West Nyack Student Inducted as Martindale Student Associate

From Lehigh University:

BETHLEHEM, PA (04/04/2016)-- Taylor Carroll of West Nyack, NY was named as one of twelve Martindale Student Associates after a highly competitive application process. This long-running and prestigious program selects Lehigh's most talented juniors for induction as new Associates to conduct in-depth research on issues pertaining to the economy of a chosen country. (Peru, 2016-17)

The students and their faculty mentors begin their studies in February with a series of orientation classes on campus featuring guest speakers, followed by a visit to Washington DC in March or April for briefings at the country's embassy, and and other relevant organizations such as the U.S. Department of State, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank, etc.). During this time, the students begin to define their topics of study.

In May, the group travels to the country of focus for ten-twelve intensive days of meetings, briefings, lectures, interviews, and discussions with leaders from government, business and industry, academic and research institutions, media companies, consulting firms, etc. The students also make a number of site visits, for example to hospitals, manufacturing plants, universities, important cultural heritage locations.

During their senior year, the students take the class ECO 362, during which they give presentations on their research and provide peer reviews. They also observe a series of deadlines for the submission of writing assignments and meetings with their faculty mentors. The experience culminates at the end of the students' senior year with the publication of the twelve research papers as a volume of the journal Perspectives on Business and Economics which is distributed internationally. In recent years Martindale Student Associates have researched, visited and published journals focusing on the economies of Iceland, Greece, Colombia, Slovenia, and Portugal. This year's cohort's work will be published in October 2017.

For 150 years, Lehigh University has combined outstanding academic and learning opportunities with leadership in fostering innovative research. The institution is among the nation's most selective, highly ranked private research universities. Lehigh's four colleges - College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Economics, College of Education and the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science - provide opportunities to 7,000 students to discover and grow in a learning community that promotes interdisciplinary programs with real-world experience.