Stevens and Connecticut Innovations agree to investment of $500,000 in SPOC Inc.
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Stevens Institute of Technology and Connecticut Innovations (CI), the states quasi-public authority responsible for technology investing and innovation development, today announced that they had completed an agreement for a seed-stage investment of $500,000 in Stevens Proof of Concept Inc. (SPOC), a Technogenesis Company founded at Stevens Institute of Technology. CI made this i...Stevens' Center for Science Writings honors Edward O. Wilson with Green Book Award
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University, is the recipient of the first Green Book Award from Stevens Institute of Technologys Center for Science Writings. John Horgan, Director of the Center for Science Writings, created the Green Book Award to draw attention to books that raise awareness of environmental issues. ... Wilson, on...Stevens, N.J. Sea Grant to host coastal management workshop
Hoboken , N.J. -- Stevens Institute of Technology and N.J. Sea Grant Cooperative Extension in Coastal Processes will host a N.J. Sea Grant Stakeholders workshop, "Improved Coastal Management, Preparedness and Response Through Real-Time Weather and Ocean Observations," on July 27 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. "The workshop is designed to elicit feedback on desired real-time data products from the atmosp...Stevens' Davidson Laboratory acquires new research vessel
Hoboken , N.J. -- Stevens Institute of Technology's Davidson Laboratory has acquired a new research vessel, R/V Savitsky, named after Dr. Daniel Savitsky, Consultant/Professor Emeritus at Davidson Laboratory. "The research vessel is one of the first vessels seen that is specifically outfitted for work in the New York Harbor," said Professor Michael Bruno, Director of the Center for Maritime Syst...Stevens professor named an Early Career Principal Investigator
Hoboken, N.J. -- Frank Xu, Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been named an Early Career Principle Investigator, a highly competitive and prestigious award from the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research of the Office of Science, US Department of Energy (DOE). ... "I'm thrilled to see Frank's hard work pay off so soo...Stevens' Disruptive Technologies Roundtable Series discusses SPOC
Center, two blocks east of Washington and 8th Streets in Hoboken. Lunch will be served and members of the media are welcome to attend.... T...Stevens' CSW begins list of 100 Greatest Science Books
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Stevens Institute of Technology's Center for Science Writings is in the initial stages of compiling a list of "The Stevens 100 Greatest Science Books," written by scientists, philosophers, historians and other scholars, and published since 1900. The list currently includes only one book per author....... The first 30 books are featured in the CSW blog, The Scientific Curmudgeon,...Stevens and Monmouth Presidents to co-chair ASBPA National Scientific Shore and Beach Conference
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Dr. Harold J. Ravech, president of Stevens Institute of Technology and Vice Adm. Paul G. Gaffney II, president of Monmouth University, West Long Branch, N.J., will serve as honorary co-chairs for the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association Annual Fall Conference to be held at the Ocean Place Resort and Spa, Long Branch, from Oct. 9 to 11....... The international forum o...Lee M. Silver to discuss new book, Challenging Nature, at Stevens
The Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology presents a talk by Professor Lee M. Silver, Department of Molecular Biology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. His talk, "Challenging God and Mother Nature at the Frontiers of Life," will take place Wednesday, March 8, 2006, 4 p.m. to 6.p.m., in Stevens' Burchard Auditorium (Ro...Stevens professor to speak during Princeton lecture series
Michael S. Bruno, Director of the Center for Maritime Systems and Professor of Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, will present the talk, "Advances in Coastal Ocean Observation Technologies," Saturday February 11, 2006 at 9:30 a.m. at Princeton University's MBG Auditorium. The presentation is part of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Science on Saturday Lecture Series 2006,...Journalists to discuss scientific challenges in Stevens lecture
The Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology will host three pre-eminent science journalists to discuss "Science's Greatest Challenges." The event is free and open to the public and will be held on the Stevens campus, Wednesday, February 8, 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. in the Bissinger Room, fourth floor of the Wesley J. Howe Center. The expert panel includes Sharon Begley, science col...Stevens Professor Alan Blumberg to speak at New York Public Library
Alan F. Blumberg, a Professor of Ocean Engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, will present a talk and slide show, "The Waters Around Manhattan: Balancing Human Uses and The Natural Environment "at The New York Public Library, Tuesday, May 2, 2006. The event is part of an ongoing lecture series sponsored by the Science, Indus...Historic schooner carries Stevens technology to monitor NY Harbor
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Stevens Institute of Technology, South Street Seaport Museum, and the New York Department of Environmental Protection have announced a joint project to measure water conditions in New York Harbor. The technology/education partnership was celebrated in a morning voyage that set sail from South Street Seaport on June 22.... The Seaport Museum's 1885 schooner The Pioneer, which cel...Steven M. Larson named recipient of SNM's 2005 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award
TORONTO, Canada--Steven M. Larson, M.D., chief of the nuclear medicine service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, N.Y., was awarded the 2005 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award for his distinguished contributions to nuclear medicine. The award was presented during the society's 52nd Annual Meeting June 1822 in Toronto. ...... Larson, one of the world's foremost experts in...