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Belle Sullivan: Environmental Engineering
A Global Social Impact Fellow asks: can a savvy approach to mushroom production alleviate the 'hunger months' in Sierra Leone?
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Mickias Bekele: Computer Science and Business
A rising sophomore uses his summer wisely, learning the ropes of the software industry—from the inside.
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Caleb Leaser: MechE and Design
Through Lehigh's distinctive IDEAS honors program, a design engineer helps others see the world in vibrant colors.
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Ashleigh Crawford: Bioengineering
An undergraduate research scholarship leads to grad school and a laser-focus on vaccine development.
The Latest at the Rossin College
BioE Student Spotlight: Grace Duke
BioE Student Spotlight: Grace Duke
Name: Grace Duke
Where are you from/where is your hometown? Carmel, New York
...Bioengineering End of the Year Party, Spring 2024
Bioengineering End of the Year Party, Spring 2024
Thank you to everyone who came to our end of the 2023-2024 school year party on Friday, May 3rd. We had lots of great food and socializing. We were able to welcome our...
ERC grad student wins ‘Excellence in R&D’ award
Energy Research Center (ERC) graduate student Gabriel Bonsall ’23, who is pursuing a master’s degree in mechanical engineering, won the Best Student Poster and Excellence in Research and Development award at the 2024...
BioE Student Spotlight: Alexis Kelerchian
BioE Student Spotlight: Alexis Kelerchian
Name:
Alexis Kelerchian
Where are you from/where is your hometown?
Bucks County, PA
What degree type are you pursuing?
BS...
Reichmanis elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Elsa Reichmanis, Professor and Carl Robert Anderson Chair in Chemical Engineering in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts &...
Congratulations BioE Scholars: Undergraduate Research Symposium Recap
Congratulations Bioengineering Scholars! Our students took the 2024 David and Lorraine Freed Undergraduate Research Symposium by storm on Friday, April 19, 2024.
Five (5) undergraduate students from the Department of...
Graduate Student Spotlight
NSF fellowship opens path to PhD studies
Henry Price ’23 will continue on the research track he began as an undergraduate with support from the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). He's currently a master's student working with Nicholas Strandwitz, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, on semiconductor fabrication.
Hackathon sparks creativity around sustainability issues
Amanda Baran ’21 and Olivia Grimes ’21, PhD students and co-presidents of Women in Computer Science (WiCS), were lead organizers of Lehigh Hacks for Change, a 24-hour hackathon that challenged a hundred computer science undergrads to design apps tackling an issue related to sustainability, saving the ocean, or disaster management.
Using machine learning to help mitigate water crises
Having seen first-hand how weak infrastructure impacts communities in Nigeria, PhD student Oluwabunmi Iwakin strives to make water systems more resilient through his work in Lehigh’s Interconnected Critical Infrastructure Systems Engineering (CONCISE) Laboratory and the Energy Research Center (ERC).
Video: Biomaterials research targets knee injuries
Bioengineer Natasha Hunt '22 is staying at Lehigh to continue her work in The Chow Lab as a graduate student. The team is designing 3D scaffolds to address osteochondral defects in the knee. Hunt discusses her work on "modular biomaterials," which hold promise in helping repair injuries at the interface between bone and cartilage.
Engineering Departments
Interdisciplinary Research Institutes
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IRI: Diverse disciplines powering progressWe believe that interdisciplinary research is our best hope for addressing the complex challenges that lie ahead. Lehigh’s Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs) bring together leading faculty and graduate researchers from a variety of fields to focus on a specific challenge. This innovative approach allows these research teams to use their combined strengths to confront problems from every perspective and to develop multifaceted solutions.
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I-FMDThe Institute for Functional Materials and Devices (I-FMD) focuses on synthesis, fabrication, processing, and characterization of materials, devices and related systems. Existing research interests include photonics and electronics, metals, ceramics, biomaterials, polymers, and composites, and incorporate devices ranging in size from the nanometer and micrometer scales and beyond.
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I-DISCThe Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation (I-DISC) is devoted to the study of problems that involve massive amounts of data and/or large-scale computations, and developing the science that enables the extraction of useful and actionable information across disciplines and research fields.
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I-CPIEResearch within the Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) underpins all aspects of modern society. The demands and impacts of society’s reliance upon energy, communications, structural, and transportation systems requires a broad approach that’s focused not only on engineering systems, but on improving people’s lives.