BioE Faculty Fun Facts
In a study involving thermophoresis (the movement of particles in a temperature gradient), where were Lehigh BioE/ChemE experiments conducted to eliminate the interference of gravity?
What is the International Space Station?
The year Lehigh University was founded.
What is 1865?
This piece of lab equipment must ALWAYS be balanced before a cycle is ran.
What is the centrifuge?
The chair of the Lehigh Bioengineering department.
Who is Dr. Anand Ramamurthi?
The most recent artist to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Who is Bad Bunny?
This new Lehigh BioE faculty members is an avid triathlete.
Who is Dr. Juan Aceros?
Lehigh's previous mascot before the Mountain Hawk.
What are the engineers?
This molecular biology technique is recognized for its efficiency and simplicity in gene editing.
What is CRISPR/Cas9 technology?
The current (as of Fall 2025) three tracks offered in Lehigh Bioengineering.
What are biopharmaceutical, biomaterials/biomechanics, biocomputational?
This actress plays Rue Bennett in the HBO series Euphoria and became one of the youngest two-time Emmy winners for acting.
Who is Zendaya?
This faculty member is a big fiction reader and their favorite book is The Lord of the Rings.
Who is Dr. Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez?
The oldest building on Lehigh's campus.
What is Christmas-Saucon hall?
These micro-engineered devices mimic the physiological microenvironment and mechanical forces of human organs to test drugs and study diseases without clinical trials.
What are "Organs-on-a-Chip" (or Microphysiological Systems)?
Bioengineering is famously interdisciplinary. Aside from biology, the Lehigh curriculum heavily overlaps with the fundamentals of which two traditional engineering disciplines?
What is Chemical Engineering and Materials Science?
This 2019 South Korean film became the first non-English-language movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
This Lehigh BioE faculty member said "...I am known for eating and liking spicy seafood [since] a very young age...".
Who is Dr. Ines Seabra?
Known for their unique and rebellious spirit, the "Marching 97" takes their specific numerical name from this strict spatial requirement on the field.
What is the minimum number of members required to spell out the word "LEHIGH" in block letters?
This class of biodegradable polymers, often used for internal sutures and drug-delivery scaffolds, is famously derived from renewable resources like corn starch or sugarcane.
What is Polylactic Acid (or PLA)?
The number of core Lehigh Bioengineering faculty.
What is 19?
This 2023 mockumentary-style concert film, released directly to theaters without a major studio, became the highest-grossing concert film in history.
What is Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour?
This faculty member loves to hike and has been to the Himalaya mountains twice.
Who is Dr. Xuanhong Cheng?
This now prominent Lehigh group held its first meetings in the back room of a Bethlehem bar; they took their name from their favorite refreshment of the time.
What is the "Mustard and Cheese" Dramatic Society? (Named after the beer, mustard, and cheese they consumed at Rennig’s Bar).
Using deep learning to predict the 3D structures of nearly all known proteins, this AI-driven tool revolutionized the field of structural biology and drug discovery in 2020.
What is AlphaFold?
The year that Lehigh University's Bioengineering department was established
What is 2017?
In 2016, this rapper live-tweeted changes to his album, continuing to modify tracks on streaming platforms in what he called a “living breathing changing creative expression.”
Who is Kanye West?