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Air Force Vet Kat Maier Finds Community at Stony Brook

“It’s my family away from my family, right? I feel like I have a really strong support system with the people that I’ve met here,” said Katherine Maier. Katherine “Kat” Maier is known to her friends and colleagues...

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Peter Davis ’20 Takes a Hands-On Approach to Civil Engineering

Peter Davis has been captivated by the sciences for as long as he can remember. “Where my childhood friends would watch action-packed cartoons, all I ever wanted to watch was the Science Channel,” Davis said...

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Tethered Chem Combos Could Revolutionize Artificial Photosynthesis

Stony Brook University graduate student Lei Wang is part of a team of scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) who have doubled the efficiency of a chemical combo that captures light and splits water molecules...

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Aspiring Singer Follows Dream Through Stony Brook

The road to any dream can be long and winding, and the dreamer rarely knows how long the road will be. Analise Buker ’21, however, knows exactly how far away she is from her dream: 55 miles, the distance between Stony...

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Student Researcher Mary Bertschi ’19 is at Home in the World

“I feel like if I had been in a different school or a larger department I wouldn’t have had the connections I have had, or found out about the internships and experiences I have enjoyed,” said Mary Bertschi ’19...

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SBUHacks Showcases Student Skill and Creativity

The 2019 edition of SBUHacks, an annual 24-hour hackathon event celebrating the ingenuity and creativity of student coders, took place on the weekend of September 20-21 in the Melville Library. More than 375 students...

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Sydney Bell holding a baby loggerhead sea turtle after a permitted nest evacuation. This was done under the supervision of professionals and should not be attempted by members of the public.

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Sydney Bell ‘22 Receives Long Island Business News “30 Under 30” Award

Sophomore Sydney Bell has been selected as an honoree of the Long Island Business News (LIBN) “30 Under 30” Award. The award honors bright and dynamic young professionals under the age of 30 who contribute to the Long...

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Kiana Lom ‘21 Writes – and Illustrates – a Novel

Not everything goes according to plan, or so Kiana Lom ‘21 found out. Born in Oceanside, New York, but raised in Costa Rica, Kiana dropped out of school in ninth grade. But she always had an interest in art and...

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Matthew Murphy ’20 Unlocks Puzzles in Astronomy

For URECA Summer Researcher Matthew Murphy, doing research “feels like solving puzzles.” “I’ve always loved doing that,” he said. “I’ve loved looking at things unconventionally. Every day when I sit at my...

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Zaynab Ubaid ’19 Blazes a Trail in Communications

Growing up in a sheltered, religiously conservative household, Stony Brook psychology major and University Scholar Zaynab Ubaid ’19 was determined to make her mark at Stony Brook. “When I enrolled, there were so many...

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Hayley Rein ’19 Channelled Personal Loss Into Service

Imagine being a sophomore in college and losing your father — just a year after your mother died. That was Hayley Rein’s reality. The Stony Brook University psychology and sociology double major, who will graduate in...

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Learning to Ask for Help Launched Elle Butler Basner ’19

Sometimes it takes a little adversity to teach you how to win. This is what biochemistry and applied mathematics and statistics major Elle Butler Basner ’19 learned when she received a disappointing grade in an...

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Mechanical Engineering Students Make an Impact with ‘Go Baby Go’ Project

By Patrick O’Donnell ’19 The Stony Brook University Student Chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) strives to help students develop professionally and to familiarize students with the...

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Undergraduate Researcher Emily Chen Unlocks the Secrets of Carbyne

“Research is a huge challenge for me,” says Emily Chen ’20, named July’s Researcher of the Month by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA). “I enjoy having...

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Three Seawolves Receive Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

Three Stony Brook University students have been selected as recipients of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, recognizing outstanding undergraduates who intend to pursue STEM research careers. The talented trio...

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Stony Brook Student Shines at NY Business Competitions

A new technology developed by Shrish Patel, a PhD candidate in Professor Alexander Orlov’s Materials Science and Chemical Engineering lab in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been recognized in three...

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Eight of Stony Brook's 14 Chancellor's Award winners with Charles Robbins, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of the Undergraduate Colleges

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14 SBU Students Honored by SUNY for Academic Excellence and Leadership

State University of New York Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson presented 14 Stony Brook University students with the 2019 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence on April 24. The Stony Brook students receiving the 2019...

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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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Category - Student

Air Force Vet Kat Maier Finds Community at Stony Brook

Peter Davis ’20 Takes a Hands-On Approach to Civil Engineering

Tethered Chem Combos Could Revolutionize Artificial Photosynthesis

Aspiring Singer Follows Dream Through Stony Brook

Student Researcher Mary Bertschi ’19 is at Home in the World

SBUHacks Showcases Student Skill and Creativity

Sydney Bell ‘22 Receives Long Island Business News “30 Under 30” Award

Kiana Lom ‘21 Writes – and Illustrates – a Novel

Matthew Murphy ’20 Unlocks Puzzles in Astronomy

Zaynab Ubaid ’19 Blazes a Trail in Communications

Hayley Rein ’19 Channelled Personal Loss Into Service

Learning to Ask for Help Launched Elle Butler Basner ’19

Mechanical Engineering Students Make an Impact with ‘Go Baby Go’ Project

Undergraduate Researcher Emily Chen Unlocks the Secrets of Carbyne

Three Seawolves Receive Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

Stony Brook Student Shines at NY Business Competitions

14 SBU Students Honored by SUNY for Academic Excellence and Leadership

Gabrielle Paniccia ’19 Dives Deep into Molecular Biology

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