Stories about Research


Study: More Women, Minorities in STEM? Address Social Oppression in the Classroom

Community college program proves effective in strengthening entrepreneurial and STEM skills of students―largely women, minorities and immigrants.

How airplane noise affects fetal health

Muzhe Yang: How Airplane Noise Affects Fetal Health

Yang examines the unintended consequences of an air traffic modernization project on babies’ birth weight.

Lehigh professor Hannah Dailey

Engineering Orthopaedic Care

Hannah Dailey ’02 ’06G ’09G seeks to bridge the gap in clinicians’ ability to predict how quickly bones heal.

Graphic Medicine

Bioethics: Not in Gotham Anymore

Lehigh neuroscientist Ann E. Fink uses comic-book form to explore the bioethics of treating a torturer’s PTSD.

A snail

A Superglue Inspired by Snail Mucus

Anand Jagota and fellow scientists have created a reversible superglue-like material.

Ugly Fashion is in

Ugly Fashion Is In

Ludovica Cesareo explores the appeal of garish—and expensive—fashion.

A schematic drawing showing a 3-D rendering of a cantilever in contact with the surface of a ferroelectric material.

Neural Network Technique Identifies Mechanisms of Ferroelectric Switching

Joshua Agar’s AI technique has allowed him and his team to identify and visualize geometrically driven differences in ferroelectric domain switching, an important advancement for next-generation computing.

Trademarks.

Trademarks: Worth the Cost?

Groundbreaking research by Qianqian Yu tackles the value of trademarks for startups.


From E-Commerce to Crowdfunding

Haoyan Sun studies the impact of platform dynamics on sales and fundraising.

Workers dig for conflict minerals in muddy river in Congo.

Two Lehigh Accounting Experts Uncover the Negative Impact of Conflict Mineral Disclosures on Capital Market 

Professors Parveen Gupta and Heibatollah Sami and other researchers study the impact of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act.