Alumni Updates

Bethlehem-based OraSure Technologies has been awarded a $710,310 federal contract to develop a pan-SARS-coronavirus antigen rapid in-home self-test that uses oral fluid samples.

Civil engineering and industrial and systems engineering alum Megan Calhoun ’00 ’01G has been recognized as an “Outstanding Woman in Construction Management and Design” for 2020 by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Civil engineering alum John Knecht’s 5-year-old son Jack loves Hot Wheels. When he asked his dad how long of a track they could make to run the cars, Knecht ’08 checked the Guinness Record, which had been set at 1,838 feet. The two decided to try to beat it. 

Choosing the direction for a capstone project was a no-brainer for Vince Sheehan ’18 ’19G, a recent graduate of Lehigh University’s Energy Systems Engineering (ESE) program. 

Electrical engineering alum Peifen Zhu ’15 PhD, an assistant professor of physics and engineering physics at the University of Tulsa, is a recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. 

She remembers really wanting to be an astronaut.

Industrial engineering alum Karen LaRochelle '88 has been appointed senior vice president of corporate and business development for WindMIL Therapeutics, a clinical-stage company, based in Baltimore and Philadelphia, that is developing marrow-infiltrating lymphocytes (MILs™) for cancer immunotherapy.

Computer science and engineering alum Andy Livadariu '93 has joined investment bank and wealth manager Oppenheimer & Co. as a managing director in the firm's Global Technology Investment Banking Group. He will provide strategic and capital raising advisory services in the enterprise application software (EAS) sector.

Mechanical engineering alum Denis Aslangil ’19 PhD received the first place prize for “best theoretical approach” during the National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Poster Competition at the 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition.