Students undertake a research question, problem, or experience under the mentorship of a faculty member, and are eligible to receive up to $900 from the OVPCI to cover project expenses. Designed like an independent study, but students' ideas and proposals must pass the "Five Minute Google Test" for originality and rigor before enrolling in the course. Variable credits (1-4).
Outcomes: Take new intellectual, creative, or artistic pathways, to pursue something which has never before been tried in the world and with the freedoms and limitations that a one- or two-semester creative deep dive can entail.
Contact: Bill Whitney
Students participate on a team with other students, are mentored by faculty members, and guided by an internal and external advisory board made up of subject matter experts on a project that typically has a 3-5 year time horizon with a global or international focus. Students enroll in CINQ 397 for 3 credits, and can repeat for credit as many semesters as they want, or participate for one semester and then pass the baton to the next semester's team.
Outcomes: Gain cultural competencies, research experience, portfolio elements, and the mindsets that an interdisciplinary, team-based journey can instill. Enhance personal and professional networks, learn new methodologies and important subject matter insights, and experience experiential-based learning.
Contact: Bill Whitney
Grant funds are available to undergraduate students to support experiential learning activities in health (preferably off campus). An experiential learning activity is an independent, hands-on research or “real world” experience that advances the student’s understanding of health or healthcare. It gives students an opportunity to develop and experience a unique learning activity that will broaden and deepen their knowledge of some aspect of health or healthcare.
Outcomes: Students are required to write up a report on their experience, as well as developing a Powerpoint and poster to present at the Fall GELH symposium.
Contact: Amanda Webb
Students participate on a team with other students, are mentored by faculty members, and guided by an internal and external advisory board made up of subject matter experts on a project that typically has a 3-5 year time horizon. Students enroll in CINQ 397 for 3 credits, and can repeat for credit as many semesters as they want, or participate for one semester and then pass the baton to the next semester's team.
Outcomes: Enhance personal and professional networks, learn new methodologies and important subject matter insights, and experience one of the deepest forms of experiential-based learning that is available at Lehigh.
Contact: Bill Whitney
Students participate in hands-on, one-off events designed to help them learn something, get exposure to the processes of fabrication and other forms of making, and sprint towards solutions to vexing societal and global problems. Extra-curricular, designed to develop soft skills and technical knowledge, and pique students' interest.
Outcomes: Interest in a new topic, idea, or process. Continued involvement in workshops and events around campus. Exposure to new skills.
Contact: Bill Whitney
Students participate in a 10-week intensive research experience, hosted in Building C on the Mountaintop Campus, under the mentorship of faculty but largely self-directed and ungraded. No academic credit is given, but all projects are expected to have an academic-year, for-credit continuation plan, so students can continue work in the fall or spring semesters.
Outcomes: A uniquely intensive research experience to add to students' portfolios of accomplishment, as well as tangible outcomes like peer-reviewed articles, presentations, and prototypes. Mountaintop projects are intended to be rigorous "deep dives" that lead to a number of effective failures and iterations of ideas, processes, and goals.
Contact: Bill Whitney