From powerful password crackers to support security, to the detection of Alzheimer's and treatment for stroke patients, Stevens is at the leading edge of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, performing research that promises to transform the way we do business, take care of our health, work, commute and more.

Stevens Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Christophe Pierre met with officials from Tsinghua University, ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the world's top engineering and computer science university, to sign a memorandum of cooperation to promote joint educational initiatives involving the two schools.

President Nariman Farvardin was selected by Carnegie Corporation of New York as one of seven university presidents to receive its 2017 Academic Leadership Award in recognition of exceptional leadership in higher education. The award also carries a $500,000 institutional grant, which President Farvardin will devote toward increasing access to STEM degrees and careers for underrepresented minority students.

After competing as one of six finalists in the nation’s foremost competition for innovation and entrepreneurship at the collegiate level, a Stevens student team was voted the 2017 People’s Choice Winner for its design of a touchless brain-scanning device.

The Stevens Venture Center’s inaugural Digital Healthcare Hackathon brought together innovators and budding entrepreneurs for a weekend of brainstorming, workshops, talks and networking opportunities. The event culminated in a pitch competition in which a student trio claimed first prize for proposing a wearable device that tracks and supports alcoholics during the recovery process.

In its first-ever entry in the intercollegiate showcase for innovative boat design, a Stevens student team finished highest among rookie entries, placing first in categories for outstanding hull design and outstanding drive train design as well as third in both the outstanding technical report and solar slalom components of the competition.

A new article shines a spotlight on Stevens as "one of the most desirable STEM colleges in the nation." Forbes attributes the "impressive turnaround" by the university, as reflected in significant enrollment increases, rising operating revenues, a growing endowment and upgraded debt ratings, in part to Stevens President Nariman Farvardin's "willingness to break free from stodgy ivory-tower curricula."