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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 is held annually in the spring, and provides SBU student entrepreneurs with an opportunity to win a share of $50,000 to help cover start-up costs for their businesses. Students...

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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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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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American Chemical Society Names Chemistry Doctoral Candidate a 2020 CAS Future Leader

Johnny Lee, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, has been named a 2020 Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Future Leader by the American Chemical Society (ACS). A division of ACS for more than 110 years, CAS...

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Kevin Hatton ’20 Digs Geology

“It’s amazing to know that you’re supporting other people’s research with your work,” says geology researcher Kevin Hatton ’20. Hatton has been doing undergraduate research under the mentorship of Professor Troy Rasbury...

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Social Work Student Reaches Out to Isolated Seniors Online

As New York began to feel the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, Katie Maroldi, a second-year MSW student in Stony Brook’s Social Welfare Program, took one of her professor’s lessons on the negative effects of...

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Doctoral Student Yalile Suriel Wins AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship

Yalile Suriel, Center for Inclusive Education Turner Fellow (CIE) and advanced doctoral student in History, has won the American Education Research Association (AERA) Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education...

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Peony Tse ’20 Leverages Scholarships to Make a Difference

The first-generation college student says earning scholarships is her way of thanking her parents for their support and taking ownership of her future.

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Nursing Student Flexes Mind and Muscle as Competitive Bodybuilder

After pursuing a Dietetics Technician degree at Suffolk Community College, Alexa Detore ’23 thought her career in nutrition was on its way. But soon after getting her first job, she began to have second thoughts. “I’ve...

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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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Category - Student

Stony Brook Students Are Tops in Entrepreneur Challenge

Four SBU Researchers Win 2020 Young Academic Inventor’s Award

Graduating Seawolves Rally to Help Frontline Fighters

American Chemical Society Names Chemistry Doctoral Candidate a 2020 CAS Future Leader

Kevin Hatton ’20 Digs Geology

Doctoral Student Yalile Suriel Wins AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship

Nursing Student Flexes Mind and Muscle as Competitive Bodybuilder

Cancer Survivor Quinlan Montgomery Commits to Stony Brook Baseball

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

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