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Economics professor Hongxing Liu also teaches courses on microeconomics and cost-benefit analysis.

Pricing priceless resources

Professor studies environmental costs, attitudes
By Ellie Kerouac, Contributing Writer November 7, 2025

How much is a clean environment worth? Economics professor Hongxing Liu hopes to answer that. “If you think about water quality or clean air, that’s just free for everyone,” Liu said. “But it’s...

A spelunker's perspective of Lost River Caverns.

Beware, claustrophobes

Digging into Lehigh Valley caves
By Sonia Tenbarge, Contributing Writer October 31, 2025

The obligatory geology lab many students take to fulfill their natural science requirement may come in handy for this local “underground” weekend activity: caving. Yes, there are caves in the Lehigh...

Psychology professor JJ Togans opened his research lab to students this year.

Researching your guilty pleasures

By Clara Witmer, Assistant News Editor February 28, 2025

Guilty pleasures: we all have them, yet few truly understand them. Assistant psychology professor JJ Togans hopes to change that. In the Guilty Pleasures and Ambivalence Lab, or "GPA Lab," Togans and...

The Best Overall Hack Award was given to a team that made a website centered on mental health. (Photo courtesy of Anjeliqe Martinez '24)

Students take a byte out of 24-hour hackathon

By Paige Mathieu, Contributing Writer February 24, 2023

Most people would balk at the task of creating a functional piece of software or hardware in only 24 hours — but during last weekend's hackathon, six teams of students accomplished just that. The...

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