Stories about Creative Inquiry

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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.

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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.

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‘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.

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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.

Jessica Galarza in Uganda.

Lehigh Students Win Davis Projects for Peace Awards

Three teams of Lehigh students are recognized for their work in starting a tutoring center in Uganda, developing a test for autism in Africa and developing a rapid, affordable test for sickle cell anemia in Africa.

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Lehigh Launches Campus Sustainable Impact Fellowship

The multi-year, interdisciplinary projects focus on advancing Lehigh’s Sustainability Strategic Plan 2030 goals which align with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

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Sustaining Happiness

Lehigh students tackle the meaning of happiness in virtual Creative Inquiry program.

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Creative Inquiry Provides Opportunities for All Interests

Interdisciplinary programs such as Data for Impact and the Mountaintop Summer Experience include options for students in any major.

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Lehigh Expo to Be Held Virtually

Students must email submissions by April 30.