LehighNow Volume 02, Issue 06

              LEHIGHNOW
December 5,2001
Volume 2, Issue 6
Tall Buildings Council
gears up for London conference
IN BRIEF
ON CAMPUS
Lehigh beats
Hofstra in
overtime win
Lehigh's first home
playoff game in 21 years
resulted in one of
Goodman Stadium's most
exciting finishes ever, as
the Mountain Hawks
rallied for a thrilling 27-24
overtime victory over
Hofstra in the first round
of the NCAA Division
I-AA playoffs.
Lehigh's Jermaine Pugh
'04 muscled his way into
the end zone after a short
dump off pass from
backup quarterback Luke
Ciannello '02 on third
and goal from the four-
yard line with 19 seconds
to play in the fourth
quarter, tying the game at
24, and sending it into
overtime.
Lehigh's Abdul Byron
'03 picked a Rocky Butler
pass on Hofstra's opening
attempt of the overtime,
and Lehigh's Brian
Kelley '03 sent his team
to the second round with
a 23-yard field goal. The
win provides Lehigh fans
with the opportunity to
celebrate their team's third
trip into the NCAA second
round in four seasons.
Lehigh (11-0, 7-0 Patriot
League) extended its 22-
game home winning streak.
Lehigh will head to
Greenville, S. C, on
Saturday, Dec. 8, for their
second round match-up
with Furman, who took care
of Western Kentucky, 24-20.
Led by university president
Gregory C. Farrington, a
dozen Lehigh professors
will chair workshops and
give papers at "Building
for the 21st Century," an
international conference
sponsored by the Council
on Tall Buildings and
Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
from Dec. 9-11 in London.
The conference, the first
global summit of its kind
since Sept. 11, will discuss
the impact of the terrorist
attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon on
the future of tall buildings,
and on the people who live
and work in, and depend
on, tall buildings. One
thousand people are
expected to attend.
Speakers will represent 25
countries and include
Britain's Prince Charles.
Farrington will open the
conference and introduce a
plenary session on
"Meeting the Needs of
Occupiers of Tall Buildings," at which he will
present keynote speaker
Michael Golden '71, 74G,
vice chairman and senior
vice president of the New
York Times.
Mohamed El-Aasser,
dean of the P.C. Rossin
College of Engineering and
Applied Science, and Profs.
Roger Simon (history),
Richard Sause (civil and
environmental engineering)
and Sudhakar Neti
(mechanical engineering
and mechanics) will chair
sessions. Neti is also
serving as conference
program co-chair. Other
faculty attending or
presenting papers include
Stanley Johnson (mechanical engineering and
mechanics), James Ricles
(CEE), Steven Pessiki
(CEE), Le-Wu Lu (CEE),
Arnold Spokane (education), Kemal Tuzla (chemical
engineering) and John Chen
(chemical engineering).
The Engineering Research
Center for Advanced
Technology and Large
Structural Systems (ATLSS)
will take part in an EXPO/
poster session.
The Tall Buildings Council,
founded and headquartered
at Lehigh, is an international
organization of 2,000
engineers, architects, city
planners and other scholars
who publish papers and
books about skyscrapers and
their impact on society.
State grant
to improve
gateway to
Lehigh campus
A $l-million state grant that
will provide the city of
Bethlehem with funds for
streetscape improvements
was presented by representatives of the Pennsylvania
Department of Community
and Economic Development
in a ceremony on campus in
mid-November.
The city will use the funds
to complete improvements
recommended in the Sasaki
Report, which set forth plans
to overhaul the Third and
Fourth Street corridor to
serve as a gateway to the
Lehigh campus from the
South Side. The area to be
improved is also the location
of Lehigh's $23 million
Campus Square residence
hall and retail complex that
is currently under construction.
Lehigh President Gregory
C. Farrington told the
assembled crowd that Lehigh
is also attempting to
revitalize Bethlehem through
its efforts to attract the best
minds to the university.
"Each year, we seem to
attract brighter students," he
said. "Our freshman class
this year is the most selective
in our history. These
students live here during
their undergraduate and
graduate student years at
Lehigh, and some stay on in
the area after graduation. In
fact, many are working at
companies at the three
technology centers sprouting
along the river."
These efforts, he added, are
linked "by the vision of
creating a world-class
destination for the best
minds, the companies, and
strong families and communities."
The $l-million grant was
more than double what was
expected by Bethlehem city
officials, who have been
working in partnership with
Lehigh to help revitalize the
South Side.
"Working with Lehigh has
been a big plus in terms of
our ability to secure
funding," said Tony Hanna,
the city's director of
community and economic
development, in an interview
with The Morning Call. "The
state knows what an
important economic
development engine Lehigh
is. They could see how
important these improvements are to the city and the
campus."
The grant was announced
at an outdoor press conference at the Campus Square
project, along with a $1.85
million grant for Interna-
Please see GRANT page 4