Category - Academics

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History Professor Eric Zolov Wins María Elena Martínez Prize for Recent Book

The award is bestowed annually for the most significant work on the history of Mexico in the previous year.

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Journalism Students Use Capstone Course to Showcase Cultural Exchange, From Food to TikTok

The reporting capstone is a chance for upper-division journalism students to showcase their technical and storytelling skills in one project.

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Medieval Academy of America Elects Sara Lipton as Second Vice President

This honor means Professor Lipton will become the 100th president of the Medieval Academy in 2024, and will deliver the Presidential Address at the Academy’s Centennial Meeting.

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Undergrad’s Extensive Research Experience Was Supported by Several Key Programs

The biology major says that at Stony Brook he was able to get "awesome research experience, which has been super valuable to me, and to have great mentors."

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Art Students Collaborate with Long Island Explorium to Present ‘A Visual Dialogue on Environmental Issues’

Students in the Stony Brook Department of Art’s visual arts program recently partnered with the Long Island Explorium to present a curated digital art exhibit, “A Visual Dialogue on Environmental Issues.” A...

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Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, Chair of Turkana Basin Institute, Dies at 77

World-renowned paleoanthropologist and conservationist Richard E. Leakey, a professor in the Stony Brook University Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences and chair of the Turkana Basin Institute...

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Using AI to Detect Fractures on X-Rays Leads to Improved Diagnosis

Dr. Daichi Hayashi is co-investigator of a research paper which demonstrates that AI-assisted X-ray interpretation for fracture diagnosis can help improve diagnostic accuracy.

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Stony Brook Physicians Talk About ‘Black Men in White Coats’ Movement

Two evenings of panel discussions around the film provided insights into the Black male journey leading to medical school and experience in the medical field.

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Lonnie Wollmuth Receives 2021 Lupus Innovation Award

Wollmuth’s lab will develop strategies targeting the NMDA receptor, a molecule that controls communication between nerve cells to prevent or reduce brain disorders in lupus patients.

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Stony Brook Launches Master’s in Journalism Program

Students are now able to apply for the program and begin working toward their degrees in the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Online Interventions Help with Teen Depression

A study of more than 2,400 adolescents ages 13 to 16 shows two online, single-session interventions designed to help curb teen depression works.

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Student’s Origami Artwork Makes it to the Big Stage

Milo Mohamed ‘24 has made it into the limelight. His artwork, that is. Earlier this semester, Mohamed, a Studio Art major in the Department of Art, was assigned a project in Associate Professor Izumi Ashizawa’s ARS205...

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Emily Carll ’20 Selected for Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship

She will become SBU's first-ever Pickering Fellow and receive $84,000 to pursue a master's degree in the field of international affairs.

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Robert Crease Awarded 2021 Institute of Physics William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize

He received the award for his 21 years writing Physics World’s outstanding “Critical Point” column.

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Civil Engineering Undergrad Takes on Multiple Research Projects

Ephraim Bryski ’22 — the URECA researcher of the month for December 2021 — is a senior civil engineering major who joined the Coastal and Hydraulic Engineering Research Lab of Ali Farhadzadeh, assistant professor...

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SBU Part of NASA Mission to Better Understand Tropical Storms

Data collected from the mission will help scientists better understand and predict the behavior of dangerous tropical storms and address a significant issue of climate change.

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Chang Kee Jung Wins American Physical Society’s 2022 Lilienfeld Prize

Chang Kee Jung, distinguished professor and chair in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, has been selected to receive the American Physical Society’s 2022...

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Windy Days May Keep Us Safer from COVID

Sean Clouston led a study showing that days with temperatures ranging from 61 to 82 degrees F with less than 5 mph wind speed had significantly increased COVID-19 incidence compared to days with greater wind speed.

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Category - Academics

History Professor Eric Zolov Wins María Elena Martínez Prize for Recent Book

Journalism Students Use Capstone Course to Showcase Cultural Exchange, From Food to TikTok

Medieval Academy of America Elects Sara Lipton as Second Vice President

Undergrad’s Extensive Research Experience Was Supported by Several Key Programs

Art Students Collaborate with Long Island Explorium to Present ‘A Visual Dialogue on Environmental Issues’

Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, Chair of Turkana Basin Institute, Dies at 77

Stony Brook Launches Master’s in Journalism Program

Online Interventions Help with Teen Depression

Student’s Origami Artwork Makes it to the Big Stage

Emily Carll ’20 Selected for Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship

Robert Crease Awarded 2021 Institute of Physics William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize

Civil Engineering Undergrad Takes on Multiple Research Projects

Chang Kee Jung Wins American Physical Society’s 2022 Lilienfeld Prize

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