C A M P U S M A R C O C A L D E R O N Lehigh Launches Ventures Lab Lehigh signaled a new era of entrepreneurial resources—one that extends to alumni for the frst time—with the launch of the Lehigh Ventures Lab, a startup accelerator for founders in the early stages of launching their ventures. A joint initiative between the Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation and the College of Business, the lab aims to drive entrepreneurship at the university by supporting founders working full-time to take their products tomarket. The lab also aims to generate a pipeline of founders through resources tailored to support students and faculty “INNOVATION IS THE with earlier stage ideas. The lab will be housed in the new Lehigh FOUNDATION OF ENTREBusiness Innovation Building, set to open in late 2022. PRENEURSHIP AND THIS “Innovation is the foundation of entrepreneurship and this undertaking will drive UNDERTAKING WILL DRIVE entrepreneurship at the university to a new level,” said Georgette Chapman Phillips, the ENTREPRENEURSHIP Kevin L. and Lisa A. Clayton Dean of the AT THE UNIVERSITY TO College of Business. Andrew Hill, former chair of strategic A NEW LEVEL.” leadership and professor at the U. S. Army War College, has been named the lab’s inau- —GEORGETTE CHAPMAN PHILLIPS gural director. Hill holds a doctorate from Harvard Business School, a master’s in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in Latin fromBrighamYoung University. “Andrew’s scholarship and deep expertise in strategy for innovation combined with his experience as a startup foundermade himuniquely qualifed to take on the role,” said Lisa Getzler, executive director of the Baker Institute. The program will ofer physical space, coaching and other resources in go-tomarket strategy, as well as access to knowledge networks and seed-stage investors, and other guidance. Initial funding for the lab is through the newly established Thalheimer Enterprise Alliance, an expansion of the Baker Institute’s resources under benefactor Joan F. Thalheimer and her late husband, JohnM. Thalheimer ’55. ‘JUST VICTORIANS’ Lehigh hosted the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference in early October, bringing together scholars from around the world to examine justice during the Victorian period. Michael Kramp, professor of English and one of the faculty organizers of the conference, said the theme, “Just Victorians,” was derived from two main points: the English Department’s focus on literature and social justice, and the limitations of what is understood as the Victorian period. Lorenzo Servitje, associate professor of English and director of the Health, Medicine and Society program, also organized the conference. “Victorian studies is going through a close investigation of itself, trying to examine its goals and its future, and part of that investigation is to think about how Victorian scholars can do their work more justly, more effectively, more honestly and with more integrity,” Kramp said. “A lot of questions of injustice we are experiencing today have derivations that we can track back to the Victorian period.” C H R I S T A N E U ON MEDICINE In his “How Literature Made Medicine Modern” class, Lorenzo Servitje teaches about 19th-century bacteriology. Here, students take bacterial samples and write about the process. FA L L 2 0 2 2 | 9
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