[The Stute] May 10, 2019 (Issue 24, Volume CXVI)

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PITCH INNOVATION COMPETITION EXPO READ ABOUT THE PROJECTS

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COMMENCEMENT DAVE ZIMMERMAN SHARES A BEHIND-THE-SCENES PERSPECTIVE ON THE FESTIVITIES

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ILLUSTRATION BY KHIANNA BRYNE

ADVICE

OPINION

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SENIOR ESSAYS

ALEX WELLERSTEIN GIVES

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ADVICE TO GRADUATING SENIORS

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Friday, May 10, 2019

Inside The Stute Editorial

THANK YOU, STUTERS

WE WILL MISS YOU SENIORS,

by audrey dsouza

To our graduating seniors – congratulations!

Finally, in just days, years and years of hard work will soon become immortalized in a piece of paper titled your Undergraduate Diploma.

I’m sure you are anxious to start a new chapter in your life, whether it is starting your dream job or the job hunt, furthering your education, traveling, serving the country, moving to a new city or moving back home. You might be super excited, but you might also even be dreading leaving the nest, because it’s all you’ve ever known. You’re checking off checklists, counting down the days – the next two weeks will be filled with so much celebration and happiness, but an equal share of goodbyes and tears.

Try not to be too nervous about

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entering this new chapter in life, most simply because you’ve been there before! Starting college, starting high school, or even the first time you left home: all of those experiences were super daunting at the time, but in retrospect, seem like nothing.

You probably sobbed in your mom or dad’s arms the first time they left, and they sobbed after you left. This is just how life goes on.

Your first time going to class and your first time skipping a class – all of these moments make up who you are and what kind of person you’ll be once released to “the real world”. All of the challenges you’ve faced and all the gifts you’ve been blessed with create you. Like with diamonds, the harder you pushed and endured the brighter and stronger you came out in the end.

Even if you’re unsure of where you are or where you want to be, it’s all alright. What’s meant to be is meant to be, and what isn’t, isn’t in your hands. Just stay true to yourself and what you want. What you believe in – your values, interests, rights – and work hard. Work twice, three times as diligently as you did when you were a student. Or maybe, take some time to relax and find yourself.

You’ve earned it! Finally pursue the hobby you promised yourself you would but never did, take the time to start your new years resolutions, reach out to old connections and restart. All of these opportunities are now possible as you’re starting again in life.

You’re counting down the days until the end. But isn’t it actually the beginning? Even if you’re not at where

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you had hoped you’d be, you’ve come so far and should be proud. Stevens is not easy, but you made it. A diploma or my words don’t mean much, but hopefully you can use both to encourage yourself that you’re worth it and that you’re going to do amazing things in your life.

Hopefully your time at Stevens will be a fond memory; with the graduation issue, we document every senior’s name so that at least once they’re able to be a part of Stevens history. We hope that during your time here we were able to serve you well, and that as an alumnus you will continue to support us every now and then by reading. Even if you’re not in the stars quite yet, and just “here” trying to figure out where to go in life, know that everyone in The Stute is rooting for you.

Acknowledging the graduating Stuters

BY MARYIA SPIRYDONAVA

It is very special for me to have the opportunity to congratulate all of our graduating Stuters. Some of you I have known since freshmen year and in that amount of time we became really good friends with, others I gotten the privilege with working and observing all the amazing things you have done.

Tarik Kdiry, Namankita Rana, Phil Fishbein, Victoria Piskarev, Koby Garcia, Rami Kammourh, Mia Hildebrandt, Sarah Hoogenboom, and Dakota Van Deursen, thank you for all that you have done for us. You have written articles, columns, been on the eboard, and most importantly have helped bring The Stute to the level that it is at right now. You are important members of The Stutefamily and always will be.

It is bitter sweet to be saying goodbye to you all. You all represent the heart of The Stute and contributed to its success. As sad as it is to say goodbye, we at The Stute all wish you the best of everything. If your time at Stevens is a small representative of everything that you will do, I know it will be great. So go tackle that big, bad, scary world; leave your own mark on it.

No more columns from Namankita, no more environmental articles from Sarah, no more Stars of Stevens from Mia, and no more spoilers from Koby. There are so many fun memories we shared at The Stute.

As sad as it will be to not have you, I hope that you can take everything that you experienced and learned and continue impressing the world.

All the best and all our love, from everyone at The Stute.

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THIS SPECIAL ISSUE is replete with content for the seniors who are graduating in the next few weeks: we have tips from an alum who graduated last year (Page 3), the results from the elevator pitch competition (Page 4), kind words from Professor Wellerstein (Page 8), and our Senioritis columnist Namankita Rana’s final piece (Page 9) — and more. On Page 5, you’ll find our favorite selections from our personal essay contest. Congrats to the graduating seniors, and thank you to all who helped create this paper. — Matthew Cunningham STAFF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Editor-in-Chief: Business Manager: Managing Editor: Outreach Chair: Layout Editor: Social Media: Head Photographer: Systems Admin: Webmaster: Archivist: Senior Copy Editor:

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Contributers: DYLAN MOON, JOSHUA BARDSLEY, JACOB SUSZCZNSKI, ALEX WELLERSTEIN, JOANA FARDAD, OLIVIA SCHREIBER, SARAH HOOGENBOOM, NAMANKITA RANA, KHIANNA BRYNE, JOSE ANGELES, MADISON TELLES, DAKOTA VAN DEURSEN, ANJALI PALIWAL, CHARLES ZWICKER, KATIE OWENS, ANASTATIA WINGATE, JEFFREY VOCK Please direct any questions, comments, or clarification requests to eboard@thestute.com.

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Friday, May 10, 2019

The Graduate Issue SENIORS GOT INNOVATIVE AT THE

INNOVATION EXPO

ADVICE FROM AN ALUM

BY MATTHEW CUNNINGHAM · PHOTO BY JEFFREY VOCK

ONE YEAR AFTER GRADUATION OLIVIA SCHRIEBER ‘18 OFFERS ADVICE TO THE CLASS OF 2019

BY OLIVIA SCHRIEBER

SENIORS DISPLAY THEIR YEAR’S WORK AND LET INVESTORS PERUSE AND ASK QUESTIONS

If you were on campus last Friday, you might have noticed seniors walking around campus, sporting their best professional attire. If you were curious why these dressed up seniors were walking into Walker, Canavan, and other campus buildings, and if you went to investigate for yourself, you would have seen hundreds of students regaling each other with their scientific discoveries. Some seniors nervous, twiddling their thumbs and pacing by their poster board, waiting for someone to come up and ask questions. Others were excited to share what they have learned. Many were just eager to graduate.

Last Friday was the annual Innovation Expo — a day-long showcase for student design, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Filled with events to celebrate student research, most of the day is dedicated to the exposition of senior design projects.

In Canavan, a variety of engineering disciplines were represented. Some of the projects included TrachAlert, a project described by the team as “a portable dual-sensor system that directly moni-

tors the airway of the tracheostomy tube to prevent potentially fatal drops in blood oxygen levels that, with traditional methods, are detected too late”; E-Fishin-Sea, a project with a mission to use hybrid technology to transition the US Marine Industry to sustainable energy sources; and Senior Design Marketplace, a project to help future seniors “make informed decisions about what projects they want to work on, and to begin work during the first week of the semester.”

Walker Gym housed the senior design projects of Computer Science and the College of Arts and Letters. The CAL students had projects that focused on the process of songwriting, analyzing the rhetorical patterns of Donald Trump and Barack Obama, attitudes about Mental Health in Urban Communities, and exploring sedative music.

LifeSkills Software — one of the computer science senior design projects — had a goal to “bring technology into special needs classrooms to help students transition into real-world jobs and independent living.” Another computer science senior

design project, Monacle, created a web-based application “with a primary focus around consumer retail inventory forecasting.”

On west patio of Babbio, Business students stood under a large tent to showcase their senior design project. One team named UBS investigated “the use cases in blockchain technology in the financial industry.” Academy Bus Company reviewed and analyzed the demographics of Academy Bus Company’s GoBus service.

Griffith Building held some senior design projects, like the Solar Splash Competition, Last Stage Drone Delivery, Castle Point Rocketry, Vacuum-Evaporation Water Purification System, among others.

After several hours of showcasing their works, the large poster boards were taken down, and some of the senior design groups made their way to what is informally known as the Elevator Pitch Competition.

Now, until next year, when the next set of seniors spend a year creating their senior design project to showcase to the Stevens community.

EVENTS TO LOOK OUT FOR

IF YOU’RE A SENIOR INFORMATION PROVIDED BY MADISON TELLES MAY 2019

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Paint Night Wednesday, May 15, 2019 Location: ArteVino Studio Time: (2) 2-hr Shifts: 3-5pm or 6:30-8:30pm; Ticket Price: $15; Description: Kick off Senior Week by enjoying a 2 hour painting session and refreshments hosted by ArteVino.

Brewery Tour Thursday, May 16, 2019 Location: Departed Souls Time: (3) 2-hr Shifts: 1-3pm, 4-6pm, or 7-9pm; Ticket Price: $16; Description: Spend a few hours drinking beer, eating pizza, and playing games at the Tasting Room at Departed Soles Brewery in Jersey City with your fellow classmates. Each ticket includes three drink tickets, food, and optional transportation via light rail.

Senior Ball Friday, May 17, 2019 Location: Hyatt Regency Jersey City; Time: 7pm; Ticket Price: $45 for graduating seniors $60 for non-graduating students and guests; Description: Join your fellow classmates for a night of music, dancing, and food with views of the Manhattan skyline.

Non-graduating students and guests are welcome at this event, but guests spaces are limited.

Transportation will be provided, with buses departing from campus beginning at 6:30pm and returning to campus beginning at 10:30pm Senior Brunch Saturday, May 18, 2019 Location: Halifax at The W Hotel; Time: 11am-1pm or 2-4pm Ticket Price: $15; Description:

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Hungry after a Senior Ball? Want to get brunch at one of the most iconic weekend spots in Hoboken?

Choose from one of two seating times and enjoy a relaxing brunch with your friends and fellow graduating seniors.

Alumni Mingle Sunday, May 19, 2019 Location: Pilsener Haus & Biergarten; Time: 8-11pm; Ticket Price: $12; Description: Biergarten is a Hoboken classic, and we invite you to join in one last celebration at this beloved bar. Your ticket includes food and drinks for the event and an opportunity to mingle with Stevens alumni.

Non-graduating students are welcome to attend by purchasing a ticket. Valid state ID must be presented at the door

Tickets for senior week events can be purchased by scanning the QR code above.

