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Record-Tying 11 Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

In a record-tying performance, 11 Stony Brook students – including nine women – have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP) by the National Science Foundation. Another six SBU...

April 19, 2019

8 min read

Arts & Entertainment Diversity Global Home Page Spotlight Humanities

Jinyoung Jin’s Creative Energy Transforms the Wang Center

Jinyoung Jin is sitting in a place that, not long ago, did not exist. The space was there, at the theatre lobby entrance at the Charles B. Wang Center, but it hadn’t been used for anything until Jin, the center’s...

April 18, 2019

6 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty/Staff Global Home Page Spotlight Humanities Stony Brook Matters

Writing Professor Rita Nezami Shapes Global Citizens

In a dark concert hall, Veronica Sih ’22 sat in disbelief as she heard Emmanuel Jal, a former South Sudanese child-soldier turned human rights activist, recount his life story. “The thought of a seven-year old carrying...

April 17, 2019

5 min read

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3MT Competition Puts Communication Skills to the Test for Doctoral Candidates

In a well-known Billy Joel song, a composer rues the fact that his life’s work has been shortened to three minutes, five seconds to accommodate the needs of the radio business. But even the Piano Man had more time to...

April 16, 2019

6 min read

Home Page Spotlight News Highlights On Campus Sustainability

Building a Bee-Friendly Campus

Bees are considered the world’s most important pollinator of food crops. In fact, it’s estimated that one-third of the food we consume each day relies on pollination, mainly by bees. Knowing that, advocates from various...

April 15, 2019

7 min read

Faculty/Staff Home Page Spotlight 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