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Many exploratory research computing projects will eventually grow to require larger amounts of computational resources, either because they need to demonstrate that they are correct and reproducible, or 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).

Library and Technology Services invites you to visit a solo exhibition of Skutches’ artworks throughout study spaces in the Fairchild-Martindale Library (FML), 6th fl. south. The exhibit runs through March. The Eighteen Months of Exploration exhibit features twenty-one original oil paintings on canvas, created in the 18 months since Greg’s retirement from Lehigh. With a diverse range of styles and subjects, the collection reflects his evolving artistic voice—shaped by quiet walks through a park during the pandemic, the movement of wildlife, and the expressive energy of people.

“For me, painting is an effort to explore, express, and celebrate my own idiosyncratic experience with beauty—whether in a scene from nature, a photograph, an image in my imagination, or an idea I encounter in the everyday world,” Skutches says. He finds the experience thrilling and asks himself, ‘What might that look like as a painting?’ Each work is my answer to that question.”

Art with Impact

Paintings will be available for purchase, with portions of proceeds benefiting Lehigh’s Giving Day + March Mania in support of Library and Technology Services and the Basser Center for BRCA at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center. View the catalog.

Library and Technology Services is pleased to showcase a diverse range of artistic installations that bring exciting works of art to the Lehigh community—featuring both contemporary and classical pieces, as well as works by students, professional artists, and emerging talents.

Please join us on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Fairchild-Martindale Library for Eighteen Months of Exploration, a conversation with Greg Skutches, artist and retired former Director of Lehigh’s Writing Across the Curriculum.

In his talk, Skutches will share his journey to his first art exhibit, reflecting on his lifelong passion for art, his career in education at Lehigh—including his role as co-founder of the TRAC Fellows Program—and how retirement opened the door to his 'encore career' as a painter. Skutches, who earned a Ph.D. in English composition and rhetoric from Lehigh in 2001, will discuss the intersections of his academic and artistic pursuits.

A Q&A session will follow. Light refreshments will be served. Register now.

Please stop by FML to explore the exhibition and we hope to see you at the talk!

Whether you're on the front-lines of customer service or want to learn general strategies for de-escalating tense situations, this session can help! Learn practical, easy-to-remember phrases and techniques that defuse and de-escalate when things heat up. Presenters are members of LTS Client Services with years of experience providing services to varied populations.

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.

Library and Technology Services invites you to join us on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Fairchild-Martindale Library for Eighteen Months of Exploration, a conversation with Greg Skutches, artist and retired former Director of Lehigh’s Writing Across the Curriculum.

The free public talk coincides with a solo exhibition of Skutches’ artworks throughout study spaces in the Fairchild-Martindale Library (FML), 6th fl. south. The exhibit runs through March.

In his talk, Skutches will share his journey to his first art exhibit, reflecting on his lifelong passion for art, his career in education at Lehigh—including his role as co-founder of the TRAC Fellows Program—and how retirement opened the door to his 'encore career' as a painter. Skutches, who earned a Ph.D. in English composition and rhetoric from Lehigh in 2001, will discuss the intersections of his academic and artistic pursuits.

A Q&A session will follow. Light refreshments will be served. Register now.

For more information about the exhibit, visit LTS News.

Are you a writer? Do you like to read and edit other people’s writing? Are you a skilled researcher or communicator or are you adept with technology? If so — and if you are currently a first or second year student — then we encourage you to seek a nomination to the TRAC Writing Fellows Program at Lehigh!

Attend a TRAC information session if you're interested in applying but want to know more. For details on TRAC and to register, visit LTS News.

Pizza Meet and Greet on Mar. 26
Wednesday, March 26th, 6pm–7pm, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning.

The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning invites all Lehigh faculty to our XR Community of Practice fall meet-up on Thursday, March 27 at 3 p.m. in the new LETs Lab located in EWFM Library.

Our guest speaker will be Dr. Alec Bodzin, Professor and Program Director of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology program in Lehigh’s College of Education. Professor Bodzin has been at the forefront of immersive learning, design and development of Virtual Reality learning environments at Lehigh. Dr. Bodzin will speak about his work with the Lehigh RiVR Immersive Learning Project. This Mountaintop Projects initiative is a cross-collaborative group of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students, which has been designing and developing VR for STEM education to promote engagement and learning about spatial watershed features and environmental issues in the Lehigh River watershed. Dr. Bodzin will also showcase some of their many game-based projects including Flood Adventures, an interactive simulation game about flood preparedness and safety.

Immediately following the talk and discussion, attendees are invited to play Flood Adventures themselves! You’ll be able to play on one of the Mac workstations or on your own device. Your feedback will be valuable as well!

If you've never been to one of our meet-ups before, it's a great way to make connections with other Lehigh folks with similar interests in XR and immersive learning.

Refreshments will be provided, so please RSVP by Wednesday, March 26. The LETs Lab is accessible via the FM Library breezeway and is located next to the Digital Media Lab, across from The Grind. ALL are invited - students, faculty, and staff! We hope to see you there!

Lehigh University provides faculty and staff with access to a suite of powerful Atlassian tools:

Confluence: Create, share, and collaborate on documents and knowledge bases.Jira: Plan, track, and manage projects with ease.Jira Service Management: Simplify submission and routing of customer requests through consolidated portalsTrello: Organize tasks and visually with boardsJoin us for Atlassian Office Hours (Zoom link, no registration necessary) on Fridays throughout the semester from 12-1 p.m. starting February 7th!