If you would like to be placed on the waitlist for any event, please email Senior Week Chair Madison Telles (mtelles@stevens.edu) or Student Life Advisor Danielle Maxson (dmaxson@stevens.edu)

It’s almost been a year since I made my way across the stage at the Meadowlands Exposition Center to collect my diploma—fine, the diploma cover—from President Farvardin. When I think back to graduation day, I can still hear the sweet “Pomp and Circumstance” linger in the air as a sea of robed graduates marched out of the vast hall and into the scorching May sun.

Graduation is an exciting time, but it is a ritual, an event that marks some type of transformation. And once the tassel turns, that sea of students transforms into a gathering of graduates, each now with a different purpose and course.

Learning that new course is not easy. For some, it involves paying back student debt; for others, post-graduate life means leaving home to start a new career. For me, I feared that my friendships that had anchored me in times of self-doubt would soon dwindle and extinguish after I moved out of Hoboken and back to my hometown.

I’ll admit I don’t have much experience, since I’m only one year out from graduation. I wouldn’t take offense if you skim this and think, Nah, I’ll be fine. But if you do take the time to read this, I hope you’ll find my words comforting and helpful as you begin this new phase.

Stay connected to each other and make an effort to communicate.

Keep group chats alive. Hop on a phone call once a week, if you can.

Take a road trip to your best friend’s new city if you can. New careers can be time consuming, but I try to make the time for those who have positively impacted my life. My friends from Stevens continue to be my outlets and confidants in times of need.

Don’t let those important relationships fall through because of a busy schedule.

Recognize where you are isn’t where you have to stay. A rapidly changing world creates a dynamic work environment, one that supports the innovated, creative, and eager minds of Stevens graduates. A first job is a first job. It probably isn’t going to be the best job, but another opportunity is always lurking around the corner, waiting for you to run into it. Don’t feel bad sending your resumé to others and keeping your options open. We’re taught not to be selfish, but you get to be selfish about your professional goals.

Keep learning about yourself and the world. I don’t think this is hard for many Stevens graduates, but something I’ve enjoyed since finishing my undergraduate degree is more time for self-exploration. I’ve been able to finish books, listen to full-length podcast episodes, watch the news, and read the newspaper, things I felt like I never had time to do while I tried to cram four years’ worth of information into this threepound chunk of grey matter we call a brain. Now that I’m out of the college bubble, I’m more invested in the happenings of my town, country and world. Figure out what is important to you, and spend time learning about it.

We all cope with change differently, and so I invite you to develop your own methods. Figure out what works best for you in the next coming months as you begin to cultivate new professional relationships, figure out how to start saving for retirement (GET A ROTH IRA ACCOUNT, BELIEVE ME), and develop new skills as a new employee or graduate student. And hey, if you’re successful— which you will be—share it with the Class of 2020 who will be in your position exactly one year from now.

Congratulations and best wishes to the Class of 2019!

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The Graduate Issue SENIORS GOT INNOVATIVE AT THE

PITCH COMPETITION

BY DYLAN MOON · PHOTO BY JEFFREY VOCK

place team Castle Point Rocketry and third place team REDCap ReImagined, are “opportunity recognition, value proposition, communication.”

The projects of the three winning teams had little overlap. Castle Point Rocketry, recognizing a demand for the ability to perform research in outer space, pitched a reusable rocket service to send experiments to space for cheaper than currently available services. In their pitch, Faris Ibrahim, who took the stage alone, highlighted that this would specifically increase research opportunities for schools and small businesses. The team included seniors Nathan Tahbaz (Mechanical Engineering), Monica Traupmann (Chemical Engineering), Dakota Van Deursen (Chemical Engineering), Abraham Edens (Mechanical Engineering), William Skwirut (Mechanical Engineering), Faris Ibrahim (Computer Engineering), Ben Iofel (Computer Science), and Thomas Flaherty (Mechanical Engineering). At the time of the competition, they had raised over $500,000 from 12 major corporate sponsors and intended to launch from a site in New Mexico in June. According to Van Deursen, every team member decided to give their cut of the $7,500 back to the team to buy the next round of parts and solidify the launch site.

Life Skills Software, which tied for first, sought to address a gap in the education of special needs children by developing a suite of games meant to develop real-world skills. The software will then allow parents and teachers to monitor analytics on child performance via a Teacher Portal. The team included seniors Nick Gattuso III (Co-founder and Developer), Mary McKeon (Co-founder and Developer), Khayyam Saleem (Lead Developer), Robert Spillane (Research Analyst), and Jarrod Smeyers (Game Developer). According to McKeon, the idea for the project dates back to high school, when “Nick saw a lack of software solutions for the skills they were teaching, and asked if our computer science class could program games for the students instead of programming random applications. After the success in our individual classroom, and after we went to Stevens, we decided to expand on this idea, and joined the Stevens Venture Center in December 2017.” McKeon thanked Adrienne Choma, Michael DiStefano, and Michael Parfett of the Venture Center for their mentorship. So far, Life Skills Software offers eight games and plans to expand its library.

In third place, REDCap ReImagined pitched a professional service to revamp the way hospitals manage patient data, based on the existing data-collection software REDCap, which thousands of hospitals and institutions already use. By creating tailored solutions that streamline nurses’ handling

SLAB/GLAD ANNOUNCING THE ANNUAL STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARDS AND GREEK LEADERSHIP AWARDS

SENIORS DISPLAY THEIR YEAR’S WORK AND LET INVESTORS PERUSE AND ASK QUESTIONS

On Friday, May 3, ten senior design teams took the stage in DeBaun Auditorium to perform in the Ansary Entrepreneurship Competition. Those teams were: O2Go, Supercritical Biodiesel, Castle Point Rocketry, The Boring Team, E-Fishin-Sea, SD Marketplace, REDCap ReImagined, Life Skills Software, EVisualize, and MNRVA. In an unprecedented tie, Castle Point Rocketry and Life Skills Software won first. REDCap ReImagined won third, taking home $2,500 while the other two took $7,500.

On stage, each team was given three minutes to pitch their product to a panel of eight judges (and potential investors) before a brief question and answer period. The performances were polished by weeks of coaching and preparation. Teams led with inticing hooks before introducing themselves.

Lines were divided among the presenters, who glided around the stage in rehearsed formations. Most teams opted for three presenters. Only Castle Point Rocketry sent out one.

Over the previous five weeks, the teams faced two rounds of elimination. The first round, the quarterfinals, occurred within Senior Innovation (course codes TG 403/404), for which participation in the competition is mandatory. Of the original 188 teams, a third of them, plus 10 teams who gathered the most likes on social media, progressed to the semifinals. The semifinals, which took place a week before May 3, hosted the same panel of outside judges as the finals.

This year’s judges were Tom Blum of New York Angels, Marques Brownlee, a tech-review YouTuber and ’15 alumnus of Stevens, Shane Deaton of Tesla, Kristina Hahn of Google, Doug Kennedy of Studio Wildcard, Dawn Ortell of Johnson & Johnson (a ’77 alumna), Leigh Ann Soltysiak of SilverLeaf Consulting, and Zakiya Smith Ellis, the New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education.

The Ansary Entrepreneurship Competition, formerly known as the Elevator Pitch Competition, earned its new name this year after the Cy and Jan Ansary Foundation established a perpetual endowment to provide $17,500 each year in prize money for the top three competitors.

The competition intended to cap off the Senior Design Expo, which has been open to all four schools of the university since 2012. According to Sandra Clavijo, who had an integral role in the competition as Director of Core Education for the SES Center for Student Success, “the former provost had wanted all students to learn how to pitch and decided to make it [the competition] mandatory. These skills are highly valued not only by ABET but also the companies that recruit at Stevens.” Those skills, said Clavijo, who also coached and mentored first

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of data, the team estimates they will reduce time spent on record-keeping at Hackensack Meridian Health by five hours per week, which would save Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital $100,000 per year. The hospital, less than an hour north of Stevens, is REDCap Reimagined’s first client. The team includes Engineering Management seniors Samantha Nicolich, Nathan Schaefer, and Kiera Sheridan.

The winning competitors shared the sentiment that the event was a healthy mix of competition and collaboration. According to Sheridan, “there was really a camaraderie between the teams. No one wanted to win by someone else not performing. We all wanted it to be a true competition of Stevens’ best.”

For many of those teams that did not place in the top three, the road for their projects is still open.

According to Raul Arora of MNRVA, who ranked first in the semi-finals with a text summarization algorithm based on natural language processing, “this competition doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, and we are planning on continuing the project after we graduate.” Sam Ferreras of O2Go, who pitched a portable, tankless oxygen device, said “our plan is to actually start a company focused on accessibility devices by disabled people for disabled people. I was surprised that we made it to the finals, and I worked hard to practice my pitch. But it was secondary because we already had a business model.”

The judges, for their part, were pleased. “I’m just so impressed by the dedication and the capability of the students. With the tools that the students have available to them, there are things you can do in hours that we couldn’t have completed in a whole semester,” said Dawn Ortell, a ’77 graduate of Stevens and a Business Planning Mentor at Johnson & Johnson. Marques Brownlee, a popular YouTube icon at Stevens after having graduated from the university in 2015, said, “I’m motivated by the young talent. I was horrible at presentations when I was 21, so seeing students dominate them is inspiring.”

When asked what is the most valuable aspect of the competition for students, Clavijo responded, “I honestly think it is confidence they gain from presenting in public. I also think it is the power to believe in yourself and see the value in your project and engineering work. And competing in anything raises the bar. Students start caring more about their projects as they quantify and communicate their value.”

More information on the Ansary Entrepreneurship Competition and the Senior Design Expo can be found under the Research & Entrepreneurship section of the Stevens website, www.stevens.edu.

