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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

4 min read

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Rising-Star CS Professor Wins VMware Early-Career Faculty Grant

On the heels of being named a rising star in computer networking, Computer Science Professor Aruna Balasubramanian has been awarded a highly selective VMware Early-Career Faculty Grant, which is given to recently...

March 6, 2019

3 min read

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

3 min read

Academics College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Research

Karen Chen-Wiegart Highlights SBU Research at Chancellor’s SOTUS Address

Karen Chen-Wiegart of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, with a Joint Appointment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, represented Stony Brook University at the 2019...

March 5, 2019

3 min read

Academics Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff School of Dental Medicine

Dr. Andrew Schwartz Receives National Teaching Award from Dental Honor Society

National Dental Honor Society Omicron Kappa Upsilon’s (OKU) Stephen H. Leeper Award for Teaching Excellence is presented each year to dental educators who have displayed exemplary standards in dental pedagogy while...

March 4, 2019

2 min read

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

2 min read

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Professors’ Sonification Project Profiled in Wired Magazine

Stony Brook University Professors Lisa Muratori and Margaret Schedel collaborated on a project that was recently profiled in Wired — Our Ears Are Unlocking an Era of Aural Data. Muratori, an associate professor of...

February 28, 2019

1 min read

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

6 min read

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

1 min read

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

CEAS Dean Fotis Sotiropoulos Awarded AGU Borland Lecture in Hydraulics

Each year at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Hydrology Days Meeting, two speakers receive the high honor of presenting Borland lectures — one in hydrology and the other in hydraulics. For the 2019 meeting, Fotis...

February 15, 2019

3 min read

Roxanne Brockner and Dale Dreuckhammer at the USATF Award Ceremony

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Two SBU Track Stars Soar in USATF Masters Athletics

Roxanne Brockner, Assistant to the Director of Stony Brook’s Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, was awarded Female Masters Track of the year and Dale Drueckhammer, Professor of Chemistry, was...

February 13, 2019

3 min read

Dean Fotis Sotiropoulos on Capitol Hill.

Academics Alumni Hottest Stories College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Research Stony Brook Matters

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Makes Case for Major Federal Investment in Higher Ed for US to Lead Global AI Race

On Monday, February 4, Fotis Sotiropoulos, Dean of Stony Brook University’s (SBU) College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, briefed New York Congressional delegation staff in Washington, DC on SBU’s Artificial...

February 12, 2019

2 min read

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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

6 min read

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

3 min read

Academics Faculty/Staff Research SoMAS

Two SBU Teams Awarded Ocean Research Grants to Study Waters off NY

Nearly $570,000 in ocean research grants have been awarded to three investigative teams, two of which are from Stony Brook University. Through New York State’s 10-year Ocean Action Plan (OAP) — supported by the...

February 6, 2019

3 min read

Professor Nikiforakis and his team of students collaborate in the PragSec lab in the New Computer Science Building.

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Computer Science Professor Nick Nikiforakis Receives Amazon Research Award

Nick Nikiforakis is helping to make the Internet more secure. An assistant professor from the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University, Nikiforakis has...

February 5, 2019

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Main University Research Stony Brook Matters

History of Universe Could Be Upended by New Findings

StonyBrook-led research suggesting an alternative history of the universe has been published in the latest edition of Physical Review Letters. The research, funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the...

February 4, 2019

2 min read

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

2 min read

Category: Faculty/Staff

Susan Scheckel Throws a Humanist’s Hat Into the Ring

Rising-Star CS Professor Wins VMware Early-Career Faculty Grant

Rowan Ricardo Phillips Honored for Best Literary Sports Writing

Karen Chen-Wiegart Highlights SBU Research at Chancellor’s SOTUS Address

Dr. Andrew Schwartz Receives National Teaching Award from Dental Honor Society

Professors’ Sonification Project Profiled in Wired Magazine

Saving the Brown Bears of Italy

Professor Chris Sellers to Testify at Congressional Hearing on EPA

CEAS Dean Fotis Sotiropoulos Awarded AGU Borland Lecture in Hydraulics

Two SBU Track Stars Soar in USATF Masters Athletics

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Makes Case for Major Federal Investment in Higher Ed for US to Lead Global AI Race

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

SBU Geoscientist Leads Team Simulating Meteorite Impacts in the Lab

Two SBU Teams Awarded Ocean Research Grants to Study Waters off NY

Computer Science Professor Nick Nikiforakis Receives Amazon Research Award

History of Universe Could Be Upended by New Findings

History Professor Eric Zolov Earns Fulbright Scholarship

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