Stony Brook University’s Eta Theta chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, has been awarded a Best Chapter Award for 2022-2023. In addition, the chapter’s faculty advisor...
Stony Brook University’s School of Social Welfare is now accepting applications for admission to its inaugural MSW/MA Dual Degree Program in Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, beginning in Fall...
In the summer of 1964, a Yale undergrad named J.G. Mead discovered a beaked whale fossil during an expedition in what is now the Turkana region of northwest Kenya. The 17-million-year-old fossil played an integral role...
The first enslaved Africans arrived in New Amsterdam in 1626. For 200 years slavery was part of life on Long Island. Since its abolition, slavery has faded from local memory, largely forgotten or ignored. But the...
When she was five years old, Ximena Lopez-Carrillo dreamed of becoming an Olympic athlete, especially after her mother enrolled her and one of her sisters in diving lessons. What the athletically gifted youngster, who...
The fellowships support a year of research to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.
As New York began to feel the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, Katie Maroldi, a second-year MSW student in Stony Brook’s Social Welfare Program, took one of her professor’s lessons on the negative effects of...
Political Science PhD candidate Brandon Marshall's research is dedicated to exploring one of the most complex subjects in today’s news cycle: partisan politics.
The first-generation college student says earning scholarships is her way of thanking her parents for their support and taking ownership of her future.
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...
New DNA research shows how food production entered sub-Saharan Africa some 5,000 years ago, illuminating how herding and farming spread through the continent in ancient times. A DNA-based study of 41 human skeletons...
As in America and many other parts of today’s world, politics in Italy has become a prominent part of everyday life. Graduate student Alessandro Del Ponte, Political Science ’19, witnessed that first-hand in his...
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...
The Association for Psychological Science (APS) has named Dr. Lauren Richmond a 2019 Rising Star, a designation that is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. Dr...
While their paths had crossed in the past, it was a chance meeting on the Long Island Rail Road that brought two Stony Brook faculty members together on a new level of interdisciplinary collaboration. Liliana Dávalos...
When Stony Brook University anthropologist James Rossie began sifting through sediment in the Tugen Hills of Kenya during his first day of the dig, he didn’t know he’d discover teeth from a previously undiscovered tiny...
Bold new ideas about public spending are the focus of the Oct. 15 Presidential Lecture as economist Stephanie Kelton asks: “But How Will We Pay for It? Making Public Money Work for Us.” In this lecture, hosted by Stony...
Dr. Marvin Goldfried, distinguished professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology in Stony Brook University’s College of Arts and Sciences, recently received the American Psychological...