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Three SBU Leaders Honored for Outstanding Service During Pandemic

The Stony Brook Council has honored and bestowed University Medals for Exemplary Leadership and Service to Carol A. Gomes, Dr. Margaret M. McGovern and Lawrence M. Zacarese.

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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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Ann Nasti Honored with Prestigious Award for Teaching Excellence in Dentistry

Ann Nasti, DMD, associate dean for Clinical Education in the Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine, has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Stephen H. Leeper Award for Teaching Excellence by Omicron...

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Annual WolfieTank Competition Streams Live on Feb. 24

Inspired by the popular TV show "Shark Tank," WolfieTank presents a unique opportunity for Stony Brook students to showcase their innovative and entrepreneurial talents.

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SBU’s Dancing Dentist Has All the Right Grooves

Third-year dental student Varun Goyal was always passionate about dancing, and he was always sure he wanted to work in the medical field — now he is combining the two.

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Ensemble Decipher after performing at the NowNet Arts Conference on November 4, 2020.

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Stony Brook Students Awarded USArtists International Grant

The experimental music group Ensemble Decipher has been awarded the grant by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation to perform at the New Music for Strings Festival in Denmark in August 2021.

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Patricia Wright to Receive Wildlife Conservation Award

Patricia Wright, the founder of Centre ValBio, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and the Herrnstein Professor of Conservation Biology at Stony Brook University, will be awarded the Wildlife Conservation Award...

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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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Professor Iwao Ojima Elected to European Academy of Sciences

This is an exceptional achievement for the distinguished chemistry professor and a very well-deserved recognition for his numerous international scientific contributions.

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Roger Rosenblatt, Book Revue Launch New Literary Series, Write America

Novelist Roger Rosenblatt, a Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor of English and Writing, has launched a new weekly literary series, Write America, which features renowned and emerging writers in weekly...

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Army Veteran Applies Lessons Learned to Stony Brook Experience

Going it alone has never been a problem for Laura Kuramoto ’22. The veteran and single mother from San Jose, California, is currently a health science major at Stony Brook University aspiring to become a radiologic...

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Music Alum and PhD Student Featured in Washington Post

Stony Brook alum Flannery Cunningham ’18 and PhD student Niloufar Nourbakhsh are highlighted in a Washington Post article, “21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow.” Both studied with...

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Investiture of Endowed Professor Pays Tribute to Devoted Friend of Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center

Shimon Attie was formally invested as the inaugural Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor of Studio Art.

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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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Loredana Polezzi Named Alfonse M. D’Amato Endowed Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies

Her recent work focuses on diasporic Italian cultures and on multilingual education in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Volunteering Overseas Confirms Student’s Decision to Become a Doctor

Cassandra (Casey) Yap ’21 was well acquainted with the medical profession at a very young age. She decided to follow in the footsteps of her internist father, Dr. Wilson Yap, after growing up going to his clinic — which...

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Geosciences Professor Joel Hurowitz Studies the Climate on Mars

In a study of the ancient Gale Crater on Mars, Hurowitz and scientists from Rice University determined that Iceland’s climate is the closest to ancient Mars.

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William Wertheim Appointed Interim Dean, Renaissance School of Medicine

The current vice dean for graduate medical education and designated institutional official will have primary responsibility for the school’s academic and educational mission.

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Category - Faculty/Student Spotlights

Stony Brook Named a Fulbright Top Student Program Producer

Ann Nasti Honored with Prestigious Award for Teaching Excellence in Dentistry

Annual WolfieTank Competition Streams Live on Feb. 24

Patricia Wright to Receive Wildlife Conservation Award

Professor Iwao Ojima Elected to European Academy of Sciences

Roger Rosenblatt, Book Revue Launch New Literary Series, Write America

Army Veteran Applies Lessons Learned to Stony Brook Experience

Music Alum and PhD Student Featured in Washington Post

Postdocs Power AI Research at Stony Brook

Volunteering Overseas Confirms Student’s Decision to Become a Doctor

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