Category: Research

Academics Alumni Hottest Stories College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Undergraduate Researcher Emily Chen Unlocks the Secrets of Carbyne

“Research is a huge challenge for me,” says Emily Chen ’20, named July’s Researcher of the Month by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA). “I enjoy having...

July 1, 2019

3 min read

Faculty/Staff Research

SUNY RF Expands Postdoc Benefits While Lowering the Cost to PIs

Stony Brook’s grant-funded postdoctoral researchers will soon have a wider array of health insurance options in a move that will – paradoxically – cost principal investigators (PIs) far less on their grants. Starting...

July 1, 2019

4 min read

Awards and Honors News Highlights Research Student Spotlight

Doctoral Student France-Bound After Chateaubriand Fellowship Award

There is a French proverb — “Qui n’avance pas, recule” — that translates as “Who does not move forward, recedes.” There can be no standing still in life, only evolution or devolution. No one knows that more...

June 27, 2019

4 min read

Events Research

Researchers Network with DOD Leadership and SUNY Colleagues

For the second year in a row, Stony Brook University researchers attended SUNY DOD DC DAY, an exclusive and interactive networking event that brought together 90 outstanding researchers across eight campuses of The...

June 26, 2019

3 min read

Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff Research Sustainability

Heather Lynch Receives Prestigious Blavatnik Award

Heather Lynch, associate professor of Ecology & Evolution in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a winner of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in the category of Life Sciences. The...

June 26, 2019

4 min read

Research

How High-Risk, High-Reward Research Fosters Scientific Discovery

The United States spends more on research and development (R&D) than any other country, but that fact tells only half the tale. R&D spending growth has slowed in the U.S. while surging in other countries. China...

June 25, 2019

7 min read

Alumni Chapters & Groups Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research News Highlights Nursing Alumni Research Stony Brook Matters

Research Suggests New Ways of Overcoming Resistance to Chemotherapy Drugs

Engineered cell evolution could provide a new pathway for halting cancer drug resistance, according to research led by Gábor Balázsi, associate professor in Stony Brook University’s Laufer Center and Department of...

June 24, 2019

2 min read

Academics Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Research STEM Stony Brook Matters

Professor Anshul Gandhi Awarded Rising Star Research Award from ACM SIGMETRICS

Computer Science Professor Anshul Gandhi has been selected by the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) SIGMETRICS as the recipient of the 2019 Rising Star Research Award. The award recognizes Gandhi’s fundamental...

June 24, 2019

2 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories Long Island Medicine Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Medicine Today Research Stony Brook Matters

Opioid Poisoning Rates Higher and in a More Diverse Population, Study Shows

Opioid poisoning (OP) levels almost doubled from 2010 to 2016, according to a cohort study by Stony Brook University researchers of all payer hospital data on Long Island, combined with census data. Additionally, the...

June 20, 2019

3 min read

Alumni Chapters & Groups Alumni Hottest Stories Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research News Highlights Nursing Alumni Research Stony Brook Matters Wellness

Facebook Posts Can Predict Illnesses, Including Diabetes, Hypertension and Depression

Facebook posts alone can predict some 21 diseases and conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, anxiety and depression, a new study reveals. The study, published in PLOS ONE by researchers at Stony Brook University...

June 19, 2019

2 min read

Academics Alumni Spotlight Story Awards and Honors College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Kedar Kirane Receives US Army Award for Research to Help Protect Soldiers in Combat

Investigating the effectiveness of composite materials in combat situations is the focus of newly funded research by Kedar Kirane, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the College of...

June 13, 2019

2 min read

Academics College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Research Sustainability

New Research Could Boost Efficiency of Solar Cells

Solar energy could be made more efficient in the future, thanks to new findings published by scientists from Stony Brook and the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). As described in a paper...

June 12, 2019

3 min read

Academics Alumni Spotlight Story Awards and Honors College of Engineering & Applied Sciences News Highlights Research

$2.35 Million ARPA-E Award Will Help Develop Safer Nuclear Energy

$2.35 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program has been awarded to the team in the Engineered Microstructures and Radiation Effects Laboratory (EMREL), led...

June 7, 2019

2 min read

Research Student Spotlight

Jesse Pace ’20 Learns By Doing

“Research has really taught me how to learn,” says Jesse Pace, a senior Biochemistry major in the Honors College who is spending his fourth summer intensively doing research in the laboratory of Dr. Sandeep Mallipattu...

June 3, 2019

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Medicine Today Research Stony Brook Matters

Higher Education Linked to Later Onset of Alzheimer’s

Researchers have uncovered a new addition to the long list of benefits from attending college: increased resistance to Alzheimer’s Disease. A new study by Stony Brook University scientists reveals that higher...

May 29, 2019

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Featured Story Medicine and Research Medicine Today Research Stony Brook Matters

International Panel of Experts Explores Effects of Digital Media on Developing Minds

It’s a question that troubles parents everywhere: What effect is digital media having on the brains and development of children? On Thursday, May 16, a group of international experts convened in the Charles B...

May 29, 2019

5 min read

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

Mircea Cotlet Named One of Battelle’s “Inventors of the Year”

Materials scientist Mircea Cotlet, an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University and a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) has been named one of seven...

May 21, 2019

3 min read

Category: Research

Undergraduate Researcher Emily Chen Unlocks the Secrets of Carbyne

SUNY RF Expands Postdoc Benefits While Lowering the Cost to PIs

Doctoral Student France-Bound After Chateaubriand Fellowship Award

Researchers Network with DOD Leadership and SUNY Colleagues

Heather Lynch Receives Prestigious Blavatnik Award

How High-Risk, High-Reward Research Fosters Scientific Discovery

Research Suggests New Ways of Overcoming Resistance to Chemotherapy Drugs

Professor Anshul Gandhi Awarded Rising Star Research Award from ACM SIGMETRICS

Opioid Poisoning Rates Higher and in a More Diverse Population, Study Shows

Kedar Kirane Receives US Army Award for Research to Help Protect Soldiers in Combat

New Research Could Boost Efficiency of Solar Cells

$2.35 Million ARPA-E Award Will Help Develop Safer Nuclear Energy

Jesse Pace ’20 Learns By Doing

Higher Education Linked to Later Onset of Alzheimer’s

International Panel of Experts Explores Effects of Digital Media on Developing Minds

Mircea Cotlet Named One of Battelle’s “Inventors of the Year”

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