Drop in to:

Get help with Confluence, Jira, Jira Service Management, and Trello.Share tips and best practices with colleagues.Learn new ways to use Atlassian tools to enhance your work.Build community with fellow Atlassian users at Lehigh.Learn more about how these tools can help you transform project management in your organization on LTS News or visit the Atlassian Tool Suite knowledge base.

Library and Technology Services

Are you interested in learning more about Generative AI (GenAI) tools available to the Lehigh community, such as Google Gemini, NotebookLM, or DataCamp’s DataLab? Would you like to hear how LTS staff have supported teaching and learning using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-e, Microsoft’s Copilot, and GitHub’s Copilot? Or, do you just have a general question about GenAI?

If so, we invite you to attend LTS GenAI Office Hours! During these sessions, LTS staff will be available to answer your questions, demonstrate specific tools, or discuss this new and rapidly evolving technology.

Please join us for one or more sessions throughout the semester on the last Friday of every month through April. All sessions will be held from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. via Zoom (no registration necessary). (https://lehigh.zoom.us/my/ltsofficehours):

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Join us for a series of engaging Artificial Intelligence seminars, where you'll explore how Generative AI can enhance workflows, streamline communication, organize and synthesize content, analyze data, and assist with research. All sessions via Zoom.

For guidance, policies, and support for the use of AI at Lehigh, visit ai.lehigh.edu.

Library and Technology Services

This seminar will walk newcomers through a fun and interesting use case that highlights some of AI's strengths. First we will use the technology to automatically transcribe samples of handwritten letters drawn from Libraries Special Collections. Then we will use AI to better understand our sample letters. Finally, we will summarize and export the text to editable documents and spreadsheets that can be used for future analysis.

Find the "Just Right" solution for data! We will delve into the world of databases, data warehouses, and data lakes, exploring the distinct characteristics and optimal use cases. Through real-life examples and practical insights, we will navigate the nuances of each data storage option, highlighting their strengths, limitations, and ideal applications.

Lehigh has recently added to its mail merge capabilities. Come learn about effective use of this new mailing toolset.

Research computing projects of all sizes can benefit from interactive tools which make it easy to develop, debug, and visualize code and data on our local high-performance computing (HPC) systems. This seminar will demonstrate the use of a web portal to interact with your data and code, with a particular emphasis on connecting Jupyter notebooks to very large datasets and parallel computations.

Learn how to find and analyze research with artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tools in this exploratory session. This session will review the basics about different tools and provide some insights for comparing them. Time will be provided for questions, feedback, and experimentation.

This seminar will cover using the Lehigh ETD -- creating an account, setting up your profile with ProQuest, converting your manuscript to PDF, determining your author rights, embargo & delay options, ordering extra copies, Lehigh Preserve, and more. This session is intended primarily for graduate students and department graduate coordinators.

This seminar will cover using the Honors Thesis & Capstone Projects LibGuide to upload undergraduate thesis to Lehigh Preserve as Open Access. It is intended primarily for undergraduate students and department coordinators.

We are excited to invite the campus community to the 2025 Symposium on Teaching and Learning. Read on for more information or register here.

This year the event will take place on Tuesday, April 8, from 8:30 a.m - 2:00 p.m. in Fairchild-Martindale Library (6th floor south).

Come hear from Lehigh professors about the ways their teaching engages and challenges students, the ways that technology can deepen learning, and how to enhance the value of student projects.

This year’s symposium will highlight the work of our CITL Faculty Fellows with three panel discussions in the following areas:

Explorations in Inquiry-based Learning: Fostering student engagement and critical thinking skill developmentXR as a Pedagogical Tool: Examining XR’s impact on teaching, learning, and engagementTeaching with (or without) AI: Navigating the possibilities and challenges of AI as a pedagogical toolAdditionally, we’ll have an exhibition area where you’ll see student work created in a number of courses taught by our Faculty Fellows.

Lunch will be provided. View full schedule.

As Lehigh embarks on its new Strategic Plan and Leads in Educational Innovation, we’re excited to host this event and showcase the work of faculty who have collaborated with CITL to innovate in their classrooms and beyond.

Registration deadline is Tuesday, April 1, 2025.

Please join us!

Judd Hark

Interim Director, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning

Library and Technology Services

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.

Learn about the capabilities and possibilities of managing work in Lehigh's project management solution Jira. Led by a member of the project management and operational excellence team in LTS.

Immigration and naturalization records--regardless of when they were created--tell the story of your ancestor making that momentous decision to immigrate, travel, or become a citizen of a different country. Find out what can be learned in these records!

This seminar will cover using the Honors Thesis & Capstone Projects LibGuide to upload undergraduate thesis to Lehigh Preserve as Open Access. It is intended primarily for undergraduate students and department coordinators.

This seminar will cover using the Lehigh ETD -- creating an account, setting up your profile with ProQuest, converting your manuscript to PDF, determining your author rights, embargo & delay options, ordering extra copies, Lehigh Preserve, and more. This session is intended primarily for graduate students and department graduate coordinators.

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.