Stories about Research

Student tests flying drone

Mountaintop Summer Experience Wraps Up 10th Year

A total of 180 students and 25 faculty members spent approximately 10 weeks at Mountaintop’s Building C working on 36 different projects.

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Schematic: Saving Chimney Swifts

As part of research supported by a STEPS Environmental Fellowship, students drafted potential city ordinances to encourage the building of free-standing chimney towers designed for nesting and roosting Chimney Swifts.

Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor Archive Brought to Life

An interdisciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration celebrates the renowned late-20th-century writer.

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Lehigh Physicists to Probe Gravity’s Secrets at the Smallest Scales

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.

Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith

NIH Grant Funds Lehigh Researchers' Exploration of Lipid Membranes

Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith and Damien Thévenin envision that the models they produce will apply to multiple cell lines and flow conditions, and will lay the groundwork for future research directions.

Study is first to confirm lead in water causes adverse fetal health outcomes

Study: Lead in Water Causes Adverse Fetal Health Outcomes

Researchers from Lehigh and Bentley universities publish the first study that confirms a link between lead in water and adverse fetal health outcomes such as low birth weights and preterm births.

Anand Jagota

Anand Jagota Named Vice Provost for Research

Jagota will lead efforts to increase the impact and visibility of research at Lehigh.

the U.S. Capitol

Fascism in America: It’s Happening Here, According to Professor's New Book

Political scientist Anthony DiMaggio, in new book, says fighting fascism must become a regular topic of conversation in homes, schools and elsewhere.

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Lehigh Student Awarded Prestigious DOE Grant to Conduct Research at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Evan John Musterman's research is at the forefront of laser-fabricated single crystal architectures in glass. He is one of 80 students to receive the highly competitive award through the Office of Science Graduate Student Research program.

Andrew Knoll

Understanding Earth’s First Three Billion Years

Paleontologist Andrew Knoll ’73 wins prestigious 2022 Crafoord Prize in Geosciences.