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Stony Brook Students, Researchers Contribute to WSHU’s Higher Ground Podcast

The impact of climate change on Long Island is visible almost anywhere you look. A new WSHU podcast, Higher Ground, produced with help from faculty and students at Stony Brook’s School of Communication and Journalism...

October 15, 2021

4 min read

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Alda Center, SoCJ Faculty Member Awarded Lumen Teaching Certification

Elizabeth Bojsza, a faculty member in Stony Brook’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ), has received an effective teaching certification. Bojsza completed a nine...

October 4, 2021

2 min read

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Alda Center Launches Climate Conversations Workshop

The three-hour program, Climate Conversations Online, is designed for scientists, researchers and others whose work focuses on climate change and its impact on our world.

September 20, 2021

2 min read

Alda Center (Private)School of Communication and Journalism

Alda Center, School of Communication & Journalism Welcome First Science Communication Graduate Cohort

The program helps researchers combine their expertise with effective communication to help increase public engagement with science.

September 14, 2021

5 min read

Alda Center (Private)

Alda Center, Stony Brook Film Festival Host Alan Alda Film Festival May 20-23

This spring, Stony Brook’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and the Stony Brook Film Festival will offer a five-film festival of classics personally selected by the acclaimed actor, author and activist Alan...

April 23, 2021

3 min read

Alda Center (Private)School of Communication and Journalism

Stony Brook Researcher to Examine Vaccine Hesitancy and Media Use

Ruobing Li, assistant professor of mass communication, received a $25,000 grant to explore the intersection between vaccine hesitancy and media exposure.

April 21, 2021

3 min read

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Communication centers are in a unique position to help scientists bridge science and society

Science promotes learning, discovery, and innovation; it informs public policy; and improves individual, societal, and global health. Yet many scientists struggle to reach the general public with their discoveries...

March 2, 2021

5 min read

Alda Center (Private)School of Communication and Journalism

MacArthur named SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador

Dr. Brenda MacArthur, professor of practice in the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and the School of Communication and Journalism, was recently recognized as a State University of New York Online Teaching...

February 22, 2021

2 min read

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Geosciences Professor Joel Hurowitz Studies the Climate on Mars

In a study of the ancient Gale Crater on Mars, Hurowitz and scientists from Rice University determined that Iceland’s climate is the closest to ancient Mars.

January 22, 2021

2 min read

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SBU Receives NSF Grant to Study, Engage Others on Regional Air Pollution

Stony Brook University researchers will lead a team of scientists from around the country to study air pollution and the chemical processes in the atmosphere that create or transform pollutants, such as ozone and...

September 11, 2020

5 min read

Alda Center (Private)

SBU graduate program designed to empower effective health communication

Gripped by a global pandemic, individuals and societies are looking to public-health professionals for advice and guidance to flatten the curve. In an ongoing crisis, clear and consistent messaging is as important as...

June 12, 2020

3 min read

School of Journalism (Private)

Journalism’s Dowdy receives Chancellor’s Award for Excellence

Zachary Dowdy, of the Stony Brook School of Journalism, this spring received one of the highest honors the State University of New York system offers, a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence. Dowdy’s award recognizes...

May 3, 2020

3 min read

Alda Center (Private)

Alda Center to launch programming to foster online science communication

The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University will launch a new series of programs designed to help scientists, researchers and medical professionals to share their science, and make online...

May 1, 2020

3 min read

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Research suggests psychological health benefits of improvisation

A paper recently published in the peer-reviewed journal “Thinking Skills and Creativity,” suggests that improvisational theater exercises may improve psychological health in adults. The paper, “Improv promotes divergent...

April 8, 2020

3 min read

School of Journalism (Private)

Three SBU Journalism students win Hearst awards

Two recent graduates and one current student from the Stony Brook School of Journalism were among those recognized nationally by the Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Another, a current student, was also honored. 2019...

April 7, 2020

3 min read

School of Journalism (Private)

SBU Journalism students tell stories of a national pandemic

Dan Wirkkala is the CEO of a trucking company in Arlington, Washington. He can’t work from home, despite nearly 6,000 cases of COVID-19 and a statewide order to shelter in place. Worried about contracting and spreading...

March 20, 2020

5 min read

School of Journalism (Private)

Laura Lindenfeld appointed dean of Journalism School at Stony Brook University

Dr. Laura Lindenfeld, Professor of Journalism and Executive Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, has been appointed Dean of the School of Journalism effective immediately, announced Minghua Zhang...

February 28, 2020

1 min read

School of Journalism (Private)

Q&A with Wall Street Journal Fellow Rachael Eyler ’19

In late February, Stony Brook University School of Journalism Alum Rachael Eyler ‘19, embarked on her journey to the United Kingdom for a 10-week reporting assignment out of the Wall Street Journal’s London bureau, as...

February 23, 2020

9 min read

Category: Private

Stony Brook Students, Researchers Contribute to WSHU’s Higher Ground Podcast

Alda Center, SoCJ Faculty Member Awarded Lumen Teaching Certification

Alda Center Launches Climate Conversations Workshop

Alda Center, School of Communication & Journalism Welcome First Science Communication Graduate Cohort

Alda Center, Stony Brook Film Festival Host Alan Alda Film Festival May 20-23

Stony Brook Researcher to Examine Vaccine Hesitancy and Media Use

Communication centers are in a unique position to help scientists bridge science and society

MacArthur named SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador

Geosciences Professor Joel Hurowitz Studies the Climate on Mars

SBU Receives NSF Grant to Study, Engage Others on Regional Air Pollution

SBU graduate program designed to empower effective health communication

Journalism’s Dowdy receives Chancellor’s Award for Excellence

Alda Center to launch programming to foster online science communication

Research suggests psychological health benefits of improvisation

Three SBU Journalism students win Hearst awards

SBU Journalism students tell stories of a national pandemic

Laura Lindenfeld appointed dean of Journalism School at Stony Brook University

Q&A with Wall Street Journal Fellow Rachael Eyler ’19

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