July 2016

The Office of Research & Graduate Programs

Welcome to the Office of Research & Graduate Programs. We are here to support you throughout your graduate education in the College of Arts & Sciences. Please reach out to us with any questions about the processes and timelines required to successfully complete your degree.

Main Office

Maginnes Hall, Suite 490
9 W Packer Avenue
Bethlehem PA 18015
610-758-4280
incasgrd@lehigh.edu
Monday - Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Psychology

The Department of Psychology offers distinctive research-intensive M.S. and Ph.D. programs with a focus on human cognition and development. Training is provided by a core curriculum and specialization in one of three intersecting clusters: cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and social psychology.

Political Science

The Department of Political Science offers graduate programs leading to the Master of Arts in Politics and Policy. Our department also offers a Master's in Public Policy (MPP). These programs prepare students for further study in political science, public policy, or the law as well as careers in business, public service, or nonprofit organizations. Students interested in state or local public service or nonprofit work may elect to take the Community Fellows program in which the student works for 15 hours per week for a local agency on a project related to community (re)development.

Physics

The department offers the M.S. and PhD in physics, with specializations in astrophysics; atomic, molecular and optical physics; biophysics; computational physics; condensed matter physics; nonlinear optics; and statistical physics.

Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics offers a program of study leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics, and the M.S. in statistics

History

The History department offers an M.A. and a Ph.D. The graduate program focuses primarily on the areas in which the department is particularly strong in faculty and resources: Atlantic World, 1500-1800, including colonial United States, and Industrial and Modern America, 1800-present, with emphasis on social, cultural, urban, environmental, and technology topics. Other areas in which faculty interests cluster are cultural and intellectual history and gender. Graduate classes are small and students have direct access to faculty members.

Environmental Policy

The Environmental Initiative offers an interdisciplinary M.A. in Environmental Policy Design that encourages both critical analysis of past and current environmental policy and constructive policy arguments for the future. Students gain the skills needed to understand environmental problems in the context of global interactions and to develop policy responses that can properly address these problems at all organizational levels.

English

The department offers the M.A. and PhD degrees with specializations in American, English, and Anglophone literatures and cultures, as well as an emerging emphasis in Literature and Social Justice.

Earth & Environmental Sciences

The department offers the M.S. degree in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Faculty interests and programs center on geological science, environmental science and ecology. Research opportunities include both laboratory and field-oriented studies. The department offers the Ph.D. degree in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Faculty interests and programs center on geological science, environmental science and ecology. Research opportunities include both laboratory and field-oriented studies.

Chemistry

The department offers an on-campus Ph.D. Specialization areas include analytical, organic, inorganic, physical chemistry, and biochemistry.