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A Campaign of Kindness, Stony Brook Style

While much has been made of coronavirus’ catastrophic physical effects, self-isolation can take an equally devastating mental toll on victims and their families. Mohamed Heiba ‘20, executive vice president of Stony...

June 8, 2020

3 min read

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Making Music in the Midst of a Pandemic

It’s hard for students to switch gears easily from real time in the classroom to virtual time in the middle of a semester. But for Taylor Ackley ’20, a postdoctoral student in the Department of Music, the coronavirus...

June 5, 2020

5 min read

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Online Outreach Helps Students Cope

At a time when face-to-face counseling is all but impossible, Stony Brook University students have been receiving crucial outreach services through virtual Center for Prevention and Outreach (CPO) programs. The...

June 2, 2020

9 min read

Ethan Doutney of Dune Fishery won first place at the State Finals in the Agriculture, Technology and Food category.

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Stony Brook Students Are Tops in Entrepreneur Challenge

The Stony Brook Entrepreneur Challenge provides students the chance to win a share of $50K to help cover start-up costs for their businesses and advance to the statewide competition.

June 1, 2020

4 min read

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Doctoral Student Yalile Suriel Wins AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship

The history PhD candidate's dissertation tells the story of how universities historically weighed their desire to be productive spaces for social justice against the nation’s growing impulse toward law and order.

June 1, 2020

5 min read

Athletics News Highlights Student Spotlight

Student-Athlete Erica Bower Performs in Rarefied Air

The doctoral student/softball player is the first student-athlete to pursue a PhD and play NCAA Division I sports since Stony Brook began keeping records 17 years ago.

May 31, 2020

5 min read

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Stony Brook Launches 7,100 Graduates in Virtual Ceremony

Stony Brook University graduated 7,100 Seawolves in a virtual degree conferral ceremony May 22, sharing spirit and hope in an event marked by the coronavirus crisis. The Class of 2020 joins the ranks of 200,000...

May 22, 2020

4 min read

Pano Sourlis (left) and Vincent DeStefano (right) with donations from local school districts they delivered to the Wang Center for Stony Brook University Hospital's frontline workers.

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Graduating Seawolves Rally to Help Frontline Fighters

If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything it is that our students are amazingly resilient. In defiance of all the difficulties they have faced, the Class of 2020 has chosen to rise up and continue to make a...

May 20, 2020

4 min read

Awards and Honors News Highlights Student Spotlight

SUNY Honors 14 SBU Students for Academic Excellence and Leadership

The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence recognizes students who have best demonstrated the integration of academic excellence with accomplishments in other areas as well.

May 20, 2020

7 min read

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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

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Nine Stony Brook Students Receive Prestigious Fulbright Scholarships

Nine Stony Brook University students have been recognized by the Department of State’s prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program, a highly competitive scholarship opportunity that provides funding for American students...

May 15, 2020

8 min read

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Kiran Eiden ’20 Wins Prestigious DOE Fellowship

He was one of only 26 recipients chosen nationwide for the program, which trains top leaders in computational science.

May 14, 2020

2 min read

Awards and Honors Community News Highlights Student Spotlight Sustainability

SBU is First Place Winner in E-Waste Category of RecycleMania Competition

Stony Brook University collected over 112,506 lbs. of e-waste throughout RecycleMania, earning its place as the winner of the competition in that category, for total amount recycled. The e-waste collected is the trash...

May 13, 2020

4 min read

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‘Seawolves Helping Seawolves’ Bumped Giving to $200,000 Plus in One Week

Overall fundraising for COVID-19 Student Emergency Support is nearing $1 million, but applications keep coming in from students in crisis.

May 12, 2020

3 min read

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Biochemistry Alum Educates Public on Medical Benefits of Cannabinoids

Matthew Elmes is working to combat the misconceptions and to share the medical benefits boasted by these chemicals.

May 11, 2020

6 min read

Normally, the URECA celebration poster display fills the Student Activities Center each year.

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URECA’s 2020 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium

The Stony Brook University community is invited to engage with the faculty-mentored research projects and the undergraduate artwork displayed at URECA’s first virtual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and...

May 6, 2020

2 min read

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Students Take Steps into Professional World Through Partnership with YAI

Students from the Career Center’s Diversity Professional Leadership Network (DPLN) program toured YAI‘s Brentwood Multi-Service Center in Long Island on March 6. YAI is a non-for-profit organization that...

May 6, 2020

3 min read

COVID-19 Student Spotlight

Dean of Students Issues Coronavirus Guidance

Rick Gatteau, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, has issued an update to students regarding various issues related to the coronavirus crisis. The message reads as follows: I hope that you and your...

May 6, 2020

5 min read

Category: Student Spotlight

A Campaign of Kindness, Stony Brook Style

Making Music in the Midst of a Pandemic

Online Outreach Helps Students Cope

Stony Brook Students Are Tops in Entrepreneur Challenge

Doctoral Student Yalile Suriel Wins AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship

Student-Athlete Erica Bower Performs in Rarefied Air

Stony Brook Launches 7,100 Graduates in Virtual Ceremony

Graduating Seawolves Rally to Help Frontline Fighters

SUNY Honors 14 SBU Students for Academic Excellence and Leadership

Nine Stony Brook Students Receive Prestigious Fulbright Scholarships

Kiran Eiden ’20 Wins Prestigious DOE Fellowship

SBU is First Place Winner in E-Waste Category of RecycleMania Competition

Biochemistry Alum Educates Public on Medical Benefits of Cannabinoids

URECA’s 2020 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium

Students Take Steps into Professional World Through Partnership with YAI

Dean of Students Issues Coronavirus Guidance

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