Stories about Academics


Lehigh's Flex MBA Program Launches New Concentration

The business analytics concentration aims to give students the tools for better decision-making.

Lehigh University's Alumni Memorial Building

Lehigh to Host Robot Learning Workshop

The two-day October workshop is the second in a series of NSF-funded conferences and lectures hosted by the Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation (I-DISC).


Lehigh: Forging Forward

A letter from President John D. Simon '19P

World Breastfeeding Week

World Breastfeeding Week

Dean Whitney P. Witt addresses the effects of involuntary border separations on breastfeeding mothers & their children.

Sherry Buss, director of administration for Lehigh’s College of Health.

College of Health Hires Director of Administration

Sherry Buss will oversee the day-to-day management of the new college.

Halcyon Skinner, associate professor and associate dean for research in Lehigh's College of Health

Lehigh’s College of Health Welcomes Halcyon Skinner as Associate Dean for Research

Halcyon Skinner, who most recently served as director of data strategy at IBM Watson Health, joins Lehigh's College of Health.

Rendering of Lehigh University's health, science and technology building

Breaking Ground on the Health, Science & Technology Building

The state-of-the-art academic and research facility will connect Lehigh to South Bethlehem and bring greater vitality to the campus core.

Aerial view of Lehigh University's Mountaintop Campus

A More Rigorous Approach to Determining Intervention Effectiveness

A nearly $900K grant from IES supports Ethan Van Norman’s work to develop a quantitatively rigorous and user-friendly measure of the effectiveness of interventions for students with disabilities and learning difficulties.

Students walk outside of Lehigh University's Packard Lab

Three Lehigh Engineering Students Receive Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The Lehigh students and one recent alumna are among the 2,051 students offered fellowships in 2019.

Jar of Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise

Behold the Mayo: Researchers Reveal 'Instability Threshold' of Elastic-Plastic Material Using Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise

Professor Arindam Banerjee’s Rayleigh-Taylor-instability experiments confirm that the instability of elastic-plastic material is a function of initial conditions, such as amplitude and wavelength.