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Resolve Magazine: Volume 2, 2024

Amplifying Impact
Welcome to the Fall 2024 issue of Resolve—a magazine dedicated to research and educational innovation in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh University.

This issue of Resolve celebrates some of the many accomplishments of Lehigh’s three Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs). These “incubators of innovation” encourage our faculty to explore new research vistas through cross-disciplinary collaboration, while positioning Lehigh toward greater societal impact. Since their inception in 2018, the Institutes for Functional Materials and Devices (I-FMD); Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation (I-DISC); and Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) have grown to include more than 50 research teams, 150-plus faculty members from all five colleges, numerous graduate students, and diverse external partners in industry, government, and academia. Our feature explains how initiatives rooted in the IRIs have become central to the launch of Lehigh’s recently announced University Research Centers (URCs).

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Incubators of Innovation

Incubators of Innovation

In taking on the world’s greatest challenges, there’s strength, as the saying goes, in numbers. Since their founding in 2018, Lehigh’s three Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs) have grown to encompass more than 50 active research teams, over 150 faculty from across all five of Lehigh’s colleges, countless graduate students, and a wide variety of external partners in industry, government, and academia. The Institutes were designed to catalyze crucial research in areas in which the university could take a leading position and make lasting societal contributions, says Steve DeWeerth, dean of the Rossin College, and have been a crucial part of efforts to develop successful interdisciplinary team-based proposals.

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Reaction time

Reaction time

Research teams reimagine materials, processes, and the chemical industry as a whole to respond to pressing sustainability challenges

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Catching FYRE

Catching FYRE

Incorporating principles of User-Designed Inquiry (UDI) into the new First-Year Rossin Experience will transform how the Rossin College educates future generations of engineers

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Good Nanomedicine

Good Nanomedicine

Bioengineering researcher Anand Ramamurthi leads a team developing minimally invasive techniques that could transform the treatment of aortic aneurysms

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Letter from the Dean

Incubating innovation

Q&A

Proof positive: Q&A with Stephen S. Tang ’85G ’88G ’22P

Rising Star

Dream Team: A. Emrah Bayrak

Research Briefs

Timber-based wall system for earthquake resilience
Digging deeper into stability challenges of nuclear fusion - with mayonnaise
Exploring enzyme-polymer interactions
What’s next in semiconductors
A perfect storm
Balancing act
Expanding possibilities in sensor technology
Recovering valuable resources from utility waste
Wearable tech hits the soccer field in BioE-industry collab
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Resolve® magazine is devoted to Lehigh engineering research and educational innovation, highlighting exciting partnerships, projects and academic programs at our University.

Resolve® is published semiannually by the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Office of University Communications and Public Affairs at Lehigh University.

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