Brown and White Vol. 119 no. 8

              State Department appoints Gast as top science envoy
By MEGAN HANKS
President Alice Gast was recently named one of three science envoys by Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), on behalf of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Science envoys are ap­pointed to encourage global engagement of science and technology. According to an article on the U.S. Department of State website, “These pre­eminent scientists will seek to deepen existing ties and foster new relationships with foreign counterparts and gain insights from other nations about po­tential areas of collaboration that will help address global challenges and realized shared goals.”
Gast said she will be visit­ing countries in Central Asia, including Uzbekistan, for short periods of time. Upon her return to the United States, she will report back to the White House and State Department with what she believes are the most “fruit­ful opportunities,” which will help the government make de­cisions on which international bridges should be made.
“It is a terrific honor for Dr. Gast, and it is a pretty impres­sive group,” said Dr. Patrick Farrell, provost and vice presi­dent of academic affairs.
Gast’s appointment as a science envoy is a great ser­vice for the nation and will hopefully improve the United State’s image in the interna­tional world, said Dr. Mo­hamed El-Aasser, vice presi­dent for international affairs.
“This is good for the na­tion, good for Lehigh,” he said. “[Gast] has good ingre­dients to carry that message.”
In his Cairo speech in 2009, President Barack
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By ANYA BINGLER
The Princeton Review and Entrepre­neur Magazine recently ranked Lehigh University and the Dexter F. Baker Insti­tute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation as No. 16 out of 25 on the list of top undergraduate entrepreneurship programs in the nation.
“I think recognition like this actually takes you to the next level of excellence,” said Paul Brown, dean of the College of Business and Economics. “It allows us to go to the very top with these very elite schools that offer really strong entrepre­neurship programs.”
This is the eighth annual joint survey conducted by The Princeton Review and the magazine that ranks the top 25 undergraduate and top 25 graduate entre­preneur programs, with more than 2,000 institutions reviewed.
“We are ranked probably higher this year than in the past because a couple wonderful things happened in just the last 18 months to two years,” Brown said. “Most notably, we received a major gift to be able to establish the Baker Institute, which has a really strong entrepreneur­ship emphasis that probably with more interest, more activities and more awards, we have more recognition, which I think it probably combined to just wonderfully disproportionate recognition in the last year.”
“The Baker Institute is pushing Lehigh to broaden the tent of entrepreneurship programming,” said Todd Watkins, exec­utive director of the Baker Institute. “We want students in any major across campus to be able to understand how entrepre­neurship and generating, and then imple­menting creative ideas can be relevant to their own passions — in any field really.”
Lehigh ranks 16th on entrepreneurship list
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Obama asks students to vote in November
By KIRK GREENWOOD
President Barack Obama spoke words of encouragement to college students across the coun­try, including many at Lehigh who tuned in to the president’s speech via webcast at a watch party on Tuesday.
The president exhorted young people to take part in the political process by voting in the upcom­ing midterm election.
“We need you to stay fired up,” Obama said. “Because there’s an election on Nov. 2 that’s going to say a lot about the future, your future and the future of our country.”
The participation of younger voters was crucial to Obama’s suc­cess in the 2008 presidential elec­tion, but a July poll by the Pew Research Center suggested col­lege students are less likely to vote in this year’s midterm election.
The president’s appearance at a series of “Moving America For­ward” rallies, which will be simul­taneously webcasted to hundreds of colleges across the country, is part of a coordinated get-out-the-vote effort initiated by Organizing for America, an arm of the Demo­cratic National Committee.
“Young people are considered an important Obama constitu­ency,” said Brittany Foster, ’13, an Organizing for America intern who helped plan Lehigh’s watch
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By MELISSA HARANS
On Aug. 19, 1990, The Le­high University Child Care Cen­ter, staffed with just six teachers, opened its doors to 13 local children. Today, as it celebrates its 20th anniversary, the day care is thriving, with 13 teachers employed to care for almost 50 children from all over the world.
The center, located on Good­man Campus at More House on 5 Duh Drive, is separated into three age groups: babies, tod­dlers and preschoolers. Decorat­ed with pastel colored walls and artwork by the children, the cen­ter is equipped with playrooms, eating areas and crib rooms.
Originally, the day care opened its doors to any local child, but has since become so popular that admission can now be offered only to children of Lehigh faculty, students and staff.
Although the center has grown and evolved over the years, Kathy Calabrese, the center’s founder and director, said the core philosophy remains the same.
“It’s all about a feeling of love and nurturing – a sense of fam­ily,” she said.
For Barb Greenia, one of three teachers who have been working at the center since its foundation, the sense of family is not only felt by the children, but by the staff as well.
“It’s my second home,” she explained.
Melissa Steele, a Lehigh staff member and mother to day care attendee Avery, said she feels the sense of family is one of the impressive things about the center.
She heard great things about the day care, and when the time came for her to choose one for her own daughter, she felt the center was her only real option.
“It’s like having six other moms … they love her as much as I do,” she said.
The teachers are also a big factor behind the day care’s lov­ing environment, Calabrese said.
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