Civic Engagement Award - Nathan Schaefer Rising Leader Award - Hailey Tanner Rising Leader Award - Jason Buckman Social Justice Advocate - DuJuan Kirk Stevens Pride Award - Michaela Thompson Student Leader of the Year - Jose Angeles Woman of Distinction - Divya Shankar Distinguished Teaching Faculty AwardDr. Lindsay Cormack Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award-Jason Robbins Campus Impact-Craig Shook Student Org Invitation New Organization of the Year-Attila Entrepreneurs, Matthew Brand Student Organization of the Year-Black Student Union, DuJuan Kirk Program of the Year:Advocacy-Intercultural Center Initiative, Nasir Montalvo Program of the Year:Service-Stevens STARTS, Sarah Bertussi, Society of Women Engineers Program of the Year:Educational Impact-In the Line of Fire: Gun Violence and Human Rights, Madeline Rys, Amnesty International Program of the Year:Cultural Impact-Send Silence Packing, Ashley Peck, Active Minds Department Award Invitation Linda Vollkommer Award-Emily Weeks William F. Ondrick Music Scholarship-Kiera Dillon William F. Ondrick Music Scholarship-Tyler Jones William F. Ondrick Music Scholarship-Emily Renjilian The Gustav F. Freygang Award-Brendan Shine Hans J. Lang Award for Excellence in Accounting and Business Analysis-George L. Ibuna The Robert H. Seavy Award-Isabella Biesty The Stevens Scholarship for Service Program-Logan Drazovich The CRC Press Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award-Brian Schramm Spirit of STEP Award-Jose Angeles RA of the Year-Niko Lambert RA of the Year-DuJuan Kirk Charles L. Petschek Scholarship-Emma Biss Charles L. Petschek Scholarship-Ryan Weiss Charles L. Petschek Scholarship-Vasundhra Srevatsan GLAD Awards New Fraternity Member of the Year Matthew Falco Of Chi Phi New Sorority Member of the Year Jamie Pugliese Of Delta Phi Epsilon Fraternity Member of the Year Jacob Meiskin Of Sigma Phi Epsilon Sorority Member of the Year Monica Williams Of Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. President of the Year Christian Ribeiro Of Kappa Sigma Senior Legacy Award Madison Telles Of Theta Phi Alpha Senior Legacy Award Daniel Fenton Of Sigma Phi Epsilon Senior Legacy Award Jose Angeles Of Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. Senior Legacy Award Glen Anna Abellana Of Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Greek Leader of Distinction Pasquale Gencarelli, Jr. Of Sigma Nu Greek Leader of Distinction Jeffrey Paine Of Alpha Sigma Phi Greek Leader of Distinction Jacob Coumans Of Kappa Sigma Greek Leader of Distinction Devin Dragon Of Phi Sigma Kappa Greek Leader of Distinction Casandra Gonzalez Of Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Greek Leader of Distinction Nadia Hoellrigl Of Alpha Phi Excellence in Campus Involvement Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. Excellence in Civic Engagement Kappa Sigma Excellence in Risk Reduction Sigma Delta Tau Program of the Year Growth Week Sigma Delta Tau Program of the Year Brown and Gold Christmas Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. Most Improved Chapter Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. Chapter of the Year Kappa Sigma

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Personal Essays

SELF PORTRAIT REVEALING THE WINNERS OF OUR PERSONAL ESSAY CONTEST:

BY THE STUTE · ILLUSTRATION BY ANASTASIA WINGATE AND JOSHUA BARDSLEY

We asked the graduating seniors in the Class of 2019 to send us favorite memories while at Stevens. After all, four to five years of college produces great experiences and memories. Some of which will stick with students for a lifetime.

Many students answered our call for

personal stories, and we are pleased to feature the writing of a selected set of submissions. Thank you to all who shared their stories with us. And an especial congratulations to the graduating seniors of the Class of 2019. We wish you the very best.

ALL THIS COMMUNITY MOVEMENT

BY DAKOTA VAN DEURSEN ‘19 · CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

It’s hard to drill down and choose a single favorite memory from the last four years. So difficult, in fact, I won’t try. Rather, I’ll describe my favorite pervasive idea while I’ve been at Stevens: the gradual increase in acceptance and inclusion of diversity at Stevens.

Over the past four years, I’ve had a front-row seat to the changes we, as students, have made to this campus. We’ve encouraged the creation and publicity of gender- and name-chance forms. Two religious organizations have officially formed. Gender-neutral bathrooms and housing have sprung up. The SGA has created an entire committee based on

furthering diversity and inclusion. The Office of Student Life carved out a whole position for Diversity Education. Students have invited the founder of BLM Canada to speak.

That’s not an exhaustive list but, in case it’s not clear, it’s a lot. Sure, I’ll agree that we’ve got a long way to go, but we’ve come a long way. That’s something for us all to be proud of. I’m happy by the part I’ve played in all this community movement, and it will stay with me for a long time. All of us have played a part. We continue to. It’s happening every day... and I wouldn’t have had it any other way.

DESIGN ONE

A TORCHBEARER FOR NEW STUDENTS

BY RAMI KAMMOURH ‘19 · CIVIL ENGINEERING

BY JOSE ANGELES ‘19 · ELECTRIC ENGINEERING

It was obvious from the start that my Design 1 group would have challenges. One of my group mates was a commuter who wouldn’t be on campus often, the other was international and couldn’t write well in English, and I was just generally clueless.

To make things worse, none of us had any experience writing code, even though multiple students in our section raised their hands when the professor asked if anyone had programmed an Arduino before. As the semester progressed, other teams were using the lab’s machine tools to start building their robots while we were still trying to wrap our heads around the project requirements. Not only were we convinced that our robot would be the worst in our section, we even talked a few times about whether we made the right choice enrolling in a tech school. Morale was low until one afternoon when we decided to stay late after class and figure everything out. We told ourselves that we were going to build the best robot Professor Shupenko had ever seen. That didn’t happen - our team ended up ranking fourth out of the ten teams in our section for the end of semester competition. Nonetheless, seeing our robot actually manage to navigate the obstacle course was one of my proudest moments. I finished the semester feeling confident and assured that I made the right choice coming to Stevens.

Stevens has provided me with many amazing opportunities and great memories through my involvements. One of my favorite memories is being part of the orientation team this last academic year as a Peer Leader.

Having served as a both a Peer Mentor and Orientation Leader years prior, I felt merging the programs was a logical step to better help new students become a part of our community at Stevens. I looked forward to the training knowing that I will have the opportunity to meet new people and become part of a family through the Peer Leader team as I had done the year before through being an Orientation Leader.

It still amazes me how Orientation can take a group of 50+ strangers at the beginning of training and make that group into one big family in just a week.

The long hours of training from learn-

ing about the academic resources on campus to how to facilitate discussions allowed us to become effective leaders and mentors while learning from each other’s experiences.

This year in particular, as being one of the older Peer Leaders on the team (a fact the entire rest of the team did not allow me to forget), I was able to act a mentor to a few of other PL’s. I felt that I was able to give back through training and to my own group more than ever before through my advice and talking about my experience at Stevens. We participated in many fun team-building activities and the high energy from the rest of the team made the first two weeks of the fall semester, the best I have had at Stevens.

I am grateful to have had the opportunity and amazing group of new students who I feel influenced positively.

WILD WEDNESDAY’S SARAH HOOGENBOOM ‘19 · CIVIL ENGINEERING

A weekly pilgrimage during 2nd semester of freshman year. We, my two closest friends and I, would run down 8th Street hill to Hudson Bagels and then run back to Humphreys Hall with three bagels in tow. We would fill our stomachs with the best meal available on a Wednesday night at 11:00 PM. We called them Wild Wednesday’s.

With traces of cream cheese on the corner of our lips and gooey bagel stuck on the back of our teeth, we would talk about philosophy

and politics or anything that seemed relevant. For hours we would dish out eyerolls and sarcastic comments while giving our best argument for our opinions. I can still vividly remember our laughter every time we concluded that life was always going to be a puzzle and that we are all “victims” to societal norms. The number of wild wednesdays diminished as our 4 years of college continued. But everytime we got together we would continue the banter. Sometimes I still ask

them how it was possible for us to be friends even though our upbringing and lifestyles are so different. Their response would always be a snide remark or a smirk. Now as a 5th year, wild wednesdays became an event of the past. Both Matt and Connor graduated as 4th years and are now working professionals.

But we still talk about those Wednesdays and I have realized how much those little moments really mattered in forming our unlikely friendship.

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The 2019 Commencement Speakers article and photos from stevens.edu

Laura Bilodeau Overdeck

Frank Sorrentino III Frank Sorrentino is Chairman and CEO of ConnectOne Bank, a full-service commercial bank that serves the New Jersey and New York markets. Mr. Sorrentino founded ConnectOne Bank in 2005 when he realized banks in his community were lacking a focus on the small to midsize business owner along with the financial features and superior client service he was looking for to support his construction business. To help solve this problem, he decided to build a bank that proved putting people first was a better way to do business.

Under Sorrentino’s leadership, ConnectOne Bank has grown across the New Jersey and New York area to over $6 billion in assets and 29 locations. In February 2013, ConnectOne Bank became the first bank to go public since the recession of 2007-2009.

Since its establishment, the company has experienced rapid growth, complimented by two mergers, propelling the company to become one of the largest commercial banks headquartered in New Jersey.

Today, ConnectOne Bank continues to grow its people-first business model into new markets within New York and New Jersey.

In 2011 and 2012, SNL Financial recognized ConnectOne Bank as a “Top 5 Best Performing Commu-

Laura Bilodeau Overdeck, founder of Bedtime Math and chair of the Overdeck Family Foundation, is a social entrepreneur and philanthropist who has moved the needle on math and science education reform.

Through her work at Bedtime Math, Overdeck developed an application that delivers nightly math problems for parents and kids to solve together, giving parents a free, simple tool that provides long-lasting gains in their children’s math skills, effectively changing their academic trajectories. In addition to the app, which has garnered more than a quarter of a million downloads, Overdeck has also written four books and launched Crazy 8s, the nation’s largest recreational after-school math club, which enables young children to explore math through play.

In parallel, the Overdeck Family Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports math and science education reform in the U.S, focusing on new school and teacher training models, informal STEM learning programs and early childhood programming. The foundation provides funding across five focus areas – early impact, exceptional educators, innovative schools, inspired minds and data for action – encompassing the whole child from birth through graduation both inside and outside the classroom.

Overdeck’s success has been accompanied by

proven results. A study published in Science found that within just one school year, kids who used the Bedtime Math app improved their math achievement on average by three months more than children who didn’t use the app.

A Johns Hopkins University study on Crazy 8s, which is a free program, showed that the club significantly reduces children’s feelings of math anxiety after eight weeks of participation. The effect was more pronounced among younger kids in the kindergarten through second grade club than the third through fifth grade club. Since 2014, 140,000 children have participated in 10,000 Crazy 8s clubs across the country.

Prior to founding Bedtime Math in 2012, Overdeck worked for Stanford Research Institute/SRI Consulting, where she helped high-tech clients build mathematical models to forecast sales for new products.

A native of New Jersey, Overdeck is a trustee at Princeton University and board vice chair at Liberty Science Center, and serves on the advisory boards of Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Khan Academy and Governor’s School of New Jersey.

She received an A.B. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

nity Bank in the Country”. Additionally, ConnectOne Bank has been named in the top 10 on NJBIZ’s “50 Fastest Growing Companies” list and was a recipient of the Forbes Enterprise Award.

Mr. Sorrentino serves as a thought leader in the industry, frequently commentating on CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox Business and in The Wall Street Journal and American Banker. He is also a contributor to Forbes.com. In 2013, Mr. Sorrentino was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Bankers Association, where he served a three-year team. More recently, he was named the 2018 Executive of the Year by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.

