News Briefs

The David and Lorraine Freed Undergraduate Research Symposium, hosted by the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, takes place from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 27, in the main lobby of the STEPS building.

The event, now in its 16th year, brings together students from Lehigh University and Lafayette College to showcase undergraduate research achievement, celebrate experiential learning, and encourage students to use research to enrich their educational experiences.

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering welcomes Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the William L. Friend Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, as the inaugural speaker for the launch of its Costel Denson Distinguished Lecture Series.

Former U.S. Ambassador to India Richard Verma ’90, Vice Chair and Partner at The Asia Group and Lehigh trustee, will deliver the address at Lehigh’s 151st spring commencement on Monday, May 20.

Verma, whom Forbes called “one of the most consequential envoys to ever occupy the prestigious post,” is a distinguished and dedicated Lehigh industrial and systems engineering alum who has left his mark on the worlds of business, law, diplomacy, and the military.

At 644 meters—more than 2,112 feet—tall, the PNB 118 Tower, currently under construction in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will be an astonishing sight to behold.

Also impressive: The remarkable career of structural engineer SawTeen See, the woman behind the design of this megatall skyscraper, which is poised to become the fifth-tallest building in the world.

Stacey Cunningham ’96 will be presented with the Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in Industry at the ISE Annual Banquet, taking place on May 2, 2019. Cunningham is the President of the NYSE Group which includes the New York Stock Exchange and a diverse range of equity and equity options exchanges, all wholly owned subsidiaries of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE). She is the 67th President and the first woman to lead the NYSE Group in its 226 year history.

Ralph Tyrrell (Terry) Rockafellar, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle, will present the Spencer C. Schantz Lecture (Technical Talk), taking place in Mohler Laboratory Room 453 on April 24, 2019. Rockafellar’s lecture is titled “Risk and Reliability in Optimization Under Uncertainty” and will explore the role for so-called "measures of risk," which started to be developed for purposes like assessing the solvency of banks but now are being utilized much more widely.

Stacey Cunningham ’96, the 67th President of the New York Stock Exchange, will present the Spencer C. Schantz Public Lecture, taking place in Neville Auditorium on May 2, 2019.

Rossin College Professor and Dean Steve DeWeerth will be one of the panelists discussing "Interdisciplinary Research and Academic Integration" on Tuesday, February 19, the first of three upcoming panel discussions for Lehigh faculty and staff around the topic of “Taking Intellectual Risks."