Eckardt Scholars Program

Program Director: Jenna D. Lay, PhD (Stanford University)

Email: jdl210@lehigh.edu  |  Phone: 610-758-3308

Website:  www.eckardtscholars.cas.lehigh.edu

Supported by the Office of Undergraduate Studies and Interdisciplinary Programs 610-758-3996; incasip@lehigh.edu
Williams Hall, 31 Williams Drive

Faculty Steering Committee:

Wei-Min Huang, PhD (University of Rochester) Department of Mathematics; Jenna Lay, PhD (Stanford University) Department of English; Richard Matthews, PhD (University of Toronto) Department of Political Science; Augustine Ripa, MFA (Northwestern University) Department of Theatre; Vassie Ware, PhD (Yale University) Department of Biological Sciences

The Eckardt Scholars Program is a highly selective and unique honors program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The program emphasizes deep intellectual curiosity, independent work, and close mentoring relationships among the very highest achieving students and faculty at Lehigh. Students in the program are exempt from the Arts & Sciences distribution requirements and work with their major advisor and the Eckardt Scholars Program Director to create a flexible course of study that best suits their academic interests and ambitions. Although exempt from Arts and Sciences distribution requirements, students will complete the requisite number of credits for their degrees and all correlative requirements for their departmental or interdisciplinary majors. The program includes participation in two Eckardt Scholar Seminars, and completion of a large independent project (in the form of a thesis, artistic creation, or other capstone experience) during the senior year.