Mending materials

Kelly Schultz receives NSF CAREER award to study stem cell-mediated engineering of their microenvironments

Few creatures, aside from humans, have the ability to reshape the world in which they live.

The humble earthworm is one such example. As a "terrestrial engineer," it tunnels through and aerates the soil, incorporating organic matter along the way and benefiting nearby plants.

A summer of machine learning

NSF-funded grant to provide students with experience in scalable computer systems and algorithms

Your rideshare app says your driver will show up in 10 minutes. No, make that 20 minutes. There's a detour along her route and traffic is backing up.

While you wait, you upload some photos to Facebook, and the service recognizes your friends and suggests names for you to tag.

Still waiting, you surf over to Amazon and buy that slow cooker that's been sitting in your cart. How about a recipe book and some storage containers with that?

Finding patterns at the nanoscale

Research paper is the first to come out of Lehigh’s Nano/Human Interface Presidential Engineering Research Initiative
 
In materials research, the ability to analyze massive amounts of data—often generated at the nanoscale—in order to compare materials’ properties is key to discovery and to achieving industrial use. Jeffrey M. Rickman, professor of materials science and engineering and also of physics, likens this process to candy manufacturing.
 

Pearson elected to Society of Plastics Engineers board

Ray Pearson, professor in the materials science and engineering department at Lehigh University, has been elected to the executive board of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). His three year term as Vice President of Technology and Education begins in May 2018.

SPE, founded in 1942, is the largest, most well-known professional society in the world dedicated to plastics and polymers. The society has more than 22,500 members in 84 countries.

Historic partnership promises bright future

Lehigh University partners with Brookhaven National Laboratory, the first of its kind between NSLS-II and an academic research institution
 
In a 600,000 square-foot facility less than a three-hour drive from Lehigh University sits a machine with the engineering prowess to literally illuminate new scientific discoveries.
 

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