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Eight SBU Students Earn Prestigious Fulbright Scholarships

This highly competitive scholarship opportunity provides funding for American students to conduct research or teach English in more than 140 countries overseas.

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Striving for Fluency in the Language of STEM

Marcela Muricy ‘23 grew up in Brazil, is fluent in Portuguese and proud of her heritage. But there is another language the University Scholar is trying to master: Speaking STEM.

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Undergrad Receives Funding to Support Research on Montauk Tribe

Grace Armann ‘23, researcher of the month for July, received URECA funding this summer to support her research on a local legal history of the indigenous Montauk tribe.

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Pagan Is the Third Seawolf to Compete in the Summer Olympics

Although the book on her Stony Brook University career still has another chapter to be written, India Pagan ’22 has already etched herself a permanent place in the school’s record books. In a college basketball career...

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Setting Her Global Sights on Helping At-Risk Populations

To Isabelle Loop ’21, strangers are only friends she hasn’t met yet. And “strange” places are only places where she will meet them. It’s how the biochemistry major from rural Spencer, New York came to enroll at Stony...

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Geosciences PhD Candidate Receives Prestigious NASA Fellowship

Victoria Rivera Banuchi received the fellowship for her proposal, "Experimental constraints on ultraviolet-light driven iron oxidation processes on early Mars."

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Pursuing a Childhood Dream of Helping Children

Victoria Dotto ’22 wanted to be a pediatrician even when she was a child. So every chance she got along the way, she has volunteered to work with children. “Ever since I was little, I had a curiosity about science and...

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From the Rainforest to the Land of Opportunity and Stony Brook

It’s as if Rubens Meza Henderson ’23 has lived two lives, both charmed. Now in his 50s, the Peruvian born-and-raised economics major at Stony Brook University enjoyed an idyllic boyhood in the rainforest near the banks...

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Student’s Mural Celebrates Women Engineers

A striking mural in the Light Engineering building, "Luna the Future" by Sejal Mehra uses a stylized boxer to suggest the power of women scholars and the challenges they face in the field.

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Fifteen Journalism Students Win Awards for Excellent Reporting

Honors came from the Long Island Fair Media Council, the New York Press Association, and the Hearst Journalism Award Program.

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Always Striving to Find the Perfect Fit

Being the proverbial square peg in the round hole is nothing new to Pavithra Venkataraman ’22. In fact, that is how she has felt both in her hometown of Columbus, Indiana, and in Chennai, India, where she lived from...

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School of Communication and Journalism Awards Record Number of Scholarships

A record-setting 15 students this spring received scholarships from Stony Brook’s School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ). The scholarships, all funded by private support, recognize students for their academic and...

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Doodling Leads to Fellowship for English Doctoral Candidate

Doodling during class is something virtually every college student has done. For the vast majority, it’s a mindless activity to pass a few pre-occupied moments. For PhD candidate Kay Sohini Kumar, it opened a door that...

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SBU Women’s Lacrosse Wins 8th AE Title, Seeded 8th in NCAAs

The Seawolves, who learned of their fate during the selection show Sunday night on ESPNU, will open against Towson on May 14 in the NCAA Division I women's lacrosse championship tournament.

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Ally Kennedy scored seven goals against UMBC on Thursday to send the Seawolves to the America East finals. Photo by Andrew Theodorakis

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Women’s Lacrosse Beats UMBC, Headed to AE Finals

Aiming for their eighth straight conference title, the top-seeded Seawolves will host second-seeded UAlbany on Saturday, May 8, at 1 pm. Get your complimentary tickets for the game!

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Semester by the Sea Students Clean Up Warner Island Beach

On the last weekend in April, Stony Brook University students took part in the Southhampton Warner Island Cleanup. Students from the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) boarded the RV Peconic, traveled...

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Grad Students Present Research at Annual 3MT Competition

Held annually since 2017, 3MT is an opportunity for graduate students to present their dissertation research findings to a general audience in three minutes with only one PowerPoint slide.

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PhD Candidate Wins National Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry

Shrish Patel was honored for his research that utilizes concrete waste for the removal of nitrogen dioxide, one of the most dangerous and prevalent air pollutants in the country.

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Category - Student

Striving for Fluency in the Language of STEM

Pagan Is the Third Seawolf to Compete in the Summer Olympics

Setting Her Global Sights on Helping At-Risk Populations

Geosciences PhD Candidate Receives Prestigious NASA Fellowship

Pursuing a Childhood Dream of Helping Children

From the Rainforest to the Land of Opportunity and Stony Brook

Fifteen Journalism Students Win Awards for Excellent Reporting

Always Striving to Find the Perfect Fit

School of Communication and Journalism Awards Record Number of Scholarships

Doodling Leads to Fellowship for English Doctoral Candidate

SBU Women’s Lacrosse Wins 8th AE Title, Seeded 8th in NCAAs

Semester by the Sea Students Clean Up Warner Island Beach

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