October 23, 2025
Creative Inquiry and Iacocca Institute Launch Sustainable Futures Fellowship
Lehigh University is taking its Impact Fellowship program to the next level—transforming students from problem-solvers into global entrepreneurial leaders who create more leaders. The new Sustainable Futures Fellowship, launching in January 2026, empowers graduates of the Impact Fellowships to become teachers, mentors, and catalysts for change. Through immersive global experiences, fellows will guide peers around the world in designing their own social innovation ventures—cultivating a generation of changemakers who multiply impact, leadership, and learning across...
October 13, 2025
Lehigh University Shares Community-Engaged Work at ESC’s 25th Annual Conference
The Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) held its 25th International Conference, “Bridging Resources to Build Stronger Communities,” on Oct. 8 - 9, with pre-conference sessions on Oct. 6 - 7 in Roanoke, Virginia, hosted by Virginia Tech University. Lehigh joined ESC in 2024 and served as a co-hosting institution for the 2025 conference. Lehigh’s delegation included Bill Whitney, assistant vice provost for experiential learning programs; Thaksheel Alleck ’25, IBE major; and three students from Global Social...
September 29, 2025
AlmaU Delegation Visit Strengthens Global Partnership with Lehigh
Lehigh University was honored to host President Assylbek Kozhakhmetov, Founder and President of Almaty Management University (AlmaU), along with Aliya Akpayeva, Director of International Cooperation, and Valikhan Tuleshov, Director of the Center for Global Civic and Political Strategies.
September 12, 2025
Future Makers Convocation
September 5, 2025
Discovering Purpose and Possibility
Discovering Purpose and Possibility Lehigh360 preLUsion Welcomes New Students to High-Impact Learning This August, 22 incoming students took their first steps into the Lehigh experience through Lehigh360 preLUsion, a powerful three-day program designed to introduce new Mountain Hawks to the university’s vibrant ecosystem of high-impact, beyond-the-classroom learning opportunities. Throughout the immersive experience, students explored social enterprises across the Lehigh Valley working in mental health, disability rights, anti-human trafficking, and affordable housing. A campus-wide scavenger hunt...
August 25, 2025
Coding a Brighter Future
Lehigh Global Social Impact Fellowship students are helping power Indian state of Karnataka’s digital education revolution. This summer, Jolie Goldstein, Ben Rainey, and faculty mentors Michael Spear, Zilong Pan, developed iCodePal, an AI-powered coding assistant designed to bring real-time, personalized support to students in India’s public schools.
August 8, 2025
Turning Hope into Action: Lehigh Impact Fellows in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, where maternal and infant mortality rates are among the highest in the world, access to quality healthcare remains a daily struggle for many. Medical infrastructure is limited, resources are stretched thin, and too often, preventable conditions lead to devastating outcomes. But amid these challenges, a group of Global Social Impact Fellows from Lehigh University is working to change the narrative - one solution, one partnership, and one community at a time. Since...
August 1, 2025
Lehigh's 2025 Summer Research Expo Showcases Innovation, Collaboration, and Impact
Dr. Amer Alnajar ’04, founder and Chief Medical Officer of Vytalize Health, returned to Lehigh this summer not just as an alum, but as a judge at the 2025 Summer Research Expo. As he made his way through the rows of posters and engaged with students, his presence symbolized the full-circle journey of a Lehigh graduate who turned his passion for innovation and impact into a nationwide healthcare platform. “This has been a truly rewarding...
April 14, 2025
Empowering Frontline Health Workers
December 19, 2024
Lehigh students are Pioneering the Next Generation of Data Storage
