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The Evolution of Education

A pioneering cross-disciplinary program accelerates student collaboration and growth By Rob Emproto | Photography by John Griffin Knowing how to collaborate effectively across diverse disciplines is essential for...

April 8, 2021

7 min read

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Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Nicholas Post — the URECA researcher of the month for April 2021 — is a nontraditional, first-generation college student majoring in Anthropology, currently doing an honors thesis on Hominin Phylogenetics under the...

April 1, 2021

2 min read

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Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Two Stony Brook University students have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP) by the National Science Foundation. Another six SBU students earned honorable mentions. This nationally...

March 30, 2021

4 min read

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Student Helping Interpret Deaf Culture on Campus

Deaf history and culture have an advocate at Stony Brook University in Victoria “Tori” Vasta ’21. Diagnosed at any early age to be 95 percent without hearing in her left ear, Vasta is dedicated to raising awareness of...

March 30, 2021

5 min read

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Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population

Shellfish couldn’t have a better friend than Stephen Tomasetti, a doctoral student in marine science at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS). Tomasetti has been studying the effects...

March 23, 2021

6 min read

The START Resource Center offers a range of practical transitional services for people leaving the county jail, including employment assistance, connections to housing, treatment and mental healthcare, clothing, food, pandemic advice, and much more.

Long Island News Highlights School of Social Welfare Student Spotlight

SSW Student Interns Are Helping Others Build Better Futures

On March 18, representatives from Stony Brook University and AT&T joined Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. and County and Babylon Town officials to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Sheriff’s...

March 23, 2021

4 min read

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A Passion for Teaching Helps Students Stay Engaged During Pandemic

PhD student and instructor Omar Badessi has been tremendously successful in effectively communicating with his students despite some limitations posed by the COVID pandemic.

March 19, 2021

1 min read

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Eight SBU Students Receive New SUNY Graduate Award

The Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent (GREAT) award provides flexible funds for research expenses, professional development and supplemental stipend support.

March 17, 2021

3 min read

Left to right (details): Stuart Balius, Marta Baumiller, Yifei Cheng, Annemarie Waugh

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MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021 at Zuccaire Gallery

"Four: MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021" presents new work by Stony Brook's graduating Master of Fine Arts students Stuart Balius, Marta Baumiller, Yifei Cheng and Annemarie Waugh.

March 16, 2021

1 min read

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Latest Discoveries Revealed at SBU’s Virtual Postdoc Spotlight

The annual event — designed like a TED talk — gave Stony Brook’s postdocs the opportunity to present their cutting-edge research to an audience in five minutes.

March 11, 2021

2 min read

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Ballet Dancer ‘On Pointe’ for a Promising Business Career

Had it not been for a simple twist of fate and a change of heart, Diana Atoian ’23 might be starring in The Nutcracker in her native Russia rather than having aspirations to be an economist — or even the next Janet...

March 11, 2021

5 min read

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2021 Graduate School Award Winners

The winners of the 2021 Graduate School Awards for students, faculty and staff represent the very best of Stony Brook, and they will be recognized at the School's Annual Awards Virtual Celebration.

March 8, 2021

2 min read

Community Diversity Long Island School of Social Welfare Student Spotlight

SSW Alumni and Students Tackle Police Reform on Long Island

Alexandra Saint Laurent MSW ’20 has been the lead on the groundbreaking work of police reform, along with a criminal justice action committee that includes current SSW students.

March 4, 2021

4 min read

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Two Geosciences Seniors Involved in Environmental Research

Deanna Downs and Brooke Peritore — the URECA Undergraduate Researchers of the Month for March 2021 — are both seniors engaged in research in the Department of Geosciences under the mentorship of Associate Professor Troy...

March 1, 2021

2 min read

PhD student Huy Vu used filming skills, writing, directing, editing and choreographing to create his thesis video.

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Computer Science Grad Student Is “Dancing His PhD”

PhD student Huy Vu has found a creative way to explain his thesis — by writing, directing, producing and dancing in a video. The third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University...

February 26, 2021

5 min read

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SBU’s Dancing Dentist Has All the Right Grooves

Third-year dental student Varun Goyal was always passionate about dancing, and he was always sure he wanted to work in the medical field — now he is combining the two.

February 17, 2021

2 min read

Ensemble Decipher after performing at the NowNet Arts Conference on November 4, 2020.

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Stony Brook Students Awarded USArtists International Grant

The experimental music group Ensemble Decipher has been awarded the grant by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation to perform at the New Music for Strings Festival in Denmark in August 2021.

February 15, 2021

3 min read

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EOP Student Receives SUNY Academic Achievement Award

Estrella Núñez ’21 received the Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence, which recognizes students who have exhibited academic success, perseverance and leadership qualities.

February 5, 2021

5 min read

Category: Student Spotlight

The Evolution of Education

Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Student Helping Interpret Deaf Culture on Campus

Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population

A Passion for Teaching Helps Students Stay Engaged During Pandemic

Eight SBU Students Receive New SUNY Graduate Award

MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021 at Zuccaire Gallery

Latest Discoveries Revealed at SBU’s Virtual Postdoc Spotlight

Ballet Dancer ‘On Pointe’ for a Promising Business Career

2021 Graduate School Award Winners

Two Geosciences Seniors Involved in Environmental Research

Computer Science Grad Student Is “Dancing His PhD”

SBU’s Dancing Dentist Has All the Right Grooves

Stony Brook Students Awarded USArtists International Grant

EOP Student Receives SUNY Academic Achievement Award

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