Donnelly earns First Team Academic All-America Honors

HOBOKEN, N.J. — Stevens Institute of Technology senior cross country and track standout Allison Donnelly (Wyckoff, N.J./Ramapo) was recently selected to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America College Division Women’s Track/Cross Country Team.

Donnelly becomes the ninth Stevens student-athlete to earn Academic All-America honors dating to 1979. She is the third student-athlete from Stevens selected this year following Josh Ottinger (men’s soccer) and Brian Lalli (men’s lacrosse).

An accomplished distance runner, Donnelly joined the Stevens cross country and track teams as a senior. She earned All-Skyline Conference and All-Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) honors in helping the Stevens women's cross country teams to a pair of championships.

Donnelly established school records in the 3,000-meter run, the 5,000-meter run and the mile for the Stevens indoor track team. During the outdoor season, she broke school record in both the 3,000 and 10,000. She finished third in the 10,000-meter run at the Collegiate Track Conference championships, breaking the school record by nearly 29 seconds with a time of 43:23.70.

The WIAC Woman of the Year for 2003-04, Donnelly was active on campus, serving as president of the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity. In addition she is a member of the Society of Women Engineers, Engineering Honor Society (Tau Beta Pi) and Engineering Management Honor Society (Epsilon Mu Eta).

She graduated this May with a perfect 4.0 grade-point average while earning a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Engineering Management as well as a Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering.

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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