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Student Activists Tackle Climate Change

Two Stony Brook students have taken the lead on an influential issue that has significant ramifications for Long Island and the planet. James Pizaro ’22 and Emily Schalkham ’21 have been at the forefront of efforts to...

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Four SBU Grad Students Win BNL Scholarship for Their Research

Four Stony Brook University graduate students have been selected for the 2020 Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship: Erwei Huang, Advisor Dr. Ping Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory Struti Iyer, Advisor Dr. W. Richard...

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Anne Green ’22 Takes Civic Engagement to a New Level

An invitation to take part in a panel discussion by global health advocate Chelsea Clinton is just one of the many distinctions that Anne Green ’22 enjoys. Community service is required of all Stony Brook University...

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Volunteer Ambulance Corps Marks a Half-Century of Community Service

For the all-student Stony Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corps (SBVAC), it began with a Volkswagen bus and a Cadillac. In 1970, frustrated by long response times from local ambulance corps, Stony Brook University students...

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BNL Summer Students Tackle COVID-19

For Sonali George '21, the coronavirus pandemic presented a chance to engage in research related to the virus that forced her internship online.

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Sixteen violinists participating in the networking experiment in which they are connected to a computer system hearing only the sound received from the computer. Photo by Chen Damari

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Using Violin Synchronization to Learn About Better Networking

By using a model of violin synchronization in a network of violin players, there are ways to drown out distractions, which could be used as a model for human networks in society.

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Journalism Students Uncover Stories of Slavery on Long Island

The first enslaved Africans arrived in New Amsterdam in 1626. For 200 years slavery was part of life on Long Island. Since its abolition, slavery has faded from local memory, largely forgotten or ignored. But the...

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Davis at the English Department's Spring 2020 Text & Tea event.

Alumni Hottest Stories Community Faculty/Student Spotlights Long Island Recent Grads Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight Sustainability

Grad Student Promotes Water Advocacy Through Experiential Course

Sarah Fisher Davis, a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Stony Brook University, is looking to train Long Island college and high school students to become local water activists and citizen science...

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Alumni Spotlight Story COVID-19 Faculty/Student Spotlights Recent Grads Research STEM Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Bernard Essuman ’21 Tackles COVID-19 Research

The study will help researchers understand how COVID-19 interacts with 3D-printed face shields, cotton, skin and hair, and could predict how long it sticks to surfaces.

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Student Groups Use Spring Break to Help Hospitals Get PPE

SBU's Alternative Spring Break Outreach partnered with fraternities Phi Delta Epsilon and Iota Nu Delta to raise money for hospitals in need of PPE.

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Student Activist Works for Democracy and Dialogue

Tamara Smith ’21 chose Stony Brook for its “beauty and welcoming aura” and stayed for the opportunities it offered. “Stony Brook has exceeded my expectations in terms of the number of opportunities available and the...

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Alumni Spotlight Story COVID-19 Faculty/Student Spotlights Recent Grads Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

A Campaign of Kindness, Stony Brook Style

While much has been made of coronavirus’ catastrophic physical effects, self-isolation can take an equally devastating mental toll on victims and their families. Mohamed Heiba ‘20, executive vice president of Stony...

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Making Music in the Midst of a Pandemic

It’s hard for students to switch gears easily from real time in the classroom to virtual time in the middle of a semester. But for Taylor Ackley ’20, a postdoctoral student in the Department of Music, the coronavirus...

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Ethan Doutney of Dune Fishery won first place at the State Finals in the Agriculture, Technology and Food category.

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Stony Brook Students Are Tops in Entrepreneur Challenge

The Stony Brook Entrepreneur Challenge provides students the chance to win a share of $50K to help cover start-up costs for their businesses and advance to the statewide competition.

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Doctoral Student Yalile Suriel Wins AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship

The history PhD candidate's dissertation tells the story of how universities historically weighed their desire to be productive spaces for social justice against the nation’s growing impulse toward law and order.

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Four SBU Researchers Win 2020 Young Academic Inventor’s Award

The winners presented a short lecture of their winning invention at the Young Academic Inventor’s Award Symposium via Zoom earlier this month.

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Pano Sourlis (left) and Vincent DeStefano (right) with donations from local school districts they delivered to the Wang Center for Stony Brook University Hospital's frontline workers.

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Graduating Seawolves Rally to Help Frontline Fighters

If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything it is that our students are amazingly resilient. In defiance of all the difficulties they have faced, the Class of 2020 has chosen to rise up and continue to make a...

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Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Student Spotlights Humanities Newsletter-Spotlight Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Two Doctoral Candidates Earn Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowships

The fellowships support a year of research to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.

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Category - Student

Student Activists Tackle Climate Change

Four SBU Grad Students Win BNL Scholarship for Their Research

Anne Green ’22 Takes Civic Engagement to a New Level

Volunteer Ambulance Corps Marks a Half-Century of Community Service

BNL Summer Students Tackle COVID-19

Using Violin Synchronization to Learn About Better Networking

Grad Student Promotes Water Advocacy Through Experiential Course

Bernard Essuman ’21 Tackles COVID-19 Research

Student Activist Works for Democracy and Dialogue

A Campaign of Kindness, Stony Brook Style

Making Music in the Midst of a Pandemic

Four SBU Researchers Win 2020 Young Academic Inventor’s Award

Graduating Seawolves Rally to Help Frontline Fighters

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