What does a 21st century environment for learning, discovery and engagement look like?
How should the development of the next generation and the process of discovery be interrelated? How should people in different fields of study challenge and enlighten one another? And how can universities foster these relationships in a way that stimulates learning and growth in participants, leads to insight, and enables action in a complex and changing world?
"This atmosphere of excitement, arising from imaginative consideration, transforms knowledge. A fact is no longer a bare fact: it is invested with all its possibilities. It is no longer a burden on the memory: it is energizing as the poet of our dreams, and as the architect of our purposes." - Alfred North Whitehead
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Click me!Technology for smarter living spaces
Student researchers aim to equip homes and offices with intelligence!
Mountaintop Mentor - Murray Itzkowitz
Professor of biological sciences Murray Itzkowitz, led a group of students in understanding pupfish’s mating and thus, chances for survival.
Tackling indoor air pollution
Inside a mud hut, students seek a solution for developing countries.
An elusive Nobel laureate
A student film probes the life and poetry of Wisława Szymborska.
One group’s trash is another’s compost
Lehigh’s GR2OW team aims to close the food loop on campus.
These are just some of the questions Lehigh University is asking—and answering—through its Mountaintop initiative.
Inside a former Bethlehem Steel research facility atop South Mountain, Lehigh is creating a vibrant and unique learning environment—a space in which students are given the freedom to pursue answers to open-ended questions while working in, and across, all disciplines. In the process, the students are challenged to increase their capacities for independent inquiry, for taking intellectual risks and learning from failures, for collaboration, for recognizing important problems and opportunities to effect constructive and sustainable change.