Convocation opens 1999-2000 academic year at Stevens
- WHAT: Stevens Institute of Technology’s 129th Annual Convocation
- WHEN: 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8
- WHERE: Pierce Room, 2nd Floor, Wesley J. Howe Center, Stevens campus at Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, N.J.
- WHO: President Harold J. Raveche, new and returning students, faculty and staff, a guest alumna speaker, faculty and graduate student honorees
- INFO: Stevens Institute of Technology’s 129th Convocation will include remarks by a 1995 Stevens alumna, Angie Hankins, who recently earned a law degree and joined the New York law firm of Kenyon and Kenyon. She will tell students how her Stevens education and the institute’s 90-year-old honor system positively influenced her career. Five Stevens faculty members will be honored for excellence in teaching and research, and two graduate students will receive awards. In addition, Dr. Salvatore Prisco, chair of Stevens’ Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, will receive an honorary master of engineering degree in recognition of his career accomplishments and contributions to education.
- NOTE: Photographers, for information on parking and set-up at Stevens, please contact Cass Bruton-Ward at the number listed above. Please also consider the opportunity to photograph Stevens’ brand new, high-tech Student Service Center on the first floor of the Howe Center.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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