Stories about COVID-19

Yunyun 'Winnie' Gu ’19 ’21G creates mascot illustrations to help promote safety measures among students.

‘Be Clutch’: Grad Student’s Art Helps Launch COVID-19 Safety Campaign

Yunyun 'Winnie' Gu ’19 ’21G creates mascot illustrations to help promote safety measures among students.

Campus doors with Keep Lehigh safe signs

Hire-a-Grad Initiative Helps Grad Students Land Jobs, Experience

Lehigh develops creative approach to COVID-19-related problem.

people standing in line to get into a pharmacy

Lehigh Team to Study COVID-19 Health Toll

A multidisciplinary research project led by College of Health faculty member Fathima Wakeel seeks to determine the physical and mental health impacts of the pandemic.


How Lehigh Went Remote—In Four Days

Lehigh’s Library and Technology Services (LTS) and its Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) were thrust center stage.

Karen Sicinski

Essential Workers Provide Support, Keep Lehigh Safe

While the COVID-19 pandemic sent almost all of Lehigh’s faculty, students and staff home in early March, a small number of Lehigh’s essential workers remained on campus to provide support for students, manage university operations and keep campus safe. Here, we share some of their stories.

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A Campus Community Responds to Crisis

The strength, ingenuity and resilience of the Lehigh community have been tested—and will continue to be tested—like never before.


Students React to Online Learning

Lehigh students quickly transitioned to online learning, but many longed to be back on campus.


Spreading Cheer: Music, Face Mask Donations and Comics

Faculty, students, staff and alumni looked for ways to help their communities.

Move-In has a different feel, as will many of Lehigh’s treasured traditions in Fall 2020.

Class of 2024 Begins to Arrive at Lehigh

Move-In has a different feel, as will many of Lehigh’s treasured traditions in Fall 2020.


Developing a Faster, Simplified COVID-19 Test

Kathryn Kundrod and her fellow researchers aim for a test that can be used in a limited-resource setting.