating a functional piece of software or hardware in only 24 hours — but during last weekend's hackathon, six teams of students accomplished just that. The...

Students could find a number of sustainability-related Easter eggs among the clues in SEES's escape room.

Escaping Acopian: SEES celebrates Engineers Week with sustainable escape room

By Trebor Maitin, Managing Editor February 24, 2023

This week, students packed their bags and trekked north in search of a Lafayette alum who went missing while studying polar ice caps. The search parties didn’t require parkas or survival gear, however...

Lafayette students and faculty visited the UN to hear the stories of women in STEM. (Photo courtesy of Olivia Zoretic '24)

Students attend United Nations conference for women in STEM

By Elisabeth Seidel, Staff Writer February 17, 2023

In the early hours of the morning last Friday, a group of 40 Lafayette students and faculty piled into a bus and made the drive to New York City to attend the eighth International Day of Women and Girls...

Engineering Science 303 students researched ways to make Metzgar Fields more sustainable. (Photo courtesy of David Brandes)

Integrative engineering students unveil Metzgar revitalization plan

By Madeline Marriott, Arts & Culture Editor December 9, 2022

Lafayette’s integrative engineering students are using their expertise to improve campus climate initiatives. Along with civil and environmental engineering professor David Brandes, the students of Engineering...

Research by Padmanabh Kaushik '25 attempts to use video games to diagnose dyslexia in children. (Photo courtesy of Lafayette Communications)

Student Research Spotlight: Padmanabh Kaushik ’25 works to detect dyslexia with computer game

By Kendal Davis and Elisabeth Seidel December 9, 2022

In the electrical and computer engineering department, Padmanabh Kaushik '25 and a team of researchers are working to help develop a world where disorders like dyslexia can be diagnosed through an online...

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