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Vassie Ware’s study of ribosomes leads to new understandings of how proteins form

Melissa Fricke ’06 is improving life for children in Uganda

With a simple test, Myla Goldman ’94 is helping to pave the way to better drug testing for people with multiple sclerosis

The community health research cluster treats the community as an equal partner

Natalya Surmachevska ’14G examines the impact of glaucoma in Ghana

Steven Sametz, professor of music, joined a select group of artists in late February when he spent three weeks on a residential fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to work on his latest choral composition.

Lucy Gans, professor and chair of the department of art, architecture and design, was recently named the first holder of the Louis and Jane Weinstock ’36 Chair of Art and Architecture at Lehigh University.

A group of students at Mountaintop hope to aid young stroke victims with 3-D-printed devices.

Professor of biological sciences Murray Itzkowitz, led a group of students in understanding the environment that best promotes the endangered pupfish’s mating and thus, chances for survival.

Lehigh’s GR2OW team aims to close the food loop on campus.

Jumping into two Mountaintop projects this summer, Bryan Berger is hoping that the students he is mentoring will not only get the experience of working on diverse, cross-disciplinary teams, but that they will also find feasibility in their projects and continue their research into the academic year.

When we began work on this issue of the Bulletin, we knew we had a real challenge on our hands. After all, Lehigh President Alice P. Gast, whose tremendous legacy we examine in the pages that follow, has been a hugely successful and transformative leader during her time on South Mountain. It is safe to say, in other words, that has she built quite a legacy here.

On April 26, my wife Valerie and I celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary. With a pub crawl. I know what you’re thinking: Bob, you are such a romantic! But before you judge me, you have to know that this wasn’t just any pub crawl. It was the Fells Point Haunted PubWalk, hosted by the Lehigh Club of Baltimore.

When members of the Lehigh community gather in New York City next fall to watch Lehigh take on Lafayette in Yankee Stadium, they’ll be treated to more than the 150th meeting of the nation’s most frequently played college football rivalry.