By: Lucy Zhou One of our main goals for this project is to increase people’s exposure to open conversations about inclusivity and to raise awareness of best practices that can be adopted for businesses and entrepreneurs. We wanted to achieve this goal through a workshop designed to get people from all different backgrounds with differing […]
July
July 24: Chelsea Gilbert, Lehigh’s Pride Center Director
By: Mericel Mirabal Following our meeting with the Global Village team, we scheduled a meeting to sit down with Chelsea Gilbert, who is the director of the Pride Center here at Lehigh. We wanted to see if she knew of any data or research we could look into about the LGBTQ+ community following the lack […]
July 25: Lehigh Summer Expo
By: Mericel Mirabal & Lucy Zhou Lehigh University held its annual Summer Expo from 4-6 in Building C to showcase the research that students have been working on. Mountaintop Summer Experience teams along with BDSI and RARE students all featured their work, which was shown to members of the Lehigh community with a great turnout […]
Final product and overall experience working with Global Village
By: Mericel Mirabal & Lucy Zhou As mentioned in a previous post, we had the delight of working with a team of global villagers who would be residing in Lehigh for about five weeks. With their entire network of villagers and alumni villagers, they represented over 150 countries. We had asked them to collect some […]
July 9: Lehigh alumnus Norm Rumpf
By: Lucy Zhou We were fortunate enough to meet and talk with Norm Rumpf, who actually graduated Lehigh in 1959 with an engineering degree. He is interested in learning more about mountaintop projects, but he also wants to share his own thoughts and get us thinking about different paths we could take and different questions […]