News and Spotlights
Lehigh students received national accolades when 32 design students in the department of art, architecture, and design (AAD) took home awards in the 2024 Graphis New Talent Design Competition.
“Our graphic design students competed against BFA, MA, and MFA design students from prestigious...
Working together, a deep-sea robot and human occupied submarine led the discovery
The pace of discovery in the oceans leaped forward thanks to teamwork between a deep-sea robot and a human occupied submarine leading to the recent discovery of five new hydrothermal vents in the eastern Tropical...
A new interdisciplinary project in the College of Arts and Sciences creates a home for community-facing, action-oriented urban research
A new initiative in Lehigh’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is bringing together faculty and students from across the University to research and develop...
Ph.D. student Casey Kies hopes to cement in history one of Lehigh’s first graduates
For historians, it can be a challenge to empathize with historical subjects and understand their motivations and temperaments.
But second-year history Ph.D. student Casey Kies is finding a lot to admire about...
Former photojournalist Jennifer Midberry teams with trauma surgeon and epidemiologist to analyze how gun violence reporting can harm survivors and communities.
Director Héctor Alvarez explores a form of theater that breaks the rules of traditional drama
When theater director Héctor Alvarez was growing up in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes, UNESCO declared the town a World Heritage Site. Soon, millions of Euros from...
Journalist and author Victor Luckerson will speak about the history of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and its resulting impact when he presents a lecture titled, Beyond the Massacre: The Legacy of Tulsa's "Black Wall Street," February 28, 2024, 6:00 p.m. in room 108 of the Business...
Ph.D. student explores the literary intersection of health and horror
Bodily mutilation. Flesh-eating bacteria. A highly contagious virus of unknown origin. Any of these conditions has the makings of a blockbuster horror film or bestselling novel. They all have their roots in our real-life...
Chemistry Ph.D. student receives a National Science Foundation award to help others take a less-traveled path to the sciences
Dane Santa didn’t follow a conventional path to a Ph.D. program in biochemistry.
Santa had no real aspirations of going to graduate school six years ago. He was working...
Lehigh art historian Florencia San Martin curates an exhibition in Chile to commemorate the ongoing impact of the 1973 US-backed military coup.
On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military, led by General Augusto Pinochet, staged a US-backed coup against the democratically-elected socialist...
In the early hours of May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls and a crew composed of fellow slaves, stole a cotton steamer in Charleston, SC, picked up family members at a rendezvous point, then navigated their way through the harbor. Once clear of the harbor and outside of Confederate waters, he had his crew...
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...
Amaya Apolinario has undeniably made the most of her four years at Lehigh. The senior, who hails from the small town of Clinton, North Carolina, will graduate in May with a double major in English and Japanese. In addition to her rigorous course load, Apolinario is also involved with several...
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...
Terry-Ann Jones examines the experiences of seasonal, migrant sugarcane workers in Brazil, providing insights in the country’s deep-seated inequalities
Thousands of workers from northeast Brazil make the journey to plantations in the more affluent southern part of the country each year to manually...
Environmental Policy Student Examines Impact of Conservation in Uganda
Margaux Petruska ’21 '23G, a student in the Environmental Policy program, spent four weeks in eastern Uganda in summer 2022. Clad in a long skirt in the summer heat, Petruska worked with a translator interviewing...
