Jul 27, 2017
Acts of Love
During my senior year at Lafayette College, I read “The Many Lives of Robert Johnstone: How a Soldier’s Wish for Peace Is Still Making a Difference”…
Acts of Love
Jul 27, 2017
Trade Secrets
GOOGLE Google search algorithm is known as Hummingbird and is updated more than 500 times a year. LISTERINE Listerine was originally invented as a surgical…
Jul 27, 2017
On the Move
Pedro Barbeito DIRECTOR OF EXPERIMENTAL PRINTMAKING INSTITUTE From 2015 to 2017, Barbeito was a lecturer on printmaking at Yale School of Art. He’s taught…
Jul 26, 2017
President’s Message: A Sense of Common Purpose
Earlier this summer, we welcomed 1,200 alumni and family members back to campus for Reunion, an event that seemed to have particularly good energy this…
Jul 26, 2017
Editor’s Note: Ripples of Generosity
I am the granddaughter of a coal miner. I am the daughter of a retired public school principal. I am the recipient of a master’s degree from an Ivy League…
Jul 25, 2017
Green Building Giant
In 1848, more than 300,000 people from around the world boarded boats and wagons and headed to California lured by news of the Gold Rush. If Joel Cesare…
Jul 25, 2017
Stoking for Mother Earth
Waist deep in the Pacific Ocean, Joel Cesare ’04 is holding the tail of a surfboard, waiting for the perfect wave to give Jasmine a fighting chance in…
Jul 14, 2017
It Swims. It Squirts Water. It’s Robo Fish!
A student team spent the fall and spring semesters writing code, soldering wiring, and crafting and waterproofing parts from shape-memory alloy—all to…
Jul 14, 2017
Breaking History
Michael Schmidt’s first job after graduating in 2005 was as a clerk on the Foreign Desk at The New York Times, where he made photocopies, answered calls…
Jul 11, 2017
Wired for Success
Jeff Acopian ’75 can’t understand the fuss. What, he asks one dreary day in late March, is so interesting about the 60th anniversary of an unassuming…