News and Spotlights
When Professor of Mathematics Don Davis retired after the spring 2024 semester, he received many accolades, but he also got an unexpected retirement gift.
The tributes were not surprising for a highly regarded and dedicated teacher of undergraduates for 50 years, who saw his students go on to...
Xavier Piccone ’24 studies an energy infrastructure and its impact on political and economic systems
Growing up an hour south of Bethlehem, Xavier Piccone ’24 has always been captivated by Pennsylvania’s nature, as well as its rich history.
“Lehigh gives me a chance to continue experiencing...
A trip to Jordan brings insight into archaeology
Niko Jones ’24, a double anthropology and political science major, chose Lehigh because of the great study abroad and research opportunities it promoted. He wanted to make sure he could travel while getting his education and take advantage of...
Joan Ramage (left) with COI vice chair Jed Hancock from Utah State University.
Joan Ramage, professor of Earth and environmental sciences, was elected chair recently of the Council of Institutions. The Council of Institutions (COI) of Universities Space Research Association (USRA), which...
Audiences attending the off-Broadway premiere of the play House of Telescopes entered a magical world fashioned collaboratively by three Lehigh theatre faculty and an alumnus of its theatre program.
Directed by Lyam Gabel, assistant professor of theatre, the play explores the journey of Fable, a...
Spencer Duff began his journey as a chemical engineering major. He’ll graduate with a national theatre design award under his belt and an IDEAS bachelor’s degree.
Spencer Duff’s future is illuminated by possibility.
As he reflects on the last three years at Lehigh Duff, of Newark, Delaware will...
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...
Former photojournalist Jennifer Midberry teams with trauma surgeon and epidemiologist to analyze how gun violence reporting can harm survivors and communities.
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...
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...
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...
