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The Brown and White Vol. 130 No. 9 Friday, March 4, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Roshan Giyanani, Tanner Buss/B&W Staff LEFT: Stephanie Pugh, ’19, Will Sarnie, ’19, and Molly Hwang, ’19, discuss answers for trivia night on Oct. 3, 2015. Lehigh After Dark is looking for new ambassadors to sponsor events like trivia night. RIGHT: A sign outside Taylor Gym advertises Lehigh After Dark on Friday. Lehigh After Dark hosts several late night events including Thursday night trivia and keeping the gym open late. ‘An alternative avenue to have fun’ Lehigh After Dark introduces student ambassadors By LAURYN RAGONE Associate News Editor Lehigh students receive UNICEF awards Search for Data X faculty continues By JESSICA HICKS Assistant Lifestyle Editor Lehigh has hired and is continu-ing to seek for faculty members through synergistic searches to be a part of the Data X initiative. The Data X initiative, which launched in May 2015, aims to pro-vide students with the opportunity to learn and refine their skills with data analysis across disciplines. The recent increase in demand of data analytics courses from students in various areas of study led to the search for staff members with a wide range of integrated skills. “We are looking for excellent teachers that can teach courses we already have, and will bring in courses that we don’t have already,” said Daniel Lopresti, a professor and chair of the department of com-puter science and engineering, and director of Data X. Lopresti said data is being infused into all aspects of life and all aca-demic areas of study, and the Data X initiative caters to that demand. “It has changed the way we learn and interact with one another,” he said. “There is no single profession that is not affected in some way.” It is significant to hire new fac-ulty members who can work across different fields, as it is the inter-disciplinary individuals who have made big things happen — such as personalized medicine, the develop-ment of self-driving cars and other technological advances individu-als may have not thought possible before. The faculty search is centered on finding professors to teach digital media, consumer analytics and con-nective health. The goal is to have these areas of study grow at Lehigh, Lopresti said. While the top candidates have been hired in the areas of digi-tal media and consumer analytics, there are still searches for faculty in computer science and engineering. Jeremy Littau, an assistant pro-fessor of journalism and communi-cation, said the search for a candi-date in digital media was the most challenging and interesting search-es he has been involved with. “We were looking for an inter-section between data and media,” Littau said. “Yet in our department, we don’t do a lot with spreadsheets and numbers. A lot of our students dread statistics, but it’s not that our students can’t handle it, it is just that no one has spoken about numbers in a way that is relevant to them.” Littau spoke of the need for facul- See DATA Page 4 See UNICEF Page 3 Lehigh’s party scene has topped national rankings and earned the university a spot in the Princeton Review’s top 10 party schools in the country. While Lehigh’s night-life offers a social option for those who enjoy partying, the Lehigh After Dark organization aims to provide alcohol-free social events for members of the campus com-munity on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Lehigh After Dark is imple-menting an ambassador program in which students serve as spokes-people, marketers and resources for these events. The ambassadors work with student organizations to fund and co-sponsor events. They also attend the meetings for the Lehigh After Dark operations committee — a group comprised of six faculty members representing all students on campus. The members of the Lehigh After Dark operations committee work on marketing, outreach, planning and funding. They come togeth-er, along with the two Student Senate liaisons and ambassadors, to collaborate and discuss poten-tial alcohol-free events for Lehigh students. “We have recently established a student advisory board to serve as the ‘student voice’ and commu- See AFTER DARK Page 3 By AMBER CARDONA B&W Staff Graduate student Fayaz Amiri, ’14, grew up in war-torn Afghanistan. He came to Lehigh for college and joined the UNICEF club, which was founded at Lehigh in 2014. In February, he was one of two Lehigh students to win an award at the UNICEF Student Summit in Washington, D.C. Amiri was voted “Best Public Speaker 2015-16” at the summit, which was held from Feb. 19-21. He was also the vice president of UNICEF at Lehigh in 2014. Fatih Aktas, who also won an award at the summit, is a gradu-ate student and doctoral candidate from Turkey studying compara-tive and international education in the College of Education. Aktas received the “Member of the Year 2015-16” award from the UNICEF national committee. Both winners said they were driv-en by experiences in their native countries to join the UNICEF club at Lehigh. “I was curious about children and I cared about them,” Amiri said. “Coming from a developing country, that was my passion. “I wanted to do something because as a child, I suffered back there from bad schooling, a war torn country and more. All those things matter, and that’s where my passion was. I got into it and wanted to do something, so I start-ed working with the UNICEF club here at Lehigh.” UNICEF, which stands for the United Nations Children’s Fund, is a humanitarian organization run by the United Nations. Lehigh’s sect of the organization has made efforts to promote awareness with-in the Lehigh community about Courtesy of Fayaz Amiri and Faith Aktas Fayaz Amiri, ’14 (far left), and Fatih Aktas, ’11 (center), stand with the rest of their club after winning their respective UNICEF awards. Fayaz Amiri was awarded “Best Public Speaker” and Fatih Aktas won “Best UNICEF Member.”
