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Awards and prizes were presented to 114 students in all four of Lafayette's academic divisions -- engineering, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.
Elisabeth Day of Greenwich, Class of 2014, a graduate of Loomis Chaffee School, received the Vivian B. Noblett Prize in Studio Art. It is awarded to art majors--with preference given to a student with an interest in studio art--who have demonstrated proficiency in painting and drawing and who shows potential for future achievements by the Department of Art .
The keynote speaker was Brent Glass '69, director emeritus of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, a national leader and public historian, author, television presence, and international speaker on public memory and museum management.
Lafayette is a top liberal arts college with 2,400 students and 215 full-time faculty that offers a wide variety of undergraduate degree programs including engineering.
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