Stories about Academics

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Economic Risk Now Biggest Threat to Supply Chain

Supply chain managers have their hands full with everything from border delays to labor shortages to a global energy crisis.

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Lehigh Ranks Among Top 10 in Online MBA Programs

Poets & Quants ranks Lehigh among the country's top online MBA programs for the fifth consecutive year.

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Lehigh Engineering Reflects on 50 Years of Coeducation

A special issue of the Rossin College’s research magazine, Resolve, highlights pioneering faculty and a new generation of Lehigh women excelling in engineering research and scholarship.

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Muzhe Yang Examines the Unintended Consequences of External Factors on Mothers and Babies

Yang’s work explores how the circumstances of maternal employment and other environmental factors impact maternal health, fetal health and infant health.

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Human Behavior, Climate Risk and the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

Y.C. Ethan Yang works with a team of researchers incorporating data on human behavior into a climate-risk modeling framework to improve resilience of critical water, food and energy systems.

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Remaking the Nervous System: Michael Layden Studies the Starlet Sea Anemone, Nematostella, to Understand Neural Development, Evolution and Regeneration

Michael Layden turns to the starlet sea anemone to better understand neural development and how the human brain evolved, and potentially improve treatments of central nervous system disorders.

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Tracing the Roots of U.S. Deportation Practices

Historian Emily Pope-Obeda explores U.S. deportation practices and their impacts, focusing on the 1920s when deportation “came of age.”

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Lei Wu Develops Novel Mathematical Methods to Quantitatively Characterize Multi-scale Models for Kinetic Theory

Wu explores Hilbert’s sixth problem to determine which mathematical approach to use in a particular regime.

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A Sharper Focus on Catastrophe Modeling

Paolo Bocchini, Daniel Conus, Brian Davison and their colleagues leverage their collaborative experience in probabilistic modeling to sharpen their focus on catastrophe modeling, a discipline not traditionally explored in academia.

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Lehigh Business Grads Talk About Their Journeys Through the Business World

The College of Business celebrates 50 years of coeducation in Fall 2021 magazine issue.