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FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 130 No. 9 Friday, March 4, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Roshan Giyanani, Tanner Buss/B&W Staff LEFT: Stephanie Pugh, ’19, Will Sarnie, ’19, and Molly Hwang, ’19, discuss answers for trivia night on Oct. 3, 2015. Lehigh After Dark is looking for new ambassadors to sponsor events like trivia night. RIGHT: A sign outside Taylor Gym advertises Lehigh After Dark on Friday. Lehigh After Dark hosts several late night events including Thursday night trivia and keeping the gym open late. ‘An alternative avenue to have fun’ Lehigh After Dark introduces student ambassadors By LAURYN RAGONE Associate News Editor Lehigh students receive UNICEF awards Search for Data X faculty continues By JESSICA HICKS Assistant Lifestyle Editor Lehigh has hired and is continu-ing to seek for faculty members through synergistic searches to be a part of the Data X initiative. The Data X initiative, which launched in May 2015, aims to pro-vide students with the opportunity to learn and refine their skills with data analysis across disciplines. The recent increase in demand of data analytics courses from students in various areas of study led to the search for staff members with a wide range of integrated skills. “We are looking for excellent teachers that can teach courses we already have, and will bring in courses that we don’t have already,” said Daniel Lopresti, a professor and chair of the department of com-puter science and engineering, and director of Data X. Lopresti said data is being infused into all aspects of life and all aca-demic areas of study, and the Data X initiative caters to that demand. “It has changed the way we learn and interact with one another,” he said. “There is no single profession that is not affected in some way.” It is significant to hire new fac-ulty members who can work across different fields, as it is the inter-disciplinary individuals who have made big things happen — such as personalized medicine, the develop-ment of self-driving cars and other technological advances individu-als may have not thought possible before. The faculty search is centered on finding professors to teach digital media, consumer analytics and con-nective health. The goal is to have these areas of study grow at Lehigh, Lopresti said. While the top candidates have been hired in the areas of digi-tal media and consumer analytics, there are still searches for faculty in computer science and engineering. Jeremy Littau, an assistant pro-fessor of journalism and communi-cation, said the search for a candi-date in digital media was the most challenging and interesting search-es he has been involved with. “We were looking for an inter-section between data and media,” Littau said. “Yet in our department, we don’t do a lot with spreadsheets and numbers. A lot of our students dread statistics, but it’s not that our students can’t handle it, it is just that no one has spoken about numbers in a way that is relevant to them.” Littau spoke of the need for facul- See DATA Page 4 See UNICEF Page 3 Lehigh’s party scene has topped national rankings and earned the university a spot in the Princeton Review’s top 10 party schools in the country. While Lehigh’s night-life offers a social option for those who enjoy partying, the Lehigh After Dark organization aims to provide alcohol-free social events for members of the campus com-munity on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Lehigh After Dark is imple-menting an ambassador program in which students serve as spokes-people, marketers and resources for these events. The ambassadors work with student organizations to fund and co-sponsor events. They also attend the meetings for the Lehigh After Dark operations committee — a group comprised of six faculty members representing all students on campus. The members of the Lehigh After Dark operations committee work on marketing, outreach, planning and funding. They come togeth-er, along with the two Student Senate liaisons and ambassadors, to collaborate and discuss poten-tial alcohol-free events for Lehigh students. “We have recently established a student advisory board to serve as the ‘student voice’ and commu- See AFTER DARK Page 3 By AMBER CARDONA B&W Staff Graduate student Fayaz Amiri, ’14, grew up in war-torn Afghanistan. He came to Lehigh for college and joined the UNICEF club, which was founded at Lehigh in 2014. In February, he was one of two Lehigh students to win an award at the UNICEF Student Summit in Washington, D.C. Amiri was voted “Best Public Speaker 2015-16” at the summit, which was held from Feb. 19-21. He was also the vice president of UNICEF at Lehigh in 2014. Fatih Aktas, who also won an award at the summit, is a gradu-ate student and doctoral candidate from Turkey studying compara-tive and international education in the College of Education. Aktas received the “Member of the Year 2015-16” award from the UNICEF national committee. Both winners said they were driv-en by experiences in their native countries to join the UNICEF club at Lehigh. “I was curious about children and I cared about them,” Amiri said. “Coming from a developing country, that was my passion. “I wanted to do something because as a child, I suffered back there from bad schooling, a war torn country and more. All those things matter, and that’s where my passion was. I got into it and wanted to do something, so I start-ed working with the UNICEF club here at Lehigh.” UNICEF, which stands for the United Nations Children’s Fund, is a humanitarian organization run by the United Nations. Lehigh’s sect of the organization has made efforts to promote awareness with-in the Lehigh community about Courtesy of Fayaz Amiri and Faith Aktas Fayaz Amiri, ’14 (far left), and Fatih Aktas, ’11 (center), stand with the rest of their club after winning their respective UNICEF awards. Fayaz Amiri was awarded “Best Public Speaker” and Fatih Aktas won “Best UNICEF Member.” |
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