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Turkana Basin Researchers to Probe Climate Change and Evolution in East Africa

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...

October 1, 2020

7 min read

Diversity Long Island Main University Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Journalism Students Uncover Stories of Slavery on Long Island

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...

August 7, 2020

6 min read

Athletics College of Arts & Sciences Featured Story Social Sciences Student Spotlight

Diver-Scholar Immerses Herself in History of Minorities and Mental Health

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...

July 27, 2020

7 min read

Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Humanities Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Two Doctoral Candidates Earn Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowships

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.

May 18, 2020

6 min read

Academics Alumni Chapters & Groups COVID-19 Featured Story Long Island School of Social Welfare Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Social Work Student Reaches Out to Isolated Seniors Online

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...

April 17, 2020

4 min read

Featured Story Service Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Peony Tse ’20 Leverages Scholarships to Make a Difference

The first-generation college student says earning scholarships is her way of thanking her parents for their support and taking ownership of her future.

February 19, 2020

4 min read

Events Faculty/Staff 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

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

Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters

Lauren Richmond Named a 2019 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science

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...

February 28, 2019

2 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Research Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters

Tiniest Ever Fossil Ape Discovered in Kenya

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...

November 6, 2018

3 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters

American Psychological Foundation Honors Marvin Goldfried for Lifetime Achievement

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...

October 5, 2018

3 min read

Faculty/Staff Featured Story Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters

Stephanie Kelton Says We’re Asking the Wrong Questions About Money

When she’s not juggling bookings with NPR, Barron’s, Fox News, MSNBC and Bloomberg TV, Stephanie Kelton might be found picking up and dropping off her two school-aged children and the family Samoyed — not to...

September 21, 2018

10 min read

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