Category: Research

Academics Faculty/Staff Long Island Research SoMAS University

Maria Brown Goes to Bat for Bats

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...

April 9, 2021

6 min read

Jessica Gurevitch, co-leader of the Climate Interventional Biology working group. Credit: Julia Postol

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Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

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.

April 6, 2021

5 min read

COVID-19 Faculty/Staff Research School of Medicine

40,000 Children Have Lost a Parent Due to COVID Pandemic

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...

April 6, 2021

3 min read

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Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

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...

April 1, 2021

2 min read

Awards and Honors College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Research

Computer Science Professor Wins Google Award to Improve Smartphone Accessibility

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...

April 1, 2021

1 min read

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Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

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...

March 30, 2021

4 min read

A new technology to accurately and cost effectively detect nitrogen from wastewater, such as at a sewage plant as the one depicted, is being developed by Stony Brook researchers. Source: Hermann Hammer, Pixabay License

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Scientist Receives SUNY TAF Award for Technology to Advance Septic Systems

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...

March 30, 2021

3 min read

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SBU Places Two Subjects in U.S. News 2021 Global Top 100

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...

March 26, 2021

3 min read

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Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards

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...

March 26, 2021

4 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences COVID-19 Faculty/Staff Research University

Unmasking Pandemic Partisanship

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...

March 26, 2021

7 min read

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Chemistry Faculty Receive International Prize for Water Research

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...

March 23, 2021

2 min read

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Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population

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...

March 23, 2021

6 min read

Data collected at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) atmospheric observatory in Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska, indicate that shattering drizzle droplets play a major role in the formation of "secondary" ice in mixed-phase clouds. The results will improve how these cloud processes are represented in computational models used to forecast climate and local snowfall. (Credit: ARM user facility)

Academics Faculty/Staff Research SoMAS

SBU’s Pavlos Kollias Part of BNL Team Studying ‘Secondary’ Ice

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...

March 23, 2021

8 min read

Awards and Honors College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Research

Computer Science Professors Receive $1M NSF Award for Distributed Systems Research

Distributed systems — where multiple computers communicate with each other by sharing messages — are an essential part of our modern lives.

March 22, 2021

4 min read

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Latest Technology Helping Student Identify Harmful Algae

Graduate student Rebecca Rogers uses Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB), an automated submersible imaging flow cytometer that generates images of particles taken from the aquatic environment.

March 18, 2021

4 min read

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Eight SBU Students Receive New SUNY Graduate Award

The Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent (GREAT) award provides flexible funds for research expenses, professional development and supplemental stipend support.

March 17, 2021

3 min read

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Latest Discoveries Revealed at SBU’s Virtual Postdoc Spotlight

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.

March 11, 2021

2 min read

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

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Study Could Lead to Enhanced Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer

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.

March 11, 2021

2 min read

Category: Research

Maria Brown Goes to Bat for Bats

40,000 Children Have Lost a Parent Due to COVID Pandemic

Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Computer Science Professor Wins Google Award to Improve Smartphone Accessibility

Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Scientist Receives SUNY TAF Award for Technology to Advance Septic Systems

SBU Places Two Subjects in U.S. News 2021 Global Top 100

Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards

Unmasking Pandemic Partisanship

Chemistry Faculty Receive International Prize for Water Research

Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population

SBU’s Pavlos Kollias Part of BNL Team Studying ‘Secondary’ Ice

Computer Science Professors Receive $1M NSF Award for Distributed Systems Research

Latest Technology Helping Student Identify Harmful Algae

Eight SBU Students Receive New SUNY Graduate Award

Latest Discoveries Revealed at SBU’s Virtual Postdoc Spotlight

Study Could Lead to Enhanced Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer

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