Since 2008, Lafayette College's Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP) has collaborated with several Honduran villages to improve their economies. These include Lagunitas, where students and faculty helped build a 30,000-plant coffee plantation and facilitated a trade agreement between the farmers and the Honduran Coffee Board, and El Convento, where EEGLP members are working with the community to establish cocoa-growing operations. Students and faculty visited residents of El Convento and Lagunitas in January 2012 to assess the progress of the projects.

Cur Non, family motto of the Marquis de Lafayette, means "Why not?" It's our rallying cry at Lafayette College. Why not use your intellect, talent, energy, and humanity to find your place in the world and make an impact? Why not have the courage and confidence to take risks, connect ideas, and care deeply about community? Why not engage in every aspect of campus life - leadership, internships, clubs, service, research, athletics, global study - to create your own destiny? Why not have the courage and confidence to take risks, connect ideas, and care deeply about community? Why not take pride in working hard and achieving results?

Interning with the New York Islanders

Michael Kelley '14 talks about his summer internship with the New York Islanders in group sales, ticket operations, merchandising, and communications, which was made possible by a stipend provided by Lafayette's Office of Career Services.

Five Lafayette College students discuss the summer internships they served in New York City. The employers were the New York Stock Exchange, the New York Islanders, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, Credit Suisse, and the Museum of Natural History. Some internships were hosted by Lafayette alumni and others were made possible through a stipend provided by Career Services.

More than half of Lafayette students study abroad for a semester, summer, January/May Interim, or on short service trips. Where do you want your global learning to take you? Environmental science in New Zealand? Theater inLondon? Civil engineering in Germany? Geology in the Galapagos Islands? Art and economics in Egypt?

Jenn Rossmann, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Lafayette College, published a study with one of her students on Wiffle ball aerodynamics in the American Journal of Physics. That led to an appearance in Yard Work, a documentary that offers an inside look into the wacky world of professional Wiffle Ball and its championship game, played each year in Texas.