Excellence at Stevens

Employee Highlights

The Excellence Files provides a forum where contributing Stevens faculty and staff members share practical insights and reflections to reinforce our mindset of “excellence in all we do”. It is our hope that these thought-provoking articles will help to focus, engage, and align our employees with our mission, values, and strategic priorities. If you are interested in submitting an article, please contact Melanie Murtha ([email protected]) or Maria Ouckama ([email protected])

Excellence Files

Stevens Professor Hang Liu Awarded Four Grants Totaling $356,335

These awards will support seven Stevens master’s and Ph.D. students of electrical and computer engineering.

Read About Dr. Liu Grants

Hady Salloum Receives $3.3M Award to Develop Underwater Acoustic Sensor System

The award will allow Salloum and his team to continue the development of systems that can detect and monitor intruders on public waterways.

Johannes Weickenmeier Receives $837,467 as Part of a NIH-Funded Research Program Led by UC Davis to Examine the Link Between White Matter Lesions and Cognitive Decline

The project contributes to the understanding of the mechanistic origin of vascular damage causing white matter degeneration during brain aging.

Employee Excellence

Each year we acknowledge faculty and staff who are doing exceptional work in advancing our strategic goals in one of the categories outlined below:

Award Categories

Academic Year Service Anniversary

Awarded to those who have been working at Stevens in increments of 5 years

Strategic Plan Awards

Student Centricity

Student success is our highest priority. Employee consistently goes above and beyond what is required for a particular position. Employee displays the Stevens values of embracing innovation, diversity and technology as drivers for the inspiration, education and long-term success of our students.

Excellence In All We Do

Employee embraces the Stevens objective for excellence in all of their work.

Technology at Our Core

Our legacy is built on technology. Employee demonstrates technology innovation as a hallmark of our education, research, technology transfer, co-curricular or administrative operations.

Through Collaboration, Impact

Stevens seeks out and excels in partnerships that expand our reach and impact. Employee adds value to collaborative educational, research or community enterprises, across industry, government or educational domains.

Strengthened Reputation, Increased Prestige

Stevens must continue to build its reputation in education, research and service. Employee promotes the Stevens reputation and prestige through personal and collaborative efforts.

Transformative Teamwork

This award recognizes cross-functional, interdisciplinary, or intra-office/intra- departmental teams comprised of faculty and/or staff who have worked together in an exemplary manner on a project, process, initiative, or other significant effort that advances departmental goals, organizational goals, and/or the university’s mission and institutional vision.

Previous Award Recipients

AWARD	2022	2021	2020
EXCELLENCE IN ALL WE DO	Kishore Pochiraju Cark Russell Michael zur Muchlen	ToniAnn Biondolillo Paul Grogan Jamie Houghtaling Rainer Martini	Ann Murphy John Mauro Nicholaus Parziale
STRENGTHENED REPUTATION, INCREASED PRESTIGE	Jeff Nickerson Xiaojiang Du Koduvayur Subbalakshmi	Kevin Klich Christopher Robinson Shucheng Yu	Henry Du Brendan Englot
STUDENT CENTRICITY	Johannes Weickenmeier Amy Wolf Paul McClelland	Vivek Alex Orlando Gamez Castro Faith Kim	Michelle Crilly Virginia Figueiredo Thomas Maggi
TECHNOLOGY AT OUR CORE	Jesus Candiotti Kristen Conti Kunal Batra	Barbara Arnett Dov Kruger Michael Scalero	Dov Kruger Jeniffer Obando
THROUGH COLLABORATION, IMPACT	Kristyn Karl Brian Rothschild Luis Cueva	Vicky Ocasio Min Song Edlyn Thompson-Mettle	Margaret Guzzetta Leah Loscutoff
TRANSFORMATIVE TEAMWORK	Faculty Handbook Working Group Leaders Dibyendu Sarkar David Zeng	Barbara Arnett Andrew Bajana Chen Cheung Cindy Chin Steve Flanagan Susan Gross Anna-Lize Harris Rebecca Jennings Morgan Kellogg Danielle Pagliuca Michael Parente Frances Salvo Kamal Tamna	Dina Iskaros Amanda Mendez Luis Cueva Priyanka Bhushan Kristen Murdoch Christopher John Bianka Salomon Maria Tadros
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD	James McClellan Nuran Kumbaraci	Marguerite Cunning Norman Horing	Edward Friedman

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Excellence Testimonials

Stretch beyond the strict focus

Having students who are willing to stretch beyond their strict focus into the social sciences in particular and political science in general is really rewarding.

Lindsey Cormack | Director of the Stevens Diplomacy Lab

The drive to make a positive difference

I enjoy working here because I find this positive culture to be inspiring - a trait which motivates my academic and research pursuits.

Dr. Philip Odonkor | Assistant Professor

Stevens is more than an “engineering school.”

Stevens is more than an “engineering school.” When I tell them about the amazing research that’s being done here, 9 times out of 10, they will go to our website to learn more.