Giving Day + March Mania
March 25-26, 2025
This 48-hour philanthropic event enables departments and alumni groups to impact all areas of the Lehigh experience. This annual campaign challenges all members of the Lehigh family to demonstrate support for the campus programs that speak to their interests and passions. This Giving Day, invest in the future of engineering at Lehigh! Your Giving Day donation will advance key strategic priorities and immediately impact operations.
Read on for more about the opportunities for you to help Lehigh Engineering continue to shine.
Engineering Dean's Challenges:
Amplifying your impact
Lehigh Engineering is sponsoring the following challenges to boost the power of your gift:
Re-engineering the
First-year Rossin
Experience (FYRE)
Steve and Valerie DeWeerth have pledged to match Giving Day donations to the First-Year Rossin Experience up to $5,000. Click the photo above to give! And for more on this College-wide initiative to re-envision our students' first year, check out the latest issue of Resolve magazine.
The
Rossin Academic
Department Challenge
The 3 Rossin departments with the largest percentage increase in dollars raised from last year to this year will win additional funds from the Dean's Office: $2,500 to the top department, with second and third place finishers to receive $1,500 and $1,000. To give, scroll down to your home department's Giving Day link below!
College-level giving opportunities
Your gift to these college-wide initiatives will support students and faculty across the many disciplines and programs of Lehigh Engineering:
First-year Student Experience (FYRE)
The First Year Rossin Experience (FYRE) will transform the undergraduate experience for the next generation of engineers at Lehigh. Your support will help us redesign programs and spaces, promote collaboration, elevate innovation, and foster a culture of intellectual curiosity.
Dean's Strategic Initiatives
Enable the College to pursue new initiatives and unmet opportunities for broad societal impact through faculty-led research initiatives.
First-year Doctoral Student Support
Your donation directly supports first-year engineering doctoral students, providing them with critical resources to kick-start groundbreaking research.
Student Experiential Learning
Help us to ensure that every engineering student engages in meaningful, brain-amplified, sleeves-rolled-up projects. Together, we can expand students access to interdisciplinary projects, competition teams and clubs, international fieldwork, industry engagement, and more.
Department giving
Help your home department win The Rossin Academic Department Challenge...and impact program operations today!
