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Record-Tying 11 Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

In a record-tying performance, 11 Stony Brook students – including nine women – have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP) by the National Science Foundation. Another six SBU...

April 19, 2019

8 min read

Awards and Honors Research

Stony Brook Pioneers Compete for 2019 Discovery Prize

In a high-stakes competition to be held April 23, one of four young scholars will receive the 2019 Discovery Prize, a $200,000 award given to a Stony Brook University faculty member in the STEM disciplines whose...

April 19, 2019

4 min read

Awards and Honors On Campus

14th Annual Japan Center Essay Competition Features Three Thought-Provoking Essays

On April 14 the Japan Center at Stony Brook (JCSB) held its 14th Annual Essay Competition Award Ceremony at the Charles B. Wang Center. Dr. Eriko Sato, Chair of the JCSB Executive Committee, delivered the opening...

April 18, 2019

3 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff Leadership President Stony Brook Matters

President Stanley Makes Top 10 of Higher Education Power 50 List

Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, made the City & State New York inaugural Higher Education Power 50 list, which honors the 50 most powerful New Yorkers working in higher education...

April 18, 2019

2 min read

Awards and Honors On Campus Student Spotlight

Veteran Students Joined Veteran National Honor Society

The Office of Veterans Affairs hosted an induction ceremony for SALUTE, the first national academic honor society established for student veterans. SALUTE is an acronym that stands for Service, Academics, Leadership...

April 16, 2019

2 min read

Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff Research Sustainability

Marine Sciences and Chemistry Win NSF Grants

The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) has been awarded $434,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has to advance research that will help scientists understand the global carbon cycle in the ocean...

April 15, 2019

2 min read

Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff

Helen Harrison’s Latest Book Wins Benjamin Franklin Award

The novel An Accidental Corpse (Dunemere Books), written by art historian Helen A. Harrison, Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, has received the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award in...

April 15, 2019

2 min read

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Gala Honoring Dr. Marilyn Hawrys Simons Raises Record $28.2 Million

More than 800 guests gathered last evening at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in New York City to honor alumna and Simons Foundation President Marilyn Hawrys Simons ’74, PhD ’84, at the 20th Stars of Stony Brook Gala...

April 11, 2019

5 min read

FSA's Facilities Director Jeff Moss and mentee William Zhu ‘21, pictured outside the Market at West Side, 2019 Long Island Business News Real Estate, Architecture and Engineering Award for Top Education Renovation winner

Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff On Campus

FSA Receives Top Award for Market at West Side Renovation

Faculty Student Association (FSA) Facilities Director Jeff Moss won the 2019 Long Island Business News Real Estate, Architecture and Engineering Award for Top Education Renovation for the new Market at West Side...

April 10, 2019

4 min read

Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research

Former Goldwater Winner Cultivates Young Researchers

When David A. Rubenstein ’04 won the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, it launched him on a distinguished career that took him to Oklahoma State University and eventually brought him back to Stony Brook, where he is...

April 8, 2019

4 min read

Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff Research

La Camera Wins Funding for Sea Urchin Research

Sea urchins have no eyes, yet they can respond to light and accurately react to visual stimuli by way of photoreceptor cells distributed across numerous “tube feet,” which are small flexible appendages that allow them...

April 5, 2019

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Awards and Honors Diversity Stony Brook Matters Sustainability University

Stony Brook’s Sustainable Impact Rated High in Times Higher Education Ranking

Stony Brook University comes in at No. 78 in the world in the new 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking, a global university ranking that aims to measure an institution’s impact on society based on its...

April 3, 2019

2 min read

Awards and Honors Research

Dávalos Receives Award to Study the Regenerative Powers of the Shrew

Liliana Dávalos will be studying the phenomenal capabilities of the shrew after being named one of the international recipients of the Human Frontier Science Program’s (HFSP) 2019 collaborative research grants. Dávalos...

April 3, 2019

2 min read

Academics Awards and Honors News Highlights School of Journalism Student Spotlight

Stony Brook Journalism Student Named 2019 New York Times Fellow

Rebecca Liebson, a graduating senior in the Stony Brook University School of Journalism, has been named a 2019 New York Times Fellow. More than 5,000 candidates from around the world applied for 22 positions in the...

April 3, 2019

1 min read

Advancement Alumni Spotlight Story Announcements Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff Leadership Newsroom Stony Brook Matters University

Stony Brook Foundation Executive Director Dexter Bailey Receives National Honor

Stony Brook University Senior Vice President for University Advancement Dexter A. Bailey Jr. will receive a national award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Bailey, in his capacity as...

April 2, 2019

3 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Research School of Medicine

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

4 min read

Academics Awards and Honors Featured Story School of Journalism Student Spotlight

Guneet Singh ’19 Masters Digital Storytelling

As a Sikh-American woman with an interest in digital media, Guneet Singh ’19 is determined to bring diversity to television viewers. “I hope to work in the television industry and want to create and write shows that...

April 1, 2019

4 min read

Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff News Highlights

Three SBU Faculty Appointed to SUNY Distinguished Professor

Three members of the Stony Brook University faculty — Yusuf A. Hannun, Joel Kenny Professor in Cancer Research; Peter J. Tonge, Professor of Chemistry and Radiology (by courtesy); and Minghua Zhang, Professor in the...

April 1, 2019

5 min read

Category: Awards and Honors

Record-Tying 11 Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Stony Brook Pioneers Compete for 2019 Discovery Prize

14th Annual Japan Center Essay Competition Features Three Thought-Provoking Essays

President Stanley Makes Top 10 of Higher Education Power 50 List

Veteran Students Joined Veteran National Honor Society

Marine Sciences and Chemistry Win NSF Grants

Helen Harrison’s Latest Book Wins Benjamin Franklin Award

Gala Honoring Dr. Marilyn Hawrys Simons Raises Record $28.2 Million

FSA Receives Top Award for Market at West Side Renovation

Former Goldwater Winner Cultivates Young Researchers

La Camera Wins Funding for Sea Urchin Research

Dávalos Receives Award to Study the Regenerative Powers of the Shrew

Stony Brook Journalism Student Named 2019 New York Times Fellow

Stony Brook Foundation Executive Director Dexter Bailey Receives National Honor

2019 Discovery Prize Finalists Announced

Guneet Singh ’19 Masters Digital Storytelling

Three SBU Faculty Appointed to SUNY Distinguished Professor

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