Lehigh launches first-of-its-kind United Nations Faculty Fellows Program

Lehigh University has launched a first-of-its-kind faculty initiative designed to deepen its engagement with the United Nations, made possible by Lehigh’s recent elevation to U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) accreditation.

The new LU/UN Faculty Fellows Program brings together faculty from all five of Lehigh’s colleges to build international partnerships, advance research, and contribute directly to the United Nations’ work on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the LU/UN Partnership.

Among the program’s inaugural fellows is civil and environmental engineer Paolo Bocchini, whose research on catastrophic storms and climate-driven disasters routinely extends far beyond national borders.

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