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

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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.

Women engineers for soaring together feature

Lehigh Engineering Reflects on 50 Years of Coeducation

A special issue of the Rossin College’s research magazine, Resolve, highlights pioneering faculty and a new generation of Lehigh women excelling in engineering research and scholarship.

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Human Behavior, Climate Risk and the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

Y.C. Ethan Yang works with a team of researchers incorporating data on human behavior into a climate-risk modeling framework to improve resilience of critical water, food and energy systems.

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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.

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Henry Luce Foundation Grant Supports Research Opportunities for Women in STEM

Lehigh University received a $204,000 grant that will be used to engage more undergraduate women in engineering research over the next several years.

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New Multi-University NSF Hubs to Foster Entrepreneurial Startups, Broaden Opportunities for Underrepresented Groups

The Northeast region hub, led by Princeton University and including Lehigh, will accelerate tech and enhance diversity in entrepreneurship.

Stephen DeWeerth, dean of Lehigh University's P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science

Stephen DeWeerth Reappointed Dean of P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science

DeWeerth has led the Rossin College since 2016.

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Sam Banks '63 Endows Faculty Chair for Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Banks' gift will fund one of the highest academic awards that a university can bestow on a faculty member.

Anand Jagota

Anand Jagota Appointed New Associate Dean of Research in College of Health

Jagota retains his academic appointment with the Rossin College while taking on his new administrative role.

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Experts Reduce Search Times for Novel High-Entropy Alloys 13,000-Fold Using Cuckoo Search

A process developed by scientists at Iowa State University and Lehigh using a hybrid Cuckoo Search accelerates computational modeling of complex alloys.