Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times reporter, to speak at Stevens

HOBOKEN , N.J. — Andrew C. Revkin, a Science and Environment reporter at The New York Times, will present a talk and slide show, “The Melting Arctic and Other Tales of Global Warming,” at Stevens Institute of Technology, Wednesday, December 14. The event is part of an ongoing series sponsored by Stevens’ Center for Science Writings in collaboration with the Frederick and Julia Bissinger Fund for the Humanities, and will take place at 4:30 p.m. to 6:30, in the Wesley J. Howe Center’s Bissinger Room. Refreshments will be served.

Revkin has written about the global environment for two decades, covering issues from the Amazon to the North Pole. Author of The Burning Season (www.islandpress.org/burning), an acclaimed investigation of the murder of the Brazilian environmental activist Chico Mendes, Revkin has garnered more than half a dozen national journalism prizes, including an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award and the inaugural $20,000 National Academies Communication Award. Among his arctic reporting, he covered for The New York Times “The Big Melt,” a three-part series on the transforming arctic. His reports are available online at www.nytimes.com/pages/science/sciencereport.

For more information about this or other events sponsored by the Center for Science Writings, please visit www.stevens.edu/csw/cgi-bin/index.php.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University, is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,234 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with more than 400 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.

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