Stories about College of Arts and Sciences

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Design: Benches as Art

A furniture design course created benches for community use in art galleries.

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Meet Lehigh's Newest Faculty Members

Learn more about some of the more than 40 new scholars who have joined Lehigh's faculty this year.

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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.


Dismantling White Supremacy in Public Health

An analysis by Sirry Alang, associate professor of sociology and health, medicine, and society, suggests a new framework for dismantling white supremacy in public health.

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Embracing Our Excremental Selves

In her latest book, Mary Foltz examines the ways several postmodern authors produce scatological works to critique how humans treat each other and the natural world.

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Research from Joshua Pepper Explores How Other Planets Might Find Earth

New research from the professor of physics that asks which exoplanets could find Earth is featured in Astronomy.

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COVID-19: The Impact on U.S.-China Relations

A Q&A with Yinan He, associate professor of international relations and an expert on East Asian foreign policy.