News and Spotlights
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...
Euan Forrest ’23 combines dual majors with soccer to create a fully rounded Lehigh experience
Choosing Lehigh was a no-brainer for Euan Forrest ’23.
“First, I knew that Lehigh would give me the opportunity to academically pursue everything that I was interested in and set me up for success...
Mahboubeh Boueshagh never saw snow in her hometown in the Khuzestan Province of southwestern Iran. But as a Lehigh Ph.D. student, she is deep into snow—immersed in data in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences’ Remote Sensing Lab. The snowpack data she examines is significant as...
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...
Uganda Sustainable Livelihoods Program Offers Life-Changing Experiences
Chae Eun Kim ’22 entered Lehigh without declaring a major, weighing interests in teaching, marketing, and environmental science before majoring in sociology and anthropology. But the key to her eventual career came...
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...
Frances Tanzer, Kafka and his writing machine, 2021.
Historians define time as the progression of events from the past to the present into the future. Time can be measured, explained by a series of events. Historian Nitzan Lebovic is studying a collection of 20th-century German...
Deirdre Murphy is a Philadelphia-based painter whose art is constantly evolving while staying grounded in the patterns and perspectives of science and nature.
Feathering the Nest
Artists of all stripes try to capture and represent moments that have made an impression on them. These moments...
A mile-long park in Denver, Colo., has become a place where the past meets the present, reflected in four public art installations created by artist Wes Heiss. Filtered through the creative vision of Heiss, associate professor of product design in the Department of Art, Architecture and Design,...
Physicists Sera Cremonini and Timm Wrase receive support from the National Science Foundation and firmly establish a string theory and high-energy physics group at Lehigh.
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ram ions traveling at speeds comparable to the speed of light, by which physicists can study the primal form of matter that occurred in the universe shortly after the Big Bang. These impacts and the properties of the matter produced in them are the focus of...
Amy Forsyth is always busy, constantly working on a new project. Chances are pretty good she will have a sketchbook with her and Forsyth’s latest project transitions ideas drawn on paper to designing and building furniture.
Forsyth, associate professor of design in the department of art,...
Environmental policy student works to help preserve the local environment while developing important restoration policies
Christina Thomas fell in love with economics and how it can be used to lay the groundwork for environmental laws and policies while an undergraduate student at Pace University...
Funded by an NSF grant, biologist and PhD student Nicole Pittoors travels to great depths to measure the health of the ocean.
When people hear the term research cruise, they tend to focus on the word cruise. Ph.D. student Nicole Pittoors focuses on the research. She loves these excursions because...
Students develop an app to improve health of residents in Kazakhstan
Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, shares an unlikely trait with Los Angeles—smog.
Despite being a major commercial and cultural center, Almaty experiences extremely poor air quality due to coal-fired power plant...
Gap junctions are specialized membrane structures consisting of intercellular channels that connect adjacent cells in many tissues and organs. These structures provide chemical and electrical communication. They are assembled from connexin proteins. One protein, connexin 43 (Cx43) is universally...
Did the trend toward majority votes over consensus in England’s 17th-century Parliament sow seeds of potential discord in future democracies?
At a global moment when the resilience of modern democracies is being tested, William Bulman’s new book, The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern...
In “Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms US Health Care,” Olson examines the negative consequences for healthcare businesses, taxpayers, patients and society; and proposes solutions.
Many natural systems, such as ecosystems, are examples of complex systems comprised of a large number of connections with interactions among them. The study of such stochastic models, where uncertainty and randomness are present, and their applications are at the heart of research by mathematician...
