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Overcoming Challenges, Achieving Success — and Always Learning

Going back to school as a non-traditional student in your mid-50s doesn’t have to be traumatic, even if you’ve encountered a good deal of trauma up to that point. For Elizabeth Webb ’23, a Multidisciplinary Studies...

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Five SBU Faculty Rise to the Rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor

Stony Brook University faculty members Anissa Abi-Dargham, J. Kirk Cochran, Maurizio Del Poeta, Yi-Xian Qin and Paul Shepson have been elevated to the rank of Distinguished Professor — a prestigious honor bestowed upon...

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Developing the Next Generation of Safe, Cost-Effective Nuclear Energy

Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Team Receives $2.4 Million ARPA-E Award The team in the Engineered Microstructures and Radiation Effects Laboratory (EMREL), led by Professor Lance Snead as the...

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Professor Peter Khalifah (middle) with graduate students Zhuo Li (left) and Gerard Mattei (right) holding a "pouch cell" battery attached to a frame used for synchrotron x-ray studies (Note: This photo was taken prior to current COVID-19 social distancing guidelines). Courtesy of Brookhaven Laboratory

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Chemistry Professor Peter Khalifah and Grad Students Test Lithium-Metal Batteries

Peter Khalifah, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, and graduate students Zhuo and Gerard Mattei are among a group of scientists that has identified the primary cause of failure in a...

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Watch Discovery Prize Finalists Describe Their Research

The $200,000 Stony Brook Foundation Discovery Prize will be awarded on Wednesday, April 28, at the end of a virtual event where four outstanding early-career faculty finalists will present their research. The event will...

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Two SBU Students Receive SUNY Honors for Academic Excellence

Physics major Neomi Lewis and biology major Erika Nemeth are recipients of the 2021 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, and they were honored at a virtual ceremony on April 14.

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Commitment to Service Translates to a Bright Medical Future

Service to others — a requirement for all University Scholars — is at the heart of Anika Porwal’s ’23 philosophy as a student, and has also shaped her career path in medicine. Porwal was a student in Jeremy Marchese’s...

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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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Journalism Grad Assists with NASA Moon Mission

When American astronauts return to the moon in 2024, Stony Brook journalism graduate Erika Peters ‘20 will have played a small but significant role in the journey.

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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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40,000 Children Have Lost a Parent Due to COVID Pandemic

A letter published in JAMA Pediatrics, co-authored by Rachel Kidman from the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University, presents a statistical model showing that by February 2021 around 40,000 children had lost...

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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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Computer Science Professor Wins Google Award to Improve Smartphone Accessibility

Stony Brook Computer Science Professor Aruna Balasubramanian has been selected to receive a Google Research Scholar Award for her research on accessibility using wearable devices. Google’s Research Scholar program funds...

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Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Two Stony Brook University students have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP) by the National Science Foundation. Another six SBU students earned honorable mentions. This nationally...

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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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Student Helping Interpret Deaf Culture on Campus

Deaf history and culture have an advocate at Stony Brook University in Victoria “Tori” Vasta ’21. Diagnosed at any early age to be 95 percent without hearing in her left ear, Vasta is dedicated to raising awareness of...

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SBU Places Two Subjects in U.S. News 2021 Global Top 100

Stony Brook University has placed two subjects in the top 100 in the U.S. News & World Report 2021 rankings of the Best Global Universities. The subject of Psychiatry/Psychology climbed to 63 in the publication’s...

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Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards

Two Stony Brook University faculty have recently received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards. Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award for...

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Category - Academics

Overcoming Challenges, Achieving Success — and Always Learning

Five SBU Faculty Rise to the Rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor

Developing the Next Generation of Safe, Cost-Effective Nuclear Energy

Chemistry Professor Peter Khalifah and Grad Students Test Lithium-Metal Batteries

Watch Discovery Prize Finalists Describe Their Research

Commitment to Service Translates to a Bright Medical Future

New Stony Brook Cath/EP Multifunctional Lab Opens

Journalism Grad Assists with NASA Moon Mission

Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

40,000 Children Have Lost a Parent Due to COVID Pandemic

Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Computer Science Professor Wins Google Award to Improve Smartphone Accessibility

Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Scientist Receives SUNY TAF Award for Technology to Advance Septic Systems

Student Helping Interpret Deaf Culture on Campus

SBU Places Two Subjects in U.S. News 2021 Global Top 100

Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards

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