Undergraduate researchers win NIH award for innovative sickle cell diagnostic device

Interdisciplinary team, part of Lehigh’s Global Social Impact Fellowship program, recognized in 2021 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge

Their tickets were booked. Their schedules were set. The students were finally going to test their product on real people. But in July, Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 level spiked almost overnight, and Lehigh’s Sickle Cell Anemia Diagnostic Device team lost yet another opportunity to conduct fieldwork. 

PhD student Urinrin Otite: Daring to shatter the glass ceiling

“It took a lot of trial and error for me to realize that civil engineering is what I’ve always wanted to do,” says Urinrin Otite, a PhD student who began her graduate studies in the Rossin College earlier this year. “I noticed my love for understanding structures and how they stand and support themselves and translate the loads to the ground.”

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