Previously, Mr. Sorrentino served as president of FSS Construction, Inc., a family-owned third generation construction business that specializes in custom-built luxury residential homes. FSS was founded in 1979 and based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. During his time at FSS Construction, Inc. he was named “Builder of the Year” in 1995 by the Builders Association of Northern New Jersey.

Mr. Sorrentino earned his B.S. in Construction Engineering Technology from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1987.

Justin Barish

Carolina Velasquez

Justin Barish of Kings Park, New York will graduate First in Class with a bachelor’s in computer science and a master’s in cybersecurity.

Barish belongs to Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the computer science honor society, and serves on the dean’s undergraduate advisory board in the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science. He has been awarded several prestigious Stevens scholarships, including the Presidential Scholarship and the FIRST Robotics Scholarship.

Gifted in computer science and music, Barish is also a recipient of the Stephen L. Bloom Scholarship, which is awarded to a computer science major who is actively involved in music. On campus, Barish has displayed his musical talents as a member of the Stevens Concert Band (playing euphonium) and Jazz Band (piano).

While at Stevens, Barish has been able to combine his love of computer science and music in other ways, as well. Among his impressive research achievements, Barish worked with Stevens faculty member Brian Borowski on a research project that blended music and computer science, working to achieve audio convolution in real time.

His other notable research accomplishments include investigatory work on a new form of cryptography under the supervision of professor Antonio Nicolosi.

Through two summer internships at Zebra Technologies, Barish gained valuable experience in 3D Vision algorithm development. After graduation, he will return to Zebra to begin a career as a software engineer in the areas of computer vision, machine learning and cybersecurity.

Barish says he’s thankful for the numerous opportunities he was afforded at Stevens, and says the most lasting takeaway from his time at Stevens is the relationships he formed with faculty and fellow students.

“Many of them are the lifelong friends that I met on day one, during orientation. And the professors here have been extremely helpful, not just in terms of what they teach in class, but I’ve had the opportunity to get to know a lot of them personally as well.”

Carolina Velasquez will graduate First in Class with a bachelor’s in finance.

Velasquez is no stranger to academic accomplishment. She was salutatorian at her high school in Weehawken, New Jersey. It was in high school, in fact, that where she first discovered her love of finance —as well as the School of Business at Stevens.

“Economics and accounting were my favorite classes. In my freshman year in high school, we had a field trip to Stevens and that’s when I learned that it had a business school.”

At the School of Business, Velasquez continued her academic excellence. And the standout finance major took a significant step toward her career goal of working in the industry when she was selected for a summer internship at one of the “Big Four” accounting firms, EY, in 2017.

Velasquez’s stellar performance later earned her a second internship at EY the following summer, and eventually a fulltime position in EY’s structured finance division in New York City.

“There’s often a miscommunication between the business and IT worlds. They don’t always communicate with each other that well. At Stevens we learn how the business world works and how the IT world works, and we’re able to connect the two.”

At Stevens, Velasquez has been active beyond academics. She has contributed to the university’s mission to attract students of richly diverse talents and backgrounds: as a student ambassador, she has shared valuable insights and perspectives about the broad undergraduate experience at Stevens to prospective and accepted students.

“I hope my experience can inspire future students in realizing their potential and their dreams at Stevens, just like I have.”

Matthew McCreesh Matthew McCreesh of St. James, New York will also graduate with a bachelor’s in computer science.

He is a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the international honor society dedicated to the discipline of the computing and information disciplines.

An avid sports enthusiast, McCreesh is a member of Stevens’ baseball club team.

McCreesh says he chose Stevens for both the university’s outstanding computer science program and its highly-regarded co-op program.

During his time at Stevens, McCreesh amassed an impressive array of work experiences in software development and IT through internships at Cablevision, K2 Intelligence, SPHERE Technology Solutions, LGS Innovations and Microsoft.

At the company’s headquarters in Washington state, he thrived when given a challenge to design and direct his own projects in the area of network monitoring. So impressive was his performance that McCreesh will return to Microsoft after graduation to begin a career there as a software engineer.

“My undergraduate work at Stevens, as well as all my co-op experiences, gave me a really strong foundation to be able to be successful at Microsoft,” he says. “It’s been a lot of hard work, but everybody works really hard at Stevens. And the people I got to study and become friends with just pushed me to do my best.”

The emotional reaction from his family members to the announcement reminds that the First in Class honor belongs not just to the individual recipient, but to those whose unwavering support helps make academic success possible.

“My mom teared up a little,” he says.

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Commencement 2019 AN INSIDE LOOK

BEHIND COMMENCEMENT THE ORGANIZER OF COMMENCEMENT DISCUSSES HOW IT WORKS

BY JOANA FARDAD

Above: Students from the Class of 2018 parading through the Meadowlands Exposition Center during last year’s Commencement ceremonies.

Clockwise from Left: President Farvardin giving congratulatory remarks and advice to graduating students at Commencement; Students browsing through the Commencement program booklet; Music performances entertained the friends and families and friends of graduating students.

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COMMENCEMENT 2019

It is almost that time of the year, Stevens! Commencement is just around the corner as this year will mark Stevens Institute of Technology’s 147th Commencement Ceremony. The Undergraduate ceremony is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. and the Graduate ceremony will begin at 4 p.m. Each ceremony is set to last approximately 2.5 hours.

The Stute had the opportunity to sit down and talk to David Zimmerman, the Executive Director of the Office of University Events, about the upcoming event for the graduating class.

Zimmerman is an alum and graduated here from Stevens in 1990: “I did a lot of performing arts here as the theater manager at Stevens, and was in charge of the performing arts until about five or six years ago when the need for having a University Events Office seemed very important.” Before, Zimmerman actually helped with commencement on campus as the person in charge of music, but he was not running the whole show until the Office of University Events was created.

When it comes to planning for commencement, Zimmerman claims that the “planning for this year started last July.” One thing that the office wanted to do better this year was “management of our volunteers…we spend a lot of time making a nice venue at our expo center, but it was hard to manage so many guests and so we needed a whole team to volunteer.” Last July, the office met with the leaders of each volunteer group to start planning how to better control the crowd of guests and how to work together. Zimmerman says, “there are three groups that meet about commencement: there’s the captain’s group, the executive committee, and ‘do-ers’ group which is the graduation committee, everyone who has a hand of making this all happen.”

The executive committee consists of a number of vice presidents who meet more about the order of the ceremony and help make official decisions.

Working together is one of the major keys to fulfilling the best possible commencement that Stevens has to offer.

Zimmerman claims that “almost every department on campus” takes part into the planning and execution of the commencement.

Commencement continues to take place off-campus, and that is not planned to change in the near future.

According to Zimmerman, “we started off campus because we really struggled to keep it on campus… in the early-2000’s commencement took place in the Canavan arena, then we outgrew that space and then we were outside in the parking lot and outgrew that space.” It was attempted later on to have the Commencement on the field at Stevens; however, an unexpected storm hit one day and “everyone scattered in every direction…it was horrendous.” Stevens has since settled down at the Meadowlands Expo, where this years Commencement will take place.

Though the cost of the event was not revealed, Zimmerman says, “having the event on-campus would be a lot more expensive than keeping it off.”

Stevens looked at building a tented venue for a few thousand people on the field, but the costs ended up being too expensive. Besides that, “parking would be another bump in the road for Stevens if they tried to bring it back,” Zimmerman states.

Lastly, Zimmerman discusses how Stevens picks the Commencement speaker every year: “There is an approximate time schedule that I put together. The speakers are given five to sevens minutes each to speak, and they are choose out of the President’s office,” Zimmerman says, “they try to find somebody that connects to the class…is well rounded and does not focus on discussing around one major.” Zimmerman evens claims that the Commencement speakers are way more into it than the graduates realize. Frank Sorrentino, who is speaking for the graduate, went as far as making sure to buy a Stevens tie from the bookstore so he could wear it underneath his robe. Student speaks are given one to two minutes to speak, given that there are more than one. Student Life works with the students on their speeches, trying their best to make sure that they compliment each other.

The Office of University Events tries their best to make sure that the audience does not sit in their seats for too long while still trying to provide the best commencement possible.

Commencement this year for the 2019 graudating class is set to take place Wednesday, May 22nd at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, New Jersey.

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Outside of the Meadowlands Exposition Center, new graduates, friends, and families congregate to take pictures. All Photos courtesy of Island Photography

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The Graduate Issue AROUND CAMPUS

ROVING REPORTER

SIX THOUGHTS FOR

GRADUATING SENIORS

HEARING DIRECTLY FROM THE GRADUATING SENIORS

“What is something you’ll remember forever once you graduate?”

“Stute Weekend, my freshman year.”

- Tarik Kdiry

“Going to SHPE Nationals in Seattle.”

- Xavier Rosario

“CPT Snowball Fight.”

- Daniel Kamieniecki

“Founding OPB.” - Glen Abellana

“Having my first beer at 21.”

- David Gensheimer

“I’m not a senior, but Stute weekend!”

- Audrey Dsouza

BY PROFESSOR ALEX WELLERSTEIN

Every student is their own individual person, with their own experiences, desires, goals, talents, deficiencies, and lives. So it’s hard to give any advice that can really apply to everyone. But what follows are a few recommendations I would give to recent graduates, as someone who graduated from college long-enough ago to have some perspective, but not so long ago that our post-college lives are totally indistinguishable.

First: You have to work not to become a boring person. We live in a world that caters primarily to the lowest-common denominator in terms of entertainment, news, and ideas. It’s fine to watch some fluff every once in a while. But keep your brain active. Challenge yourself to watch films that get you out of your comfort zone, seek out venues for new and interesting ideas, and if you find yourself feeling that you’re the smartest person in the room, find a room where there are people who are a little smarter than you. Go to theatre that you’re not sure you’ll like.

Go to art museums that have “weird” stuff in them. Reserve the right to not like any of it — but expose yourself to it anyway. It’ll make you a more interesting person.

Second: If you don’t identify as “someone who reads regularly,” now is your chance to rehabilitate reading in your life. You might find this ironic, given how much reading you were forced to do in college (especially in CAL classes). Reading might put a bad taste in your mouth as a result of its compulsory nature. But that’s just an artifact of you not having control over what you read. Now you’re out, you have that control. Don’t squan-

der it. There are books on every subject known to man out there. Find the ones that interest you, and make reading them a regular part of your life.

Why do this? Reading engages parts of the brain that are not engaged by other forms of media. Being a better reader also tends to mean being a better writer and a better thinker — language is a very deep part of our brains. In college you often don’t have time to read what you want, and you are often forced to read things you don’t want. Don’t let this turn you off from it. People who read are better thinkers and are more interesting people, full stop. It doesn’t really matter what you read, as long as it’s a real book.

