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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.

by: Haidan Hu, Colin McEvoy
preLUsion
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...
by: Haidan Hu
iCodePal
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.

by: Haidan Hu
SL2025
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...
by: Haidan Hu