James Lauricella and Kimberly Mikucki were married on Saturday in an intimate ceremony at Stony Brook University Hospital on Long Island, but if you’d asked them three weeks ago about their wedding, they’d have described a very different plan.

James Lauricella, 37, and Kimberly Mikucki, 41, of Holtsville, were married on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014 at the Stony Brook University Hospital’s chapel. Their Dec. 6 ceremony was canceled so the couple could marry before the groom undergoes a series of treatments for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

37-year-old James Lauricella and 41-year-old Kimberly Mikucki of Holtsville said their wedding vows Saturday in Chapel at Stony Brook University Hospital.

The council has requested the largest state award, $4 million, go to Stony Brook University for research into protecting the electric grid from terrorist attacks.

The two schools, located at Faith Baptist Church in Coram and Stony Brook University, are modeled after the Freedom Schools in Mississippi in the 1960s during the civil rights movement and are part of Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School Program.

Let’s have a nice round of applause, dear readers, for our friends at Stony Brook University, who continue to mold their institution into a world-class research facility, a major-league business hub and a top-shelf gem of Long Island’s economic engine.

And you get bonus points for an a.m. jog, says Lauren Hale, a sleep researcher at Stony Brook University and a spokesperson for the National Sleep Foundation. "The evidence is mixed, but there are theoretical reasons that you should exercise earlier in the morning, especially if you’re going to be outside doing a run," she said. "You want the light effects, which are the alerting effects." If that’s not going to happen, though, and you live and work in New York City, your morning walk to the train will suffice.

Javier Monzon, an evolutionary biologist at Stony Brook University, has found that Eastern coyotes living in areas with the highest densities of deer also carry the greatest number of wolf genes.

"We all improve through teaching," says Yuanyuan Si, a graduate student at Stony Brook University in New York. "Sometimes, Courtney asks me questions, and in trying to come up with the answers, I end up understanding my own work better," she says.

As Long Island’s bays are once again staining red and brown with blooms of algae, scientists from Stony Brook University pitched a plan to Southampton Town officials this week that they say could help municipalities more efficiently focus their dollars on water quality problems to optimize the benefits of every dollar spent.