Update, 8/8/24: The deadline for project proposal submissions has been extended to Friday, September 13, 2024.

Dear Lehigh community members, 

The Lehigh AI Organizing Committee invites you to submit proposals to contribute to Lehigh AI, a digital hub for collaborative efforts to increase Lehigh’s AI literacy and explore how AI technologies can enhance learning, teaching, research, and community engagement. 

Funded by a Lehigh University Future Makers Grant from the Office of Strategic Planning & Initiatives and supported by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Lehigh AI will create and sustain 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. Lehigh AI creates a digital presence within the Library and Technology Services website (lts.lehigh.edu/) and our institutional repository (preserve.lehigh.edu/) to showcase multimodal content created by Lehigh undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff.

Call for proposals 

We call for members of the Lehigh community to submit proposals to the Lehigh AI initiative and collaborate on AI-focused projects 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 summer and fall, with a summary of work-in-progress to be submitted in December 2024. 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 twenty projects, each with a $300 Lehigh AI Project Award. The grant will be used to conceptualize, document, and share new and novel ideas in incorporating and engaging with AI.

Successful applications will address at least one of several overlapping themes:

(1) Identify an AI use case and outcome measures to determine impact within an academic discipline or disciplines.

(2) The creation of algorithms and programming of AI.

(3) Ethical issues of AI.

(4) The implications 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, learning 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

  • July 10, 2024: Lehigh AI open to the submission of proposals.
  • September 13, 2024 (extended): Project proposals due.
  • September 20, 2024: Feedback returned to all applicants by Lehigh AI facilitators; grants awarded to selected applicants, with those applicants invited to develop full projects.
  • December 2, 2024: Final projects due. Final project summaries will explain, in brief, what you did, who was involved, what tools were used, and how someone might replicate your process.  
  • December 31, 2024: Lehigh AI content linked to from the LTS website and published to The Preserve, Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Organizing committee

Lehigh AI is led by a group of twenty AI explorers with diverse backgrounds and expertise ranging from engineering, 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