Lehigh University College of Arts and Sciences

08/25/2026

Showing off our summer scrapbook! ⛱️ Students in Art, Architecture, and Design spent an incredible summer in Siracusa, Italy printing lino blocks, cyanotypes, and botanical monotypes, and sketching al fresco alongside visiting artists and CAS faculty. Can't wait to see all the Mediterranean inspiration brought back to the studio this semester!

08/20/2026

Actual footage of first years moving onto campus!

08/18/2026

Can we multitask? Patrick Cox has proven we can. (Proof: I'm currently writing this post and listening to music and editing photos.) In collaboration with Georgetown University, researchers at Lehigh found that after extensive practice of a visual task, the visual areas in the back of the brain can execute the task automatically without the need for the prefrontal cortex. Mind over matter and all that!

Read the science behind such complex work and how our brain can rewire itself to multitask! Test your own prefrontal cortex https://cas.lehigh.edu/articles/brains-shortcut-mastering-new-skills

08/13/2026

More unforgettable summer moments 😎 For the third year, students in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures spent a couple weeks studying and exploring in Japan! From historical sites to touring with student from Kanazawa University, you can see the students' travel blog by following 🗾 They even visited some familiar faces 🦌 that are often on Lehigh's campus up close and personal in Nara.

08/10/2026

Birds of a feather 🪶 Jua Kim '27 collaborated with painter and professor Deirdre Murphy for her exhibition at the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove. Open through August 16, Kim designed and helped produce the art catalog for the show. The almost 40-page coffee table book, embraces the bright colors, realistic details, and unexpected patterns present in the exhibition “Home Making.”

An upcoming senior, Kim is majoring in graphic design and double minoring in marketing and psychology. She also interns with the CAS marketing communications office (us!) doing UX/UI design for Lehigh University Art Galleries' website. Can't wait to see more of her designs and efforts take flight!

07/30/2026

Where great minds get boulder 😎 In June and July, the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences held their 2026 Field Camp! This four week field study took students on a road trip across the US to study the Earth and its natural systems. From the Northern Rockies, Bighorn Basin, Grand Tetons to Montana, Idaho and beyond, students camped and cooked outdoors every night. Talk about giving students a solid foundation for the next semester ahead!

07/16/2026

Summer is here and the Lehigh Valley is feeling the heat ⛱️ Earlier this spring, the Small Cities Lab and the Department of Art, Architecture and Design collaborated on a course focused on urban heat and climate resilience in Allentown. Led by Lauren Scott, students conducted research projects throughout the semester before building prototypes of their designs.

https://aad.cas.lehigh.edu/articles/research/feeling-heat-students-conduct-research-lehigh-valley-climate

07/04/2026

Red, white and blue looks good on you, Lehigh 🇺🇸

06/23/2026

I scream, you scream, we all scream for...horror films 🎥 Elizabeth Erwin wins National Award for reframing women's screams in horror. Her multimedia dissertation "When the Woman Screams" argues that horror cinema's most iconic sound is not a symbol of weakness but a form of resistance. Read more about the award and explore the podcasts, video essay, and blog entries to learn how the “scream” is a story of survival.

Elizabeth Erwin Ph.D. '25 has received national recognition for a dissertation that challenges one of horror cinema's most familiar tropes. The Popular Culture Association recently named Erwin the recipient of its Kathy Merlock Jackson Dissertation Award in Popular Culture Studies.

06/08/2026

Happy World Oceans Day from Jessica Rodgers 🪸 Her love of the ocean brought her to Lehigh to study deep-sea hydrothermal vent geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and oceanography. Listen to Rodgers as she shares her experience as a PhD student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

https://youtu.be/hBaK-BV0-QM?si=cQm5_eOmkgkpXobB

Jessica Rodgers shares her experience as a PhD student in the Colle...