Stories about Creative Inquiry

RiVR team meeting

Revolutionizing Learning Through Immersive Virtual Reality

Lehigh students and educators pioneer virtual reality games, offering unprecedented access to local history and environmental systems.

Lehigh students involved in the Open Doors to the Arts project

Lehigh Students Pioneer Immersive Art Experience for Students with Disabilities

Project utilizes 360-degree technology to inspire Centennial School students through the power of arts.

Lehigh Expo

Lehigh Expo Showcases Student Research, Capstones and Creative Ventures

More than 270 students showcase their achievements, inspiring future Lehigh students and celebrating interdisciplinary success.

Kelly Zona, manager of Wilbur Powerhouse Design Labs, shows a device in the Electronics Design Studio.

Lehigh Design Labs Launches Electronics Design Studio

New facility helps students bring their ideas to life.

illustration of neurons

NeuroSalon: Exploring the Intersection Between the Sciences and the Arts

Neuroscientist Julie Miwa leads a Mountaintop Summer Experience project that allows students to create artworks that reflect neuroscientific principles.

horizon shot of Kazakhstan

Lehigh and Kazakh Universities Team Up for Sustainable Impact

As part of Creative Inquiry’s mission to effect positive change, students and faculty work together on myriad issues, including air pollution, waste and ethical research.

Student tests flying drone

Mountaintop Summer Experience Wraps Up 10th Year

A total of 180 students and 25 faculty members spent approximately 10 weeks at Mountaintop’s Building C working on 36 different projects.

Virtual/extended reality illustration

‘XR Learning’ Takes Lehigh Students Beyond the Classroom

More faculty are supplementing their lesson plans with “extended reality,” or XR learning, which includes virtual and augmented reality.

A colorful illustration of people walking on and alongside a path through green grass and giant flowers. The people are wearing gas masks.

Human Behavior, Climate Risk and the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

Y.C. Ethan Yang works with a team of researchers incorporating data on human behavior into a climate-risk modeling framework to improve resilience of critical water, food and energy systems.

Student Sebastian Wick working on a project called EcoRealm Environments.

Growing Green

EcoRealm Environments explores retrofitting spaces with hydroponic grow systems—and boosting people’s wellbeing.