Resident Composer Gabriela Frank Creates Work for Lafayette
A work composed by Gabriela Lena Frank for Lafayette choirs will premiere April 13 at Williams Center for the Arts. Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea includes…
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Faculty Honors Keck
The faculty adopted a memorial resolution honoring Winfield Keck, Metzgar Professor Emeritus of Physics, on Dec. 3. A member of the faculty for 34 years…
Replica of the Marquis de Lafayette’s Hermione Complete
A replica of the Marquis de Lafayette’s frigate Hermione, on which he embarked for America in 1780 to bring support to the American insurgents, has been…
U.S. Poet Laureate Trethewey Gives Reading
Now in her second term as the 19th poet laureate of the United States, Natasha Trethewey presented the 2014 John L Hatfield ’67 Lecture on March 12.…
New Academic Merit Scholarship Launched
Beginning with the Class of 2018, the most highly qualified applicants to Lafayette may have the chance to be awarded the Marquis Fellowship, a merit-based…
New Garden at McKelvy House
The new garden at McKelvy House features a sunken lawn surrounded by sloped perennial borders including salvia, coral bells, conefl ower, phlox, and liriope…
Liberal Arts Conference Book Published
A volume based on the proceedings of “The Future of the Liberal Arts College in America and Its Leadership Role in Education around the World,” sponsored…
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Nino Pirrotta: An Intellectual Biography BY ANTHONY CUMMINGS, professor of music American Philosophical Society, 2013 391 pp. In Her Own Words: Conversations…
Around Easton
23 new businesses opened in downtown Easton in 2013 including restaurants, stores, and service operations. “We’ve seen more people living downtown…
Thinking Differently about Diversity
“Our Beloved Community,” Lafayette’s second annual symposium on diversity and inclusiveness, included presentations by faculty followed by discussions…