This summer, students are again pushing for Gianforte Family Hall (GFH) to be renamed. Also known as the Gateway Academic Center, GFH was named in 2017 after Montana Governor Greg Gianforte ‘83 due to sizable donations he made to Stevens.
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After over a year of COVID-19 pushing events and classes to virtual settings, commencement 2021 took place in person. Spread out over a series of eight in-person ceremonies, graduating students were able to walk across the stage at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, NJ.
March 25, 2021 marked the commencement of this year’s TechFest, an annual music festival hosted by the student-run Entertainment Committee (EC) at Stevens.
On Friday, April 30, the annual Ansary Entrepreneurship Competition took place virtually; this is the second consecutive year in which the event was not held in person due to the pandemic.
Hello! Frequent readers of The Stute might not recognize my name as a typical staff writer — I’ve been the Head Copy Editor for the past four years, editing in the shadows fixing Oxford commas, sentences that are just not quite right, and cases of oh no no no how on earth do I fix this fueled by Pepsi and cold pizza in three different Stute offices until the wee hours of the morning.
On Wednesday, April 28, Stevens began the annual Innovation Expo with previews of senior design projects in the Canavan Arena on campus.
It feels surreal to be typing this, because most days I feel like I haven’t even graduated. Yet, here I am writing advice to the class of 2021.
Stevens was one of 53 universities across the country to participate in the Center for Disease Control’s mask surveillance study titled MASCUP!
Although I have a month until I walk across the stage at graduation, the time has finally come for my last column.
For a while I thought getting my undergraduate degree would be the last time I’d be a student. Because in a way, it can be.




