In her senior leadership role, Beth Galetti '93 manages the recruitment, growth and development of Amazon's 560,000-plus global workforce—one of the largest and fastest-growing workforces in the tech industry. She is currently the only woman on founder Jeff Bezos' so-called S-team, a group of 19 senior executives, and has input into the company's most important decisions.
Costel ‘Cos’ Denson ’56 ’15H, a widely respected expert in polymer engineering and fluid mechanics and a true Lehigh pioneer who would become the first African-American to graduate from the university, passed away on April 23, 2018. He was 83.
The $6.6 million gift that Marion and George F. Keller ’44 quietly donated to Lehigh in 2017 speaks volumes about the salt-of-the-earth people they were. George, who earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering, loved walking his dog, camping, tinkering with cars and helping his neighbors. Marion was comfortable in a tent, on a sailboat, or at an elegant party and had a passion for wildlife. George and Marion’s marriage was a close bond that lasted 34 years before George’s passing in 1992. Marion passed in 2017.
When it comes to bringing a new drug to market, most people see only the end result: A bit of advertising and perhaps a prescription for their ailment. But it really does take a village: Countless numbers of mice, rats, rabbits, pigs, dogs and primates are killed in preclinical laboratory trials to assess the safety of all new drugs.
Dr. Misti Ushio ‘99G, founding CEO of TARA Biosystems, is poised to disrupt the drug development cycle.
Joseph Helble '82, Professor of Engineering and Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, was appointed Dartmouth's next provost by Dartmouth president Phil Hanlon. His term begins October 1.
As an undergraduate majoring in global studies, Jessie Garcia '12, '13G had no clue she'd be leaving Lehigh with a master’s in technical entrepreneurship (TE) or that a concussion from playing on Lehigh's women's rugby team would give her the idea to start her own company – one that is now entirely run by Lehigh students and graduates.
"I make it a point to learn 100 percent of my students’ first names by the second lesson,” he says. "It's a very effective way of saying, ‘I care about you as an individual.'"