Third: Social life outside of college can be tough to maintain, and like all things, requires work. Put effort into maintaining your old friendships, or they will fade away into mere acquaintances. Make an effort to get to know the new people who will enter into your life, and don’t just see them as transactional to your career.

If you are throwing a party, try to have at least one person there you’ve known for most of your life, and one person who you met only a few weeks before. It’s not an iron-clad rule, but the relative ease of socialization in college is easy to take for granted, even if you didn’t find it easy to socialize with people in college.

Fourth: Be proud of your education. I know that sounds like a lame thing that a professor would say. I know that the culture of Stevens undergrads is not always one of pride — harping on tuition, meal plans, the course registration system, etc., is a

common pastime around here, and some of the criticisms are legitimate (some are just how universities are practically everywhere in this country). But I’ve been at a number of universities, and we do have something unusual here.

Stevens students have a mix of drive, practicality, and creativity that is pretty unusual, and they go about their work with a lack of pretense.

You might not see it now, but your time here is going to shape the rest of your life for the positive in ways both subtle and overt. Don’t undersell it, or yourself. Remember the Stevens motto: “Per Aspera Ad Astra,” which is Latin for, “through adversity to the stars.” You can’t say they didn’t warn you that it would be a struggle, but it is only through struggling that we evolve.

Fifth: If you constantly find that the grass is greener on the other side, check that the person who owns that lawn isn’t just tending to it better.

Relationships, friendships, work environments — everything social, really — require work. Be an active part of all of them. All social environments are dynamic to different degrees, so what you get out of them frequently depends on what you put into them.

Lastly: Stevens is a part of your life forever, and you are part of Stevens forever. Its fortunes and practices will follow you through your life and career, and your actions and successes will reflect upon Stevens in turn.

Stay in touch, stay active, stay involved. Your voice as an alum will be more impactful on the future direction of the school than your voice as a student was. Take advantage of that.

OFF THE PRESS

A MATH MAJOR’S TALE

BY JACOB SUSZCZYNSKI FROM OFF CENTER

My time at Stevens is quickly drawing to an end. Like any graduating university could tell you, my time was incredible and I’ve made lifelong friends and it’s an experience I’ll never forget and all that stuff. But to dwell on that would be trite and a hack move. Rather I want to discuss my rather odd progression through my educational landmarks.

I’ve always been at a weird place at this university – ever since my acceptance. During Accepted Students Day, my name tag proudly profused that my major was Mathematical Sciences. I know not when, but somewhere down the line in my studies, my transcript displayed that my major was in fact Pure and Applied Mathematics. While this is quite a trivial matter, it underscores the oddities that plagued me throughout my academic journey.

As I distinctly recall that on a car trip to Maine, I was informed in my acceptance letter I was admitted into the 4+1 program. I still don’t know what qualifications I possessed to be part of such a program, nor do I really even know what it’s supposed to be, despite being so close to obtaining my master’s degree. I believe the idea is to take master’s classes in your 4 years as an undergraduate so you can finish your master’s in a year.

THIS SUNDAY, MAY 12, IS MOTHER’S DAY, SO WE AT THE STUTE WOULD LIKE TO WISH A

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

TO ALL THE MOMS OF THE STEVENS COMMUNITY! THANK YOU FOR INSPIRING US ALL.

The New Jersey Alpha chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon would like to congratulate our graduating seniors: • Baccaro, Kevin • Bedser, Evan • Caruso, Andrew • Collado, Cristian • Cuomo, Joe • Edens, Abe • Fenton, Daniel • Greenfield, Marc • Harris, William • Kawalski, Blake • Koleshnick, Gio • Lawrence, Dan • Leddy, Kevin • Lowey, Austin • Lum, Danny • Magno, TJ • Manning, Conor • McAlister, Liam • Moyer, Paul • Nuila, Nic • Puciloski, Joe • Reed, Chris • Schaefer, Nathan • Thompson, Christian • Turrisi-Chung, Dan We thank you for your contributions throughout the years and wish you the very best!

But here’s the thing, due to a combination of having an exorbitant amount AP credit and the math curriculum being downright miniscule, I managed to finish all of my undergraduate requirements in 3 years.

So now I’m in the 3+1 Program, I guess? No one has really ever officially acknowledged it, but hey, I got into grad school. My acceptance was quite unceremonious. I had received multiple emails pushing me to apply to Stevens’ graduate program through the online application portal, which was confusing because I would have figured they would have some system in place to just accept any student in the 4+1 Program. So I obliged and started a profile and began filling in all the information Stevens already knew about me. Then one day, I received a phone call from a Stevens office worker that went along the lines of: “Hey, you’re applying to graduate school, correct?”

“Yeah…”

“And what program would that be?”

“Math…”

“Alright, you’re all set.”

“Uh, thank you?”

For a while, I wasn’t sure if I was a graduate student or not. Apparently, neither did Stevens, because for the first few weeks of my graduate

program, I was not only registered as the wrong major, but enrolled in the entirely wrong school. I was a part of the Schaefer School of Engineering & Science every second of my undergrad, but for some reason I was thrown into the School of Systems & Enterprises as an Applied Math major. Not only that, I needed to get permission to transfer to the program I was originally supposed to be registered for. And due to starting out in the wrong program, I never really found who my advisor was supposed to be in SES. So I just kept going to my undergrad advisor and that seem to have worked so far.

And now another chapter of my education at this institution closes in an expectedly odd way with me taking one elective class over the summer in order to get the 3 credits preventing me from obtaining another admittedly very high quality sheet of paper with my name on it. Maybe this time they’ll also list my major because my undergrad diploma does not have the word “math” printed anywhere on it.

All this to say, I have no qualms over my unique trek through the administrative side of being a math major. Just that it’s been a very weird experience. Now I just hope they don’t accidentally shred my application for candidacy or something.

“The Beta Upsilon Chapter of Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. gives a huge SOLEIL of congratulations to our graduating sisters, Glen and Roma. Thank you for all of your dedication in bringing OPB to campus to helping us thrive!

The Rho Omega chapter of Kappa Sigma wishes its graduating seniors the best of luck in their futures: • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Jacob Coumans Justin Koch Justin Sitler Chris Kachler Jimmy Sweeney Andrew James Kowal Ciaran Russel Leon Kirman William Skwirut Dillon Houghton Stephen “Chip” DeBoer Ryan Little Christopher Ludeke Zachary Saegesser

We are confident they will change the world the way they have changed our chapter -- AEKDB

Congrats to all the graduating seniors!

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The Graduate Issue SENIORITIS

BEGINNING AT THE END

MIND OF A FRESHMAN

BY NAMAKITA RANA

TRUSTING THE PROCESS NATALIE TODARO ‘22 IMAGINES HER GRADUATION IN THREE YEARS

BY NATALIE TODARO

ONE OF THE MEMORIES FROM STUTE WEEKEND

So that’s it, then. This is my last column.

It’s a strange thought. I don’t think I’ve truly processed what that means, just yet.

Four years here have passed. And through it all, The Stute has been my constant, my rock. I’ve come full circle with this paper, in the truest sense of the phrase. So it’s only fair, I suppose, that I take you back, to where and when it all began for me.

It was July before freshman year. I knew nothing about Stevens, the school. I had absolutely no friends here. No real connections to help me out. On top of all that, I was anxious and nervous that I’d made the wrong choice. That coming here might be a mistake, after all.

This weekend — ‘Stute Weekend’, as it’s called — was supposed to (hopefully) change all of that.

A weekend, to learn how to write articles for the newspaper. Explore campus, Hoboken, and NYC. Maybe make a few writer friends along the way.

What could go wrong?

And so I dove in, expecting the worst but still hoping for the best.

First meetings, first impressions, first friendships, are always tough. There was some awkward small talk, a few nervous ‘oh–shit-what’s-your-nameagain’ situations. But then the tension melted away, and it was like we’d all known each other forever, and like we always would.

Of course, I didn’t know, then, if there’d even be a forever. Had no possible way of knowing, that girl who was my roommate would become my editor-in-chief, my drinking buddy, my 2 am friend, each in turn and also all at once. Nor could I have

guessed, in any of my wildest dreams, that so many of the people I met during those days would still be so dear to me.

I just tried to live in the moment, and every moment that followed.

As a group, we made a bunch of … interesting decisions that weekend, to say least. But we had so much damn fun doing it. And then, of course, we stumbled upon our most inspired idea yet — to pull an all-nighter, and then walk down to the water to watch the sun rise.

It took a Herculean effort on our parts to not fall asleep. But in the end, it was definitely worth it.

Seeing the rays of light break over the horizon, stippling the dark city with color, took my breath away. Pushed the sleep right out of my bones, and replaced it with a sense of awe, a sense of pure wonder that I wish I could have bottled and stored, kept someplace safe.

There’s two pictures from that day that stand out.

The first is a bunch of us, crowded on a small bunch, looking out at the sunrise.

The photo is striking, in part, because of just how damn small we all look.

We were still kids, really. So eager to make friends. To find our way, our path.

We didn’t know, then, how transient our anxieties were. Or just what we were destined for.

The second is a picture of the sun, rising over the New York City skyline.

I’ve taken better skyline photos since. This one is grainy and imperfect, somehow both over-exposed and under-edited.

Still, I can’t complain. It’s a snapshot in time. A callback, to a moment when I didn’t have anything else to do. Didn’t have anything to occupy the space in my head other than the view of the sky and the promise of hope in front of me.

In that moment, I just knew. That what I’d been dreading this whole time — casting my old friends, my old self behind — it wasn’t an ending. For the first time, it really felt like a new beginning.

So this isn’t an ending, either. Just a change.

That’s all.

People have asked me if I intend to keep writing.

Just start a blog! they say, as if it were truly so simple. I wish it could be. Really, I do.

The truth is, I don’t know when the next time I’ll see you will be. My voice deserves a little rest, now.

I think it’s earned that. Besides — I’d much rather wait for something to beckon to me, to truly call me out, than force myself to keep creating, keep writing, in a way that might not be totally authentic, totally real.

But maybe that’s alright. Maybe it’s beautiful because it ends.

Like the sunrise from that day — all things must end, only to begin again.

So take a moment now. Appreciate who you once were. Who you’re going to become. This glorious, messy, imperfect process, of beginning at the end, over and over and over again. As we were always meant to do.

Per aspera ad astra. Through adversity, to the stars.

Until next time, friends.

