Lehigh University News

SING IT: The Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce hosts ''AT&T -- A Lehigh Valley Christmas in Concert'' 7-10 p.m. today at Symphony Hall, Allentown.

Pastor Barbara Young is grateful this year for the strength to cook up a Thanksgiving feast for the Valley's homeless and less fortunate in her small congregation of about 50 people.

Beautiful hilltop farmhouse on 79 peaceful acres. Gourmet kitchen, radiant heat, 3-car garage with loft storage, 4-stall stable, pasture, apple trees and gardens.

A Lehigh University student was robbed early yesterday morning by a group of men who flashed a knife and took the victim's cell phone and cash, Bethlehem police said.

Charges are expected to be dropped soon against two college students led away in handcuffs for refusing to pay an automatic gratuity at a Bethlehem tavern.

Bethlehem police plan to withdraw theft charges against two college students who refused to leave a tip at a local pub for what they said was bad service, Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli said today.

Economic stimulus doesn't just mean building roads and fixing bridges. Sometimes it means studying lava bubbles, developing ''smart'' electronic wheelchairs or researching a 10,000-year-old climate shift in Alaska .

THANKSGIVING LUNCHEON: Super Bowl and Rose Bowl championship-winning coach, Dick Vermeil is the keynote speaker at the 12th annual LifePath and Pennsylvania Institute of CPA's Thanksgiving benefit and awards luncheon begins at 11 a.m. Wednesday with a networking hour at the Holiday Inn Conference Center, 7736 Adrienne Drive, Fogelsville .

A former Lehigh University employee who stole $7,700 while working in a financial office will serve three months of house arrest and 21 months of probation.

Lehigh University's Energy Research Center has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop methods of recovering and reusing the heat that would be generated by the carbon-dioxide compression process in a carbon capture system.

The Express Times and lehighvalleylive.com have proudly reported that the College has been placed into Kiplinger's Personal Finance top 100 list of Best Values for Private Schools.

UK males are speaking up well on the biased treatment through feminists and their supporters.

A Bethlehem company seeking to expand wireless communications and another developing medical devices to advance chemotherapy treatment are among 11 regional firms receiving aid to grow business.

Two women charged in a random attack on a Lehigh University student are heading to trial.

Yes, swine flu is widespread -- and college campuses are particularly vulnerable to the virus known as H1N1.

I have an easy job compared to a lot of you, so I generally refrain from whining about my problems.

Four of the Lehigh Valley's top harmonica players will perform Dec. 11 at 2nd Story Blues in south Bethlehem in the second annual Blues for Smiles benefit for Toys for Tots.

It's been well over a year since we last saw the laser-guided, self-docking wheelchair developed by folks at Lehigh University, and now the team is back with an altogether more ambitious project.

GPS enabled devices have taken on a new avatar for helping the disabled. A wheelchair that was designed by developed at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania USA, uses LIDAR to assist the blind and the physically disabled with getting around in cities.

He hit a two-run homer in last Saturday's nationally televised Rising Stars Showcase in Arizona.