10 N O SMALL MATTER Xiaoji Xu develops new methods and instruments for chemical measurement and imaging at the nanoscale 13 B E PRESENT IN YOUR ENVIRONMENT Student research leads to a local ordinance encouraging bird habitat 14 T EACHING BY EXAMPLE Faculty scholarship makes transitions to the classroom, creating real-world explorations 20 DIVING DEEP Biologist Nicole Pittoors travels to great depths to measure the health of the ocean 22 P EELING BACK THE COLONIAL SHELLAC Olivia Landry’s third book asks what documentary film can do to unsettle colonialist conceptions of the colonized 24 A NEW FACE FOR A SOUTHSIDE ICON Student team helps Lehigh Pizza create a new look while honoring its history 27 BREATHING HOPE WITH TECHNOLOGY Students develop an app to improve health of residents in Kazakhstan 28 L AYING THE GROUNDWORK Environmental policy student works to help preserve the local environment while developing important restoration policies 30 DIVISION! Did the trend toward majority votes over consensus in England’s 17th-century Parliament sow seeds of potential discord in future democracies? BRIEFS FEATURES 02 Observations in Wood … Cellular Communication … Gloria Naylor Archives 04 The Power of Us … Concertos Nos. 1 and 5 … Dice and Gods 06 Quark Gluon Plasma … True Story … Transformative Spaces 08 The Muslim Speaks … Natural Systems … Ethically Challenged CONTENTS 10 CHANNELING THE SPIRIT OF RADIO Robin Sundaramoorthy’s research reveals how federal policy and systemic barriers shaped—and ultimately limited—efforts to diversify America’s airwaves in the 1980s 13 B UILDING BETTER CHEMISTRY: A STUDENT’S QUEST FOR GREENER DRUG SYNTHESIS A Lehigh undergraduate is reimagining how we make pharmaceuticals— one colorful molecule at a time 14 T HE UNEXPECTED CLASSROOM Lehigh University Art Galleries’ Centennial reveals art’s cross-curricular power 20 F ROM TEACHING TO DISCOVERY Alexander Seaver’s academic journey finds balance through zebrafish genetics and student advocacy 22 INFORMATIONAL TREASURE TROVE, FROM TIMBER TYPES TO COST OF LOYALTY Elizabeth Barrett explores a “minor” English family to better understand transitions in British history—and the cost of blind loyalty to the crown 24 B OUND IN BETHLEHEM: MORAVIANS AND SLAVERY As a local expert on Moravians in the 18th century, Scott Paul Gordon is working on a new book about enslavement in Bethlehem 27 I LLUMINATING THE PAST How one student bridges early modern drama and contemporary design 28 MAPPING ATTENTION AND MEMORY How a graduate student’s brain-imaging research reveals what we pay attention to—and why 30 M ORE THAN A MUSICAL Lehigh’s theatre and music departments collaborate to reimagine “Into the Woods” BRIEFS FEATURES 02 Music for Imaginary Movies … Besting Cancer’s Drug Resistance 04 The Necro-President … America’s First Bestseller Scandal … Psychedelics and Brain Damage Repair 06 Green Noodles and the Poetry of Food … Mathematics in Motion … Edwards Earns Coaching Honor 08 What Our Eyes Miss—and Why It Matters … The Power of Persistence
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