Jeff Jarvis, visiting professor at Stony Brook University’s School of Communication and Journalism, fellow at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, emeritus professor at CUNY’s Newmark...
How is agentic AI transforming university research?
AI is already supporting research across disciplines, although adoption varies significantly between institutions and individual researchers.At Stony Brook University, Lav Varshney has seen AI applied across fields...
An Oklahoma consulting firm is selling an AI tool that can predict elections, but can it be trusted?
Steven Skiena is a computer scientist and AI modeling professor at Stony Brook University in New York. He said the great thing about this kind of AI agent is you can ask them anything, and they will give you a response...
SBU’s Joshua Plotkin, Zachary Hobel reveal new mouse brain pathway for OCD-like behavio
Stony Brook University Associate Professor Joshua Plotkin, postdoctoral researcher Zachary Hobel and collaborators at two other institutions recently published a study in the journal Neuron that highlights a circuit in...
Advanced Energy Conference 2026 Brings Global Energy Leaders to New York City
The Advanced Energy Conference 2026 (AEC 2026) will bring together many of the energy sector’s most influential executives, policymakers, researchers, investors and technology pioneers from November 4-6 at the New York...
Itchy Skin, Low Blood Counts: Study Probes Anemia Risk in Children With Eczema
Atopic dermatitis, the most common chronic inflammatory skin disease of childhood, has long been viewed as a condition confined largely to the skin: dry, itchy, inflamed patches that flare and remit over years. But a...
Kings Park middle school reports ticks on students, prompting activity changes
Dr. Sharon Nachman, division chief of pediatric infectious disease at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, said tick season is not over yet and encouraged parents to continue checking their children daily. “Look...
Scientists Warn of Another Unseen Risk From Fire: Ozone
Minghao Qiu, an atmospheric scientist at Stony Brook University, led a team that used a similar machine-learning approach to study the interaction of smoke and ozone. Their results, published in April in Science...
Stony Brook University Professor Liliana Dávalos joins landmark bat study
For Dávalos, understanding bats in their own right is an important and worthwhile effort. She also highlighted some of the many ways these flying mammals have provided benefits for humans. In a paper published in the...
A Doctor’s Case For A Degree In Business
Healthcare practitioners have traditionally treated clinical care and business management as separate worlds: Physicians, nurses and others focus on delivering the best possible care, while administrators concentrate...
Moody? Tired? Aggressive? You could have ‘irritable male syndrome’
“Many men feel embarrassed or pressured to keep quiet about fatigue, mood changes or libido issues, fearing it makes them look weak,” Dr. William Berg wrote for Stony Brook Medicine. “Opening up about these changes...
Stony Brook University researchers edge closer to new OCD treatment
A research team led by Stony Brook University scientists has identified a little-observed neural pathway as a possible key to obsessive-compulsive behavior, a discovery that could lead to new treatments for a disorder...
9/11 health research program will be fully funded, officials say
The money was part of $20 million in annual federal funding made available to local clinics and research centers — including Stony Brook’s World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program and the FDNY’s World Trade Center...
Tobay Beach in Massapequa lost 60% of its sand in the weekend nor’easter
Replenishing ocean-facing beaches “is a treatment, not a cure,” said Henry Bokuniewicz, a geologist and Stony Brook University professor of oceanography. For example, shoreline groins — perpendicular rock...
5 ways the college search process has changed for Gen Z
SUNY schools such as Stony Brook University and Binghamton University are increasingly sought-after by high-performing students, both for the quality of the education they provide and their affordable tuition, college...
The Pressroom Afterhour: Long Island’s tick problem with Dr. Andrew Handel
Coming up on The Pressroom Afterhour, Stony Brook University welcomes its largest and highest-achieving incoming freshman class yet. We’ll take a look at the Class of 2030, which sets records for enrollment and GPA...
Stony Brook University’s Digital Twin Studio will give students a hands-on look at energy’s future
Stony Brook University is building a new kind of classroom where students will not just learn about the future of the electric grid — they will have the opportunity to help build it. The university is developing a...
Study reveals evolutionary history of bats, dating back 65 million years
The study pointed to bats first appearing in Europe about a million years after an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, a calamity that enabled mammals to become the dominant land animals. Relatively soon...
His Debut Novel Was a Literary Triumph. Was It Actually Written by AI?
Yet some readers online had criticized the book’s prose as overwrought, noting that parts sounded like AI, before the allegations erupted. “I think that people who judge these literary prizes just do not have any idea...
