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Joel Hurowitz Involved in Study of Climate on Mars

Joel Hurowitz, associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Stony Brook University, is part of a study with Rice University scientists that focuses on the ancient Gale Crater on Mars. The team is comparing...

January 22, 2021

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SBU’s Qiang Li Collaborated on Discovery That Can Advance Quantum Computing

Qiang Li, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Stony Brook University, is co-author of a paper with Jigang Wang, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames...

January 18, 2021

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Alumni News Alumni Spotlight Arts & Entertainment Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Recent Grads Stony Brook Matters

Art Alum Receives 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

Alum Joseph Underwood, PhD ’17 was awarded the grant for his book project that aims to redefine the nascence of so-called non-Western contemporary art.

December 14, 2020

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Ensemble Decipher rehearsing member Eric Lemmon’s toy_5 for the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, June 2020.

Arts & Entertainment Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Student Spotlight

Stony Brook Students Win SUNY PACC Prize

Students in the College of Arts and Sciences were recently awarded the prestigious SUNY PACC Prize for Performing Arts, Creation and Curation.

December 11, 2020

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Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights School of Medicine

Four SBU Faculty Rise to Rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor

Axel Drees, Claude LeBrun, Peter Stephens and Stella Tsirka have received this prestigious honor bestowed by the SUNY Board of Trustees upon professionals of the highest caliber.

December 4, 2020

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Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine and Research Stony Brook Matters

Nancy Hollingsworth Named 2020 AAAS Fellow

The Distinguished Teaching Professor was elected for her contributions to the field of genetics, particularly the discovery of genes important for meiotic chromosome segregation.

December 3, 2020

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A mock-up of Professor Nagasawa's sea turtle sculpture in Harborside Park

College of Arts & Sciences Community Faculty/Staff Long Island News Highlights Student Spotlight Sustainability

SBU Collaborates with Village of Port Jefferson to Create Recycling Sculptures

SBU senior Michael Manning’s “Shellfish Recycling Bin” and Art Professor Nobuho Nagasawa’s “Sea Turtle” are the two winning designs to be displayed in Port Jefferson.

November 17, 2020

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Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Student Spotlights News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Psychology PhD Student Named Health Policy Research Scholar

PhD student Jenna Sung has been selected for this leadership program that connects changemakers across the country who will work toward creating more just communities.

November 4, 2020

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College of Arts & Sciences Diversity Events

Fourth Virtual Town Hall for Social Justice, Sept. 30

"Inclusive Pedagogy and the Engaged Classroom" addresses the unfortunate realization that all students are not having the same classroom experience.

September 25, 2020

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Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research

Stony Brook’s Rouven Essig Shares New Horizons in Physics Prize

The theoretical particle physicist — whose research focuses on the search for dark matter — is expanding our understanding of the structure of the Universe.

September 17, 2020

5 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine and Research News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Eszter Boros Named 2020 Moore Inventor Fellow

Her research combines fundamental inorganic chemistry and metal radiochemistry with modern imaging methods to provide personalized medical treatments of cancer and microbial infections.

September 16, 2020

4 min read

Almstadtstrasse 43: Slide projection of former Hebrew bookstore, 1930, Berlin,1992, 33"X40" chromogenic photograph and on-location installation, Shimon Attie, courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

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Shimon Attie Named Inaugural Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor in Studio Art

The internationally renowned visual artist, whose work focuses on issues of identity and community, also has extensive experience teaching at a University level.

September 14, 2020

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Various bones at a Bronze Age battle excavation site, some of which were genetically tested to determine the presence of the lactase-persistent gene. Credit: Stefan Sauer / Tollense Valley Project

Alumni Spotlight Story College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Lactose Tolerance Happened Quickly in Europe, Study Shows

Genetic material from the bones of people who died around 1,200 BC suggests that lactase persistence spread in only a few thousand years.

September 3, 2020

4 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine and Research News Highlights Research STEM Stony Brook Matters

Research Leads to New Material for Energy-Efficient Devices

A team of international physicists including SBU's Jennifer Cano has created a superlattice, which at a high temperature is a super-efficient insulator conducting current.

August 17, 2020

2 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters

Surita R. Bhatia Named Fellow of Two Prestigious National Organizations

The VP for Faculty Affairs and Chemistry Professor has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a fellow of the Society of Rheology.

August 13, 2020

3 min read

Sixteen violinists participating in the networking experiment in which they are connected to a computer system hearing only the sound received from the computer. Photo by Chen Damari

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Using Violin Synchronization to Learn About Better Networking

By using a model of violin synchronization in a network of violin players, there are ways to drown out distractions, which could be used as a model for human networks in society.

August 12, 2020

3 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Professor Matthew Lerner Honored for Contributions to Autism Research

As one of the top autism researchers in the world, he has been awarded the American Psychological Association Division 33 Sara Sparrow Early Career Research Award.

August 10, 2020

2 min read

Alumni News Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Research

Researcher Krupa Haranahalli Awarded by American Chemical Society

The postdoctoral researcher received the 2020 Scarborough Postdoctoral Award by the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.

August 5, 2020

2 min read

Category: College of Arts & Sciences

Joel Hurowitz Involved in Study of Climate on Mars

SBU’s Qiang Li Collaborated on Discovery That Can Advance Quantum Computing

Art Alum Receives 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

Stony Brook Students Win SUNY PACC Prize

Four SBU Faculty Rise to Rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor

Nancy Hollingsworth Named 2020 AAAS Fellow

SBU Collaborates with Village of Port Jefferson to Create Recycling Sculptures

Psychology PhD Student Named Health Policy Research Scholar

Stony Brook’s Rouven Essig Shares New Horizons in Physics Prize

Eszter Boros Named 2020 Moore Inventor Fellow

Shimon Attie Named Inaugural Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor in Studio Art

Lactose Tolerance Happened Quickly in Europe, Study Shows

Research Leads to New Material for Energy-Efficient Devices

Surita R. Bhatia Named Fellow of Two Prestigious National Organizations

Using Violin Synchronization to Learn About Better Networking

Professor Matthew Lerner Honored for Contributions to Autism Research

Researcher Krupa Haranahalli Awarded by American Chemical Society

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