MSE, EES double-major earns prestigious NSF graduate fellowship

Henry Price ’23 just graduated with degrees from the Rossin College and Lehigh’s College of Arts and Sciences—though not everything has gone as planned for the double major in materials science and engineering (MSE) and earth and environmental sciences (EES).

“My original idea had been to stay at Lehigh and get a master’s degree,” says Price. “I had always been interested in pursuing a PhD, but was concerned about funding. With the GRFP, I’m able to move right into a PhD instead of waiting a few years and working after getting my master’s.”

Lauren Llantero: Running toward the challenges of studying fire

“Fire can kind of do whatever it wants,” says structural engineering PhD student Lauren Llantero. 

That unpredictability, she explains, makes it difficult to understand and quantify the effects of fire on different building materials. Add in variables about the type of fuel and the fire duration and the situation gets even more complex.

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