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New to Overleaf? Need to use it for an assignment, a research article, or just want to learn more? Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor, a typesetting tool, that allows you to more easily format long, complex documents or detailed elements like a bibliography or mathematical formulas.
This session is designed to introduce beginners to using Overleaf. In this code-along session, you'll learn:
What LaTeX is and its vocabulary
Component parts of a document Basic commands and adding commentsHow to add figures and captionsHow to add a bibliography and in-text citationsHow to add a mathematical formulaGet a head start by registering for an Overleaf.com account before joining this session. Use your Lehigh email address as your primary email on your account to unlock Overleaf Premium through Lehigh's institutional subscription. Download the Google Folder for files you'll need during the session and further learning materials.
In this practical session, learn how to choose AI chatbots and language models, and how to use them more effectively. Drawing from more than a year of real-world experimentation, this tutorial covers simple strategies to get better results. Learn how breaking complex tasks into more manageable pieces leads to better results, how "stream of consciousness" prompting can save time, how showing rather than telling can lead to better results, and how sometimes the best approach is to let AI guide the conversation. Through discussion and concrete examples of these techniques, participants will move beyond basic prompting to get better results from AI tools.
Fall 2025 Teacher Development 2:00-3:30
LOCATION: In-person EWFM 520
Time: Every other Thursday 2:00-3:30 PM
Dates: September 11 & 25, October 9 & 23, November 6 & 20, CITL Symposium 11/13 (optional)
The Teacher Development Series is a free series designed specifically for graduate students to develop teaching and classroom skills.
The Grad Life Office and the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning are again partnering to offer a series of workshops in our Teacher Development Program for Graduate Students. These free, non-credit workshops are open to all Lehigh graduate students.
Students who attend 5 of the 6 in-person sessions over the semester will receive a Level I Certificate of Participation and letters of commendation to their department chair and adviser. Those who attend 4 of the 5 sessions in the next or previous semester (in this case, Spring) will receive a Level II Certificate of Participation noting their additional efforts in this area, and a second letter sent to their department chair and adviser. Sessions are not recorded.
In this session, we will explore the standalone Google Gemini tool available to all faculty, staff, and students. Participants will learn how to use Gemini to draft content, summarize documents, generate ideas, and more. We will demonstrate how GEMS can be used to create AI agents and chatbots tailored to specific tasks.
NotebookLM is a new AI tool that helps with organizing, summarizing, and synthesizing content you upload. Your notes, text/pdfs, slides, web links, and other information are analyzed and synthesized into a personal knowledge base. We'll also cover the new video-generating feature!
This session will introduce the basic concept of AI Literacy, along with practical tips for making informed and ethical decisions on which tool to use for research.
This seminar reviews the minimum essential ingredients required to build research computing projects on high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. This introductory session requires no experience. This session will provide an overview of the basic terminology and design of our on-premises HPC cluster and highlight the many ways that you can use simple HPC tools to answer research questions of all sizes. All students, faculty, and staff with an interest in learning more about HPC and Linux are welcome to attend.
This session offers introductory training for using Git and Github for version control for source code, data, and other use cases.
Geared toward intermediate or occasional spreadsheet users, in this seminar we will demonstrate AI tools within Excel and Google Sheets and show how to use free versions of AI tools like ChatGPT and CoPilot to design and document formulas and spreadsheets. Safe use of AI tools (protecting Lehigh data) will be emphasized and explained.
Encourage excitement. Practice theory. Imagine education otherwise.
Dive into bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom in a three-part book club hosted by the Humanities Center, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), and the Pride Center. Open to faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs, the club will meet three times during the fall semester—Tuesdays, September 30, October 28, and December 2, from 12–1 p.m. at the Humanities Center. Free lunch and book copies provided!
If you cannot attend all three meetings (though that’s preferred), you are still encouraged to sign up. The interest form will close at the end of the day on Friday, September 19. Details on how to pick up a free copy of the book will be shared with book club members in early September.
Register now.