SENIORS PROCESS DOWN

CAMPUS WELCOMES A NEW SORORITY:

WITTPENN WALK

SIGMA PSI ZETA

BY CHARLES ZWICKER

BY MARK KRUPINSKI PHOTO BY MORGAN BRENNER

On Wednesday, members of the student body and faculty and staff cheered on the graduating seniors as they processed down from Walker Gym to Babbio Patio, in a tradition the school started last year, calling it ‘The Wittpenn Walk”. This tradition is the counterpart to another tradition that the school started simultaneously, having the incoming freshmen process up Wittpenn Walk at convocation, according to Assistant VP for Student Affairs Sara Klein. The two traditions are intended to indicate the beginning and end of academic career

here at Stevens.

The event drew out mixed emotions from the group of seniors. “It’s good to reflect on our experiences”, said Matt Fiebel, one of the graduating seniors.

However, some were not happy about the construction on Wittpenn Walk.

In John DiBari’s opinion, “It’s sad that Wittpenn is closed”, referring to the construction that prevented the procession from occurring on Wittpenn Walk proper. Food and drinks were provided to the seniors, as they gathered one last time on Babbio patio before graduation.

Picturing myself graduating from college in three years is really weird. It also makes me slightly nervous to think about what I’m going to do post-graduation, but in my heart I know I’ll be ready when the time comes. Throughout the years of going through high school, graduating, and starting college, I’ve learned to trust the process.

Flashback to freshman year of high school. Terrified at the sight of every senior, my 14-year-old mind couldn’t even comprehend graduating high school in four years. I knew my options and that I would most likely be going to college, but there were still a plethora of unknowns. I remember hearing the term “calculus” and feeling completely sick to my stomach thinking of the high-level math that I would have to deal with one day.

Sophomore year wasn’t as nerve-wracking because I think I was more concerned with making it through that specific year than worrying about the future. College talk was starting, but it wasn’t a necessary thought that I had to spend a lot of time pondering.

And junior year was similar in the sense that, even though college was in the near future, I was more worried about that year. The classes were difficult, but for me, most of them were continuations from previous classes. Geometry turned into algebra, which then turned into pre-calculus. And pre-calculus prepared me for calculus which didn’t sound as scary once I got to senior year. The thing that I once felt so anxious about turned out to be just another math class, nothing special or particularly different.

I remember a specific moment during senior year where I realized how I had been prepared for senior year. I was in creative writing class when a freshman girl asked me if senior year was hard. I thought about it for a second, and responded, “No, because by the time you get to senior year you’re prepared and ready.” I realized then that although the nerves I felt my freshman year about the future were valid, they were also foolish. I wasn’t jumping from geometry to calculus, but rather taking the steps in between that would ultimately make calculus not so scary-sounding.

And in terms of post-graduation plans, I wouldn’t be completely lost; four years is a long time, and going from 14 years old to 18 years old is an even bigger element of time and personal growth.

As I look into the future at the day I will graduate from college, I can’t help but be reminded of that moment in creative writing class my senior year of high school. I saw myself in that freshman girl, looking up to a senior and wondering what it was like. I realized that everything would work out the way it was supposed to. Now that I am in the midst of my four-year college journey, I have to trust that I will be prepared for graduating even if it seems like the most nerve-wracking thing at the moment.

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“Sisters forever heart and soul. True to our goals red and gold,” chanted seven women marched out of Howe to Castle Point Lookout. The women took their positions in a line and were asked to recite the Greek Alphabet by Liz Kwong, Vice President of Expansion for Sigma Psi Zeta.

“Is that really all you’ve got, Alpha Rho,” interjected Kwong before the seven women could finish reciting the alphabet. “No ma’am,” responded the women. Immediately afterwards, seven more women marched out of Howe to Castle Point Lookout. The crowd cheered with surprise and excitement.

These 14 women are the Alpha Rho Charter Class of Sigma Psi Zeta — Sigma Psi Zeta’s largest charter class.

The 14 women are Daniella Magcalas, Ellen Drennan, Ria Isabelle Salvacion, Nina Marie Ioanis, Grace Lin, Tracy Wong, Anjali Paliwal, Norma Isa Martinez, Alyssa Kim Martinez, Vivian Lin, Stephanie Young, Ellie Kim, Chloe Quinto, and Aimee Rose

Gamboa.

The women first expressed interest in joining Sigma Psi Zeta in Spring 2018, and formed an interest group known as SIT-Blossoms.” Sigma Psi Zeta has a national requirement that an interest group is created prior to beginning the intake process,” said Malcolm McDaniel, Assistant Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life.

The women began the new member process in Spring 2019.

“I think this is an exciting time for Stevens to establish the first NAPA (National Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Panhellenic Association) organization on our campus. I believe it will bring a different perspective to the Fraternity and Sorority community, encourage more conversation about the Cultural Greek Council and diversity, as well as provide women interested in joining a sorority with more options,” said McDaniel.

Sigma Psi Zeta did not respond for comment by the time of publication.

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The Class of 2019 COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS George Joel Allan Ryan James Carbone Hannah Nicole Castello Cheyenne N Chao Andrew J Chrepta Daniel Patrick Demyanovich Steven Edward Fine Koby Oswald Garcia Sapna Gera Iman T Alshafie Ashley N Borges Hannah Nicole Castello Marcus Franz Anton Cudina Ali Hameed Aashray Krishna Harishankar Joseph Michael Juliano Alexander Jordan Khan Kelly Elizabeth McGowan Danielle Amya Mcphatter Aidan J Mutschler Peyton R Ouano Joshua Joseph Phillips Joshua D Pirog Max B Rizzuto Rebecca Lynn Sass Alexander Michael Slizewski Scott Henry Smullen Jacob Alexander Stillman Daniel Xavier Stuart Michael John Szynal Jr. Edward Dwayne Wilkins Jr.

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Haddy Abdelhady Glen Anna Abellana Rebecca Marie Abernethy Bishoy Matthew Aboseff Mahmoud R Abouhussein Andrew Michael Accardi Thomas Neal Ackershoek Jr. Andrew Richard Afflitto Michael John Ahr Ayse Nur Akin Christian M. Ali Ian Patrick Allemand Lachlan P Allen Salma T Alshafie Andrew Steven Alvarez George Amabile Megan Rae Anderson Andrea Andress Jose Rafael Angeles-Ovalles Shreya Anjaria Ronald John Ankner Jr. Aidan Anthony Aquino Gregory Arabagian Anne Marie Arcidiacono Michael David Armstrong Rahul Rajesh Arora Vikram M Arunkumar Amanda T Atzil Alexandria Austin Eakrum Awwal Kevin Michael Baccaro John Steven Banya Justin F Barish Hunter Robert Bartholomew Eric Marc Baskayan Lucas Marc Baskayan Alfredo Aleja Batistini Guevara Thomas Battaglia Brian Bazergui Evan Robert Bazzini George Roy Beckert Evan Charles Bedser Nicholas Windsor Bernier Alana J Best Charles R Bethin Jr. Dane Bilotti Austin Palmer Binder Kevin Michael Birk Christopher Robert Blackwood Ryan Thomas Bloomgren Jonathan Bobkov Kristine Bombardiere Mariana A Bomfim Rajiv Boodram Gabriella Borodyansky Stephen Charles Bosomworth Brandon Jonathan Botsch John Joseph Boutureira IV Christian M Bouwense Eamonn Joseph Brace Rachael Ann Bramlage Matthew Santos Branco Moira Aileen Brennan John Michael Brescia Peter De Angelis Brine Katrina Anne Brodecki Lily Cecelia Bruenjes Brian M Busseno Colin Jacob Bussiere Christopher J Byrne Melanie Caba Jennifer Marie Cafiero Yuhan Cai Caitlin A Cambio Raul Eduardo Camilo Matthew Louis Capobianco Brian Cunha Carneiro Jonathan T Castro Christian J Cavallo Cian Cavooris Kai Chen Jacqueline Chi Alessandra Marie Chieff Madison Brittany Chollett Olivia Reny Church Jacob Michael Ciesielski Daniel E Cleary

Ryan J Coffey Matthew Steven Colacino Cristian Collado Ann Elizabeth Collins Matthew J Colozzo Matthew David Conchar Brereton Valentine Conway Joseph Thomas Conway II Scott M Cooper Max Copeland Athina Lauren Cordero Anthony Costagliola Nicholas James Cousillas Dallas James Creamer Maria Cruz Campos Julia Cruz Nicholas Richard Csapo Andrew Phillip Cunningham Joseph Anthony Cuomo Michael James Curry Jie Dai Anthony D’Aiuto Jr. Melina P Dallastella Matthew Jacob Daquila Victoria Rose Davis Stephen D DeBoer Jr. Oriana Karin Defeo-Peterson Michael Christopher Delaney Nicole Marie Dell Boyu Deng Julianne Marie Depardieu Alexander Ralph DeRosa Rohan Desai Andrew Rade Deur Ellen Aubrey Dexter Cooper Williams Diamond John Paul DiBari Kyra Angelina DiFrancesco Nicholas Alexander Digilio Thomas Frank DiGiuseppe Matthew David Diglio Parker Allen Dimock Sarah Elizabeth Dollard James A Dorfman Christopher William Drew Matthew James Duffy Sarah Kathryn Dugan David Manuel Duque Julia R Earl Ryan Nathan Edelstein Abraham L Edens Kelly Ehrhart Lawrence Lucien Elentukh Omar Mohamed Elshayeb Geoffrey Douglas Ely Abigail Devine Emerson Andrew Robert Emery III Jeffrey J Englehart Mary C Espinoza Courtney Marie Evans Angelo Richard Falabella Melody A Faltas Ian Fan Pola Farinas Jason Christopher Farkas Gianna Rose Fazio Joshua Miles Feldman Daniel John Fenton Emily K Ferguson Gabriella Anne Ferrara Matthew James Fiebel Nikolai F Figueroa Nicholas Fiscina Philip Harold Fishbein Jonathan Samuel Fishkin Thomas E Flaherty Marianna Christine Fleming Evan Grant Forman Anthony John Fragale Rachel Kimberly Freeman Samuel M Fuller Stephanie A Funcasta James Kenneth Furrer Mohamed Emad Gabr Diana Margarita Galarza Alicia M Galer Aabha Bharat Gami Duncan S Gandley Joseph T Garabedian Alexander Joseph Gaydos Chris J Gaydos Pasquale Gencarelli Jr. Michael S Giacona Jr. Ryan Gioe Christopher Michael Giordano Maryem S Girgis Nicholas Andrew Giuliano Nicholas John Glodava Gabriel David Goldberg Geoffrey Goldin James M Goldman Elizabeth Julia Gonzales Carlos Andres Gonzalez Jillian Burns Greatsinger Green, Stephanie Lynn Marc P Greenfield Joshua Paul Gribbon Aleksandr Vasylyovych Grin Joshua Paul Gross Yohanes Steven Gunarso Nicolette T Gurgone Evan R Gutch Ryan J Gutmann Zachary E Hackett Jill Anne Hadwen Austin K Haeusser Penelope Nicole Halkiadakis Megan Day Hand William Ryan Harris Erin Elisabeth Hatcher Thomas Brown Haumersen Taylor J He Sean Robert Healey Michael Anthony Heck Jr. John J Henrich Aaron Henry Brandon Ernest Herb Brett Herbrandson Robert J Herley IV Mia Ba-Lu Hildebrandt Isaac McInnis Hirschfeld Christopher M Hittner Rachel S Hjerpe

