Stories about P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science

A visually impaired man holding a cane and smartphone.

Lehigh Researcher Awarded NSF Grant to Enhance Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities

Funding will support project that aims to provide digital maps to improve accessibility and navigation for persons with disabilities.

The Art leadership team from left, Dominic Packer, Lee Kern, Himanshu Jain, Henry Odi and John Coulter

NSF Awards $6M to Lehigh to Speed Up Translation of Research Into Actual Use

The new Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program addresses the gap between academic research and practical solutions for society’s complex problems.

Defend the Republic Drone competition

Lehigh Hosts ‘Defend the Republic’ Drone Competition at Mountaintop

Teams from eight universities compete in an event held for the first time at Lehigh.

STEM Visualizations team

Enhancing the Engineering Lab Experience

Lehigh's STEM Visualizations team pioneers an online simulator to propel students into a new realm of interactive and comprehensive learning.

Brian Davison and Anand Jagota working in lab

NSF Award to Aid Interdisciplinary Researchers in Detecting Cancer

The four-year project is working to determine whether patients have cancer, and possibly other diseases.

Drone work

Do Physical Connections Improve the Control and Performance of Robot Swarms?

A Lehigh research team explores the question by building novel control algorithms and linked robots. Prototypes will be put to the test in the Defend the Republic Drone Competition Nov. 17.

Provost Nathan Urban address symposium

Lehigh Symposium Puts Focus on Entrepreneurship

Community and business leaders are welcomed to campus for discussion on the role of universities in fostering innovation.

Still image of grains of sand flowing uphill

Defying Gravity? Lehigh Researchers Discover Sand That Flows Up

The discovery could lead to a vast range of applications in a variety of field including healthcare, material transport and agriculture.

Shalinee Kishore and Arindam Banerjee

Interdisciplinary Lehigh Team Awarded NSF Grant to Train Future Energy Leaders

Professor Arindam Banerjee will lead the team that will provide graduate students with the skills needed to pioneer solutions toward an equitable, decarbonized energy future.

Professors illustration of looking at experiment

Lehigh Professors to Conduct Experiments in Space to Study Thermophoresis

Experiments designed by researchers James Gilchrist, Kelly Schultz and Xuanhong Cheng head to the International Space Station to escape the limits of gravity.