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SBU scores high in US News graduate school rankings

Stony Brook graduate schools and programs have again been rated impressively in the U.S. News and World Report annual graduate school rankings. In the 2020 edition of Best Graduate Schools, Stony Brook University was...

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Rowan Ricardo Phillips Honored for Best Literary Sports Writing

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, a professor in the English Department of the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently awarded the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing for his book, The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. This...

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Lauren Richmond Named a 2019 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science

The Association for Psychological Science (APS) has named Dr. Lauren Richmond a 2019 Rising Star, a designation that is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. Dr...

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Planetary InSight: Scott McLennan Reflects on Two Decades of Mars Research

As a young undergraduate student in Canada, Scott McLennan planned to spend his life studying the composition and characteristics of the Earth, and in 1987, he began teaching in Stony Brook’s Department of Geosciences...

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Stony Brook Announces New BFA Degree in Creative Writing

Stony Brook University announces a new undergraduate major in Creative Writing, earning a new degree, the Bachelor of Fine Arts. Modeled after its renowned MFA in Creative Writing program and sharing the same world...

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History Professor Eric Zolov Earns Fulbright Scholarship

Eric Zolov, an associate professor in the Department of History at Stony Brook University, has been selected by the Fulbright Scholars Program to teach at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, next...

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Alum Appointed Minister of Culture in Iraq

Abdulamir Al-Dafar Hamdani ’15, PhD Anthropology and Archaeology, was recently approved by the Iraqi Parliament as Minister of Culture to the Iraqi Ministry of Culture. Hamdani, who was known as Abdulameer Al-Dafar...

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Grant Will Aid Lynch’s Penguin Colony Research

Ecologist Heather J. Lynch, an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, has been awarded a Microsoft/National Geographic AI for Earth Innovation Grant that will support her use of artificial...

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The PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

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SBU Physicists Among BNL Research Group Studying the Perfect Fluid

Researchers from Stony Brook University are among a group of nuclear physicists analyzing data from the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) — a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science...

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Dean of College of Arts and Sciences Briefs NY Congressional Delegation on SBU Quantum Research and Digital Intelligence

On Tuesday, November 27, Dr. Nicole Sampson, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, briefed New York Congressional delegation staff in Washington, D.C. on Stony Brook...

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Randy Rettberg, president of the iGEM Foundation, with Stony Brook’s 2018 iGEM team

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Undergraduate Research Team Wins SBU’s First iGEM Gold Medal

Stony Brook’s 2018 team for the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition took home the University’s first gold medal at the iGEM Giant Jamboree recently held in Boston. Since 2014, Stony Brook’s...

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Deforestation is Unexpected Result of Peace in Colombia

War can have devastating effects on nature, but what happens in times of peace? In a first-of-a-kind study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, scientists provide evidence that the Colombian peace process...

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Eight SBU Faculty Appointed to SUNY Distinguished Ranks

Reflecting the world-class faculty and top-tier education offered by Stony Brook University, the State University of New York Board of Trustees has selected eight Stony Brook faculty members for its highest honor — the...

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Six SBU Faculty Named 2018 AAAS Fellows

Robert B. Grubbs, K. Daniel O’Leary, Eliza Reilly, Steven Skiena, Esther Takeuchi and Dr. Vincent W. Wang have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a fellow...

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Stony Brook Faculty Win Prestigious Veblen Prize in Geometry

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) awarded two Stony Brook University faculty and one former faculty member with the 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. Among this year’s recipients are Xiuxiong Chen, a professor...

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Researchers Find More Water in the Earth’s Interior Than Expected

A study of the seismic structure beneath the Mariana Trench by a team of researchers from Stony Brook University and Washington University indicates that about three or four times more water is dragged deep into the...

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"Glass Menagerie" by Meg Schedel on display at the Library of Congress

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Professor Schedel Brings Virtual Reality to the Library of Congress

Composer and cellist Margaret Schedel, an associate professor in the Department of Music at Stony Brook University who specializes in ferociously interactive media, had two of her virtual reality (VR) pieces with...

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Christopher Bishop and Mark De Cataldo Named 2019 American Mathematical Society Fellows

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has named professors Christopher Bishop and Mark De Cataldo to the 2019 class of AMS Fellows. The Fellows of the AMS designation recognizes members who have made outstanding...

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Category - College of Arts & Sciences

Rowan Ricardo Phillips Honored for Best Literary Sports Writing

Planetary InSight: Scott McLennan Reflects on Two Decades of Mars Research

Stony Brook Announces New BFA Degree in Creative Writing

History Professor Eric Zolov Earns Fulbright Scholarship

Alum Appointed Minister of Culture in Iraq

Grant Will Aid Lynch’s Penguin Colony Research

SBU Physicists Among BNL Research Group Studying the Perfect Fluid

Dean of College of Arts and Sciences Briefs NY Congressional Delegation on SBU Quantum Research and Digital Intelligence

Undergraduate Research Team Wins SBU’s First iGEM Gold Medal

Deforestation is Unexpected Result of Peace in Colombia

Eight SBU Faculty Appointed to SUNY Distinguished Ranks

Six SBU Faculty Named 2018 AAAS Fellows

Stony Brook Faculty Win Prestigious Veblen Prize in Geometry

Researchers Find More Water in the Earth’s Interior Than Expected

Professor Schedel Brings Virtual Reality to the Library of Congress

Christopher Bishop and Mark De Cataldo Named 2019 American Mathematical Society Fellows

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