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Online Health Searches in Africa Reveal Stigmas

Destructive cultural stigmas and an urgent need for accurate health information were identified in a groundbreaking study of health-related internet searches originating from Africa. The research team, which included H...

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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

It was one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, and Stony Brook University is playing a big part in the 50th anniversary celebration...

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Kedar Kirane Receives US Army Award for Research to Help Protect Soldiers in Combat

Investigating the effectiveness of composite materials in combat situations is the focus of newly funded research by Kedar Kirane, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the College of...

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Donovan Finn Receives Early Career Faculty Innovator Award

Donovan Finn, an assistant professor of Environmental Design, Policy and Planning in the Sustainability Studies Program at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, is one of nine early...

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Mircea Cotlet Named One of Battelle’s “Inventors of the Year”

Materials scientist Mircea Cotlet, an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University and a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) has been named one of seven...

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Eriko Sato Receives American Association of University Women Research Publication Grant

Professor Eriko Sato has been selected to receive an American Association of University Women (AAUW) research publication grant designed to support scholars and independent researchers. She will use this highly...

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Representatives of Senator Gillibrand and Congressman Zeldin met with MicroRid Technologies Inc. co-founders at the I&E showcase.

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Stony Brook Startup Featured at University and Innovation Entrepreneurship Showcase in Washington, DC

Stony Brook University (SBU) School of Medicine Professor Maurizio Del Poeta and SBU alumnus Brian McCarthy were selected to feature their startup company, MicroRid Technologies, Inc. at the University Innovation and...

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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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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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Category - Faculty

Online Health Searches in Africa Reveal Stigmas

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Kedar Kirane Receives US Army Award for Research to Help Protect Soldiers in Combat

Donovan Finn Receives Early Career Faculty Innovator Award

Mircea Cotlet Named One of Battelle’s “Inventors of the Year”

Eriko Sato Receives American Association of University Women Research Publication Grant

Stony Brook Startup Featured at University and Innovation Entrepreneurship Showcase in Washington, DC

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

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