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Student Researcher Mary Bertschi ’19 is at Home in the World

“I feel like if I had been in a different school or a larger department I wouldn’t have had the connections I have had, or found out about the internships and experiences I have enjoyed,” said Mary Bertschi ’19...

October 15, 2019

4 min read

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Veeramah Awarded ERC Funding to Study DNA from Medieval Europe

Krishna R. Veeramah will be continuing his pioneering research into ancient DNA with funding from a $10 million grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC’s 2019 Synergy grants include funding for a...

October 11, 2019

2 min read

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Tiana Reyes ’19 Explores Cancer Biology

Tiana Reyes ’19 has a very personal reason for doing undergraduate research in cancer biology and racial health disparities: her mother died from breast cancer when she was 11. “That fueled my interest...

October 9, 2019

2 min read

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Paul Shepson Awarded for Research on Greenhouse Gas Emission Rates

Paul Shepson, Dean of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, has received a $1.1 million award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for his project, “Observations, Analysis, and...

October 8, 2019

3 min read

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NIH Funds New Strategy for Treating Teen Depression

New strategies for treating teen depression will be funded by a five-year, $2 million Early Independence Award (EIA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Jessica Schleider, an Assistant Professor of Clinical...

October 1, 2019

3 min read

Research

ATLAS Phase I Upgrade Set to Advance High-Energy Particle Physics

The ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is ready to begin another chapter in its search for new physics. Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) are leading a significant...

September 27, 2019

3 min read

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Game Theory Predicts Serious Obstacles to Climate Agreement

Game theory analysis shows that much of the burden for renewing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change would fall on large developing countries, such as China and India, which would need to take action to reduce their...

September 25, 2019

2 min read

Principal Investigator Christine DeLorenzo

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Researchers Receive $4.3 Million Grant to Develop Next-Generation Alzheimer’s Treatments

Stony Brook’s Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry are teaming up with the NIH on a $4.3 million research grant to develop treatments that can potentially arrest and reverse memory loss in...

September 24, 2019

3 min read

Research Student Spotlight

PhD Student Advocates for Higher Ed Funding in Washington, D.C.

At a time when government research funding is threatened, advocacy for higher education is critical. That’s something doctoral candidate Xiaoqing Zhang has learned as a student researcher, and more recently as an intern...

September 24, 2019

6 min read

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Congressman Zeldin Tours LIHTI during Congressional Recess

During the 2019 Congressional recess, Congressman Lee Zeldin toured the Long Island High Tech Incubator (LIHTI) located on Stony Brook University’s (SBU) campus. SBU’s Senior Vice President of Research Richard Reeder...

September 24, 2019

2 min read

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Grant Funds Pioneering Research to Create 3D Digital Pathology

A $1.14 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to research 3D computational pathology has been awarded to a team led by Fusheng Wang, associate professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and...

September 23, 2019

2 min read

Research

Vampire Bat Study Probes Mystery of Smell

Vampire bats may hold the key to unraveling the mysteries of smell, according to research by an international team of scientists led by Stony Brook’s Laurel Yohe. Their findings, published this week in Molecular Ecology...

September 19, 2019

2 min read

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New Anti-Cancer Therapies Could Result from MicroRNA Technology

New anti-cancer therapies could result from a technology that manipulates microRNAs (miRNAs) developed by Jingfang Ju, a biochemist and Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Renaissance School of Medicine at...

September 18, 2019

3 min read

Research

Technology and Society Professor Develops New Tool to Measure Impacts of Research Proposals

The mission of the National Science Foundation (NSF), as mandated by Congress, is to fund research that has “universal” benefits. In other words, the impact of any research funded by NSF should benefit the whole...

September 16, 2019

2 min read

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Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases Found on Long Island

Multiple agents capable of causing human disease are present in three species of ticks in Long Island, according to a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

September 16, 2019

3 min read

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Scientists Detect Black Hole Ringing “Like a Bell”

A team of scientists including Will Farr, an astrophysicist at Stony Brook University, has found a way for the first time to detect multiple tones of a black hole ringing like a bell — something that most...

September 12, 2019

3 min read

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Study Links 9/11 Responders to Cognitive Impairment

A new study of 9/11 World Trade Center responders led by Stony Brook University reveals that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is strongly associated with onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The study...

September 9, 2019

3 min read

Faculty/Staff Research

Study Shows Breeding Has Altered Dogs’ Brains

For thousands of years humans have been breeding dogs to perform specific jobs — German Shepherds are used as police dogs, Labrador Retrievers are used as guide dogs for the blind. Now, a new study shows that these...

September 6, 2019

2 min read

Category: Research

Student Researcher Mary Bertschi ’19 is at Home in the World

Veeramah Awarded ERC Funding to Study DNA from Medieval Europe

Tiana Reyes ’19 Explores Cancer Biology

Paul Shepson Awarded for Research on Greenhouse Gas Emission Rates

ATLAS Phase I Upgrade Set to Advance High-Energy Particle Physics

Game Theory Predicts Serious Obstacles to Climate Agreement

Researchers Receive $4.3 Million Grant to Develop Next-Generation Alzheimer’s Treatments

PhD Student Advocates for Higher Ed Funding in Washington, D.C.

Congressman Zeldin Tours LIHTI during Congressional Recess

Grant Funds Pioneering Research to Create 3D Digital Pathology

Vampire Bat Study Probes Mystery of Smell

Technology and Society Professor Develops New Tool to Measure Impacts of Research Proposals

Scientists Detect Black Hole Ringing “Like a Bell”

Study Links 9/11 Responders to Cognitive Impairment

Study Shows Breeding Has Altered Dogs’ Brains

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