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Stony Brook Jumps into Top 40 of all U.S. Universities in New QS Survey; #1 Public in New York State

STONY BROOK, NY, May 5, 2021 – Stony Brook University has been ranked No. 39 among all U.S. universities in the QS US University Rankings 2021, moving up from No. 45 last year and placing in the top 5.5% nationwide. The...

May 5, 2021

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New Study Has Scientists Re-Evaluating Relative Brain Size and Mammalian Intelligence

STONY BROOK, NY, April 28, 2021 – Scientists from Stony Brook University and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have pieced together a timeline of how brain and body size evolved in mammals over the last 150...

April 28, 2021

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Ørsted and Eversource Announce $5M Commitment to Stony Brook University to support Offshore Wind Research Initiatives

Stony Brook, N.Y., April 26, 2021 – Today, joint venture partners Ørsted and Eversource, developers of New York’s offshore wind farm, Sunrise Wind, announced the launch of a research partnership with Stony Brook...

April 26, 2021

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CEBIP Solar Panel Cleaning Tech Company Advances to American-Made Solar Prize Finals

STONY BROOK, NY, April 15, 2021 – SuperClean Glass, Inc., a company that uses a solar panel-cleaning technology developed at Stony Brook University and a start-up mentored by the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program...

April 15, 2021

4 min read

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Stony Brook Students Participating in National Clinical Trial to Test Covid-19 Transmission

STONY BROOK, NY, April 13, 2021 – A national study with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to see how effective it is against preventing spread of the disease to others is underway and will involve hundreds of Stony Brook...

April 13, 2021

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Raising the Bar for Cardiac Care On Long Island: New Stony Brook Cath/EP Multifunctional Lab Opens at SBUH

STONY BROOK, NY, April 6, 2021 — Stony Brook University Hospital has opened its Cardiac Catheterization (Cath) and Electrophysiology (EP) Advanced Multifunctional Laboratory that will bring even more advanced...

April 6, 2021

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Covid-19 Pandemic Results in 40,000 Children Losing a Parent

STONY BROOK, NY, April 5, 2021 – A letter published in JAMA Pediatrics, co-authored by Rachel Kidman, PhD, of the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University, presents a statistical model showing that around...

April 5, 2021

4 min read

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How Would Geoengineering Impact Nature? SBU ecologist and colleagues tackle the question

The News in Brief: A team of research scientists called the Climate Intervention Biology Working Group asks the question: How would natural systems be affected if humans used technology to cool the Earth? They consider...

April 5, 2021

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Scientist Receives TAF Award for a Nitrogen Sensor Technology to Advance Septic Systems

STONY BROOK, NY, March 30, 2021 – Qingzhi Zhu, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, has received a SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) award for...

March 30, 2021

3 min read

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Stony Brook University Announces Giving Day 2021

STONY BROOK, NY, March 29, 2021 – On April 21, Stony Brook University will host its third annual “Giving Day,” a 24-hour fundraising drive to generate support for students, faculty and research, and to help advance...

March 29, 2021

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Lucky Number 100,000: Stony Brook University Vaccine Point Of Distribution Hits Huge Milestone

STONY BROOK, NY, March 23, 2021— In the race to get America vaccinated against COVID-19, Stony Brook University is celebrating the 100,000th shot at the Point of Distribution (POD) center, which is located at the...

March 23, 2021

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A Record: 149 Med Students Match to Residencies

The Stony Brook class launches careers into specialties central to fighting the pandemic STONY BROOK, N.Y., March 22, 2021 – Although the Renaissance School of Medicine’s 2021 Match Day for fourth-year medical students...

March 22, 2021

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Images showing KRAS intact in tumor tissue and knocked out in a laboratory model of PDAC.

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Stopping Mutant KRAS Could Lead to Enhanced Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer

STONY BROOK, NY, March 10, 2021 — If clinicians could stop mutations of the KRAS gene in pancreatic cancer – which happens in more than 90 percent of pancreatic cancer cases and drastically reduces response to...

March 10, 2021

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New Study Sheds Light on Caribbean Mammal Extinctions, Helps Guide Conservation Strategies

STONY BROOK, NY, March 10, 2021 — A new study by a team of international scientists jointly led by Stony Brook University Professor Liliana M. Dávalos, PhD, and Professor Samuel Turvey of the Zoological Society of...

March 10, 2021

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Samples from the Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission, may help to reveal evidence of Mars’ climate changes during its existence and possible signs of previous life. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL

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Mars’ Early Climate Was Intermittently Warm

STONY BROOK, NY, March 8, 2021 – A new study that characterizes the climate of Mars over the planet’s lifetime reveals that in its earliest history it was periodically warmed due to the input of greenhouse gases derived...

March 8, 2021

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Clean Water Technology Center Reveals New Approach to Removing Toxins in Wastewater

STONY BROOK, NY, March 2, 2021 – The New York State Center for Clean Water Technology (CCWT) at Stony Brook University has made a series of critical discoveries regarding a new approach to protecting Long Island’s...

March 2, 2021

6 min read

In the laboratory in which Stony Brook researchers study tissue and investigate the loss of function in PLD1 variants, are researchers: Michael Frohman, MD, PhD (rear center); 5th year Pharmacology student Christian Salazar (seated); 5th year Biochemistry and Structural Biology student Forrest Bowling, and Michael Airola, PhD.

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Study Shows Loss of Function of PLD1 Gene is Causal to Congenital Heart Disease

STONY BROOK, NY, March 1, 2021 – A team of researchers co-led by Michael Frohman, MD, PhD, of Stony Brook University, has identified an important cause of congenital heart disease. They discovered that certain loss of...

March 1, 2021

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Stony Brook Council Honors University Pandemic Leadership

Stony Brook Council Honors University Pandemic Leadership Carol A. Gomes, Dr. Margaret M. McGovern and Lawrence M. Zacarese Lauded Stony Brook, NY, February 23, 2021 — In the face of an unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic...

February 23, 2021

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Category: Press Release

Stony Brook Jumps into Top 40 of all U.S. Universities in New QS Survey; #1 Public in New York State

New Study Has Scientists Re-Evaluating Relative Brain Size and Mammalian Intelligence

Ørsted and Eversource Announce $5M Commitment to Stony Brook University to support Offshore Wind Research Initiatives

CEBIP Solar Panel Cleaning Tech Company Advances to American-Made Solar Prize Finals

Stony Brook Students Participating in National Clinical Trial to Test Covid-19 Transmission

Raising the Bar for Cardiac Care On Long Island: New Stony Brook Cath/EP Multifunctional Lab Opens at SBUH

Covid-19 Pandemic Results in 40,000 Children Losing a Parent

How Would Geoengineering Impact Nature? SBU ecologist and colleagues tackle the question

Scientist Receives TAF Award for a Nitrogen Sensor Technology to Advance Septic Systems

Stony Brook University Announces Giving Day 2021

Lucky Number 100,000: Stony Brook University Vaccine Point Of Distribution Hits Huge Milestone

A Record: 149 Med Students Match to Residencies

Stopping Mutant KRAS Could Lead to Enhanced Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer

New Study Sheds Light on Caribbean Mammal Extinctions, Helps Guide Conservation Strategies

Mars’ Early Climate Was Intermittently Warm

Clean Water Technology Center Reveals New Approach to Removing Toxins in Wastewater

Study Shows Loss of Function of PLD1 Gene is Causal to Congenital Heart Disease

Stony Brook Council Honors University Pandemic Leadership

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