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David Rea: Automating Fairness

Rea studies ways to embed fairness in operational systems for service industries, including health care and food distribution.

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Cultivating Lab-grown Meat

Kelly Schultz leads a team of researchers in a project considered key to future sustainability.

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How Do Powerful Winds Affect Tall Buildings?

Lehigh researchers co-organize and host a collaborative workshop to demonstrate advancements in hybrid simulation to investigate how high winds impact the structural integrity of a 40-story building.

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A Mechanistic and Probabilistic Method for Predicting Wildfires

Lehigh researchers explore ignition probabilityan important step in wildfire risk analysis.

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Junk Food’s Influence on Politics, Policy and Society

Eduardo J. Gómez investigates how processed food companies sway politics and policy in emerging economies.

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Junk Food Politics in Action

Eduardo J. Gómez, professor in Lehigh’s College of Health, joins NPR's Goats and Soda to talk about his latest book, Junk Food Politics.

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Examining the Early Universe

Physicist Anders Knospe receives an Early Career Research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study ion collisions.

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Dice, Divination and the Silk Road

Constance Cook decodes an ancient manuscript to find a connection between gaming and divination.

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Helping Autism Educators Through Project STAY

Kristi Morin develops Project STAY to help new teachers working with autistic students and improve teacher retention.

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Modern Islam and the West

Khurram Hussain, associate professor of religion studies, takes a human-centered approach to reimagine where modern Islam belongs in the West.