Stories about College of Arts and Sciences

Ocean tester

Off-Axis High-Temperature Hydrothermal Field Discovered at East Pacific Rise

Spearheaded by the McDermott lab at Lehigh, the research demonstrates there are more hydrothermal vents in the deep-sea than previously thought and underscores a need for bathymetric mapping to locate them.

Grace Fuller

First-Year Lehigh Student Grace Fuller Makes NPR’s College Podcast Challenge Top 10

In ‘In Search of Home,' Fuller reflects on the experience of losing her home in the Colorado wildfires.

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Design: Benches as Art

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

LUAG Gallery

EXHIBITION: Young, Gifted and Black

The works will be on display through May 27 in the LUAG Main Gallery in Zoellner Arts Center.

Colorful close-up image of Lehigh University's Linderman Library rotunda stained glass

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.


LUAG Awarded Federal Grant for Program that Fosters Community Connections

The Institute of Museum and Library Services grant will support LUAG’s Taste of Art program.

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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.

Illustration with photos of various immigrants to the U.S. in the 1940s with words printed in background

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.

A house submerged in floodwaters following a hurricane

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.