If you have any questions, please contact Justin Greenlee (jgg223@lehigh.edu), Jasmine Woodson (jaw515@lehigh.edu), or Scottie Burden (swb216@lehigh.edu).
Library and Technology Services
Lehigh Libraries Special Collections holds a wealth of primary source research materials. Come learn how to find useful and interesting materials using our suite of digital discovery tools. You will learn how to navigate The Preserve, Lehigh's institutional repository, ArchiveSpace, our home for archival collections, the digitized Brown & White archive, the Special Collections exhibit website, which documents a rich 20-year history of fascinating Library exhibitions.
Many exploratory research computing projects will eventually grow to require larger amounts of computational resources to answer larger, more complicated research questions. This seminar will teach you to use the Lehigh high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to build parallel scientific software for answering larger questions using simple Linux tools along with the HPC scheduler (named SLURM).
This seminar will demonstrate fun and interesting use cases that highlight some of AI's strengths. First, we will use the technology to automatically read and extract text from both typed and handwritten materials drawn from Lehigh Libraries Special Collections. Then, we will use AI to better understand these sample documents. Finally, we will demonstrate how this text can be exported to editable documents and spreadsheets that can be used for future analysis.
Learn about lehigh's foremost cloud storage option -- its setup, advantages, and features!
This seminar will introduce you to Zotero, a tool to help you organize, track, manage, share, and cite references. The session will cover creating an account, importing references, structuring your reference libraries, and creating a bibliography.
Learn how to leverage the embedded AI features in the Atlassian project management tools: Jira, Trello, Jira Service Management
This session is an overview of Web Accessibility guidelines for anyone who maintains website content at Lehigh.
Whether you're sending announcements to large or small audiences, you'll learn easy steps you can take to ensure messages can be read easily by everyone, including folks who use assistive technologies. This short session gives easy hints that everyone can use today, without special tools or tech skills.
We'll cover some Zoom Phone features you may not have explored, such as delegation, shared lines, call forwarding and ring tones. Bring your questions!
Research computing projects can have a large impact if they are portable and easy to share with new collaborators. In this seminar, you will learn how to package your scientific computations in a Linux-based container system (Docker and Apptainer). Containers can make it easy to take your work to larger public supercomputing centers, and improve the reproducibility and openness of your scientific software.
Research computing projects can have a large impact if they are portable and easy to share with new collaborators. In this seminar, you will learn how to package your scientific computations in a Linux-based container system (Docker and Apptainer). Containers can make it easy to take your work to larger public supercomputing centers, and improve the reproducibility and openness of your scientific software.
This session is intended as a basic introduction to accessibility for content creators who are unfamiliar with the topic and are looking for a quick start. We use MS Word to illustrate concepts of accessibility and give easy-to-implement, practical tips for creating documents that are accessible to broad audiences.
This session is formerly called Data Backup and Management, and has been updated to include changes to university storage quotas. This seminar offers best practices for caring for your files -- wherever they are -- and making sure you always have your data.
When a research computing project evolves to answer more nuanced questions, it inevitably requires more computational power and generates more data. This seminar will teach you the best practices for storing large, complex datasets so they can easily be analyzed and mined for new insights. These methods will apply to any research questions that depend on big data.
Encourage excitement. Practice theory. Imagine education otherwise.
Dive into bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom in a three-part book club hosted by the Humanities Center, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), and the Pride Center. Open to faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs, the club will meet three times during the fall semester—Tuesdays, September 30, October 28, and December 2, from 12–1 p.m. at the Humanities Center. Free lunch and book copies provided!
If you cannot attend all three meetings (though that’s preferred), you are still encouraged to sign up. The interest form will close at the end of the day on Friday, September 19. Details on how to pick up a free copy of the book will be shared with book club members in early September.
Register now.
If you have any questions, please contact Justin Greenlee (jgg223@lehigh.edu), Jasmine Woodson (jaw515@lehigh.edu), or Scottie Burden (swb216@lehigh.edu).
Library and Technology Services