With a $5 million gift to elevate the student experience, Julie ’20P ’21P and Jordan Hitch ’88 ’20P ’21P are providing for future generations of Lehigh scholars by being the first to support the New Residential Houses project—a dynamic new cluster of six residences being built west of the Clayton University Center at Packer Hall. Hitch House and two other houses will be available to students starting Fall 2020.
The Volume 2, 2019, edition focuses on the new picture of health care at Lehigh, a Q&A with the College of Health Dean and engineering's newest degree - Biocomputational Engineering
Through a generous gift from the Van Hoesen family, we are pleased to announce the fifth annual Van Hoesen Family Best Publication Competition. The competition is open to all Lehigh ISE department students. The 2019 Selection Committee is comprised of Professors Ralphs (Committee Chair), Takáč, and Scheinberg.
Rules:
1. The contest is limited to students enrolled in the ISE department this semester (Spring 2019).
Donald Hillman, an emeritus professor of computer science at Lehigh and a pioneer in artificial intelligence, died in October 2018. He was 86.
Born in London, England, in 1931, he had survived the Blitz on London, enduring five months of nightly air raids by the Nazis. He spoke four languages, shook Winston Churchill’s hand, painted, drew and cooked like a pro. He played the guitar and was a master at the piano. He fought in the Korean War and was commissioned as a Captain upon his discharge.
There’s a recognized gap between the experts who develop new algorithms and computational methods, and those who apply and adapt those technologies in specific domains.
It’s a vexing interdisciplinary gap, and through its TRIPODS + X program, it is one that the National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to bridge.
Civil engineering alumnus Karl H. Frank ’69G, ’71 PhD will return to Lehigh on April 12 as the final speaker of the 2019 Fazlur Rahman Khan Distinguished Lecture Series, bringing with him 50 years of experience in the research and design of fabricated steel.
The decision of where to attend graduate school—particularly for those with plans to pursue doctoral studies—can be a daunting one.
Students across majors and universities will participate in LFGhacks 2019, the inaugural FinTech hackathon hosted at Lehigh by Lehigh FinTech Group (LFG).
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 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.
