News Briefs

Specialty tours are offered on select dates that provide an overview of specific Lehigh engineering disciplines. These sessions are open to all visitors; please arrive at the Admissions Office in the Alumni Memorial Building 15 minutes prior to the tour's scheduled start time. Advance registration is not required. See below for tour dates and times.

 

See College Tours and Information Sessions for a complete listing of undergraduate tours.

 

Bits, Bytes, Volts, and More: Computing, Electronics and Systems

On Monday, November 6, 2017, Lehigh is hosting a DataX Fall Symposium entitled “TMI: The privacy risk of social media addiction” in STEPS 101 (1 West Packer Ave in Bethlehem) from 4:00pm to 5:30pm.

 

The symposium is co-sponsored by Seton Hall School of Law. Representatives will be available to meet with attendees who are interested in pursuing a law degree.

 

Lehigh University invites your participation in its fall series of Professional Masters webinars on November 6, 2017. These webinars are the perfect opportunity to learn how earning one of these degrees can significantly impact and advance your professional career.

 

Lehigh University presents its 2018 Healthcare Systems Engineering Symposium on May 24, 2018 featuring federal initiatives, state policy and current implementations on telehealth

 

Lehigh University presents its 2018 Healthcare Systems Engineering Symposium on May 24, 2018 featuring federal initiatives, state policy and current implementations on telehealth.

 

Traveling exhibit on campus May 5-6 celebrates famed structural engineer's life and work

 

This international traveling exhibition celebrates the life and work of one of the greatest and most inventive structural engineers of the 20th century, Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979).

 

The impact of plastics on the environment and the lack of appropriate recycling have been brought to light in the national press. What are the problems of plastic recycling and how efficient are the solutions?

 

Jonas Baltrusaitis, assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh University, will present a talk in recognition of Earth Day 2018 about the problems of plastic recycling.

 

Date: Sunday, April 22, 2018

Place: Nitschmann Hall, Christian Education Building, Central Moravian Church, Bethlehem

Jennifer W. Weller, NSF Program Officer and BIO Directorate, Division of Biological Infrastructure, presents at the next DataX seminar series, "Bioinformatics Funding at the National Science Foundation: The Advances in Biological Informatics Program."

 

Weller will be available to meet with student groups, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty to discuss programs that direct funding towards their groups, as well as for one-on-one conversations with individuals interested in other DBI or BIO Directorate programs.

 

Interested Lehigh graduate students and faculty are cordially invited to the first in a series of Institute for Functional Materials and Devices (I-FMD) workshops on the availability of advanced experimental techniques and resources.

 

Workshop: "Realizing cutting-edge materials and biomedical research with synchrotron radiation"

Date: April 9, 2018

Place: Wood Dining Room, Iacocca Hall

Time: 9:00 am - 12:30 pm: Presentations; 1:30-4:00 pm: Exploratory discussions with NSLS-II personnel

 

Lehigh University will host the world's first "Students Seeking Solutions - Sustainable Development Goal #6 - Clean Water and Sanitation" at United Nations headquarters in New York City.

 

Date: Friday, April 20, 2018

Registration Cost: FREE

Transportation: $25 - Bus departs Lehigh at 6:00 am and returns at 7:00 pm

Webcast: UN Web TV Conference Room 2 (English)

 

U.S. News and World Report published its Best Graduate Schools 2019 guidebook Tuesday, ranking the nation's colleges and universities offering doctoral degree programs.

 

Lehigh University's Rossin College of Engineering ranked 61st out of 199 schools participating in the survey. Under Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs, Rossin College ranked 46th out of 93 schools.