Oct 24, 2024
Supporting Student Innovation: Dyer Center’s Inaugural Venture Grants
Aligned with the aims of supporting Lafayette student innovation and fostering entrepreneurial opportunities, this fall semester the Dyer Center launched…
Alumni Connection
Nov 16, 2023
Making dreams take flight
By Stella Katsipoutis-Varkanis Remy Oktay ’24 in the cockpit of the fully electric Pipistrel Alpha Electro plane with pilot and plane owner, Phillip…
Apr 12, 2023
Simmone Taitt ’04 returns to campus to share her startup journey
By Madeline Marriott ’24 When Simmone Taitt ’04, once a corporate sales representative, was “bitten by the startup bug,” she was looking for the…
Mar 19, 2022
Creating solutions for community challenges
By Stephen Wilson Diving into a community project with entrepreneurial vigor is just what the Proctor Fellowship is designed for. James N. ’96 and Kara…
Mar 5, 2022
Dyer Center hosts fourth-annual real-estate competition
By Stephen Wilson For the fourth time, brave Lafayette students crammed 40 hours of real estate learning into a few weeks for the Real Estate Case Competition…
Dec 8, 2021
Dyer Center Celebrates Innovators, Creators, Risk-Takers
By Stephen Wilson With teenagers navigating a pandemic, standard summer jobs like mowing lawns have shifted into more modern small-business ventures, like…
Aug 4, 2021
Bergh Summer Accelerator 2021 Participants Update
By Michael Anzilotti Over the past 7 weeks, we have made significant developments on our prototype, conducted extensive market research, and established…
May 21, 2021
Students Pitch Big Ideas and Earn Investment Money
By Stephen Wilson Tired of hearing the host’s music at the party? Worried your recycled prescription bottles will lead to identity theft? Want to get…
May 21, 2021
Student Advances Entrepreneurial Programming at Lafayette
By Stephen Wilson In 2017, a first-year student from Turkey sat in the basement of Acopian Engineering, in what was then the IDEAL Center, interviewing…
Jan 7, 2021
From Idea to Startup
By Stephen Wilson Has this ever happened to you? A restless night’s sleep made worse by kicking covers down to the end of the bed? Well, no more. The…