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Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Nicholas Post — the URECA researcher of the month for April 2021 — is a nontraditional, first-generation college student majoring in Anthropology, currently doing an honors thesis on Hominin Phylogenetics under the...

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Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Two Stony Brook University students have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP) by the National Science Foundation. Another six SBU students earned honorable mentions. This nationally...

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Student Helping Interpret Deaf Culture on Campus

Deaf history and culture have an advocate at Stony Brook University in Victoria “Tori” Vasta ’21. Diagnosed at any early age to be 95 percent without hearing in her left ear, Vasta is dedicated to raising awareness of...

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Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population

Shellfish couldn’t have a better friend than Stephen Tomasetti, a doctoral student in marine science at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS). Tomasetti has been studying the effects...

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A Record 149 Stony Brook Medical Students Match to Residencies

Although the Renaissance School of Medicine’s 2021 Match Day for fourth-year medical students remained a virtual event, with a record 149 students receiving their residency assignments, there was much cause for...

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Eight SBU Students Receive New SUNY Graduate Award

The Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent (GREAT) award provides flexible funds for research expenses, professional development and supplemental stipend support.

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Stony Brook MFA Students Sweep Television Writing Fellowships

MFA in Television Writing first-year student Mallory Baysek won in the Drama category and second-year student Galen Foote won for Comedy.

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Left to right (details): Stuart Balius, Marta Baumiller, Yifei Cheng, Annemarie Waugh

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MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021 at Zuccaire Gallery

"Four: MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021" presents new work by Stony Brook's graduating Master of Fine Arts students Stuart Balius, Marta Baumiller, Yifei Cheng and Annemarie Waugh.

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2021 Graduate School Award Winners

The winners of the 2021 Graduate School Awards for students, faculty and staff represent the very best of Stony Brook, and they will be recognized at the School's Annual Awards Virtual Celebration.

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Student Entrepreneurs Rise to WolfieTank Challenge

While college is a stepping stone to greater things for many people, a growing number of Stony Brook students have dreams that include launching businesses of their own, some even while still in school. WolfieTank —...

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Two Geosciences Seniors Involved in Environmental Research

Deanna Downs and Brooke Peritore — the URECA Undergraduate Researchers of the Month for March 2021 — are both seniors engaged in research in the Department of Geosciences under the mentorship of Associate Professor Troy...

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PhD student Huy Vu used filming skills, writing, directing, editing and choreographing to create his thesis video.

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Computer Science Grad Student Is “Dancing His PhD”

PhD student Huy Vu has found a creative way to explain his thesis — by writing, directing, producing and dancing in a video. The third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University...

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Stony Brook Named a Fulbright Top Student Program Producer

Stony Brook University has been named to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2020-21 list of top producers of Fulbright U.S. Student Program recipients for the first time ever — one of only two State University of New...

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SBU’s Dancing Dentist Has All the Right Grooves

Third-year dental student Varun Goyal was always passionate about dancing, and he was always sure he wanted to work in the medical field — now he is combining the two.

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Ensemble Decipher after performing at the NowNet Arts Conference on November 4, 2020.

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Stony Brook Students Awarded USArtists International Grant

The experimental music group Ensemble Decipher has been awarded the grant by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation to perform at the New Music for Strings Festival in Denmark in August 2021.

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EOP Student Receives SUNY Academic Achievement Award

Estrella Núñez ’21 received the Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence, which recognizes students who have exhibited academic success, perseverance and leadership qualities.

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Army Veteran Applies Lessons Learned to Stony Brook Experience

Going it alone has never been a problem for Laura Kuramoto ’22. The veteran and single mother from San Jose, California, is currently a health science major at Stony Brook University aspiring to become a radiologic...

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Music Alum and PhD Student Featured in Washington Post

Stony Brook alum Flannery Cunningham ’18 and PhD student Niloufar Nourbakhsh are highlighted in a Washington Post article, “21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow.” Both studied with...

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Category - Student

Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Student Helping Interpret Deaf Culture on Campus

Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population

A Record 149 Stony Brook Medical Students Match to Residencies

MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021 at Zuccaire Gallery

Student Entrepreneurs Rise to WolfieTank Challenge

Two Geosciences Seniors Involved in Environmental Research

Computer Science Grad Student Is “Dancing His PhD”

Stony Brook Named a Fulbright Top Student Program Producer

Army Veteran Applies Lessons Learned to Stony Brook Experience

Music Alum and PhD Student Featured in Washington Post

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