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SBU Professor’s New Logics Book Written for Computer Scientists

Professor Anita Wasilewska, from the Department of Computer Science (CS) at Stony Brook University, has released her second book published by Springer, Logics for Computer Science: Classical and Non-Classical, which...

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Rising-Star CS Professor Wins VMware Early-Career Faculty Grant

On the heels of being named a rising star in computer networking, Computer Science Professor Aruna Balasubramanian has been awarded a highly selective VMware Early-Career Faculty Grant, which is given to recently...

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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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Gabrielle Paniccia ’19 Dives Deep into Molecular Biology

“Something that I’ve enjoyed about the research I’ve done is that, over time, I’ve been able to see myself grow as a scientist,” says undergraduate researcher Gabrielle Paniccia ’19. “I’ve moved...

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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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Professors’ Sonification Project Profiled in Wired Magazine

Stony Brook University Professors Lisa Muratori and Margaret Schedel collaborated on a project that was recently profiled in Wired — Our Ears Are Unlocking an Era of Aural Data. Muratori, an associate professor of...

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Do Animals Think and Feel?

What, if anything, are your pets thinking? Do they value you beyond your reliability as a source of food? What cognitive traits do we share with the elephant, the wolf, primates and other so-called “higher...

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Roxanne Brockner and Dale Dreuckhammer at the USATF Award Ceremony

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Two SBU Track Stars Soar in USATF Masters Athletics

Roxanne Brockner, Assistant to the Director of Stony Brook’s Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, was awarded Female Masters Track of the year and Dale Drueckhammer, Professor of Chemistry, was...

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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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Professor Nikiforakis and his team of students collaborate in the PragSec lab in the New Computer Science Building.

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Computer Science Professor Nick Nikiforakis Receives Amazon Research Award

Nick Nikiforakis is helping to make the Internet more secure. An assistant professor from the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University, Nikiforakis has...

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History of Universe Could Be Upended by New Findings

StonyBrook-led research suggesting an alternative history of the universe has been published in the latest edition of Physical Review Letters. The research, funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the...

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Ken Dill to Receive National Award for Protein Folding Research

STONY BROOK, NY, January 25 , 2019 – Ken A. Dill, PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University, and the Louis...

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SBU Faculty Mentor 18 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholars

Out of the 300 scholars selected this year from 1,964 entries for the Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) — the prestigious science and math competition for high school students — 18 did research with Stony Brook...

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Undergraduate Researcher Probes Autism

Lee Ann Santore ’19, a swim coach and undergraduate researcher in the field of autism, has some advice for students considering hands-on research at Stony Brook: “Dive right in!” “I had done a lot of...

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Crystal Fleming Featured on C-SPAN

A provocative new book by Crystal Fleming, Stony Brook associate professor of sociology and Africana Studies, How to Be Less Stupid About Race, is being featured on C-SPAN’s Authors Week. The weeklong series...

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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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Nurse Practitioners Play Vital Role in Oral Health

A national survey of nurse practitioner (NP) training program educators reveals that a large majority of responders believe graduates’ level of oral health training and competence is at a high level, and therefore NPs...

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The HackHarvard team; Michael Rizoo is second from right. Photo credit: HackHarvard, Facebook

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Stony Brook Computer Science Senior Hacks His Way to Harvard

When you hear about Harvard University, computer science and a revolutionary web app, initially you might think of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. But these three things also apply to Stony Brook University...

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Category - Faculty/Student Spotlights

SBU Professor’s New Logics Book Written for Computer Scientists

Rising-Star CS Professor Wins VMware Early-Career Faculty Grant

Rowan Ricardo Phillips Honored for Best Literary Sports Writing

Gabrielle Paniccia ’19 Dives Deep into Molecular Biology

Professors’ Sonification Project Profiled in Wired Magazine

Do Animals Think and Feel?

Two SBU Track Stars Soar in USATF Masters Athletics

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

Computer Science Professor Nick Nikiforakis Receives Amazon Research Award

History of Universe Could Be Upended by New Findings

Ken Dill to Receive National Award for Protein Folding Research

SBU Faculty Mentor 18 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholars

Undergraduate Researcher Probes Autism

Crystal Fleming Featured on C-SPAN

Alum Appointed Minister of Culture in Iraq

Nurse Practitioners Play Vital Role in Oral Health

Stony Brook Computer Science Senior Hacks His Way to Harvard

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