Stories about Academics

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Lehigh Welcomes New Faculty for the 2024-25 Academic Year

Learn about new faculty members on campus this fall.

Paolo Bocchini

National Organizations Learn about Lehigh-led Center for Climate, Resilience and Equity in Catastrophe Modeling

Poised to establish and lead an Industry-University Research Center, Lehigh University hosted a workshop Oct. 17-18 bringing national experts in natural disaster risk and insurance to the Mountaintop Campus.

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Lehigh Business Students Invent Innovative AI Tool for Wealth Advisors As Part of FinTech Capstone Project

An AI-assisted note-taking tool created by a team of six Lehigh Business students provides experiential learning opportunity and potential benefits to wealth advisors

COB Dean

Manoj K. Malhotra Installed as Lehigh’s New Dean of the College of Business

Family, friends and colleagues celebrated Malhotra’s installation on Thursday at the Business Innovation Building.

Amber Rice studies chickadees

Lehigh Professor’s NSF-Funded Biology Project on Hybrid Chickadees Evolves into Free, Interactive Learning Module

Middle and high school students worldwide can now access lessons about evolutionary concepts and the impacts of climate change learned in Lehigh’s own backyard.

A robot hand touches a human hand in an illustration.

AI Exhibits Racial Bias in Mortgage Underwriting Decisions

LLM training data likely reflects persistent societal biases, but simple fixes can help, according to findings from Donald Bowen III, McKay Price and Ke Yang.

Carol Packard and  Manoj K. Malhotra

New Appointments Announced in Lehigh Leadership

New dean of Lehigh’s College of Business and new vice president for development and alumni relations are named.

Illustration of an Alley House

Innovative Program Aims to Address Lack of Affordable Housing

Architect Wes Hiatt leads the Alley House project.

Laura Katz Olson

Laura Katz Olson Celebrates 50 Years of Teaching at Lehigh

Olson continues ‘full steam ahead’ in her dream job at Lehigh. A new fiction book, ‘Wrinkled Rebels,’ is set for release this summer.

Bone models in Anzellini's lab

Bone Research Studies Romanian Social Structure, Health in Aging

Bioarchaeologist Armando Anzellini’s work includes using Raman spectroscopy and isotope ratio analysis to study human remains.