Dear Lehigh community members, 

The Lehigh AI project leads are happy to announce the launch of Lehigh AI in The Preserve and call for new proposals to Lehigh AI in 2025.

What is Lehigh AI?

Lehigh AI is a digital hub for collaborative efforts to explore how AI technologies can enhance learning, teaching, research, and community engagement. Funded by a Lehigh University Future Maker Grant from the Office of Strategic Planning & Initiatives and the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Lehigh AI creates and sustains an online resource with instructions for classroom activities, teaching modules integrable to multidisciplinary classes, technical how-tos, demonstrations, and advice for leveraging tools based on artificial intelligence.

Twenty projects led by faculty, staff, and students across colleges and units were selected for the Lehigh AI Project Awards in Fall 2024. These diverse projects contribute to AI literacy and accessibility, advance teaching and learning, facilitate institutional operations, and encourage ethical exploration and reflection. Learn more and browse the collection. 

Call for proposals to Lehigh AI in 2025

Based on the successes of last year, we call for members of the Lehigh community to submit proposals for AI-focused projects in 2025 that will enhance the Lehigh experience. Your summary of a project may be retrospective — e.g., a project completed at Lehigh in the past few years — or present a proposal for work to be done this spring and fall. Your proposal should be limited to 300 words that:

  • introduce an issue or opportunity related to AI;
  • present a scholarly approach to your area of interest; and 
  • summarize the results or possibilities of your investigation.

We seek to fund fifteen projects, each with a $300 Lehigh AI Award. Your final project will also be published to Lehigh AI in The Preserve. 

The award is an honorarium that will help you conceptualize, document, and share new and novel ideas for incorporating and engaging with AI. Successful applications will address at least one of several overlapping themes:

  • Identify an AI use case and outcome measures to determine impact within an academic discipline or disciplines.
  • The creation of algorithms and programming of AI.
  • Ethical issues of AI.
  • The possibilities of AI for social good.

Suggested types of projects to meet the challenges of the themes:

  • A focus on teaching will present course descriptions, learning objectives, learning materials, assignments, activities, assessments, and/or evaluations of teaching effectiveness related to AI.
  • A focus on research will present innovative and exploratory intellectual investigations of AI-related critical issues.
  • A focus on community engagement will present approaches to designing and implementing AI tools to benefit Lehigh and local and global communities.

We seek applications that will benefit a wide range of individuals and groups. We particularly invite proposals for projects that offer a structure or module that can be implemented or adapted by courses across programs and colleges; student-led and student-centered initiatives; research projects that enable collaborative efforts involving disciplines that are currently less involved or represented in AI research; and community engagement projects with underserved and historically marginalized populations.

How to submit 

Submit your project abstract(s) via this Google Form. Limit your summary to 300 words. A person can be involved in no more than three proposals to Lehigh AI.  

Key dates and deadlines

  • February 20th, 2025: Lehigh AI 2025 open to the submission of proposals.
  • March 21st, 2025: Project proposals due.
  • April 25th, 2025: Feedback returned to all applicants by Lehigh AI facilitators. Grants awarded to selected applicants, with those applicants invited to develop full projects.
  • November 3rd, 2025: Final project summaries based on this template due. Final project summaries will explain, in brief, who was involved, what you did, what tools were used, and how someone might replicate your process.
  • December 31, 2025: Lehigh AI 2025 content published to Lehigh AI in The Preserve, Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Organizing committee

Lehigh AI is led by a group of AI explorers with diverse backgrounds and expertise ranging from computer science, business, art, education, and more. Please contact the following Lehigh AI project leads if you have any questions about the submission process.

  • Justin Greenlee, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Library and Technology Services, jgg223@lehigh.edu; 
  • Haiyan Jia, Department of Journalism and Communication, College of Arts and Sciences, haj616@lehigh.edu; 
  • Zilong Pan, Department of Education and Human Services, College of Education, zip322@lehigh.edu; and
  • Greg Surovcik, Department of Decision and Technology Analytics, College of Business, grs3@lehigh.edu.

Sincerely,

Justin Greenlee
Haiyan Jia
Zilong Pan
Greg Surovcik