Departments - Lafayette Magazine Spring 2019 · Lafayette Magazine Spring 2019

Explorations

Biology Professor Khadijah Mitchell brings her cancer research to Lehigh Valley community

Q&A

Oval Track Almanac by Van Walling ’77 is two volumes of raceway design, history, analysis, and blueprints

In the Marquis’ Footsteps

In this issue, we follow the Marquis de Lafayette to Lexington, the most populous town in Kentucky at the time, where he was feted nearly nonstop for 48 hours.

Ford Freshmen

History

The Ford Foundation was backing a program to send hundreds of young men and women, 16 or younger, to some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the nation, including Lafayette.

Final Word

In 1992, I was a first-year mechanical engineering major who wanted to study abroad. I had seen a poster on campus advertising a Lafayette program to study at an English-speaking college attached to Vrije University in Brussels, Belgium.