July 6, 2023

Looking for Elegant Solutions

Senior STEM-SI student Sophia Martino is using SINDy to discover fundamental equations While explaining her summer research project, Sophia Martino, a computer engineering major with a minor in business at Lehigh University, pauses to reference a quote often attributed to Albert Einstein: “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” For a researcher like Sophia, who handles a lot of data using equations, this advice is both a goal and a challenge. The Bucks...
Santiago shows some of the tools he uses in his research.
June 28, 2023

Scaffolding for Growth

STEM-SI student Santiago Lazarte builds connections among cells and tissues–and for his future For STEM-SI student and rising senior Santiago Lazarte, spending the summer in a research lab at Lehigh University is the next rung on his educational ladder. A native of Panama, Santiago spent his first two undergraduate years on Florida State University’s Republic of Panama campus before transferring to the Tallahassee campus. Once there, the biomedical engineering major landed in mechanical engineering professor...
May 18, 2022

Romero named ASME Fellow

Director of Lehigh’s Energy Research Center and newly named university fellow/distinguished research scientist recognized for significant R&D contributions

November 8, 2021

How to Harness the Power of Belonging

Jay Van Bavel, associate professor of psychology and neural science at New York University, and Dominic Packer, a psychology professor at Lehigh University, have written a new book titled, The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony. It examines how group affiliations influence behavior and inspire both personal and social change. During the interview, Van Bavel talks about why he and Packer wrote The Power of...