The chemistry department s annual Undergraduate Research Program will give more than a dozen students the chance to do paid research projects with corporate sponsors. The teachers will immerse themselves in the writings of two Viennese artists, Stefan Zweig and Alma Maher, in order to understand this intriguing period. Students from Lehigh and other universities live on campus and earn stipends while researching problems in a variety of fields. They will look at dramas, sitcoms, news, music videos and ads, and they will analyze them based on readings in popular media and social science research. International students are prepared for academic life at an American university.
Students learn speaking and writing skills, as well as reading strategies and study skills.
Another group will do geologic mapping in the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota. Five students will spend the summer in Alaska conducting research on the Matanuska Glacier. Students will travel to Israel to visit Jewish and Christian sites to sort out how texts and physical remains can be interpreted, separately and together, so we can reconstruct the past. Lehigh s choir, for the first time, will perform in Asia, on a tour of Seoul, Hong Kong, Taipei, Bangkok and Beijing. Students will take mandatory courses designed to take advantage of Belgium s unique and pivotal role in the political and economic development of modern Europe.