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July 2, 2025

Growing with Renewable Energy: In Her Second Year with STEM-SI at Lehigh University, Varsha Borkar Finds Renewed Perspective

Varsha Borkar ’27 is no stranger to the STEM-SI (STEM Summer Institutes at Lehigh University) program: she’s now in her second summer working in Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Javad Khazaei’s INTEGrated, Resilient, and IntelligenT energY systems (INTEGRITY) Laboratory. But she’s not bored. Rather, she feels she’s deepening and expanding her knowledge and understanding of electrical engineering. The Lehigh Valley native has long been interested in circuits and energy–she was fascinated by the...