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A team of six Stevens Institute of Technology students recently claimed first place in the national Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) 2024 Student Design Challenge Competition with their music and rhythm-based video game, Haptic Hero, which they designed for players with visual impairments.
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Helped lead the launch of the weekly Glyph Notes newsletter, distributed to a global audience. The effort involved ideation, newsletter branding, and strategy. Serve as lead curator/writer for the newsletter.

Story on reducing gender, racial and ethnic disparities in computer science featured in Stevens' print alumni magazine. In 2020, the percentage of women receiving computer science degrees stood at 21% — according to NSF data. Hispanic or Latinx bachelor’s degree recipients in science and engineering stood at just 17%, while Black students made up only 9% of degree recipients.

Bruce Ratner, a familiar figure in the New York scene, is known for his work as a major property developer, including helping revive downtown Brooklyn’s economy, and as a former commissioner of consumer affairs. What most people don’t know is he is a strident advocate for the advancement of innovative cancer diagnostics.
At the 2024 Startup Symposium & InvestConnect Conference, held Feb. 28 at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Belfer Research Building, Ratner, now a co-author of a new book, “Early Det...

Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia is nearing its 144th year of construction. The global community awaits its completion in 2026, coinciding with the centennial of architect Antoni Gaudí’s death.
Sagrada Familia has endured myriad challenges as complex and intricate as its soaring spires and detailed façades. Gaudí knew his ambitious plans would mean the project’s timeline would surpass his time on Earth. After his death, there were plenty of challenges that could have relegated his vision to...

Informative speeches, panel talks, and research poster presentations — this description may summarize what happened at the Second Annual Biomedical Engineering Day held on February 2, 2024, but the more essential takeaways were the intangible gains of the enthusiasm experienced by the nearly 200 attendees that filled the University Center Tech Flex Auditorium ...

Financial barriers that hinder the economic empowerment of Hispanic communities include language barriers, cultural differences and attitudes toward money. These factors can impact financial decision-making. Additionally, there may be a lack of trust in financial institutions stemming from historical experiences.5 Addressing these hurdles is crucial for promoting economic prosperity within the Hispanic community.

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Stevens Baja SAE members gain firsthand engineering experiences beyond the classroom
Sometimes the road less traveled is a muddy one. And that’s what members of the Stevens SAE Baja prefer.
Over 12 months, Stevens students worked diligently on campus to build an off-road vehicle for the 2024 Baja SAE competition in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. This annual program, part of SAE International, an organization focused on advancing aerospace, commercial vehicle and ...

Three minutes and one projected slide–that’s all each graduate student had to present a big-picture research goal to a non-specialist audience in a way they could understand and appreciate.
The eleven students from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences participated in the eighth annual Three-Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition, which challenged the young scientists to trim the scientific jargon and share thei...

Amid the stunning Manhattan skyline views peeking through the windows of Bissinger Hall at the Howe Center, more than 80 people gathered at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology’s (CCB) Third Annual Holiday Dinner on Friday, December 8, 2023, to celebrate the accomplishments of Stevens Institute of Technology students and faculty. The attendees included faculty, staff, students, alumni and their families and friends.

Themed “Celebrating the Stewardship for Student Success,” the eve...

The 85-mile stretch of land between Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and New Orleans, Louisiana, is known as Cancer Alley because a majority Black community faces an alarming number of health risks thanks to the oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries situated near suburban homes.

Across the Harlem River from Manhattan sits the Bronx, nicknamed Asthma Alley because asthma affects 17% of children ages 13 and younger. The rate is highest in the South Bronx, where two thirds o...

For National Hispanic Heritage Month, we're celebrating the contributions of Hispanic and Latinx Americans in the financial space. And we're empowering others in the Hispanic community to pursue avenues of financial independence and security. As a strategy for financial empowerment, get the scoop about mortgage scams targeting Hispanic communities, including how to spot and avoid them.

The homeownership rates for Hispanic families rose slightly in the last decade. As of 2022, the Hispanic hom...

“Profound risks to society and humanity” – these words, included in the opening sentence of an open letter from technology leaders warning of the potential negative impacts of giant artificial intelligence (AI) experiments, represent a growing concern about rapid AI adoption in society.

These worries match Americans’ attitudes toward AI. According to a recent Stevens TechPulse Report, 10% of adults are pessimistic about AI’s capabilities as a source of societal good.