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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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Academics Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Humanities Stony Brook Matters

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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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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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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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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SBU Research Will Bring Smartphone Touch Interactions to Next Level

According to 2018 data from the Pew Research Center, 77% of Americans and 59% of all people worldwide own a smartphone. Xiaojun Bi, a professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and...

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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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Kaushansky, Studier Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Two distinguished Stony Brook scholars have been elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, MACP, Senior Vice President of the Health Sciences and Dean of the Renaissance School...

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Endowed Professorship Boosts SBU’s Conservation Leadership

With more than 100 marine species recorded as extinct — primarily due to overfishing — and more than 100 million tons of fish taken out of the water each year, our oceans and the animals that call them home...

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President Stanley (back row, center) with some of this year’s Distinguished Professors. Bottom row (from left to right): Kathlyn Parker, Lina Obeid and Ira Cohen; top row: Frederick Grine, Mikhail Lyubich, President Stanley, Peter Djuric, Arthur Samuel (not pictured: Fotis Sotiropoulos, Scott McLennan and J. Peter Gergen)

Alumni Spotlight Story Awards and Honors Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters

SBU Faculty and Staff Recognized for Outstanding Achievements

On November 8, 2018, President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD and Provost Michael A. Bernstein hosted the Annual Awards Dinner to celebrate faculty achievements and the recipients of Chancellor’s Awards and Distinguished...

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Category - Faculty

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

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

Crystal Fleming Featured on C-SPAN

Nurse Practitioners Play Vital Role in Oral Health

SBU Research Will Bring Smartphone Touch Interactions to Next Level

Grant Will Aid Lynch’s Penguin Colony Research

Kaushansky, Studier Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Endowed Professorship Boosts SBU’s Conservation Leadership

SBU Faculty and Staff Recognized for Outstanding Achievements

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