Category - Student

Awards and Honors Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

PhD Student Awarded for Energy Materials Research

Jianping Huang, a graduate student at Stony Brook University working on his PhD in chemistry, was awarded the 12th annual Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Association at Brookhaven...

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Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Student Spotlights Global News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Stony Brook PhD Student in History Wins Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

Erica Mukherjee, a doctoral student in the Department of History, has been awarded a highly competitive Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) grant through the Department of Education. These grants...

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Academics Awards and Honors College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student

Research Led by SBU’s Erik Muller is Finalist in R&D 100 Awards

Often referred to as the “Oscars of Invention,” the R&D 100 Awards honor the top 100 proven technological advances of the past year as determined by a panel selected by R&D Magazine. Erik Muller, Principal...

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Diversity Faculty/Student Spotlights Global News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Yelbi Balima ’18 Brings Light to Burkina Faso

A quick look at a satellite image of Africa at night reveals the continent’s pressing need for electrical power. Stony Brook University exchange student Yelbi Balima ’18 has big plans to change that situation, beginning...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Stony Brook Senior Headed to NASA for Space Launch

Christopher Stubenrauch, a Stony Brook University senior studying atmospheric science, astronomy and applied mathematics, was chosen to attend a special social media event for the launch of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

PhD Student Mani Kuntal Sen Receives Award

Mani Kuntal Sen, a Materials Science and Chemical Engineering PhD student from Dr. Tad Koga’s group won the second place poster award at the “14th International Conference on Surface X-ray and Neutron Scattering (SXNS...

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Diversity Faculty/Student Spotlights Global Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

To Lydia Senatus ‘17, the Great Wall is No Barrier

This summer, Lydia Senatus ‘17 took her passion for international studies, as well as her academic and professional development to another level. She has just returned from a month-long study abroad experience in Wuhan...

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Awards and Honors Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Grad Student Wins Young Investigators Award for Medical Physics Research

Stony Brook University PhD student James Scheuermann won first place in the John R. Cameron Young Investigators Competition held by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). The award was presented at...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Jasmine Garani ’18: Stony Brook’s Space Ninja

Jasmine Garani’s research is out of this world. The astronomy and physics double major ’18 was selected from a field of applicants this summer to study exoplanets, which are planets outside of our solar system. Jasmine...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Humanities Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Dance as Therapy

Biology Student Finds a Lab That Makes a Difference in Peoples’ Lives Biology major Louis Susca ’16 was looking for a lab with an interpersonal focus. He found it in Stony Brook’s Center For Dance, Movement and Somatic...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Global Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

For Rima Madan, the Rainforest Was a Classroom

When Rima Madan joined the Madagascar Study Abroad program the summer after her freshman year, she had yet to discover how that one experience would transform the rest of her undergraduate education. “It was amazing...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Jessica Hundal ’16 is on Track to Become a Well-Rounded Physician

When biochemistry major and University Scholar Jessica Hundal ’16 heads to Northwell School of Medicine at Hofstra University this fall, she will be taking with her a wide array of high-level skills that she learned at...

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Diversity Faculty/Student Spotlights Global Research Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

For Andrew Lee ’16, Research was a Bridge Between Cultures

“I can’t really imagine my four years at SB without research,” reflects Andrew Seunghyun Lee. “I spent most of my time doing research. And the only reason I did was because I really loved it. Around sophomore year, I...

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Diversity Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Danielle Meyers’ “Spoken Word” Commencement Address

A highlight of Stony Brook’s 2016 Commencement ceremony was student speaker Danielle Meyers, who entered Stony Brook via the Foster Care system and is now graduating with a BSW. She will enter the graduate program...

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Diversity Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Doctoral Student Working to Diversify STEM Fields

As part of her research, Nusnin Akter is developing chemicals to speed up the reduction of nitric oxide emissions from diesel engines. But she also teaches and volunteers in the community with the hope diversifying the...

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Awards and Honors Faculty/Student Spotlights Global News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Students Honored With Prestigious Fulbright Grants

Two Stony Brook University students earned prestigious Fulbright grants for 2016–17, and another student who received a grant for 2015–16 has been asked to renew her English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) in Turkey...

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Community Diversity Faculty/Student Spotlights Service Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

SBU Student Creates Volunteer Organization to Help His Homeland

Stony Brook graduate student Erwing Alouidor is responding to the devastating earthquake that hit his homeland Haiti in 2010 by starting A Helping Hand for Haiti. “My sister and I survived the earthquake, and we...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Two PhD Students to Compete in FameLab Competition

Two Stony Brook graduate students — Colin West and Steven Jaret — will compete in the FameLab USA 2016 National Finals at the Carnegie Institute for Science in Washington, DC, on May 13. FameLab is a contest that...

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Category - Student

PhD Student Awarded for Energy Materials Research

Stony Brook PhD Student in History Wins Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

Research Led by SBU’s Erik Muller is Finalist in R&D 100 Awards

Yelbi Balima ’18 Brings Light to Burkina Faso

Stony Brook Senior Headed to NASA for Space Launch

PhD Student Mani Kuntal Sen Receives Award

To Lydia Senatus ‘17, the Great Wall is No Barrier

Grad Student Wins Young Investigators Award for Medical Physics Research

Jasmine Garani ’18: Stony Brook’s Space Ninja

Dance as Therapy

For Rima Madan, the Rainforest Was a Classroom

Jessica Hundal ’16 is on Track to Become a Well-Rounded Physician

Danielle Meyers’ “Spoken Word” Commencement Address

Doctoral Student Working to Diversify STEM Fields

Students Honored With Prestigious Fulbright Grants

SBU Student Creates Volunteer Organization to Help His Homeland

Two PhD Students to Compete in FameLab Competition

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