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Sunrise on the South Side
Lehigh, its partners in the community and the City of Bethlehem join forces to foster South Bethlehem's resurgence.
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Lehigh, its partners in the community and the City of Bethlehem join forces to foster South Bethlehem's resurgence.
Collaboration will enhance student educational experience while continuing WLVR’s student-driven music programming.
The Washington Post’s executive editor returns to Lehigh to discuss his start in journalism and current challenges to the industry.
The Theranos’ saga at heart of Lehigh’s third Peter S. Hagerman ’61 Lecture in Ethics.
A team of Lehigh researchers works to better understand the mechanical properties of the von Willebrand Factor.
Materials science and engineering alum Patrice Banks ’02 launched Girls Auto Clinic in the Philadelphia area to educate and empower women who often feel at a loss about auto repairs. The clinic, which caters to women, is staffed by women mechanics and includes a nail salon and a play area for children. Banks has attracted national media attention. Her story was the subject of a Fox sitcom pilot, “Patty’s Auto.”
Biophysicist Javier Buceta and his collaborators from Spain have uncovered the scutoid, a previously unknown geometric shape which is adopted by packed epithelial cells during embryonic development. This discovery potentially could help advance tissue engineering, which seeks to create living, functional tissues to repair or replace diseased or damaged tissue. The discovery also has impact beyond biomedicine: “One does not normally have the opportunity to name a new shape," Buceta says.
Students across disciplines have pursued Impact Projects and conducted fieldwork through the Global Social Impact Fellowship. Belle Sullivan ’22, spent her summer working on the Mountaintop Mushroom Production Project. The project aims to produce mushrooms as resources for Sierra Leonean farmers, during their ‘hunger months.’ Sullivan grew up doing nonprofit work, however, she says, “My definition of doing good has changed. To me, doing good is about making a sustained impact.”
Lehigh Student Senate hosted their first annual Dîner en Blanc, a dinner celebration to culminate the 2018-19 academic year.
U.S. Representative Susan Wild learns about how Professor Babcock and his students are using fruit flies to study neurodegenerative diseases.
Students create crane-inspired models in their Arms, Wings and Mechanical Things class.
The HST Building will be home to our new College of Health.
Lehigh Choral Arts celebrates 150 years of organized singing this year.
Lehigh students studying in Costa Rica during their winter term, investigating the philosophy of and approaches to sustainable development.
Students in Professor Melpomene Katakalos class work on art projects in their Set Design class in the Mountaintop studio.
The men’s basketball team retired the jersey of CJ McCollum ‘13, shooting guard for the Portland Trail Blazers.
Baker Institute’s Chris Kauzmann mentors students during the 2019 Lehigh Silicon Valley program.
Ricky Kirshner, ‘82 has been the executive producer of the NFL Super Bowl halftime show for 13 years.
A new Parklet is up in front of Roasted on 4th Street in South Bethlehem, built by Lehigh’s Engineers Without Borders and Professor Pooley’s Lehigh Valley Parklets team.
The annual International Bazaar highlights and celebrates the global identities and perspectives at Lehigh and from our local community.
The “Purposeful Curiosity” class visits the Art Galleries to discuss collections.
Donors and scholarship recipients forge bonds through their love of Lehigh.
Women’s rights icon Anita Hill delivered Lehigh’s MLK address in Baker Hall.
Lehigh Special Collections’ exhibit celebrates the 300th anniversary of Robinson Crusoe.
Lehigh students immerse themselves in the dynamic world of Silicon Valley.
The scutoid is a new geometric shape discovered by a team of biologists & bioengineers including Lehigh’s Javier Buceta.
Professor Larry Snyder teaches students how operations research and machine learning protect vital supply chains.
Professors Ting Wang and Eric Baumer recently received NSF career awards for their engineering research.
