Inside New York City's glittering Plaza Hotel, Stevens alumni and friends received well-deserved accolades for their extraordinary generosity and impact on a night filled with recognition and gratitude, glamour and humor.

Bruce H. March, president of ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, was the featured speaker in the President's Distinguished Lecture Series, delivering a talk titled "R&D Pathways for the Future Energy System."

An undergraduate Stevens team will compete as one of ten finalists in NASA's collegiate aerospace design challenge to extract water from ice deposits buried beneath simulated lunar or Martian soil in the final competition in Langley, Virginia in June.

Laura Bilodeau Overdeck, founder of Bedtime Math and chair of the Overdeck Family Foundation, and Frank Sorrentino III, chairman and CEO of ConnectOne Bank, will deliver Commencement addresses for Stevens' undergraduate and graduate classes of 2019, respectively.

Bound for careers at Zebra Technologies, Microsoft and EY, Justin Barish, Matthew McCreesh and Carolina Velasquez have attained the highest academic achievements among this year's graduates.

Stevens computer science department chair and cybersecurity expert Giuseppe Ateniese has been ranked #7 in the world in AMiner's A-10 "Most Influential Security and Privacy Scholars" ranking, which measures researchers' influence and thought leadership in the artificial intelligence field over a ten-year period.