Dr. Sharon Nachman, division chief of pediatric infectious disease at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, said tick season is not over yet and encouraged parents to continue checking their children daily. “Look for the ticks and pull them off every day. If your child has symptoms, let’s get them seen by a professional. Doing more than that is not for parents. The school is being very open about what their plans are and what they are doing to mitigate those ticks,” Nachman said.

Minghao Qiu, an atmospheric scientist at Stony Brook University, led a team that used a similar machine-learning approach to study the interaction of smoke and ozone. Their results, published in April in Science Advances, independently confirmed that ozone levels spike on smoky days, supporting the conclusion that wildfires have been driving the ground-level ozone increases.

For Dávalos, understanding bats in their own right is an important and worthwhile effort. She also highlighted some of the many ways these flying mammals have provided benefits for humans. In a paper published in the journal Science, researchers showed how white-nosed syndrome, which killed more than 6.7 million North American bats, led to an eight percent increase in human mortality. Without bats eating insects that affect crops, farmers increased the use of chemical insecticides, increasing infant deaths by 1,334 between 2006 and 2017.

​Healthcare practitioners have traditionally treated clinical care and business management as separate worlds: Physicians, nurses and others focus on delivering the best possible care, while administrators concentrate more on the organization’s financial and operational health. In today’s environment, I find that divide increasingly difficult to maintain. (Written by Dr. William Wertheim)

“Many men feel embarrassed or pressured to keep quiet about fatigue, mood changes or libido issues, fearing it makes them look weak,” Dr. William Berg wrote for Stony Brook Medicine. “Opening up about these changes isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s a step toward better health for yourself and a way to encourage other men to do the same.”

A research team led by Stony Brook University scientists has identified a little-observed neural pathway as a possible key to obsessive-compulsive behavior, a discovery that could lead to new treatments for a disorder that affects millions of Americans. The researchers discovered a direct path through which the amygdala, a region of the brain that processes fear and anxiety, regulates activity in a portion of the dorsal striatum, which shapes habit formation.

The money was part of $20 million in annual federal funding made available to local clinics and research centers — including Stony Brook’s World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program and the FDNY’s World Trade Center health clinic — to fund long-term health studies of Sept. 11, 2001, responders and survivors. That includes searching for new diseases and conditions including cognitive decline and autoimmune diseases.

Replenishing ocean-facing beaches “is a treatment, not a cure,” said Henry Bokuniewicz, a geologist and Stony Brook University professor of oceanography. For example, shoreline groins — perpendicular rock structures designed to catch sand before it moves away from the beach — can have negative consequences, he said. The groins can shield sand from naturally migrating to areas farther down the beach, he said.

SUNY schools such as Stony Brook University and Binghamton University are increasingly sought-after by high-performing students, both for the quality of the education they provide and their affordable tuition, college counselors at Long Island public high schools said. But both colleges accepted only about half of the first-year students who applied in the 2025-26 admissions cycle. SUNY Farmingdale’s acceptance rate dropped from 69% to 62% between 2023 and 2026.

Coming up on The Pressroom Afterhour, Stony Brook University welcomes its largest and highest-achieving incoming freshman class yet. We’ll take a look at the Class of 2030, which sets records for enrollment and GPA while drawing students from across the country and around the world.