Stevens students to be honored by Society for Information Management at 4th Annual Scholarship Golf Outing, Oct. 15

HOBOKEN, N.J. — Two students from Stevens Institute of Technology will be honored at the Fourth Annual Scholarship Golf Outing of the Society for Information Management (SIM). The event wi ll be held Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003 at the Royce Brook Golf Club in Hillsborough, N.J. Proceeds from the event will benefit the SIM-NJ Academic Support Program. More than 100 executives will attend, including many attendees from the SIM SIMposium 2003 event that will conclude immediately preceding the golf outing.

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"This event," says Professor Jerry Luftman, director of the Stevens Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) program, "is the fund raiser for SIM New Jersey chapter's academic awards, and will offer attendees of the SIMposium 2003 and others an opportunity to support the worthwhile cause of academic scholarship, as well as offer an enjoyable day of golf with friends at one of the northeast's best golf courses."

An undergraduate and graduate student from Steven s will be honored in the course of the festivities. A merit scholarship will be given to Jacek Janczewski, a Stevens sophomore in Computer Science. Janczewski is a resident of East Rutherford, N.J., and a graduate of Becton Regional High School.

A Merrill Lynch employee and graduate student from Professor Luftman's MSIS program, Cather ine M. White, will be honored for Best Paper in an information technology-related field. White's paper is titled "The Ability to Change: The Effect Leadership Has upon IT."

The paper is based on five case studies of Information Technology group.

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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