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Cancer Survivor Quinlan Montgomery Commits to Stony Brook Baseball

Having had his baseball career interrupted while overcoming more challenging obstacles, Montgomery believes he has yet to reach his full potential.

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19 HS Students Mentored at SBU Make Regeneron Science Competition Top 300 Scholars

The top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2020 have been announced and 19 of those high school seniors were mentored by Stony Brook University faculty. The Regeneron Science Talent Search — the...

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Undergrad Researcher Marcia-Ruth Ndege ’21 Overcomes Challenges, Finds Fulfillment

“Research can be stressful, frustrating, demanding, and even overwhelming in the beginning,” cautions undergraduate researcher Marcia-Ruth Ndege ’21. “Even then, you should definitely stick around because, after the...

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Irvin Huang performed research in Stony Brook’s zebrafish facility. The zebrafish is a model species that can offer clues to the developmental and behavioral effects of sublethal exposure to pharmaceuticals found in wastewater effluent. (photo by Irvin Huang).

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SBU Grad Student Selected for Competitive Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Irvin Huang, a PhD candidate in the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, has been chosen as a fellow in the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program, which matches highly qualified...

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Research is “Super-Empowering” for Jeremy Nielsen ’20

The best part of undergraduate research, according to Jeremy Nielsen ’20, is “just being able to work on problems I’m passionate about. That’s super-empowering.” “Being able to do that at...

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Claire Garfield ’20 Awarded Prestigious Marshall Scholarship

Claire Garfield ’20 has been awarded the Marshall Scholarship, one of the most prestigious academic honors available to U.S. undergraduates. The ultra-selective scholarship is granted annually to 50 outstanding seniors...

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Josh Cohen ’20 Experiences Alaska Through National Student Exchange

A lifetime Long Islander, Josh Cohen ’20 was seeking an experience totally out of his comfort zone. Through the National Student Exchange (NSE) program, Cohen spent a semester at the University of Alaska in...

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Student Creates Mural Celebrating Women Engineers

A striking new mural on the second floor of the Light Engineering building, designed by computer engineering student Sejal Mehra, pays tribute to women in engineering. Entitled Luna the Future, the mural uses a stylized...

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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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Category - Student

19 HS Students Mentored at SBU Make Regeneron Science Competition Top 300 Scholars

Undergrad Researcher Marcia-Ruth Ndege ’21 Overcomes Challenges, Finds Fulfillment

SBU Grad Student Selected for Competitive Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Research is “Super-Empowering” for Jeremy Nielsen ’20

Claire Garfield ’20 Awarded Prestigious Marshall Scholarship

Josh Cohen ’20 Experiences Alaska Through National Student Exchange

Student Creates Mural Celebrating Women Engineers

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

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