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Volume 10, Issue 20
New steel musuem to
benefit Lehigh and the
South Side
President Peter Likins said he
was excited last week after
Bethlehem Steel Corp. and the
Smithsonian Institution signed an
agreement under which the
Smithsonian could loan hundreds of
artifacts for display in the proposed
National Museum of Industrial
History.
The new museum would be
located in three buildings with
160,000 square feet of space that sit
on a 160-acre site of a former
Bethlehem Steel Corp. manufacturing facility. It would become part of
a family education and entertainment complex.
"This is an incredibly exciting
prospect for Lehigh faculty and
students to be right down the street
from an institution of such academic
stature as the Smithsonian," said
Likins, who served as a member of
President Bush's Council of Advisors
on Science and Technology.
Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael
Heyman called the collaboration
"the beginning of our nationwide
program to share the vast
Smithsonian collections with cities
and towns across America."
Bethlehem Steel CEO and Lehigh
Trustee Curtis "Hank" Barnette
said the collaboration could "benefit
Americans who are interested in
their industrial history in a way
that until now has just not been
possible."
"The Smithsonian is known for
its serious scholarship and research,
as is Lehigh," Likins said. "We also
are known for developing industrial
leaders like Lee lacocca and
Roger Penske, so this seems like a
wonderful fit. But, I'm most excited
for our students. This will inevitably
provide excellent learning opportunities for students majoring in so
many subjects, including art,
history, science and engineering."
Likins noted that Lehigh already
has a museum, its SMART Discovery Center, on the area where the
new museum is proposed. He said
the SMART Center, a hands-on
learning center designed to spur
interest in math and science, would
be a nice complement to the new
museum. Currently closed for
renovations, the site was purchased
from Bethlehem Steel last year. It
will re-open in April.
Lehigh University Campus Weekly
March 5,1997
Come cheer them to the NCAAs
On March 6, the Lehigh Women's basketball team will take on rival Lafayette College at 7:30 p.m. at
Stabler Arena. The winner of this game will be crowned Patriot League Champion and receive an automatic
bid to the Women's NCAA National Championship Tournament. Tickets are $3 for students and $7 for adults.
Tickets can be picked up at the ticket office in the lobby of Taylor Gym daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you have
any questions, call 758-4305.
U.S. News and World Report
Lehigh moves up in graduate engineering rankings
Perhaps it is no surprise that
Lehigh moved from 42nd to 37th
in this week's ranking of
America's 219 graduate schools of
engineering by U.S. News &
World Report.
The magazine's annual "Best
Graduate Schools" issue ranks
schools based on their academic
programs, faculty reputations
and research activity, as well as
selectivity by students and
opinions of practicing engineers.
The top five schools are MIT,
first; Stanford, second; University of California at Berkeley and
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, tied for third; and
Georgia Tech, fifth.
Lehigh's engineering professors have achieved such international renown that, according to
a popular joke, some are better .
known off campus than they are
here.
But the College of Engineering
and Applied Science takes special
pride in the achievements of its
550 graduate students. Some
examples:
• Bi-Min Zhang Newby, a
Ph.D. candidate in chemical
engineering, won first prize in a
poster competition at a convention
of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers in November.
Later that month, she and three
other Lehigh students received
the Hoechst Celanese award for
outstanding graduate student
research in polymers from the
Lehigh Valley Society of Plastics
Engineers.
•Antonio J. Gallardo earned
his M.S. in manufacturing systems engineering in 1995, then
moved to Detroit for 18 months to
teach at Focus: HOPE, a job-
training and civil-rights center.
Supported by grants from industry and NSF, Lehigh and five
other universities are developing
new methods of teaching engineering to students while they
work at real-life job contracts on
the factory floor.
Gallardo, now a research
engineer with the lacocca
Institute, is working towards
his Ph.D. in economics.
•Wayne L. Bethea, who
earned an M.S. in computer
science in 1991, is now completing his Ph.D. thesis in object-
oriented and distributed
systems.
Bethea has taught computer
science to incoming freshmen in
Lehigh's Challenge For Success
program, held teaching and
research assistantships, worked
full-time for Lehigh's computer
store for five years, and given
his spare time to the National
Society for Black Engineers.
"The professors at Lehigh are
dedicated to teaching students
and willing to help in any way
they can," Bethea said. "Lehigh
offers students a good return on
what they invest. If you put in a
lot, you're going to get out a
lot."
—Kurt Pfitzer
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