Stories about Research

A mother comforts her child.

Susan Woodhouse: ‘Good Enough’ Parenting is Good Enough

New research finds that caregivers need only 'get it right' half the time when responding to babies’ need for attachment to have a positive impact on a baby.

Runners at start of Lehigh Graduate Student 5K

5K Raises More than $5K for Graduate Student Conference Travel

The event celebrated the contributions of graduate students to the Lehigh community.

Head of Broccoli

Locally Grown Produce: Are Buyers Willing to Forgo Quality?

Phillip Coles, professor of practice in management, is among researchers who tested whether buyers would accept East Coast broccoli varieties with differing flower-bud size.

Collage illustration of Charlotte Smith's life map

Elizabeth Dolan Maps the Life and Legacy of Charlotte Smith

Dolan celebrates English Romantic writer Charlotte Smith by tracing and telling her story.

Boxes on a conveyor belt

The Causes and Impact of the Bullwhip Effect on Supply Chains

Oliver Yao and his team use data, interviews and observations collected along the supply chain to show one of the real causes and effects of the bullwhip effect.

Illustration of a book falling off of a desk

Jihyun Kim Examines How Teachers Perceive Their Teacher Evaluation Policy

Teachers' perceptions of these policies impact instructional improvement and teacher behavior.

Illustration of building with glass floor

The Glass Floor

Heather Johnson studies the inverse of the glass ceiling—an “invisible safety net” that keeps children from historically advantaged groups from falling down the ladder of success.

Visualization of the early universe, depicting particles in the quark-gluon "soup" which existed less than one millionth of a second after the Big Bang

Mapping How Big-Bang-Produced Quark-Gluon Plasma Became All Matter

Physicist Rosi Reed works with an international group of scientists and engineers to map quark-gluon plasma’s phase diagram.

Photograph of scutoid shape

Can the Scutoid Shape the Future of Regenerative Medicine?

The discovery of a new three-dimensional shape could advance understanding of cell topology and the field of regenerative medicine.

Man picking apples

Ahmed Rahman Examines How Technology & Lower-Skilled Immigrant Workers Impact Wage Distributions

Study observes how the interactions between technological growth and specialization patterns between native and immigrant workers affect wages earned by native workers.