N AT I ON A L S C I E N C E F OU N DAT I ON I - CO R P S H U B Lehigh became a member of the new Northeast region Innovation Corps Hub (I-Corps), which provides experiential entrepreneurial training to academic researchers across all fields of science and engineering and accelerates the transformation of scientific discoveries into technologies that improve everyday lives. U N I T E D N AT I ON S PA R T N E R S H I P Lehigh is approaching 20 years since it gained non-governmental organization (NGO) status with the United Nations and has seen more than 50 students intern at the UN while sending more than 1,000 students, faculty and staff to UN conferences and meetings each year. The university’s United Nations Partnership named its first youth representative from Lehigh’s new College of Health, Emma Closter ’24. 30 L E H I G H S T U D E N T S S E R V E D A S U N I T E D N AT I O N S YOU T H R E P R E S E N TAT I V E S , working with the UN on behalf of 11 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world in 2022. 2 0 2 2 A N N U A L R E P O R T | 1 2
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTA0OTQ5OA==