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Students Bring Honduran Coffee Project Full Circle
Troy Reynard of The Cosmic Cup Coffee Co. in Easton, Sergío Aguilar, Richard Durham ’11, and Hannah Rhadigan ’11 in New York City. For the past several years, members of the College’s Economic...
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Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project Featured in The Chronicle of...
Richard Durham ’11, Luke Calvano ’12, and Anuradha Ghai, lecturer in economics, speak with Sergio Aguilar, regional director of the Honduran Coffee Board, in the coffee fields. A feature-length article...
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Students Are Helping Hurricane-Devastated Neighborhood in New Orleans Rebuild...
Donald Ellis ’11, Melanie DeFazio ’11 , and Jon Martin ’11 Professor David Veshosky is driving a rented red Borrego SUV through the empty streets of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward on a cloudy day in...
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Student-Faculty Team Works to Boost Economy of Honduran Village through Cocoa...
Perhaps you’ve read the book or seen the movie Like Water for Chocolate. In one small village in Honduras, it’s just the opposite: Villagers are learning to grow a variety of crops, including cocoa,...
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Caine Scholars Award Winner Luke Calvano ’12 Explores Economics on a Global...
This summer, Luke Calvano ’12 is using the knowledge he’s gained in economics and policy to advise businesses in the U.S. and abroad. He’s working as an intern in the New York City office of AMR...
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Taking Root: Students Help Honduras Coffee Project Come Full Circle
Rural Honduras is a long way to go for a good cup of coffee. But for a team of Lafayette students representing the College’s Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP), it’s worth the...
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Students and Faculty Work with Honduran Villagers to Minimize Effects of...
By Michele Tallarita ’12 This summer, an interdisciplinary team of students and faculty worked with residents of Lomitas, Honduras, to help improve stormwater drainage in the village, which experiences...
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Mapping Assets: Students Help Kentucky Nonprofit Maximize Strengths
They call it “Appalachian humanness,” the close-knit camaraderie and accepting attitude of people from the Appalachian region in eastern Kentucky. Or as Natalie Nollan ’17 says, “People in Appalachia...
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Turning Imagination into Action
On the surface, Letcher County, Ky., is one of the sickest American counties when it comes to health and wealth. A region that once was economically dependent on the coal industry has seen more than...
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West Baltimore Redevelopment Council Finds Inspiration Visiting Lafayette,...
WFMZ-TV Channel 69 reported on the West Baltimore Reimagining and Redevelopment Council’s visit to Musikfest in Bethlehem this weekend to find inspiration about how the arts can help form a foundation...
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