Brown and White Vol. 133 no. 23

              The Brown and White Vol. 133 No. 23
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
South Bethlehem receives $1 million grant
Lehigh wins
second place in
national energy
competition
By RACHEL KREVANS
B&W Staff
A team of Lehigh undergradu-ate
students took second place at
the 35th annual North American
conference of the United States
Association for Energy Economics,
or USAEE, and International
Association of Energy Economics
in Houston, Texas.
The majority of teams at the
conference consisted of doctor-al
candidates and graduate stu-dents,
according to the USAEE
website. Lehigh’s was the only
undergraduate team to be invited
to the conference and received
second place overall, beating out
doctoral candidate teams from
the University of Paris-Saclay
and Carnegie Mellon University.
Lehigh team members Huilai
Gu, ’19, Aditya Jayasinghe, ’19,
and Salvador Tarun, ’18, walked
See GRANT Page 4
See USAEE Page 2
Sarah Epstein/B&W Staff
Lehigh redshirt freshman Jake Jacobsen holds No. 1 Penn State sophomore Anthony Cassar in the 197-pound weight class during the
Mountain Hawks’ match against the Nittany Lions on Sunday at the PPL Center in Allentown. Penn State won a close matchup of two of
the top five teams in the nation by a score of 23-19.
LEHIGH LOSES TO PENN STATE 23-19
Megan Burke/B&W Staff
The City of Bethlehem recently received a grant to revitalize New Street in South Bethlehem. The $1 million grant is from the Pennsylvania
Department of Economic Development.
By LINDSAY SHAGRIN
B&W Staff
The blocks between Fahy
Bridge and Farrington Square
will soon undergo major updates.
The City of Bethlehem received
a $1 million grant from the
Pennsylvania Department of
Economic Development to rede-sign
streets on the South Side.
The grant will be matched by
other investors, such as Lehigh
University and St. Luke’s
University Hospital.
“We have seen this rebirth
throughout the South Side of
Bethlehem in the past 22 years
because of these economic devel-opment
incentives,” said Lisa
Boscola, a Pennsylvania state
senator.
Darlene Heller, the director of
planning and zoning for the City
of Bethlehem, said the purpose
of the grant is to support various
modes of transportation, such
as improving traffic patterns,
bicycle lanes and sidewalks for
pedestrians.
The grant will allow the city to
make many different changes.
Heller said the traffic patterns
of the Third and Fourth streets
intersection will be improved,
and enhancements will be
made to the landscaping and
storm drains. There will also be
increased lighting and sidewalk
improvements to ensure pedes-trian
safety.
The project is expected to begin
soon and take a little more than
two years to complete.
“We need to show that project
is ready to go and have a sched-ule,”
Heller said.
She said the city needs to start
designing, hire an engineering
firm and break ground on con-struction.
“When I secure money for proj-ects
at the state level, I want to
make sure that those projects are
shovel-ready to go,” Boscola said.
“It doesn’t happen overnight, but
it only happens with a team —