Category: STEM

ECE faculty and graduate students during the WISE virtual camp

College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Community COVID-19 Long Island News Highlights STEM

WISE Holds Virtual Summer Camp for Middle Schoolers

WISE teamed up with Electrical and Computer Engineering and iCREATE to provide kids with a virtual platform to express their inner engineer and STEM creativity.

August 7, 2020

4 min read

LSAMP interns Stephanie Fernandez and Kamal James

Alumni Hottest Stories Diversity Medicine and Research News Highlights STEM Stony Brook Matters

CEAS Embraces Diversity, Provides Opportunities

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is finding innovative ways to support our richly diverse community while preparing students for STEM careers.

July 23, 2020

6 min read

Academics Alumni Spotlight Story Featured Story Research STEM Stony Brook Matters

Scientists Confirm Age of Universe is 13.8 Billion Years

The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, according to new research published in a series of papers by an international team of astrophysicists, including Stony Brook’s Neelima Sehgal. Using observations from the...

July 15, 2020

4 min read

Professor Leonardo Rastelli is the Renaissance Chair in Theoretical Physics.

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

Leonardo Rastelli Receives Simons Investigator Award

Recently named inaugural holder of the Renaissance Chair in Theoretical Physics, Rastelli has earned a coveted 2020 Simons Investigator award, which supports outstanding scientists.

July 15, 2020

4 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights STEM Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Stony Brook to Develop Advanced Computational Tools to Design Offshore Wind Farms

The project will optimize offshore wind farm layouts by leveraging high-fidelity simulations on parallel supercomputers, advanced turbine controls and artificial intelligence tools.

July 7, 2020

4 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story COVID-19 Faculty/Student Spotlights Recent Grads Research STEM Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Bernard Essuman ’21 Tackles COVID-19 Research

The study will help researchers understand how COVID-19 interacts with 3D-printed face shields, cotton, skin and hair, and could predict how long it sticks to surfaces.

June 30, 2020

3 min read

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University Funds 17 COVID-Related Research Projects

Investigators begin critical research to address urgent healthcare challenges, including prognostic and therapeutic studies, as well as the far-reaching social impacts of the pandemic.

June 19, 2020

5 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story COVID-19 Faculty/Staff Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Nursing Alumni News STEM Stony Brook Matters

Bat Study Could Provide Clues to Coronavirus

The research, funded by the NSF, will look at how viruses affect cells upon entry into the bat host’s nasal passages to explain why symptomatic disease does not occur.

June 15, 2020

2 min read

College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Medicine News Highlights On Campus Research School of Medicine STEM

SBU Research Team Receives $3.5M Grant to Study Depression

Depression remains a leading disorder worldwide with treatments that have limited benefits for many patients — only 33 percent of individuals with depression respond to conventional treatments. A cross-disciplinary...

June 9, 2020

3 min read

Academics Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights STEM Stony Brook Matters

Nick Nikiforakis Receives Dual Early Career Awards

The computer science professor has been awarded the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award.

May 30, 2020

3 min read

College of Arts & Sciences College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Humanities News Highlights On Campus STEM

AI and Music Initiative Brings Computing and the Humanities Together

The Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation has awarded seed grants to three multidisciplinary research teams to explore the convergence of AI and music.

May 27, 2020

5 min read

Community COVID-19 News Highlights STEM University

Alda Center to Launch “Alda Online” Programming

The new initiative will offer a series of three-hour live learning experiences designed to help scientists strengthen their communication skills.

May 4, 2020

2 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Student Spotlights STEM Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

ACS Names Chemistry Doctoral Candidate a 2020 CAS Future Leader

Johnny Lee, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, has been named a 2020 Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Future Leader by the American Chemical Society (ACS). A division of ACS for more than 110 years, CAS...

April 23, 2020

3 min read

The Neutrino and Nucleon Decay (NN) Group, led by Professor Jung

College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research STEM

T2K Findings Mark Major Advance in Study of Matter and Antimatter Imbalance

The T2K Collaboration recently published new results showing the strongest constraint yet on the parameter that governs the breaking of the symmetry between matter and antimatter in neutrino oscillations. The findings...

April 22, 2020

4 min read

COVID-19 Featured Story Research STEM

Engineering a New Ventilator, from Conceptual Design to Animal Testing in 10 Days

As the coming storm of the COVID-19 pandemic loomed in the New York metropolitan region in early March, the faculty and staff of Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) started mobilizing to address the grim predictions...

April 16, 2020

6 min read

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Chemistry Department Gears Up to Produce Hand Sanitizer

The team made 17 gallons of hand sanitizer on March 24, the first day of the call for help, and are in the process of making more.

March 25, 2020

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights News Highlights Research STEM Stony Brook Matters Wellness

Facebook Offers Clues to Medical Distress, Research Shows

The language people use on Facebook subtly changes before they make a visit to the emergency department, according to a new study published in Nature Scientific Reports.

March 13, 2020

4 min read

U.S. Representative Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.

Diversity Faculty/Staff STEM

Stony Brook Plays Crucial Role in Launch of First Congressional Women in STEM Caucus

Strengthening diversity in STEM research fields is essential to expanding our economy, spurring innovation, and maintaining our nation’s global competitiveness.

February 5, 2020

3 min read

Category: STEM

WISE Holds Virtual Summer Camp for Middle Schoolers

CEAS Embraces Diversity, Provides Opportunities

Scientists Confirm Age of Universe is 13.8 Billion Years

Leonardo Rastelli Receives Simons Investigator Award

Stony Brook to Develop Advanced Computational Tools to Design Offshore Wind Farms

Bernard Essuman ’21 Tackles COVID-19 Research

University Funds 17 COVID-Related Research Projects

Bat Study Could Provide Clues to Coronavirus

SBU Research Team Receives $3.5M Grant to Study Depression

Nick Nikiforakis Receives Dual Early Career Awards

AI and Music Initiative Brings Computing and the Humanities Together

Alda Center to Launch “Alda Online” Programming

ACS Names Chemistry Doctoral Candidate a 2020 CAS Future Leader

T2K Findings Mark Major Advance in Study of Matter and Antimatter Imbalance

Engineering a New Ventilator, from Conceptual Design to Animal Testing in 10 Days

Facebook Offers Clues to Medical Distress, Research Shows

Stony Brook Plays Crucial Role in Launch of First Congressional Women in STEM Caucus

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