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 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University TM , lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research. The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.
Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts. Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world. Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu and www.stevens.edu/press.
