Stories about Academics

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.

Lehigh professor Richard Vinci with students

Lehigh Community Remembers Professor Richard P. Vinci at Memorial Service

The service featured moments of remembrance from friends and colleagues.


Jessica Condolo Hubsch ’18G Awarded Fulbright Scholarship

The College of Education graduate will assist with university-level English language education in Portugal and serve as a cultural ambassador for the United States.

Linderman Library

Lehigh Receives Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant to Infuse Humanities Across Academic Culture

Three-year grant will support the integration of humanities teaching and scholarship across all disciplines through research, curriculum development and undergraduate student experiences.

Whitney P. Witt receives a Lehigh medallion as she is installed as dean of the College of Health, pictured here with Provost Pat Farrell

Whitney P. Witt Installed As Inaugural Dean of the College of Health

Provost Pat Farrell presented Witt with a Lehigh medallion during a dinner at the President's House.

Dean Whitney P. Witt meets members of the Lehigh community

Lehigh Community Welcomes Whitney P. Witt, Inaugural Dean of the College of Health

Members of the Lehigh community gathered at a reception to welcome Witt and hear her vision for the College of Health.