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Ken A. Dill Wins Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Ken A. Dill, Director of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University, has been awarded the 2019 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize...

April 24, 2019

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Linguist and philanthropist Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali

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New Postdoctoral Fellowship Will Support Endangered Iranian Languages

A generous grant of $210,000 from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute to Stony Brook University has helped establish the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellowship in Endangered Iranian Languages in the Department...

April 11, 2019

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2019 Discovery Prize Finalists Announced

Four young scholars are competing for the 2019 Discovery Prize, a $200,000 award given to a Stony Brook University faculty member in the STEM disciplines whose research project embraces risk and innovation and embodies...

April 2, 2019

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Academics College of Arts & Sciences College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Entrepreneurialism Service Student Spotlight Sustainability

Stony Brook’s Student Entrepreneurs are Growing and Glowing

For most students, going to college is a stepping stone to greater things, a means of reaching their professional goals and aspirations. But a growing number of Stony Brook students are getting a head start on...

March 22, 2019

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SBU scores high in US News graduate school rankings

Stony Brook graduate schools and programs have again been rated impressively in the U.S. News and World Report annual graduate school rankings. In the 2020 edition of Best Graduate Schools, Stony Brook University was...

March 13, 2019

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Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Humanities Long Island

Susan Scheckel Throws a Humanist’s Hat Into the Ring

Susan Scheckel, Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, is on a mission. She’s committed to showing that education in the humanities provides invaluable training in the acquisition of real-world skills...

March 12, 2019

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Stony Brook to Welcome Preet Bharara to Campus March 22

Former U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York to deliver Dr. Krishna Gujavarty Seminar The Dr. Krishna Gujavarty Seminar on Leadership and Values will feature a lawyer lauded as one of the “100 Most Influential...

March 11, 2019

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

Rowan Ricardo Phillips Honored for Best Literary Sports Writing

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, a professor in the English Department of the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently awarded the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing for his book, The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. This...

March 5, 2019

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

Lauren Richmond Named a 2019 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science

The Association for Psychological Science (APS) has named Dr. Lauren Richmond a 2019 Rising Star, a designation that is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. Dr...

February 28, 2019

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Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Sustainability

Saving the Brown Bears of Italy

We sat down with Roger Thompson, director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University and author of No Word For Wilderness: Italy’s Grizzlies and the Race to Save the Rarest Bears on Earth (Ashland...

February 26, 2019

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Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff

Professor Chris Sellers to Testify at Congressional Hearing on EPA

Christopher Sellers, Professor of History at Stony Brook University and Director of the Center for the Study of Inequalities, Social Justice, and Policy, will testify at the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s...

February 25, 2019

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Academics College of Arts & Sciences College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Events On Campus Research

Quantum Immersion Workshop to Showcase Research

The goal of the Quantum Immersion Workshop — held on Monday, February 25, from 8 am to 5 pm in the Charles B. Wang Center — is to build a Quantum Information Science (QIS) community of researchers at Stony Brook...

February 14, 2019

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Academics Alumni Spotlight Story College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Featured Story Research Stony Brook Matters

Planetary InSight: Scott McLennan Reflects on Two Decades of Mars Research

As a young undergraduate student in Canada, Scott McLennan planned to spend his life studying the composition and characteristics of the Earth, and in 1987, he began teaching in Stony Brook’s Department of Geosciences...

February 12, 2019

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Scanning electron microscopy image of the micro-structure of albite prior to the rapid compression experiments. The image spans about 0.036 mm. Credit: Stony Brook University, Lars Ehm

Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research

SBU Geoscientist Leads Team Simulating Meteorite Impacts in the Lab

A U.S.-German research team led by Stony Brook’s Lars Ehm and including other members of the Department of Geosciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University has simulated meteorite impacts...

February 6, 2019

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Stony Brook Announces New BFA Degree in Creative Writing

Stony Brook University announces a new undergraduate major in Creative Writing, earning a new degree, the Bachelor of Fine Arts. Modeled after its renowned MFA in Creative Writing program and sharing the same world...

February 6, 2019

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

History Professor Eric Zolov Earns Fulbright Scholarship

Eric Zolov, an associate professor in the Department of History at Stony Brook University, has been selected by the Fulbright Scholars Program to teach at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, next...

January 31, 2019

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Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Humanities SB Southampton

Paul Harding Reflects on His Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel, Tinkers, 10 Years On

Paul Harding’s novel, Tinkers, stunned the literary world when it won the Pulitzer Prize. Now, Bellevue Literary Press — the small publishing house that paid Harding a mere $1,000 for it — has issued the 10th...

January 29, 2019

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Academics Arts & Entertainment College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff

Michele Bogart Weighs in on Public Art Controversy

Stony Brook’s Michele Bogart is quoted in a Jan. 28 Wall Street Journal article on controversies surrounding public art. The article describes a dust-up in Petaluma, California, over a public sculpture consisting...

January 28, 2019

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Category: College of Arts & Sciences

Ken A. Dill Wins Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics

New Postdoctoral Fellowship Will Support Endangered Iranian Languages

2019 Discovery Prize Finalists Announced

Stony Brook’s Student Entrepreneurs are Growing and Glowing

Susan Scheckel Throws a Humanist’s Hat Into the Ring

Stony Brook to Welcome Preet Bharara to Campus March 22

Rowan Ricardo Phillips Honored for Best Literary Sports Writing

Saving the Brown Bears of Italy

Professor Chris Sellers to Testify at Congressional Hearing on EPA

Quantum Immersion Workshop to Showcase Research

Planetary InSight: Scott McLennan Reflects on Two Decades of Mars Research

SBU Geoscientist Leads Team Simulating Meteorite Impacts in the Lab

Stony Brook Announces New BFA Degree in Creative Writing

History Professor Eric Zolov Earns Fulbright Scholarship

Paul Harding Reflects on His Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel, Tinkers, 10 Years On

Michele Bogart Weighs in on Public Art Controversy

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