Category: Research

Awards and Honors Medicine Research Student Spotlight

Tyler Guinn Wins Prestigious Department of Defense Graduate Fellowship

Stony Brook University MD/PhD student Tyler Guinn has been selected for a highly competitive National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Guinn is in the Medical Scientist Training...

April 25, 2019

4 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Research

Ken A. Dill Wins Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Ken A. Dill, Director of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University, has been awarded the 2019 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize...

April 24, 2019

2 min read

Research University

New Inventor Portal Will Protect and Facilitate Faculty Discoveries

A new digital portal for inventors, designed to facilitate the protection and disclosure of discoveries by Stony Brook innovators, will be launched April 26 to coincide with World Intellectual Property Day (#WorldIPDay)...

April 24, 2019

2 min read

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Il Memming Park Wins $200K Stony Brook Discovery Prize

Dr. Il Memming Park and three Stony Brook early career research colleagues took the stage and presented their high-risk, high-reward concepts to a panel of prestigious judges at the 2019 Discovery Prize competition in...

April 23, 2019

10 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

NSF-Funded Research Probes Intersection of Tectonics and Biology

How does landscape history affect the diversity of mammals over time? Why are there more species in the Andes than there are in the Amazon? Over the next three years, a team of geophysicists, geochemists and biologists...

April 23, 2019

3 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories Medicine Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Medicine Today Nursing Alumni News Research Stony Brook Matters Wellness

Vaping Teens May Not Know How Much Nicotine They Consume

Teens may be unaware of how much nicotine they are consuming when they vape, according to a study led by Rachel Boykan, MD, of the Department of Pediatrics at the Renaissance School of Medicine. In an anonymous study...

April 22, 2019

2 min read

Research

Catalyst Renders Nerve Agents Harmless

A team of scientists including researchers at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory has studied a catalyst that decomposes nerve agents, eliminating their harmful and lethal effects. The research was...

April 22, 2019

4 min read

Awards and Honors Research Student Spotlight

Record-Tying 11 Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

In a record-tying performance, 11 Stony Brook students – including nine women – have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP) by the National Science Foundation. Another six SBU...

April 19, 2019

8 min read

Awards and Honors Research

Stony Brook Pioneers Compete for 2019 Discovery Prize

In a high-stakes competition to be held April 23, one of four young scholars will receive the 2019 Discovery Prize, a $200,000 award given to a Stony Brook University faculty member in the STEM disciplines whose...

April 19, 2019

4 min read

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3MT Competition Puts Communication Skills to the Test for Doctoral Candidates

In a well-known Billy Joel song, a composer rues the fact that his life’s work has been shortened to three minutes, five seconds to accommodate the needs of the radio business. But even the Piano Man had more time to...

April 16, 2019

6 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories President Research Stony Brook Matters

President Stanley Offers Expert Views in “Inside Higher Ed” Article

Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD is extensively quoted in a recent Inside Higher Ed roundup of security issues facing academic institutions. The story summarizes universities’ efforts to...

April 16, 2019

1 min read

Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff Research Sustainability

Marine Sciences and Chemistry Win NSF Grants

The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) has been awarded $434,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has to advance research that will help scientists understand the global carbon cycle in the ocean...

April 15, 2019

2 min read

Research

Researchers Model the Neural Basis of Expectation

Sensory stimuli, especially powerful ones like taste, are affected by expectation, which is a trigger to improving stimuli detection, distinction and reaction. Yet scientists know little about how expectation shapes the...

April 15, 2019

1 min read

Faculty/Staff Humanities Research Social Sciences Sustainability

Defending Science: Robert Crease Takes On the Denialists

Today the authority of science is under attack. Politicians may still consult doctors, engineers, even weather.com, but in key areas of national and global consequence, government leaders confidently reject scientific...

April 12, 2019

8 min read

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Dr. Joel Saltz Formally Invested as Cherith Foundation Chair in Biomedical Informatics at Stony Brook University

Endowed chair forges connection between medicine and engineering The fight against cancer and other deadly diseases is constantly becoming more and more advanced. To make these advances possible, new tools based on...

April 11, 2019

5 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

‘Electron Shuttle’ Protein Offers New Strategy for Tailoring Plant Products

Scientists studying plant cell walls—structural supports that help plants overcome the downward pull of gravity—have discovered mechanistic details of a protein involved in the assembly of lignin, a key cell-wall...

April 9, 2019

2 min read

Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research

Former Goldwater Winner Cultivates Young Researchers

When David A. Rubenstein ’04 won the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, it launched him on a distinguished career that took him to Oklahoma State University and eventually brought him back to Stony Brook, where he is...

April 8, 2019

4 min read

Faculty/Staff Research

Research Team Builds Quantum Network with Long-Distance Entanglement

Scientists from Stony Brook University, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, and DOE’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) are collaborating on an experiment that puts U.S. quantum...

April 8, 2019

4 min read

Category: Research

Tyler Guinn Wins Prestigious Department of Defense Graduate Fellowship

Ken A. Dill Wins Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics

New Inventor Portal Will Protect and Facilitate Faculty Discoveries

Il Memming Park Wins $200K Stony Brook Discovery Prize

NSF-Funded Research Probes Intersection of Tectonics and Biology

Vaping Teens May Not Know How Much Nicotine They Consume

Catalyst Renders Nerve Agents Harmless

Record-Tying 11 Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Stony Brook Pioneers Compete for 2019 Discovery Prize

3MT Competition Puts Communication Skills to the Test for Doctoral Candidates

President Stanley Offers Expert Views in “Inside Higher Ed” Article

Marine Sciences and Chemistry Win NSF Grants

Researchers Model the Neural Basis of Expectation

Dr. Joel Saltz Formally Invested as Cherith Foundation Chair in Biomedical Informatics at Stony Brook University

‘Electron Shuttle’ Protein Offers New Strategy for Tailoring Plant Products

Former Goldwater Winner Cultivates Young Researchers

Research Team Builds Quantum Network with Long-Distance Entanglement

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