News Briefs

Sixty middle school students participated in the Rossin College’s annual spring CHOICES event, held virtually on March 26, 2021.

CHOICES—which stands for Charting Horizons and Opportunities in Careers in Engineering and Science—was founded in 1993 to build girls’ interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The outreach program, a long-standing partnership with Bosch Rexroth led by Lehigh’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), has adapted to an online format during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Dartmouth College provost and professor of engineering will assume the presidency on August 16

Sam Banks wanted to be an engineer, and had heard about Lehigh’s reputation as an outstanding engineering school. “Also, I figured it must be the right place, considering that the student body was known as the Lehigh Engineers,” Banks joked. 

Bioengineering researchers at Lehigh have identified a previously unknown interaction between receptors in human cells and the spike, or “S,” protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This new information could aid in the development of new strategies to block SARS-CoV-2 entry into human cells.

Director of Lehigh’s Energy Systems Engineering program leads team of international experts to produce IAEA report outlining benefits of wireless technology and guidelines for use in instrumentation and control systems

Safety concerns are always a part of the debate around nuclear power and its place in a growing global shift toward cleaner, low-carbon sources of energy. 

Chemical engineering alum, a director in Regulatory Chemistry and Manufacturing Controls at Pfizer Inc., has served on DAC since 2017

Chemical engineering alumna Christine (Chris) Seymour ’89 ’21P ’25P has been appointed as the vice chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC) of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, effective immediately.

The Lehigh Business IlLUminate podcast recently spoke with Alberto Lamadrid, an associate professor of economics who is affiliated with Lehigh's Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE),  about the recent massive failure of the Texas electrical grid and what lessons we should learn from it.