STUDENTS Sustainable Solutions Lehigh’s Global Student Impact Fellows conducted fieldwork in Sierra Leone on projects designed to fight hunger and disease, and increase global awareness of health crises, all with a shared goal: sustainable impact. To see a short documentary about the journey, visit go.lehigh.edu/sierraleone. Highlights of work by Student Impact Fellows • Trained local health workers for the launch of Ukweli, an inexpensive test strip for urinary tract infections and preeclampsia. • Produced a documentary on maternal health in Sierra Leone, which has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world. LehighHacks At the LehighHacks 24-hour hackathon, students work in teams to use technology to create unique solutions to problems in financial technology, smart environments and social apps. The Hatchery In this immersive, full-time learning experience students gain foundational entrepreneurship skills and bring their own startup ideas to life. Global Entrepreneurship Internships GEIs are an exciting opportunity for students to learn about global entrepreneurship through an eight-week group internship experience with startups in another country. LearnX, MakeX, SprintX In a series of hands-on workshops, students can have fun while creating, learning and rapidly tackling complex questions. Each year, American college students leave their universities for the summer and leave behind items they cannot or do not want to take with them. For more than 20 years, Lehigh’s annual Move Out Collection Drive has addressed this issue by inviting students to donate unwanted goods, which are then sold at the Great South Side Sale. The popular sale raises approximately $20,000 per year to benefit children and youth programs in South Bethlehem. Cathy Engelbert ’86 helped Lehigh clinch its first East Coast Conference women’s basketball title and went on to become the first woman to head a U.S. professional services firm at Deloitte. Today she leads the WNBA as its first commissioner and is making headlines as she tackles the issue of equal pay across professional basketball, which she has called “the perfect business problem.” COMMUNITY A Win-Win-Win Solution ALUMNI The Basketball Businesswoman Opportunities for Innovation and Exploration Lehigh invites students from all majors to pursue new academic, creative and entrepreneurial pathways that lead to transformative questions and innovations. Students are encouraged to take intellectual risks, learn from failures and collaborate with members of the campus community and beyond to address real-world problems. The university offers a wide variety of programs yearround for students in all colleges. These programs range from evening workshops to in-depth research projects.
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