Stories about Research

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Celebrating Gloria Naylor

An interdisciplinary project invites a broad audience to engage with the archive of a celebrated author in a variety of ways.

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The Ethics of Xenotransplantation  

Michael Gusmano examines the ethics and politics of animal-to-human organ transplants.

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Laura Katz Olson Investigates Impact of Private Equity Investment in Health Care

In new book, Olson provides insight into private equity’s “playbook.”


10.14.22: Our Future, Our Lehigh Strategic Planning Update

Campus-wide strategic planning engagement continues – 77 engagement sessions to-date and over 2,300 participants

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Multidisciplinary Research Team Receives $5 Million to Help Older Adults Recognize Online Scams and Disinformation

The National Science Foundation-funded project aims to reduce online fraud among older adults, who lose billions of dollars each year.

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Mountaintop Summer Experience Wraps Up 10th Year

A total of 180 students and 25 faculty members spent approximately 10 weeks at Mountaintop’s Building C working on 36 different projects.

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Schematic: Saving Chimney Swifts

As part of research supported by a STEPS Environmental Fellowship, students drafted potential city ordinances to encourage the building of free-standing chimney towers designed for nesting and roosting Chimney Swifts.

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Gloria Naylor Archive Brought to Life

An interdisciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration celebrates the renowned late-20th-century writer.

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Lehigh Physicists to Probe Gravity’s Secrets at the Smallest Scales

Physicists Sera Cremonini and Timm Wrase receive support from the National Science Foundation and firmly establish a string theory and high-energy physics group at Lehigh.

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NIH Grant Funds Lehigh Researchers' Exploration of Lipid Membranes

Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith and Damien Thévenin envision that the models they produce will apply to multiple cell lines and flow conditions, and will lay the groundwork for future research directions.