Stevens, overlooking the Hudson, is the place to be July 4th
HOBOKEN, N.J. — This July 4th, Stevens Institute of Technology will witness what organizers are calling the "largest maritime event in history" on the Hudson River just below campus. The private university’s unique vantage point on Castle Point, a bluff overlooking the Hudson and Manhattan, is the prime viewing location for Operation Sail 2000® and the International Naval Review, this year’s spectacular parade of tall ships and military vessels from all over the world. In addition, a huge Macy’s™ fireworks display — billed the largest ever — explodes over the Hudson later in the evening. So Stevens has risen to the occasion with a special event of its own.
Stevens’ "Celebrate Innovation!" event marks its 130th anniversary and brings thousands of invited alumni, students, parents and friends to campus July 2-4. Fittingly, the university’s long and rich maritime history figures heavily into this special occasion.
The story of Stevens’ maritime heritage begins even before the institute was founded in 1870. As commodore of the yacht America, John Cox Stevens, a member of Stevens’ founding family, made yachting history in 1851 when he sailed to England and brought home the trophy known thereafter as the America’s Cup. In celebration of that famed race, a replica of the original yacht America will moor at Stevens’ shore just below Castle Point on the afternoon of July 4. Several other tall ships are expected to moor at Stevens as well.
For more about attending this event, please go to www.celebrateinnovation.org
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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