March 2018

Yeast Adaptation Study Finds Diploids Evolve More Slowly than Haploids

Experimental evolution is a good way to enhance our current understanding of how genomes—or sets of chromosomes in an organism’s cells—evolve and the role of individual mutations in adaptation.

Carly Fiorina: On Leadership and Ethics

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina delivered the inaugural Peter S. Hagerman ‘61 Lecture in Ethics.

Improving Human-data Interaction to Speed Nanomaterials Innovation

Rickman's paper is the first to come out of Lehigh’s Nano/Human Interface Presidential Engineering Research Initiative, a multidisciplinary research initiative that proposes to develop a human-machine interface to improve the ability of scientists to visualize and interpret the vast amounts of data that are generated by scientific research.

Election of CAS Representatives to the Lehigh Faculty Senate

CAS will apportion its faculty senators as evenly as possible among the three divisions and a CAS at-large category. For the CAS senators elected by division, no department will have multiple representatives. Any vacancies arising during the terms of elected senators will be filled by special elections. In all other matters, the election and terms of CAS senators will follow the rules applied to University senators in general.

Approved by the CAS faculty on 2/5/2018

Undergraduate Academic Policies

The use of electronic devices in CAS classes

Unless their use is permitted or authorized as an accommodation of disability, no cell phones, laptops, tablets, e-readers, MP3 players, calculators, or other electronic devices are allowed to be used during any class, quiz, or exam in CAS, unless otherwise specified by the instructor. Electronic devices that are not permitted must be silenced and put away out of sight.

Approved by the CAS faculty on 12/5/2016

Exploration of Mars Topic of 2018 Feigl Lecture

IR/Economics major awarded Libraries Student Research Prize for excellence in scholarship and research

Lehigh undergraduate student Emma Stevenson ’18 was awarded a Libraries Student Research Prize for 2018. Sponsored by Library and Technology Services (LTS) and the Friends of the Libraries, the Prize recognizes excellence in undergraduate scholarship and the use of library and research resources.

Stevenson will complete a dual degree with a joint major in international relations and economics and global studies.

The use of electronic devices in CAS classes

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