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Graduate Student Finds Challenges, Peace of Mind

Graduate student Johnnie Paola Cullinane has found another home at Stony Brook University, one that presents much-desired challenges while making her feel like she belongs. Studying for a master’s degree in Human...

August 27, 2021

4 min read

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India Pagan Completes Her Landmark Olympic Journey

Her memorable and historic Olympic journey has ended, yielding a bounty of memories for the graduate senior on the SBU women's basketball team.

August 18, 2021

2 min read

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Overcoming Multiple Challenges with Artful Resilience

International students add enrichment, excitement and diversity to Stony Brook University, but their struggles and hardships often go unnoticed as they seek to blend into the American way of life. Such is the case for...

August 17, 2021

4 min read

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Biochem Undergrad Highlights Experiences Working in Research Lab

Gaurav Sharma ’22 — the URECA researcher of the month for August 2021 — is a biochemistry major in the Honors College and recipient of the Kenneth M. Nicholas Undergraduate Research Fellowship, which is an award...

August 2, 2021

2 min read

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Over 600 SBU Volunteers to Power Community Service Day Aug. 21

Managed by SBU staff members, hundreds of students will help power projects that take place on campus, indoors and outside, along with off-campus outdoor events.

July 23, 2021

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SBU Advocacy Corps members meet virtually Congresswoman Kathleen Rice.

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SBU Advocacy Corps Meets with Congresswoman Rice

The group discussed SBU’s and SUNY Farmingdale’s new Fundamentals of Offshore Wind training program and critical infrastructure for higher education and hospitals.

July 22, 2021

3 min read

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Eight SBU Students Earn Prestigious Fulbright Scholarships

This highly competitive scholarship opportunity provides funding for American students to conduct research or teach English in more than 140 countries overseas.

July 19, 2021

7 min read

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Striving for Fluency in the Language of STEM

Marcela Muricy ‘23 grew up in Brazil, is fluent in Portuguese and proud of her heritage. But there is another language the University Scholar is trying to master: Speaking STEM.

July 9, 2021

4 min read

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Undergrad Receives Funding to Support Research on Montauk Tribe

Grace Armann ‘23, researcher of the month for July, received URECA funding this summer to support her research on a local legal history of the indigenous Montauk tribe.

July 1, 2021

1 min read

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Pagan Is the Third Seawolf to Compete in the Summer Olympics

Although the book on her Stony Brook University career still has another chapter to be written, India Pagan ’22 has already etched herself a permanent place in the school’s record books. In a college basketball career...

June 25, 2021

4 min read

Awards and Honors Student Spotlight

Undergraduate Students Earn Valedictorian Awards

Fourteen outstanding students received recognition based on extracurricular activities and leadership positions alongside exceptional academic results.

June 22, 2021

7 min read

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Setting Her Global Sights on Helping At-Risk Populations

To Isabelle Loop ’21, strangers are only friends she hasn’t met yet. And “strange” places are only places where she will meet them. It’s how the biochemistry major from rural Spencer, New York came to enroll at Stony...

June 21, 2021

4 min read

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Geosciences PhD Candidate Receives Prestigious NASA Fellowship

Victoria Rivera Banuchi received the fellowship for her proposal, "Experimental constraints on ultraviolet-light driven iron oxidation processes on early Mars."

June 21, 2021

3 min read

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Podcast Explores the New Normal Through Eyes of Campus Leaders

While many people talk of getting back to some kind of normality, one Stony Brook University student is actually documenting it. Under the mentorship of Jan Diskin-Zimmerman, TV producer/director with the Center for...

June 15, 2021

3 min read

Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Student Spotlight

DMA Student Wins American Prize in Voice Award

French tenor Morgan Manifacier is the 2021 winner of The American Prize in Voice in the College/University Men's Art Song Division—The Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Memorial Award.

June 8, 2021

2 min read

Student Spotlight

11 Teams Compete at Annual Game Programming Competition

This year's winning game, selected by a panel of more than 25 industry alumni judges, was "Twin" by Zhen Yi Pan, Tian-Xin Brown and Brant Eckert.

June 7, 2021

2 min read

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Pursuing a Childhood Dream of Helping Children

Victoria Dotto ’22 wanted to be a pediatrician even when she was a child. So every chance she got along the way, she has volunteered to work with children. “Ever since I was little, I had a curiosity about science and...

June 4, 2021

5 min read

College of Arts & Sciences Research Student Spotlight

Undergrad Advocates Getting Involved in Research

Vicken Khazar ’22 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for June 2021 — is a biology major doing research under the mentorship of Dr. Patrick Hearing, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, on “Understanding the...

June 2, 2021

2 min read

Category: Student Spotlight

Graduate Student Finds Challenges, Peace of Mind

India Pagan Completes Her Landmark Olympic Journey

Overcoming Multiple Challenges with Artful Resilience

Biochem Undergrad Highlights Experiences Working in Research Lab

Over 600 SBU Volunteers to Power Community Service Day Aug. 21

SBU Advocacy Corps Meets with Congresswoman Rice

Eight SBU Students Earn Prestigious Fulbright Scholarships

Striving for Fluency in the Language of STEM

Undergrad Receives Funding to Support Research on Montauk Tribe

Pagan Is the Third Seawolf to Compete in the Summer Olympics

Undergraduate Students Earn Valedictorian Awards

Setting Her Global Sights on Helping At-Risk Populations

Geosciences PhD Candidate Receives Prestigious NASA Fellowship

Podcast Explores the New Normal Through Eyes of Campus Leaders

DMA Student Wins American Prize in Voice Award

11 Teams Compete at Annual Game Programming Competition

Pursuing a Childhood Dream of Helping Children

Undergrad Advocates Getting Involved in Research

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