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Dávalos Wins NSF “Rules of Life” Award

Liliana M. Dávalos, an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, has been named a recipient of the National Science Foundation Award for “Understanding the Rules of Life...

September 21, 2018

2 min read

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Faculty Commons Open for Collaboration and Creativity

On Monday, Sept. 17, faculty and staff from across the University gathered to celebrate the highly anticipated opening of the new Faculty Commons in the Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library. The new space will allow...

September 19, 2018

1 min read

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University Honors Paul Lauterbur, Father of the MRI

In 1971, Paul Lauterbur, a chemistry professor at Stony Brook University was eating a hamburger at a Pennsylvania restaurant and had a “Eureka” moment about his nuclear magnetic resonance research and how it could...

September 14, 2018

5 min read

Faculty/Staff News Highlights University

New Faculty Commons Merges Innovation, Teaching Community and Research

Imagine a place on campus where professors of divergent disciplines can find common ground, discuss teaching strategies, take in seminars, embrace new technologies and collaborate on research projects — or just make new...

September 13, 2018

4 min read

Academics College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Giving Back Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Mamalis, Lawler Win $1.49M DOE Grant to Advance Biofuels

SBU faculty members Sotirios Mamalis and Ben Lawler have received a $1.49 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) – Vehicle Technologies Office to advance the next generation of biofuels. Both are...

September 13, 2018

3 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff

Polychronakis Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award

Michalis Polychronakis is the recipient of a 2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award to support his project, Compiler-assisted Software Specialization against Vulnerability Exploitation. Polychronakis is an assistant professor...

September 11, 2018

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Todd Pittinsky Op-ed Urges Customers to Wait in Line on Labor Day

Celebrate Labor Day by waiting in line is the advice that Professor Todd Pittinsky gives in his New York Daily News op-ed about the effects of increasing automaton on US labor. Pittinsky, from the Department of...

September 4, 2018

1 min read

Academics College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine and Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

“Underwater Wind Farms” in Sandy Rivers Could Generate Hydrokinetic Power

“Underwater wind farms” could generate low-cost, renewable energy from turbines placed in sandy river bottoms, researchers have found. While the potential for in-stream flow energy harvesting systems has...

August 24, 2018

3 min read

Three SBU fauclty appointed to task force to study NY ocean acidification

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SBU Professors Appointed to NY Ocean Acidification Task Force

Three faculty from the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences — Distinguished Service Professor Malcolm J. Bowman, Endowed Research Chair for Nature and Humanity Carl Safina, and Professor R...

August 23, 2018

4 min read

Faculty/Staff Sustainability

SBU Seafood Specialist Guides Interns Through “Fish-to-Dish” Program

Mike Ciaramella, New York Sea Grant‘s (NYSG) Seafood Specialist at Stony Brook University, led a summer internship program focused on New York’s seafood industry and provided participants with a “Fish...

August 21, 2018

2 min read

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Crystal Fleming’s Book on Racism Earns Starred Kirkus Review

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide, the latest book by Stony Brook University Associate Professor Crystal M. Fleming, has earned a starred Kirkus review, awarded to...

August 16, 2018

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A group of participating students with the professors

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SBU Professors Host Computer Science Summer Workshop

Every Monday from July 9 through July 30, Professors Aruna and Niranjan Balasubramanian, from the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, held a machine learning workshop for...

August 14, 2018

2 min read

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Study of Ancient Forefoot Joints Reveals Bipedalism in Hominins Emerged Early

The feet of primates function as grasping organs. But the adoption of bipedal locomotion – which reduces the ability to grasp – was a critical step in human evolution. In the first comprehensive study of the forefoot...

August 14, 2018

2 min read

Spontaneous emission of atomic matter waves from an optical lattice. The character of the emission changes when crossing from positive (top left) to negative (bottom right) excitation energy, in which case a bound state of matter waves is observed.

Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Scientists Develop Novel Approach to Spontaneous Emission Using Atomic Matter Waves

A research team led by Dominik Schneble, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University, has developed a novel method to explore...

July 26, 2018

3 min read

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SBU Computer Science Team Develops New Sequencing Search Tool, Mantis

Faculty and doctoral students from the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University recently developed Mantis, a space-efficient system that uses new data...

July 26, 2018

5 min read

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Professor Klaus Mueller Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Visual Computing Journal

Computer Science Professor Klaus Mueller will serve as the next Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics(TVCG) — the preeminent publication in the field of visual computing. The...

July 25, 2018

2 min read

Professor Radu Sion and Congressman Paul Tonko

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Director of SBU National Security Institute Discusses Cybersecurity Research with Congressional Members and Staff

Associate Professor of Computer Science Radu Sion, Director of Stony Brook University’s National Security Institute (NSI), met with members of Congress and their staff on July 17 to discuss the importance of federal...

July 20, 2018

2 min read

Category: Faculty/Staff

Dávalos Wins NSF “Rules of Life” Award

Faculty Commons Open for Collaboration and Creativity

University Honors Paul Lauterbur, Father of the MRI

New Faculty Commons Merges Innovation, Teaching Community and Research

Mamalis, Lawler Win $1.49M DOE Grant to Advance Biofuels

Polychronakis Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award

Todd Pittinsky Op-ed Urges Customers to Wait in Line on Labor Day

“Underwater Wind Farms” in Sandy Rivers Could Generate Hydrokinetic Power

SBU Professors Appointed to NY Ocean Acidification Task Force

SBU Seafood Specialist Guides Interns Through “Fish-to-Dish” Program

Crystal Fleming’s Book on Racism Earns Starred Kirkus Review

SBU Professors Host Computer Science Summer Workshop

Scientists Develop Novel Approach to Spontaneous Emission Using Atomic Matter Waves

SBU Computer Science Team Develops New Sequencing Search Tool, Mantis

Professor Klaus Mueller Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Visual Computing Journal

Director of SBU National Security Institute Discusses Cybersecurity Research with Congressional Members and Staff

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