They’ve been called creepy, scary and spooky, but Maria Brown says don’t be fooled, and don’t be afraid. Bats are an important species that impacts our daily lives in ways we might not even realize, including...
Ecologist Jessica Gurevitch leads a team that is examining the consequences of using stratospheric aerosol intervention to help cool the Earth as fossil fuel emissions are reduced.
A letter published in JAMA Pediatrics, co-authored by Rachel Kidman from the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University, presents a statistical model showing that by February 2021 around 40,000 children had lost...
Nicholas Post — the URECA researcher of the month for April 2021 — is a nontraditional, first-generation college student majoring in Anthropology, currently doing an honors thesis on Hominin Phylogenetics under the...
Stony Brook Computer Science Professor Aruna Balasubramanian has been selected to receive a Google Research Scholar Award for her research on accessibility using wearable devices. Google’s Research Scholar program funds...
Two Stony Brook University students have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP) by the National Science Foundation. Another six SBU students earned honorable mentions. This nationally...
Qingzhi Zhu, an 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 his research to develop a low-cost...
Stony Brook University has placed two subjects in the top 100 in the U.S. News & World Report 2021 rankings of the Best Global Universities. The subject of Psychiatry/Psychology climbed to 63 in the publication’s...
Two Stony Brook University faculty have recently received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards. Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award for...
Political partisanship has been on the rise in the United States and across the world. Many hesitate to reveal their political identity, and others view opposing parties more unfavorably than ever before. But how does...
Benjamin S. Hsiao, distinguished professor, and Priyanka Sharma, research assistant professor, both from the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, received the Creativity Prize — which is awarded to water...
Shellfish couldn’t have a better friend than Stephen Tomasetti, a doctoral student in marine science at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS). Tomasetti has been studying the effects...
Where does snow come from? This may seem like a simple question, but a new study on how water becomes ice in slightly supercooled Arctic clouds may make you rethink the simplicity of snow. Pavlos Kollias, a professor in...
Graduate student Rebecca Rogers uses Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB), an automated submersible imaging flow cytometer that generates images of particles taken from the aquatic environment.
The Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent (GREAT) award provides flexible funds for research expenses, professional development and supplemental stipend support.
The annual event — designed like a TED talk — gave Stony Brook’s postdocs the opportunity to present their cutting-edge research to an audience in five minutes.
The study takes an initial step toward better understanding how the KRAS gene drives immune evasion and demonstrates a lowering of the KRAS activity, resulting in a more favorable environment to fight cancer.