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Sara Hamideh Advocates for Equity in Disaster Recovery

Recovering from a natural disaster isn’t easy for anyone, but some communities are more heavily burdened than others. Finding more equitable approaches to recovery is a central concern in the work of Sara Hamideh...

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Stony Brook University Invests Endowed Chairs in Renaissance School of Medicine

The chairs, endowed by Huayi Zhang and Siuling Zhang, enable the University to recognize eminent scholars David Thanassi and Qingping Yao.

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Eszter Boros Named 2020 Moore Inventor Fellow

Her research combines fundamental inorganic chemistry and metal radiochemistry with modern imaging methods to provide personalized medical treatments of cancer and microbial infections.

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Almstadtstrasse 43: Slide projection of former Hebrew bookstore, 1930, Berlin,1992, 33"X40" chromogenic photograph and on-location installation, Shimon Attie, courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

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Shimon Attie Named Inaugural Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor in Studio Art

The internationally renowned visual artist, whose work focuses on issues of identity and community, also has extensive experience teaching at a University level.

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Beyond the Expected Podcast: An Interview with Stony Brook’s Naturalist

Alan Inkles with Christopher Paparo Christopher Paparo has been exploring the wilds of Long Island’s marine estuaries for over 30 years, and in this episode of “Beyond the Expected,” guest host Alan Inkles...

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Research Leads to New Material for Energy-Efficient Devices

A team of international physicists including SBU's Jennifer Cano has created a superlattice, which at a high temperature is a super-efficient insulator conducting current.

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Surita R. Bhatia Named Fellow of Two Prestigious National Organizations

The VP for Faculty Affairs and Chemistry Professor has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a fellow of the Society of Rheology.

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Professor Pittinsky’s Latest Book Explores ‘Leaders Who Lust’

Leaders who lust can and often do have an enduring impact. Professor Todd L. Pittinsky, Department of Technology and Society, explores six types of lust in his latest book, Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success...

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Professor Matthew Lerner Honored for Contributions to Autism Research

As one of the top autism researchers in the world, he has been awarded the American Psychological Association Division 33 Sara Sparrow Early Career Research Award.

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$2.5 Million NIH Grant Will Support AI Approach to Study and Predict Excessive Drinking

The approach uses data-science tools, smart-phones and social media postings to identify early signs of alcohol abuse and alcoholism.

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Understanding Earth’s Climate through Ice Formation

Ice crystal formation plays a crucial role in precipitation formation and alters the radiative properties of clouds, thereby affecting Earth’s climate system.

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Stony Brook’s Elyse Graham Probes the Language of New Yorkers

“Everybody in New York has a story,” said Elyse Graham, associate professor in Stony Brook’s English Department, adding wryly that “every story has an element that contradicts someone else’s story.” Thus Graham’s new...

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Michael Rubenstein Illuminates a New Field of Research: Energy Humanities

Energy humanities is a subdiscipline of the environmental humanities, with a tighter focus on the story of energy in human civilization. It arose in the early 2010s in response to renewed public awareness about energy...

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Nick Nikiforakis Receives Dual Early Career Awards

The computer science professor has been awarded the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award.

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Stony Brook Uses New Strategy to Aid Those with Disabilities During COVID-19

Michelle Ballan created a COVID Disability Form to help all individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities communicate their needs.

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Surita R. Bhatia Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Surita R. Bhatia, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor, Department of Chemistry, to its College of...

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A first look at the structure of the lipin enzyme. The structure shows how two essential regions (colored blue and pink), located on opposite ends of the protein in humans, come together to form a function enzyme to help make triglycerides.

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Scientists Visualize Structure of Key Enzyme That Makes Triglycerides

The first structure of a lipin enzyme — which carries out an important step in the production of triglycerides, the main reservoir for long-term energy storage — will help scientists to better understand how lipins...

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Facebook Offers Clues to Medical Distress, Research Shows

The language people use on Facebook subtly changes before they make a visit to the emergency department, according to a new study published in Nature Scientific Reports.

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Category - Faculty

Sara Hamideh Advocates for Equity in Disaster Recovery

Stony Brook University Invests Endowed Chairs in Renaissance School of Medicine

Beyond the Expected Podcast: An Interview with Stony Brook’s Naturalist

Professor Pittinsky’s Latest Book Explores ‘Leaders Who Lust’

$2.5 Million NIH Grant Will Support AI Approach to Study and Predict Excessive Drinking

Understanding Earth’s Climate through Ice Formation

Stony Brook’s Elyse Graham Probes the Language of New Yorkers

Michael Rubenstein Illuminates a New Field of Research: Energy Humanities

Surita R. Bhatia Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

Scientists Visualize Structure of Key Enzyme That Makes Triglycerides

Facebook Offers Clues to Medical Distress, Research Shows

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