I knew going into college that I was interested in engineering, but I had no clue what discipline I wanted to pursue.
With Lehigh being strong in many areas, it became clear that Lehigh would be a great fit to explore my interests.
When I think back to growing up, my father definitely talked about women at Lehigh and that they weren’t permitted to attend when he was there and that he found that to be a tragedy.
I received my Lehigh acceptance letter with an invitation to attend prospective freshmen weekend.
When I entered Lehigh in the fall of ’73, following the 1972 passage of Title IX, it hadn’t occurred to me that there wouldn’t be a sports program.
Celebrating the women of Lehigh at a milestone moment in the university’s storied history
Facts and figures about sustainability at Lehigh
Sustainability isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think of casinos, but it was casino development that launched Jennifer Gonzalez '08 '09G on the path to her current role as director of environmental services and chief sustainability officer for the City of Hoboken.
Ruth Santiago's formal fight against environmental injustice began more than two decades ago in Puerto Rico, where she has built a reputation as a community activist.
As head of materials innovation and development at Patagonia, Matt Dwyer '06 helps to execute the company's mission statement: "We’re a business to save our home planet."
Victoria Herrmann '12 is making an impact on climate change issues on the national and international stage.
Lehigh alumni Kevin Ahearn ’07 and David Stover ’07, along with their partner and friend, Ben Knepper, turned their passion for sustainability and love of surfing and oceans into a workable business model that is helping to remedy a major environmental hazard.
As Lehigh unfolds its bold, new sustainability plan, we highlight six alumni who are doing their part for a more sustainable planet.
Giving voice to the disenfranchised is vital to the mission of dismantling systemic inequality.
Oceans define our home planet, covering more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface and driving the weather and climatic patterns that are essential to life. Maintaining the economic and life-support value of the ocean relies on preserving the well-being of its ecosystems.
The process of continuous learning is instrumental in not just how you conduct yourself, but how you view the world. Learning implies that you need to know more.
Today, hierarchies are flattening, employees are looking for flexibility and meaning as much as a paycheck, and they want to be engaged, challenged, have opportunities for creativity, and have a voice. In this context, leaders who can pause, ask questions, listen and attempt to understand their employees’ perspectives (particularly those with whom they disagree), and try to empower employees, should be most effective. These are sometimes called servant leaders.
The tales of how we navigate the vicissitudes of everyday life and loss become vital to us. From the sum of those stories, we create our lives and our identities. We are the stories we know and the stories we tell.
Matters of diversity, social justice, politics, religion, constitutional rights, inclusion and even exclusion begin to scratch the surface of formal and informal conversations that take place on any given day.
In my view, our society is increasingly moving toward a world in which humans and machines become integral parts of critical systems. The boundary between human work and machine work is becoming ever more blurred, as well as the boundary between decisions made by humans and decisions made by artificial intelligence.
