Category - Alumni Hottest Stories

The Philips Azurion 7 provides imaging capabilities at ultra-low radiation dose levels — allowing physicians to conduct more complex procedures with greater precision and adding a significant measure of safety for both the patients and medical team.

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New Stony Brook Cath/EP Multifunctional Lab Opens

The new space is part of the Heart Institute, and it consolidates comprehensive cardiac cath and EP services into one shared and efficient increased-capacity location.

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Jessica Gurevitch, co-leader of the Climate Interventional Biology working group. Credit: Julia Postol

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Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

Ecologist Jessica Gurevitch leads a team that is examining the consequences of using stratospheric aerosol intervention to help cool the Earth as fossil fuel emissions are reduced.

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Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Nicholas Post — the URECA researcher of the month for April 2021 — is a nontraditional, first-generation college student majoring in Anthropology, currently doing an honors thesis on Hominin Phylogenetics under the...

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A new technology to accurately and cost effectively detect nitrogen from wastewater, such as at a sewage plant as the one depicted, is being developed by Stony Brook researchers. Source: Hermann Hammer, Pixabay License

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Scientist Receives SUNY TAF Award for Technology to Advance Septic Systems

Qingzhi Zhu, an associate professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, has received a SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) award for his research to develop a low-cost...

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Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population

Shellfish couldn’t have a better friend than Stephen Tomasetti, a doctoral student in marine science at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS). Tomasetti has been studying the effects...

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Stony Brook MFA Students Sweep Television Writing Fellowships

MFA in Television Writing first-year student Mallory Baysek won in the Drama category and second-year student Galen Foote won for Comedy.

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2021 Graduate School Award Winners

The winners of the 2021 Graduate School Awards for students, faculty and staff represent the very best of Stony Brook, and they will be recognized at the School's Annual Awards Virtual Celebration.

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President McInnis and Four Others from SBU Make Top 25 Most Powerful in LI Education

President McInnis placed second on Long Island Business News' list along with Eden Figueroa (#10), Richard Reeder (#11), Jason Trelewicz (#15) and Richard Gatteau (#17).

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SBU’s Physics & Astronomy Program Ranks in Top 100 Universities Worldwide

According to leading international ranking organization QS, Stony Brook's Physics and Astronomy program ranked #89 in the top 100 universities in the world.

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President McInnis Marks an Important Pandemic Milestone

Stony Brook University President Maurie McInnis has issued a message praising the “extraordinary response” of faculty and staff to the challenges faced during the coronavirus pandemic. The message reads as...

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Two Geosciences Seniors Involved in Environmental Research

Deanna Downs and Brooke Peritore — the URECA Undergraduate Researchers of the Month for March 2021 — are both seniors engaged in research in the Department of Geosciences under the mentorship of Associate Professor Troy...

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PhD student Huy Vu used filming skills, writing, directing, editing and choreographing to create his thesis video.

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Computer Science Grad Student Is “Dancing His PhD”

PhD student Huy Vu has found a creative way to explain his thesis — by writing, directing, producing and dancing in a video. The third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University...

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Stony Brook Named a Fulbright Top Student Program Producer

Stony Brook University has been named to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2020-21 list of top producers of Fulbright U.S. Student Program recipients for the first time ever — one of only two State University of New...

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SBU Professors Ready to Learn if There Was Life on Mars

Geosciences Professors Scott McLennan and Joel Hurowitz are actively involved in the Mars exploration rover Perseverance mission, a two-year science investigation of Mars’ Jezero Crater.

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Eat Healthier, Feel Better: It’s (Nutritional) Science

Fueled by an explosion of cooking shows, foodie posts and exercise videos, there is more interest in food and nutrition than ever before — and when it comes to popular New Year’s resolutions, losing weight and eating...

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EOP Student Receives SUNY Academic Achievement Award

Estrella Núñez ’21 received the Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence, which recognizes students who have exhibited academic success, perseverance and leadership qualities.

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Creativity Is the Focus of Black History Month 2021

When it came time to choose a theme for Black History Month, after the turbulent year the world has just experienced, the choice was clear. “The theme of Sankofa! Black Creativity reflects the innovation...

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Postdocs Power AI Research at Stony Brook

Baojian Zhou and Naoya Inoue are spearheading new research that will advance our understanding of online optimization, explainable AI, natural language processing and machine learning.

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Category - Alumni Hottest Stories

New Stony Brook Cath/EP Multifunctional Lab Opens

Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Scientist Receives SUNY TAF Award for Technology to Advance Septic Systems

Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population

President McInnis and Four Others from SBU Make Top 25 Most Powerful in LI Education

President McInnis Marks an Important Pandemic Milestone

Two Geosciences Seniors Involved in Environmental Research

Computer Science Grad Student Is “Dancing His PhD”

Stony Brook Named a Fulbright Top Student Program Producer

SBU Professors Ready to Learn if There Was Life on Mars

Eat Healthier, Feel Better: It’s (Nutritional) Science

Creativity Is the Focus of Black History Month 2021

Postdocs Power AI Research at Stony Brook

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