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The Impact of Immigrant Students’ Critical Consciousness on Higher-Education Outcomes

Germán A. Cadenas studies the link between the development of critical consciousness and Hispanic DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students’ intent to persist at public universities.

Golf Clubs and Social Classes in Mexico

Sociologist Hugo Cerón-Anaya studied three upscale golf clubs in Mexico City to explain wealth and privilege from the viewpoint of elites.

Tracing the Rise of Cubism in Prague

Art historian Nicholas Sawicki studies how two early collectors of Cubism narrated the movement’s history.

Examining the Connection between Air Pollution and Asthma

Epidemiologist Hyunok Choi focuses on the long-term impacts of prenatal exposure to air pollution.

Eric Baumer: A Human Approach to Algorithm Design

Baumer’s work ranges from humanizing algorithmic designs to the socioeconomic inequities of Facebook and online data privacy.

A Cultural History of the Ideas that Have Facilitated Antibiotic Resistance

Lorenzo Servitje examines how different media forms have posited the idea of antibiotics.

Corinne Post & Andrew Ward Explore the Importance of Board Independence

Professors of management test the theory that board independence builds stronger companies and better corporate governance.

Ethan Van Norman Develops a More Rigorous Approach for Identifying Effective Interventions

A nearly $900K grant from IES supports Van Norman’s work to develop a quantitatively rigorous and user-friendly measure of the effectiveness of interventions for students with disabilities and learning difficulties.

Uğur Z. Peçe Uncovers a Forgotten Part of the History of Crete

Peçe has spent his career exploring the perilous conditions faced by minority populations in Turkey. In a new book, he sheds light on a sectarian conflict that remains lost to history.

Coping with Stress during Pregnancy: Fathima Wakeel Studies the Factors that Impact Maternal Health

Wakeel seeks to identify the internal and social protective factors that help women cope with stress during pregnancy.

Anand Jagota Develops New Mechanisms to Improve the Effectiveness of Vehicle Tires

Jagota and his team seek to improve friction of soft materials.

Janet Laible Explores Brexit and the European Union

Laible edits a new book that examines the impact of Brexit on the European Union, which may be more of a problem for Britain than other EU nations.

Sara Kangas Provides Insight into High Percentages of English Learners with Disabilities in Schools

Kangas examines through multiple studies how state and federal policies and structural issues in schools can be barriers to learning.

A Search Engine for Datasets

Haiyan Jia and a team of Lehigh researchers works to create a dataset search engine prototype that allows users to find data online regardless of domain.

Confirmatory Bias in Health Decisions: The MMR Vaccine and Autism Controversy

Shin-Yi Chou and Ernest Lai investigate how conflicting information figures into health decisions.

Amber Rice Examines Carolina and Black-Capped Chickadees in the Hybrid Zone to Understand How New Species Arise

Rice investigates hybridization through ecological field research, behavioral tests, and population genetics and genomics.

A New Approach to Tissue Engineering: Lesley Chow Creates Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration

Chow and her team have demonstrated a new method to create continuous, highly organized scaffolds for tissue regeneration.

The Creation of Art & Knowledge at a University Museum

A Lehigh University Art Galleries exhibition of faculty work celebrates artists as researchers.

More Important than Ever

The COVID-19 crisis sheds light on the enduring importance of university research and the people who do it.

Philosophy Faculty Receive Grants from National Endowment for the Humanities

It is the first time in 60 years that two faculty from the same university have been funded concurrently for their respective research.