2 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES content s MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Advancing Scholarship, Educating Students, and Addressing Challenges | 3 HIGHLIGHTS Black Women’s Discourse on Religion in the Woman’s Era | 4 Charting the Psychology of Teen Friendships | 4 PhD Candidate Domenica Fertal Earns ACS WCC Merck Award | 5 Designing for Connection | 7 Wes Hiatt Named to National Housing Equity Cohort | 8 Saimonth Muñoz ‘26 Earns Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship | 10 New Statistical Tool Enhances Prediction Accuracy | 10 Fictions of the Forgotten | 11 How One Bacterium Is Changing Disease Control | 13 Beyond Pride and Prejudice: A Professor’s Podcast Makes the Case for Jane Austen—and the Humanities | 14 Student Intern’s Research Helps Advance Wound Healing for Military | 17 SPOTLIGHTS Designing Understanding | 6 Beneath the Surface | 9 Decisions, Decisions | 12 Algebraic Geometry and Andrew Harder’s Cosmic Research Path | 15 The Tales We Tell | 16 BY THE NUMBERS | 18 COVER IMAGE: “Under A Restless Sky,” an immersive installation and musical score by Nathalie Miebach exploring climate patterns across the Southeast. Courtesy of Nathalie Miebach
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