News and Spotlights
In the early hours of May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls and a crew composed of fellow slaves, stole a cotton steamer in Charleston, SC, picked up family members at a rendezvous point, then navigated their way through the harbor. Once clear of the harbor and outside of Confederate waters, he had his crew...
Amaya Apolinario has undeniably made the most of her four years at Lehigh. The senior, who hails from the small town of Clinton, North Carolina, will graduate in May with a double major in English and Japanese. In addition to her rigorous course load, Apolinario is also involved with several...
Terry-Ann Jones examines the experiences of seasonal, migrant sugarcane workers in Brazil, providing insights in the country’s deep-seated inequalities
Thousands of workers from northeast Brazil make the journey to plantations in the more affluent southern part of the country each year to manually...
Environmental Policy Student Examines Impact of Conservation in Uganda
Margaux Petruska ’21 '23G, a student in the Environmental Policy program, spent four weeks in eastern Uganda in summer 2022. Clad in a long skirt in the summer heat, Petruska worked with a translator interviewing...
Euan Forrest ’23 combines dual majors with soccer to create a fully rounded Lehigh experience
Choosing Lehigh was a no-brainer for Euan Forrest ’23.
“First, I knew that Lehigh would give me the opportunity to academically pursue everything that I was interested in and set me up for success...
Mahboubeh Boueshagh never saw snow in her hometown in the Khuzestan Province of southwestern Iran. But as a Lehigh Ph.D. student, she is deep into snow—immersed in data in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences’ Remote Sensing Lab. The snowpack data she examines is significant as...
Uganda Sustainable Livelihoods Program Offers Life-Changing Experiences
Chae Eun Kim ’22 entered Lehigh without declaring a major, weighing interests in teaching, marketing, and environmental science before majoring in sociology and anthropology. But the key to her eventual career came...
Deirdre Murphy is a Philadelphia-based painter whose art is constantly evolving while staying grounded in the patterns and perspectives of science and nature.
Feathering the Nest
Artists of all stripes try to capture and represent moments that have made an impression on them. These moments...
A mile-long park in Denver, Colo., has become a place where the past meets the present, reflected in four public art installations created by artist Wes Heiss. Filtered through the creative vision of Heiss, associate professor of product design in the Department of Art, Architecture and Design,...
Funded by an NSF grant, biologist and PhD student Nicole Pittoors travels to great depths to measure the health of the ocean.
When people hear the term research cruise, they tend to focus on the word cruise. Ph.D. student Nicole Pittoors focuses on the research. She loves these excursions because...
Did the trend toward majority votes over consensus in England’s 17th-century Parliament sow seeds of potential discord in future democracies?
At a global moment when the resilience of modern democracies is being tested, William Bulman’s new book, The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern...
Visiting Assistant Professor of English Laura Marie Marciano works with a close-knit group of creative friends to push the boundaries of both her art and her teaching.
Every year in mid-January, filmmakers, critics, and celebrities descend upon the ski resort town of Park City, Utah, for ten...
What could have been consumed in a fireplace was turned into beautiful bench seating for community use in art galleries by students in Professor Amy Forsyth’s Fall 2021 semester Furniture Design course. The white oak and black walnut wood — estimated at being between 150- and 175-years-old —...
Olivia Landry’s third book asks what documentary film can do to unsettle colonialist conceptions of the colonized.
In the academic discipline of postcolonialism, the concept of the “colonial gaze” attempts to explain the relationship between the European colonial powers of the 19th and early 20th...
Graduate student Kristin Tremper finds links between public health and the creation of a strong America
Kristin E. Tremper believes that the nation’s first president would have been on board with the mask mandate.
A Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, her research investigates political...
Biologist David Zappulla explores an elusive substance that helps protect DNA, and he blazed his own pathway early on
For some, the choice of a calling can be a lengthy task involving trial and error, soul searching, the balancing of diverse interests and talents, and serial major...
Archaeologist Allison Mickel documents and advocates for local workers at archaeological sites to finally be recognized for their expertise.
Throughout history, Western archaeologists have hired local residents to perform the manual labor of excavation while excluding them from any of the...
Eckardt Scholar Raihan Alam ’23 creates a group dedicated to addressing tough sociocultural and political issues
San Francisco native Raihan Alam ’23 ran a Google search to find a liberal arts college far from home where he could gain independence, have quality instruction, and build...
Isabel Heslin ’21 traces the movement of an Italian landmark from the Villa Ludovisi to Rome’s Spanish Steps
Isabel Heslin knew she wanted to study ancient history since the age of 10. She was always interested in archaeology, specifically as it pertained to Egypt and areas of the Middle East...
