News and Spotlights
Quilting has a centuries old tradition. People in nearly every part of the world have used padded fabrics for clothing and bedding. The quilt, as we know it in America, was originally a utilitarian article, born of the necessity to provide warm covers for beds, but quilting is an art form being...
Lehigh’s Annual Conference in Philosophy will take place on Thursday, October 27, and Friday, October 28, in Linderman Library. The theme for this year’s conference is “19th Century Philosophy: 1781-1905.” At the fourth annual conference, Lehigh will host 26 scholars from 22 universities across the...
Almost 150 people turned out in protest last fall when the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) held a hearing on a 48,000-square-foot waste-to-energy plant that the city of Allentown is proposing to build next to its wastewater treatment plant along the Little Lehigh Creek.According...
When Lewis Carroll penned Alice in Wonderland, he challenged readers’ perceptions of space and reality. A recent project developed by a team of Lehigh faculty and students challenges perceptions of space as part in an architecture competition.Lead by Wesley Heiss, assistant professor of design, and...
Lucy Gans, professor and chair of the department of art, architecture and design, was recently named the first holder of the Louis and Jane Weinstock ’36 Chair of Art and Architecture at Lehigh University.Gans teaches sculpture and drawing and is also an affiliated faculty member in the Women,...
Composer Steven Sametz has been named the recipient of the 10th Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize presented by the University of Connecticut, a $25,000 award to compose a new work to be premiered in Connecticut in 2015 and reprised at Lehigh.The proposed project, tentatively...
Architect Nik Nikolov joined a select group of designers when he received the 2016 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Small Projects Award, May 19 at the AIA’s annual conference in Philadelphia, Penn.Nikolov, assistant professor of architecture in the department of art, architecture and design...
In the summer of 1966, James Meredith, who had been the first black student admitted to the University of Mississippi, began a walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, MS, to encourage blacks to register to vote. Aubrey James Norvell, an unemployed white man from Memphis, shot Meredith three times...
HIV/AIDS is a leading factor contributing to health declines in poor nations, where more than 95 percent of the 33.2 million people infected with HIV live. The spread of HIV/AIDS has been especially detrimental to women in poor nations and is the focus of research by environmental sociologist Kelly...
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) faculty gathered March 23 at the annual CAS Dean’s Award dinner to recognize excellence in research, scholarship and creative activity, as well as awards for advising. Donald E. Hall, Herb and Ann Siegel Dean of the College, served as emcee for the evening as...
Rachel Sternberg '16 was recently awarded a Libraries Student Research Prize for excellence in scholarship and research.Sternberg, a biology major, was recognized for her review "Similarities and Differences in the Cohesinopathies of Roberts Syndrome and Cornelia de Lange Syndrome." Sternberg wrote...
Theater. A field of study whose acknowledgement is often lost amid Lehigh’s popular majors, like mechanical engineering, accounting or computer science that dominate academic life. Its absence from most of the student body conversation can lead to a common misconception that theater is an area...
