Lehigh earns NSF ADVANCE Grant

Following the completion of a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE-Institutional Transformation (IT) program aimed at increasing the ranks of women in academic science and engineering careers, Lehigh University has received a second ADVANCE grant.

Research Update: Dr. Manoj Chaudhury, CHBE

Professor Manoj Chaudhury is a world renown surface scientist -- an expert on the interactions of molecules at free surfaces. Through an NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 contract, Manoj will team up with Dr. Giles Dillingham of the Brighton Technologies Group, Inc.

Mapping the strain in a wonder material

Graphene is the thinnest material known to science, and one of the strongest as well. A 1-atom-thick sheet of carbon, graphene was the first 2-dimensional material ever discovered. By weight, it is 150 to 200 times stronger than steel. It is also flexible, dense, virtually transparent and a superb conductor of heat and electricity.

Research Update: DRS. SABRINA JEDLICKA, MATSCI, AND JOHN COULTER, MECHE

Sabrina Jedlicka, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and John Coulter, interim Dean and professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, are continuing their multi-year effort to develop well plate inserts that will enable advanced, efficient cell culturing for biomedical research.

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