News Briefs

Stanford professor to give live-streamed talk on "Time-Dependent Earthquake Risk Assessment Modeling with Life-Cycle Analysis" on October 27

University of Michigan faculty member to discuss urban water management on October 26

The Rossin College is reconfiguring its leadership team to enhance support of its educational mission and bolster operations in recruiting engineering students and supporting them throughout their Lehigh journey.

Engineering researchers at Lehigh University have discovered that sand can actually flow uphill.

The team’s findings were published today in the journal Nature Communications. A corresponding video shows what happens when torque and an attractive force is applied to each grain—the grains flow uphill, up walls, and up and down stairs.  

A closeup of an intricate concrete design made via an innovative 3D-printing method developed at Lehigh adorns the cover of the September 2023 issue of Structure magazine. 

The magazine, which is a publication of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations, includes a feature article describing the “particle bed 3D printing by selective binder activation” technique. 

Jonas Baltrusaitis, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, will partner with researchers from Washington State University and Arizona State University on an innovative effort, funded by the Department of Energy, to produce a carbon-negative liquid fuel through a process that effectively recycles carbon emissions.  

The summer of 2023 at Lehigh ISE was full of scientific excitement! We held the 2023 edition of the prestigious annual Gene Golub SIAM Summer School and brought our flagship conference MOPTA to numbers even higher than pre-pandemic ones.