Selected Faculty Honors and Achievements

Dean Jean Zu (SES) was named a cabinet member of the new Campaign for Next Generation Engineers Leadership of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

John Horgan, director of the Center for Science Writings (CAL), is the author of the recently published book, Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science.

Weina Meng, Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering (SES), and Hang Liu, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SES), are recipients of prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER awards. Meng’s work has applications in materials; Liu’s is focused on data analysis.

Stefano Bonini (SB) was interviewed by CNN Business about the role rising bond yields could play in hampering economic recovery.

Ying Wu (SB) spoke with BBC World News about Hong Kong's future as a global financial center.

Kishore Pochiraju and Brendan Englot, Mechanical Engineering (SES), were awarded a $1.4 million DARPA grant with colleagues at Princeton University and Perspecta Labs. Their project is aimed at leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to help humans with complex engineering design tasks.

Largest New Research Awards, December 2020-January 2021

• January 1: Hui Wang, Computer Science (SES) – National Science Foundation, $699,540 – SaTC: CORE: Medium: Privacy for All: Ensuring Fair Privacy Protection in Machine Learning
• January 1: Xiaoguang Meng, Center for Environmental Systems (SES) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, $147,637 – Determination of Main Factors Influencing Arsenic Removal from Municipal Wastewater
• December 8: Shang Wang, Biomedical Engineering (SES) – National Institutes of Health, $164,832 – R21: High-Resolution Dynamic Imaging of Ovarian Cancer Metastasis Post Chemotherapy
• December 8: Marcin Iwanicki, Chemistry and Chemical Biology (SES) – National Institutes of Health, $256,040 – R21: High-Resolution Dynamic Imaging of Ovarian Cancer Metastasis Post Chemotherapy
• December 2: Jon Miller, Davidson Laboratory (SES) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, $132,000 – Cactus Island Living Shorelines Project

Workday Student Set for Launch in March!

• Faculty and staff with access to Workday Student will be able to use it starting Thursday, March 4.
• Students will have access starting Wednesday, March 10.
• Summer 2021 registration for all students will take place using our current student information system (SIS) beginning Monday, March 29.
• Fall 2021 registration for all students will take place using Workday Student beginning Tuesday, April 6 (updated from Monday, March 29). The Office of the Registrar will provide detailed information about the registration schedule for graduate and undergraduate students.

Workday Student is Stevens’ comprehensive new student information system that streamlines many of the tasks you need to perform from enrollment through commencement. Workday Student is an extension of the Workday HCM (Human Capital Management) platform that Stevens faculty, staff and student workers already use to manage all their human resources tasks. Workday Student brings a host of additional functions to Workday and places everyone at Stevens on a single modern platform that can be accessed with a single login.

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December 10, 2020 through February 16, 2021

NEW HIRES

Charles V. Schaefer Jr., School of Engineering & Science

• Tegan Brennan, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
• Jason Corso, Professor, Director of Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Viola Ward Brinning and Elbert Calhoun Brinning Endowed Chair, Computer Science
• Jason Rabinovitch, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Cameron Ruddy, Research Engineer, STAR Center
• Kathrin Smetana, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
• Pedro Andres Vilanova-Guerra, Teaching Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
• Zhiqiang Zhao, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Electrical and Computer Engineering

School of Business

• Hannah Healy, Coordinator of Industry Capstone Program, Graduate Program

School of Systems & Enterprises

• Philip Anton, Chief Scientist for Acquisition Innovation and Research Center, SERC

Office of Undergraduate Academics

• David Ernst, Assistant Director