Nadia A Hoellrigl Kevin Joseph Holland Brett Richard Holtzman Sarah Marina Hoogenboom Dillon C Houghton Graham V Howard John R Hrabar Yarema Hryvnak Craig Joseph Hughes Haley Michelle Hyland Faris T Ibrahim Lior Idan Matthew Edward Iobst Benjamin A. Iofel Haley MacKay Jacobs Michael V Janvier Catherine Javadian Brian Christopher Jefferson Christian Tyler Jensen Thomas D Jensen Hao Jia Bryan Jimenez-Rojas Gregory Aaron Johnson Courtney E Jones Sean Ronald Jones Matthew Alexander Josephs Christopher Joseph Kachler Jordan Emma Kaiser Rami Kammourh Harkirat K Kang Roger Kang Nicholas Robert Kaniewski Matthew N Kaplan Nayeem Ahsan Kareem Charles Blake Kawalski Taylor Ann Keenan Alexander Douglas Kennedy Eric Alan Kerestes Mark Keriakes Daniel Jared Kilgore Brian Hansol Kim Daniel Kim Eric S Kim Patrick Carter King Tiffany A King Leon Eoin Kirman Theodore Kensuke Kluge Mark Timothy Knapp Justin Gerard Koch Frances Helene Kohler Giovanni Edmund Koleshnick Franzisca Komar Sandra Komar Stephen Anthony Kontrimas Richard Adam Kopelow Daniel Kosynskyy Ioannis Koutalidis Zachary J Kovacs Andrew James Kowal Jack E Kraszewski Arjun Krishna Joseph Robert Kuhn Tyler James La Tourrette Jade N Laceste Alexander C Lagasca Tsz Wai Lam Nikolas Takis Lambert Anthony Robert Lanza Victoria R Larsen Avery Lau Daniel Walter Lawrence Reinier Alcasid Lazaro Kevin Leddy Frank Lenge Jr. Carlos Horacio Leon Adrian L Leszczynski Mary Katherine Libera Stephen A Lillis Stanley Lin Sarah Lindberg Richard J Liput Ryan Paul Little Jieyu Liu Tianwei Liu Aldin Hamit Llolla Corinne Lee Loncar Alexander Anatoliy Loukianov Austin Lowey David O Luis Daniel Christopher Lum Blake Peter Luxoro Shane Michael Lynes Morgan John Lynn Christopher Patrick Lyons Lindsey Alexis Mahnken Christopher Majcher Laura Lynn Malacane Nicolette Mariana Malave Joshua J Maldonado Glenn Paul Mann Jacob Larrabee Manzelmann Yue Mao Sankeerthana Maringanti Matthew Jacob Markowitz Nicholas Kurt Martella Faith Anne Martin Sean Thomas Martin Joseph David Martineau Jeffrey T Martino Ruben Manuel Martins Scott Nicholas Maslin Mark Donald Matthews Matthew J Mayer Liam James McAlister Robert J McCabe Thomas Sakyo McCabe Shayna E McCarthy Matthew John McCreesh John Cameron McDougall Edward Taber McFarlin IV Matthew James McGinn Tiffany Patricia McGinness Catherine A McGinnis Jeffrey Joseph McGirr Clayton Charles McLean Jr. Rohan Nilesh Mehta Jeffrey Andrew Philip Meli Maxwell Evan Melo Joshua T Merrick Jie Miao Dominik Sebastian Michno Zoe Kathleen Millard Justin Adam Miller Matthew Donald Miller

Peter A Misthos Raj V Mistry Veronica Leigh Moditz Saarah Mohammedi Daniel Alonso Monroy BrendenMichaelMontemurno Casey Moon Nathan Christopher Moore Matthew Keegan Morandi Melissa Eva Moy Paul Landis Moyer Nicole Elizabeth Munz James Murphy Justin James Naclerio Rushabh K Naik Daniel John Natale Gabriel-LorenzoBernaldNatural Cam Hoang Nguyen Ryan Minh Nguyen Steven Joseph Nichols Tobias Dietmar Noll Nicolas A Nuila Andrew Michael O’Brien Kyle David O’Brien Catherine Elizabeth Oesterle Connor James O’Hara Peter N Oline Mey Young Olivares Tay Nicholas Ordonez Nicholas Russell Orlando Nicholas J Osborne Thomas Andrew Osterman Ottelien Mary Catherine McCollum Anthony Joseph Palandro Christopher Michael Palma Maximillian Kealoha Panoff Alexis Z Paolella Tagenarine Paray Daniel C Parker Jr. Matthew Richard Pasko Luca Pasquariello Satya S Pasupuleti Hiren P Patel Shival Bipin Patel Jacob Edward Patterson Jonathan T Pavlik John Joseph Pecoraro Rohit Peesapati Anna Petruczynik Aidan Daniel Petti Joshua Joseph Phillips Anthony Joseph Picone Avikshith Pilly Daniel T Pinto Charles J Plate Johanna Elizabeth Pluymers Daniel Robert Poidomani Nicholas Frank Pollio Kenneth Lloyd Poser Paul L Potenza Kaitlynn Jane Prescott George-Douglas Verceles Price Robert Pennoyer Principe Laura Gail Prinz Joseph Pierce Puciloski Derek D Pulaski Thomas Lincoln Pyle Kipsy Teopengco Quevada Kristian Teopengco Quevada Eric Wayne Radbourne Sean Michael Rafferty Ishtiaque Rahman Dawood Siddique Rajput Edrick Ramos MacKenzie P Randle William John Rappa Emily Catherine Raque Monica Anne Razak Michael Thomas Reddy Bridget Irene Reed Christopher Michael Reed Liam Patrick Regan Paul James Reilly Maximillian Remetz Alexandra Frances Repper Kenneth David Rexer Benjamin Shalom Reydel Christian J Ribeiro Julianna Nicole Ricci Dana Alisabeth Roe David Thomas Rogers Samantha Ann Rokicsak Gabriella Noelle Romano Xavier Rosario Matthew J Rota LouisPhilippeRozencwajg-Hays Andrew Tyler Rudzin Elizabeth Rumanov Ciaran Russell Robert Paul Ryan Evan John Rzeznik Lauren Elsie Sachs Zachary Charles Saegesser Benjamin Jahmon Sakarin Mariam Safwat Ayoub Salama Khayyam Ali Saleem Daniel Bryan Salerno Kyle William Salgueiro Akshay P Sampath Alexandra Nicole Samper Robert Louis Sarakin Nathan James Schaefer Richard James Schermerhorn Patrick Stanley Seiwell Bhavya Kartik Shah Nidhi B. Shah Roma Shah Ahsan Shahab Dhivya Shankar Matthew Christopher Shaw Robert Joseph Shea Jaemin Shim Zachary David Shoop Caroline E Shusta Dylan Mehmet Sidali Adam Jeffrey Sisson Justin Louis Sitler William Franklin Skwirut Magdalena Slonski Nathaniel Smith Noel Seton Smith Patrick J Sobota Matthew G Sorrentino

Nicholas Edward Sorrentino Mark James Spence Sara R Spencer John Spicer John Thomas Stabile Timothy A Steinberg Justin J Stowe Greyson Strouse Wenkang Su Alex M Sugarman Alex Supkay Erika Rukiya Suttmeier James Donald Sweeney Nathan Andrew Tahbaz Tianbo Tan Albert Tang Donald Tang Henry Calvin Tapanes Vincent Floyd Tavoletti Madison Yvonne Telles Imgenur Tepecik Laura Reid Tesoriero ChristianTiongHanThompson Michael Tang Thompson Foster Ting Matthew Alexander Tomaro Nicholas Antonio Tomaro Annie E Topoleski Monica Katherine Traupmann Christopher J Trimarchi Brianne Patricia Trollo Justin Tsang Zin M Tun DanielThomasTurrisi-Chung Jeff Siu Chung Ung Melanie Nicole Valentin Ivan V Valiaev Dakota P Van Deursen ReinoutRoelandVanLandegem Rostyslav Vasyliv Janet Lynn Vill Mary Elena Visca Philip Michael Vitale Joseph Vincent Vitiello Bryan D Vitz Brendan Harold Von Hofe Aimal Wajihuddin Stephen D Walker Jr. Mia J Walton Jiheng Wang Weichu Wang Brooke Mary Grace Weber Scott L Wedgeworth Mary Kathleen Weeks Patrick Edward Wehrman Nicholas D Weisz Scott Weitze Lujia Wen Eva Dinara Westphal Aaron Wolfang Daniel Wronka Guanhao Wu Kexian Wu Qiuan Wu Taylor John Wulff Joyce Xu Samuel T Yakovlev Mark Youssef Zehua Yuan Philipp Zagika Weronika Zamlynny Sofia Camila Zapata Connor Richard Zapfel Tim Zhang Chenyu Zhao Qianwen Zhao Zitong Zhao Jiarui Zheng Renjie Zhou Xuchen Zhou Chris Zoubroulis

SCHOOL OF SYSTEMS AND ENTERPRISES Michayla P Ben-Ezra Yoseph Borai Michael Bernard Buglione Joseph Andrew Buonocore Christina Mary Caches Christian A Chaneski Alyssa Nicole Chipelo Jack Brian Engel Lucas Romeo Gallo Michael F Gaspari Olivia Angela Gemma Jonathan Reed Hadley Ali Hameed Nicole Danielle Hilden Kevin James Hockenjos Tarik Kdiry Christine Page LaRochelle Erik Andrew Lim Christopher Elliott Ludeke Gabrielle M. McCormack Mary Frances McKeon Hans Mok Leanne Michele Musto Samantha Gray Nicolich Matthew Dylan Nuzzo Laura Theresa Oliveto Brianna E Perez Namankita Rana Austin Cesar Rocha Elena Maria Sanchez Nathan James Schaefer Hashem Abdelnasser Selim Kiera Michelle Sheridan Thomas William Slook Robert M. Spillane II Caroline Grace Squillante Andrew Peter Stellon Oscar V Tavara Jr. Caroline Marie Telma Trenton R Walko Robert Weiss Victoria Ann Zanlunghi Blake Robert Zimmerman

