Scenes from the First Day of Classes 2018

Students walk across Asa Packer Campus on a humid late-summer morning. 

Professor Matthew Bush's class on Spanish-American short stories is conducted in Spanish. Bush is the director of the Latin American and Latino Studies program at Lehigh. 

Professor Kate Arrington's psychology statistics class participates in a data-collection exercise in which they complete a task first while focused and then while multi-tasking. Students will process the collected data later in the semester. 

Students in Professor Ed Webb's mechanical engineering class learn about beam stress theory--and take a quiz on day one. 

Biology students analyze seedling traits as they study genetics in Professor Ann Fink's class. 

Professor Chad Meyerhoefer introduces himself to his economics class on the first day of the fall semester.