Cabot speaks with Alan Alda of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.

Dr. Ellen Li and colleagues at Stony Brook University are investigating gastrointestinal cancer biology in race and ethnicity.

Former New York State budget director Robert Megna, who oversaw the state budget for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and ex-Gov. David A. Paterson, has been named Stony Brook University’s new senior vice president for finance and administration

Estelle James, a Stony Brook University economist who also worked with the World Bank, with President George W. Bush in Washington in 2001. James died at 79 of cancer complications on Oct. 13, 2015, in Washington, her son said. The former East Setauket resident served on Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security and was lead author of "Averting the Old Age Crisis," a 1994 World Bank publication

Scientists, it’s time to lend your ears (and your knowledge) to this year’s big science competition: Explaining the science of sound to 11-year-olds.

Depictions of DNA’s intricate replication choreography may soon change because of new insights into how the double helix copies itself and why this understanding provides lessons on mutations and cancer, scientists reported Monday.

Alan Alda says he’s "all ears" for scientists to answer a question for him and 11-year-old children around the world: What is sound?

"Strikingly, we found evidence that intermediate-sized groups have energetically optimal space-use strategies and both large and small groups experience ranging disadvantages," Dr. Catherine Markham, lead author of the study and an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University

Perfect graphs are, by definition, colorable with the most limited palette possible.

Jeff Ehrhardt, sophomore and president of Stony Brook College Republicans, defines his interests as "individual responsibility and fiscal responsibility." On Wednesday, gathered in a campus residence hall basement, 14 members of Stony Brook University College Republicans sat in rows of chairs watching the 10 candidates outline their visions for America on a large projection screen.