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Senior Awards Award Name

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Connor Jared Albert Joseph C Arena Rheanna P Athwal Daniel John Aversano Asha G Azhakath Vincent Michael Badali Maxwell Earle Bailey Tyler Jay Balkema Conor J Barron\ Justin Lawrence Beckerman John-Craig E Borman Lauren Collier Brown Nicholas Matthew Carnovale Andrew Paul Caruso Brennan Thomas Casey Ryan Francis Casey Jane Lorraine Castro Anthony Joseph Cerchio Christopher F Cesario Amanda A Choy Nicholas Anthony Colonna Andrew F Cottrell Daniel Charles Crotty Sheila De Assis-Fernandez Julia A DeCandia Michael A Derin Joseph DeVito III ChristopherAnthonyDiCostanzo John P Doherty Kelsy M Donaldson Yiannis Spiridon Dongaris James Patrick Doran Timothy James Doran Michelle S Drobish Zachary J Eberding James P Ebert Peter S Ebrahim Toni G Fayngersh Brendan Ferrara Kevin Christopher Florio Vasiliy A Fomin Clayton Peter Francis Antonio G. Fuda Marco A. Gancitano Christine Louise Geiser Samantha Jo Geyer Donald Joseph Gherardi Benjamin Clark Gilman Isabella Nichole Giordano Michael E Glasser Nicholas Gounarakis Vanesa Ester Greco Jiawen He Ziming Huang Evan J Hyun Ryan Thomas Jachim Dillon Thomas Jacoby Abha A Jhaveri Evan Joseph Kainer Nicholas H Kalimtzis Ryan C Kelly Matthew W Kenney Aisha M Koyas Alec P Kulakowski Gorav Kumar Nicole Brianna Lange Ryan Michael Larsen Thomas Frederic Lawson Byron Likdisha Regan Paige Littell Yijia Liu Yilun Luo Liam Thomas Lynch Andrew Connor MacInnes Douglas Anthony Maffia Thomas James Magno Aryan Jason Mahyar Charles Alexander Manzari Andrew John Masur Patrick A McCarthy Kyle P Mcdermott Zachary D Milhard Francisco Montiel Jr. Emma Jean Murphy Elena Y Oh Vishali Amit Patel Peter John Patrizio Dean Anthony Peluso Frederick Louis Perrine Konrad Joseph Petelski Paul Michael Piccione Alexis Morgan Pickell Emily Anne Piekarski Victoria E Piskarev Jenny Marie Quispe-Aquije Natasha Rai Kristina Leigh Redmond Annika Hinsman Roll Carlo Jose Russo Samuel Alexander Sherman Hannah Murphy Silvestri Ajitpal Singh Daniel Joshua Slavin Royall Addison Standing Lihua Tang Mark T TenBrink Katherine Marie Tirabassi Carolina Velasquez Alexander Vergara Jennifer Lynne Wajda Eric Mark Waser Carinne Michelle Werthaim Philip Dean Woods Ian A Wright Jiawen Xu Julia Yang Justin Henry Yu Ziwu Zhang

2019 Awardee

Lawrence C. F. Horle Memorial Award Distinguished Chemical Engineering Student Award AIChE Herbert Fried Award AIChE Walter Schneider Memorial Award Best Chemical Engineering Senior Design Award

Justin Barish, Matthew McCreesh, Carolina Velasquez Nathan James Schaefer Tyler Rudzin Matthew J. Meyer Catherine A. McGinnis, Melissa Ava Moy, Sara R. Spencer, Thomas John Wisnewski (Biodiesel Process using Supercritical Methanol) Best Chemical Engineering Senior Design Award Rachel N. Bramlage, Mary Catherine McCollu Ottelien, Alexandra Nicole Samper, James Donald Sweeney (Base-Catalyzed Transesterification for Biodiesel Production) Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Senior Award Brandon Ernest Herb Warren Wells '42 Distinguished Service Award Kristian Quevada Clinical Engineering Services, Inc. Design Excellence Award Justin Stowe, Jacqueline Chi, Gabriella Borodyansky (Beach Wheels) American Concrete Institute Award Imgenur Tepecik Sydney F. Borg Award Courtney E. Jones Mattthew Klemchalk '01 Memorial Award Sandra Komar Outstanding Senior Design in Civil, Environmental or Naval Engineering Sarah Lindberg, Rachel Freeman, Katrina Brodecki, Angelo Falabella Boswell Engineering Award Angelo Falabella Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering Award Kevin Leddy The Eugene Fezandie Award Charles Blake Kawalski & Joshua Miles Feldman The Kenneth J. Moser Award Nicolette Gurgone The Arthur J. Grymes, Jr. Book Award Thomas E. Flaherty Senior Design Award for Mechanical Engineering (Robotic Wind Instrument) Nicholas Kaniewski, Matthew Kaplan, Emily Scharmann, John DiBari, and Paul Szenher The Richard S. Magee '63 '64 '68 Excellence Award William Harris The Robert H. Thurston Leadership Award Ann E. Collins The Richard B. Cole Award Luca Pasquariello The Fernando Sisto Award Bryan D. Vitz The Col. John Stevens Power and Energy Systems Award Eric Alan Kerestes The Andrew Carnegie Machine Systems Award Anthony Costagliola The Elie Fonrose Award William Skwirut Batchelor Award Ivan V. Valiaev and Nicholas Antonio Tomaro Paul M. Chirlian Award Ronald John Ankner, Jr. Senior Design Award for Electrical Engineering (Stevens RoBoat) Peter Brine, Christopher Drew, Joshua Gross, Scott Maslin Senior Design Award for Computer Engineering (Evisualize) Kyra DiFrancesco, Diana Galarza, Eric Kim, Kipsy Quevada and (MNRVA) Rahul Rajesh Arora, Thomas Sakyo McCabe, Matthew Donald Miller Stuart K. Tewksbury Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Studies Christopher in Computer Williamand Drew Digital Systems Francis Boesch Award for Outstanding Undergraduate StudiesThomas in Communications D. Jensen and Signal Processing Harry Heffes Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Studies inKyra Mathematics, Angelina DiFrancesco Modeling and Simulation The Alfred M. Mayer Prize Hao Jia Physics Department Leadership Prize Zitong Zhao Robert Spillane II, Mary McKeon, Nicholas Gattuso, Jarrod Smeyers, Khayyam Saleem Senior Design Award for Computer Science (LifeSkills Software) and John Banya, Connor Zapfel, Andrew Soutar, Evan Senkewicz (Mitigating Phishing Attacks Using Visual Similarity Detection) Computer Science Departmental Award Weronika Zamlynny Stephen L. Bloom Theoretical Computer Science Award Matthew McCreesh The Luigi Pollara Award Pasquale Gencarelli, Penelope Halkiadakis The Priestly Prize William Rappa Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award in Chemistry andRobert Chemical Ryan, Biology Andrea Andress, Nicolette Malave, and Stephanie Funcasta Academic Excellence in Chemistry and Chemical Biology Anne Marie Arcidiacono Humphreys/Ennis/Lesser Award Samantha G. Nicolich, Ali Hameed Frederick Winslow Taylor Award Lucas R. Gallo The John Mihalasky Award Samantha G. Nicolich, Nathan J. Schaefer, Kiera M. Sheridan (Red Cap Reimagined) Donald N. Merino Award for Academic Excellence Kiera M. Sheridan Outstanding Senior Design Project - Business Consulting TrackToni Fayngersh, Christine Geiser, Carolina Velasquez, Carinne Werthaim, and Joseph Arena (Elysian Charter School) Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Bachelor of Science Carolina in Business Velasquez Outstanding Academic Performance Award in Quantitative Finance Asher Mazaika Daniel Aversano, Jane Castro, Sheila De Assis-Fernandez, Christine Geiser, Gorav Kumar, Outstanding Service Award Elena Oh, Alexis Pickell, Victoria Piskarev, John-Craig Borman, Aisha Koyas, Michelle Drobish, Natasha Rai Outstanding Senior Design Project - Entrepreneurship Track Marco Gancitano, James Ebert, and Andrew MacInnes (Engi) Outstanding Senior Design Project - Research Track Alec Kulakowski, Kyle McDermott, Mark Tenbrink (Socially Responsible Investment) Julia and Frederick Bissinger Award Kelly McGowan Joseph M. Farber Memorial Prize Iman Alshafie National Academy of Inventors Award Devin Belmar, Caitlin Cambio, Anthony Fragale, Alicia Galer, Saarah Mohammedi, Yanique Spigner, Kenneth Poser, Matthew Iobst, Franzisca Komar, Julianna Ricci David and GG Farber Societal Impact Award Faris Ibrahim, Abraham Edens, William Skwirut, Thomas Flaherty, Monica Traupmann, Benjamin Iofel, Nathan Tahbaz, Dakota Van Deursen (Castle Point Rocketry) 1st Place - Faris Ibrahim, Abraham Edens, William Skwirut, Thomas Flaherty, Monica Ansary Prize for Student Entrepreneurship Traupmann, Benjamin Iofel, Nathan Tahbaz, Dakota Van Deursen (Castle Point Rocketry) Tied for 1st Place - Robert Spillane II, Mary McKeon, Nicholas Gattuso III, Jarrod Smeyers, and Khayyam Saleem (LifeSkills Software). 3rd Place - Samantha Nicolich, Nathan Schaefer, and Kiera Sheridan (REDCap Reimagined) Center for Environmental Systems Hydroglobe Award Katrina Anne Brodecki, Angelo Richard Falabella, Rachel Kimberly Freeman, Sarah Lindberg Career Center Award—Exceptional Career Growth Kipsy Queveda Career Center Award—Service to Department Kexian Wu Career Development Ambassador Award Jennifer Cafiero, Matthew Iobst, Mary Libera, Dhivya Shankar Intern of the Year Award Nicholas Fiscina Cooperative Education Academic Excellence Award Matthew McCreesh Cooperative Education Student of the Year Award Alessandra Chieff The Resident Assistant Outstanding Service Award Christina Caches, Koby Garcia, Ayse Akin, James Sweeney The Residence Life Service Award Nikolas Lambert The Thomas E. McCandless Music Award Paul Reilly Theta Alpha Phi—Yelena Petrovna Award Amanda Atzil Honor System Service Award Nicholas Csapo, Jack Kraszewski, Gabrielle McCormack, Akshay Sampath Waldo Shumway Award Lucas Gallo, Dakota Van Deursen Woman of Distinction Award Dhivya Shankar The Phi Sigma Sigma Award Lindsey Mahnken Podolsky Award Dhivya Shankar Maurice E. Roglin III Award Glen Abellana The Ada and Edwin "Doc" Farrell Memorial Award Cristian Collado Civic Engagement Award Nathan James Schaefer Student Leader of the Year Award Jose Angeles

Congratulations Class of 2019! Per Aspera ad Astra

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CONGRATULATIONS

CLASS OF 2019