Director, Editorial Services
Editor, Lehigh Bulletin
Office of Communications and Public Affairs
(610) 758-6391
maa614@lehigh.edu
Mary Ellen Alu is director of editorial services in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs. She is editor of the Lehigh Alumni Bulletin, published three times a year; and she has played a key role in other publications, including the College of Education’s Theory to Practice magazine and Lehigh Business, the annual magazine of the College of Business. She also writes and edits for Lehigh’s online news sites.
Alu joined Lehigh’s communications office in 2014 after a lengthy career in journalism. She worked as an editor for AOL’s online news service, Patch; as an editor and reporter for The Morning Call daily newspaper in Allentown, Pa.; and as a reporter for The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She holds a Masters of Liberal Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Wilkes College (now University). She is the recipient of numerous writing and reporting awards.
Alu is a former co-president and board member of Families with Children from China – Lehigh Valley Chapter. She also served as an assistant troop leader for Girl Scout Troop 6008 based at St. Thomas More in Salisbury Township, Pa.
Benjamin Wright studied 23 Greek manuscripts that purport to tell the story of Aristeas
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Barbara Pavlock explores issues central to the poetics of the Roman poet Ovid
An international collaboration of leading jazz musicians will culminate in a 2015 tour
Constance Cook helps examine the topic of miraculous births of ancestral founders
This issue of the magazine explores the topic of leadership and the impact of CAS students, faculty, and alumni
Designer Erica Hoelscher teamed with the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium theatre to develop costumes and scenery for a production of Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros
Found object art has led Susan Kart to reconsider the history of sculpture
MLK Committee presents two lectures Wednesday as part of its series to celebrate the life and legacy of the slain civil rights activist.
iPhones, iPads and Kindle are changing how students learn.
Michael A. Smith was commissioned by Broward County, Florida, in 1989 to document its residents and their surroundings.
Lehigh’s Energy Research Center is helping to develop and test methods of using carbon dioxide from oil- and coal-fired power plants to enhance the extraction of geothermal energy from underground aquifers and rock formations.
Hector Muñoz-Avila will head the NSF's Robust Intelligence Cluster,
Designer Erica Hoelscher helped make costumes and scenery for a production of Eugene Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros.
Drew Endy returned to Lehigh in September as a Howard Hughes Visiting Scholar.
A letter from the editor of The Bulletin
The relationships among the Lenape Indians and colonists are at the core of new book
My evolving view of a great university
Scholars to explore race, religion and revolution in today’s world
