News and Spotlights
Biochemist Oriana Fisher, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a $1.9 million Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore how bacteria respond and adapt to changes within their environments. This funding will provide...
Remembering Emeritus Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor Edward Evenson
Edward Evenson, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and distinguished scientist of glacial geology, died August 7 at his home in Mackay, ID. He was 80.
Born in Wisconsin in 1942, Evenson had an internationally...
Asian Studies program and Humanitites Center co-sponsor year-long sci-fi reading group centered around perspectives of imagination
One doesn’t need to be an educator to understand that humans learn best about a topic they find interesting and fun…like science fiction.
Annabella Pitkin, director...
Annabella Pitkin examines how communities respond to trauma, address suffering, and renew transformative relationships through practices of memory
Annabella Pitkin grew up in New York City, with its contradictions like unprecedented prosperity amidst stark poverty. As a teenager, the impact of...
Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, a team of Lehigh faculty are collaborating with colleagues at the University of Bordeaux, France, to develop advanced imaging techniques and innovative microscopic probes to determine how biological cells respond to force and to train U.S...
A Trip to Sierra Leone Highlights Student's Academic Experience
When Nahjiah Miller ‘24 joined the Global Social Impact Fellowship (GSIF), she had no inkling how impactful that experience would be. GSIFs are a highly self-selected cohort of undergraduate and graduate students from all...
Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) to support professional development programs for educators and teaching artists that focus on engaging and including diverse audiences in arts...
Justin Bennett '23 has always loved physics. As he put it, “for my entire life I contemplated the complexities of the universe.” But during and after his sophomore year at Lehigh, he had an opportunity to get more serious about heavy ions, and pursue a passion for nuclear physics.
With the...
Department of Energy grant funds physicist’s examination of the early universe
In the first few microseconds after the Big Bang, the universe consisted of a hot and dense state of matter called the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). This state of matter is essentially a "soup" of quarks and gluons, the...
Frances Tanzer, Kafka and his writing machine, 2021.
Historians define time as the progression of events from the past to the present into the future. Time can be measured, explained by a series of events. Historian Nitzan Lebovic is studying a collection of 20th-century German Jewish...
Physicists Sera Cremonini and Timm Wrase receive support from the National Science Foundation and firmly establish a string theory and high-energy physics group at Lehigh.
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ram ions traveling at speeds comparable to the speed of light, by which physicists can study the primal form of matter that occurred in the universe shortly after the Big Bang. These impacts and the properties of the matter produced in them are the focus of...
Amy Forsyth is always busy, constantly working on a new project. Chances are pretty good she will have a sketchbook with her and Forsyth’s latest project transitions ideas drawn on paper to designing and building furniture.
Forsyth, associate professor of design in the department of art,...
Environmental policy student works to help preserve the local environment while developing important restoration policies
Christina Thomas fell in love with economics and how it can be used to lay the groundwork for environmental laws and policies while an undergraduate student at Pace University...
Students develop an app to improve health of residents in Kazakhstan
Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, shares an unlikely trait with Los Angeles—smog.
Despite being a major commercial and cultural center, Almaty experiences extremely poor air quality due to coal-fired power plant...
Gap junctions are specialized membrane structures consisting of intercellular channels that connect adjacent cells in many tissues and organs. These structures provide chemical and electrical communication. They are assembled from connexin proteins. One protein, connexin 43 (Cx43) is universally...
In “Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms US Health Care,” Olson examines the negative consequences for healthcare businesses, taxpayers, patients and society; and proposes solutions.
Many natural systems, such as ecosystems, are examples of complex systems comprised of a large number of connections with interactions among them. The study of such stochastic models, where uncertainty and randomness are present, and their applications are at the heart of research by mathematician...
Nandini Deo took a unique approach to teaching South Asian Politics during the fall 2021 semester. Instead of learning just about the overwhelming problems that people are facing in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India, her students were inspired by activists who are creating solutions and affecting...
The professor of English and founding director of the South Side Initiative traces Bethlehem’s history in his latest project
Seth Moglen, professor of English and Africana studies has received a Public Scholars grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to complete...
