Category: Research

Faculty/Staff Research SoMAS Sustainability

Study Examines Efficiency of Medicine Removal from Wastewater Treatment Plants

Anne McElroy, Professor and Associate Dean for Research in Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), led a study that examined the effectiveness of different advanced treatment...

January 24, 2020

3 min read

Events News Highlights Research STEM

Stony Brook University Hosts NSF Funded Data Science Workshop

The January 9-10 workshop, hosted by the Department of Technology and Society, illuminated the need to improve undergraduate data science education through university and industry partnerships.

January 17, 2020

4 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Global Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

CBS News Covers SBU Scientists Studying Climate Change in Antarctica

The work of Stony Brook researchers in Antarctica has been highlighted by a CBS News article, Global warming cited as Antarctica’s chinstrap penguin population drops by half, which details live coverage by a CBS News...

January 17, 2020

1 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Events Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine and Research News Highlights Research Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters

Movie by SBU Scientists to Premiere at Directors Guild Theater

The indie film Sensitive and in Love — largely based on research done at Stony Brook University — will have its world premiere on Wednesday, January 29, at the prestigious Directors Guild of America Theater in New York...

January 17, 2020

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Awards and Honors College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Research STEM Stony Brook Matters

SBU-Led Team to Teach AI Systems to Understand and Respond Like Humans

A critical next step in AI system development is applying common-sense knowledge to infer and react to a situation as a human would. When people communicate with each other, they don’t need to explicitly say everything...

January 15, 2020

3 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Long Island News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters University

Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility

The new Electron Ion Collider will bring major benefits to the regional economy and offer unprecedented research opportunities to Stony Brook faculty.

January 10, 2020

4 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Research STEM Stony Brook Matters Student

19 HS Students Mentored at SBU Make Regeneron Science Competition Top 300 Scholars

The top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2020 have been announced and 19 of those high school seniors were mentored by Stony Brook University faculty. The Regeneron Science Talent Search — the...

January 10, 2020

4 min read

Featured Story Long Island Research Service

Stony Brook Experts Tackle Issues Raised by “Aging in Place”

In 2020, the last wave of Baby Boomers turns 55 years old. That generation is fortunate to have aged in the era of the greatest medical advances mankind has ever seen. The result is longer and better health, and with...

January 10, 2020

7 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty/Student Spotlights News Highlights Recent Grads Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Undergrad Researcher Marcia-Ruth Ndege ’21 Overcomes Challenges, Finds Fulfillment

“Research can be stressful, frustrating, demanding, and even overwhelming in the beginning,” cautions undergraduate researcher Marcia-Ruth Ndege ’21. “Even then, you should definitely stick around because, after the...

January 6, 2020

2 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Research Stony Brook Matters

Learning about Wealth Inequality from Hermit Crabs

Can hermit crabs teach us about a common global problem – wealth inequality? The answer is yes, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in the January issue of Physica A. Lead author Ivan Chase, Emeritus...

January 3, 2020

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research SoMAS Stony Brook Matters

Study Uses New Forecasting Tools to Show How Climate Change Affected Hurricane Florence

Change in extreme weather is one of the most serious ways that we experience the impact of climate change. A study led by Kevin Reed, Assistant Professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook...

January 2, 2020

3 min read

Alumni News Alumni Spotlight News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters University

Computer Science PhD Grad Featured on NBC Nightly News

Recent Stony Brook Department of Computer Science PhD recipient Abbas Razaghpanah (‘15 MS, December ‘19 PhD) was interviewed as part of an NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt story (“Privacy and Power”) about online and...

December 30, 2019

2 min read

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Interim President Bernstein Pens Op-Ed Explaining Impact of Higher Ed on Communities

In an op-ed published December 23 in University Business, Interim President Michael A. Bernstein explains how higher ed institutions can align the work of faculty and students with the needs, goals and interests of...

December 23, 2019

2 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories Alumni Spotlight Story News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Undergrad Researchers Study Ancient Crocodiles

Leveraging CT scans of fossilized crocodiles, Arthur Erb ’20 and Olivia Taubenfeld ’20 are probing the mysteries of ancient life under the mentorship of paleontologist Alan Turner, whose focus is...

December 18, 2019

3 min read

A large portion of Irvin's dissertation research took place in the lab (seen in inset). Irvin, an advanced graduate student at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, uses molecular biology to understand the impacts of pollutants on fish health and survival. He is also pictured in SBU’s zebrafish facility. The zebrafish is a model species that can offer clues to the developmental and behavioral effects of sublethal exposure to pharmaceuticals found in wastewater effluent. Credit: Irvin Huang.

Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors Faculty/Student Spotlights News Highlights Research SoMAS Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

SBU Grad Student Selected for Competitive Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Irvin Huang, a PhD candidate in the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, has been chosen as a fellow in the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program, which matches highly qualified...

December 17, 2019

2 min read

Research University

Lauren Brookmeyer Named President of The Science Coalition

Lauren Brookmeyer, Director of Government Relations at Stony Brook University, has been elected 2020 President of The Science Coalition (TSC), a non-partisan organization dedicated to sustaining federal investment in...

December 10, 2019

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Research is “Super-Empowering” for Jeremy Nielsen ’20

The best part of undergraduate research, according to Jeremy Nielsen ’20, is “just being able to work on problems I’m passionate about. That’s super-empowering.” “Being able to do that at...

December 10, 2019

2 min read

Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Research School of Dental Medicine

Two Stony Brook Faculty Named 2019 National Academy of Inventors Fellows

Israel Kleinberg, DDS, PhD, DSc, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Oral Biology and Pathology, and Stanislaus S. Wong, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, have been selected as fellows...

December 6, 2019

3 min read

Category: Research

Study Examines Efficiency of Medicine Removal from Wastewater Treatment Plants

Stony Brook University Hosts NSF Funded Data Science Workshop

CBS News Covers SBU Scientists Studying Climate Change in Antarctica

SBU-Led Team to Teach AI Systems to Understand and Respond Like Humans

Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility

19 HS Students Mentored at SBU Make Regeneron Science Competition Top 300 Scholars

Undergrad Researcher Marcia-Ruth Ndege ’21 Overcomes Challenges, Finds Fulfillment

Learning about Wealth Inequality from Hermit Crabs

Study Uses New Forecasting Tools to Show How Climate Change Affected Hurricane Florence

Computer Science PhD Grad Featured on NBC Nightly News

Undergrad Researchers Study Ancient Crocodiles

SBU Grad Student Selected for Competitive Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Lauren Brookmeyer Named President of The Science Coalition

Research is “Super-Empowering” for Jeremy Nielsen ’20

Two Stony Brook Faculty Named 2019 National Academy of Inventors Fellows

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