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Ruchi Shah named one of Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women

Stony Brook University student Ruchi Shah ’16 has been named one of Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women of 2016. Shah, the inventor of an all-natural mosquito repellent designed to combat disease in third...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Honors College Student David Davani ’16 Finds His Voice

Come for the clarinet; stay for the opera. Music major David Davani ’16 landed a full scholarship to Stony Brook based on his proficiency as a clarinetist. But the discovery of his powerful baritone voice now has him...

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Athletics Athletics Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters Student

Together We Transform: Stony Brook’s Scholar Athletes Excel

At Stony Brook, “scholar athlete” is more than just a collegiate catchphrase. With more than half of the nearly 250 Seawolves — excluding club and intramural sports — posting a GPA of 3.0 or higher last...

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Stony Brook Team Creates Design for International Hyperloop Competition

A team of students from Stony Brook University designed a model for a revolutionary new mode of transportation to compete against 120 teams from 20 countries in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition Design Weekend at...

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

Ruchi Shah Receives National Recognition for Cancer Research at Stony Brook

A presentation by Stony Brook senior Ruchi Shah received first place among all undergraduate and graduate students in the category Medicine and Public Health at the 2016 American Association for the Advancement of...

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Awards and Honors Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters Student

PhD Student Receives Award for High-Performance Computing Research Conducted at BNL

Stony Brook University PhD student Yufei Ren, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named the 2015 recipient of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Distinguished...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Featured Story On Campus Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

New Student-run SBU Frontiers Magazine Explores STEM Territory

Graduate students Matthew Borths, Yang Liu and Youran Wu began formulating SBU Frontiers Magazine in Fall 2014 after taking a class on communicating science at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science in Stony...

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

Suffolk County Legislature Honors Two SBU Students

Suffolk County Legislator Tom Muratore recognized Stony Brook University students Emma Tulip and Joseph Verderber for their efforts in raising awareness about mental health issues and suicide among veterans and active...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Charles Conti ’16 Makes History Part of His Future

When University Scholar Charles Conti ’16 received the Catherine Wang Award last spring at the Department of History convocation, he also was named “the student most likely to make history.” Indeed, in the Department of...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

SBU Grad Student Credits Alda Center for Success on “Jeopardy!”

Recognize this Jeopardy! contestant? It’s Colin West from Stony Brook University’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. Colin is a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He works as a teaching...

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

On and Off the Basketball Court, Jameel Warney ’16 Is a Leader

Because of his 6’8”, 260-pound frame, Jameel Warney ’16, like many big men, had to struggle to master the game of basketball. “I was terrible until I was 14 or 15,” said the Plainfield, NJ native. Arriving at Stony...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Pre-Med Biology Major Meaghan Coyne ’16 Is a Team Player

While much of Meaghan Coyne’s time at Stony Brook has been spent on the water, none of it has been spent treading water. Whether it was rowing with the crew team as a freshman, collecting samples from a coral reef in a...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Featured Story Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Alisa Rybkin ’16 Has Chemistry on the Dance Floor

Alisa Rybkin ’16 faced a dilemma: choose an education in science or the humanities. At Stony Brook, the Staten Island-raised University Scholar realized that she could inhabit both worlds as a biochemistry major and...

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

Two-Time Iraq Veteran Aspires to Career in Brain Injury Care

Former leatherneck Tony Wan doesn’t run from challenges; he runs toward them. Tony, a first-year medical student at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, failed chemistry three times in high school. But after...

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

PhD Student Wins Silver Medal at International Supercomputing Research Competition

Na Zhang, a Stony Brook University doctoral student, won the silver medal at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Research Competition (SRC) at the International Conference of Supercomputing 2015 held...

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Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters Student

Advancing Science Communications with Art, Stony Brook Playwriting Competition Changes the “T” in “S-T-E-M” to Theatre

November 12, 2015 — Stony Brook University’s Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, and Department of Theatre Arts announce their third annual Science Playwriting...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

For Maryam Ige ’16, Leadership Means Service

Engaging with communities all over the world comes naturally to Maryam Ige ’16. While she was attending a boarding school in Nigeria, Maryam learned the value of community service. During the six years she spent there...

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Athletics Athletics Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Cross Country Captain Christina Melian ’16 Goes the Distance

Running is far more than a sport to Christina Melian ’16 — it’s a way of life. The medical school aspirant and Stony Brook cross countryand track and field star has even left the possibility open for a...

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Category - Student

Ruchi Shah named one of Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women

Honors College Student David Davani ’16 Finds His Voice

Together We Transform: Stony Brook’s Scholar Athletes Excel

Stony Brook Team Creates Design for International Hyperloop Competition

Ruchi Shah Receives National Recognition for Cancer Research at Stony Brook

PhD Student Receives Award for High-Performance Computing Research Conducted at BNL

New Student-run SBU Frontiers Magazine Explores STEM Territory

Suffolk County Legislature Honors Two SBU Students

SBU Grad Student Credits Alda Center for Success on “Jeopardy!”

On and Off the Basketball Court, Jameel Warney ’16 Is a Leader

Pre-Med Biology Major Meaghan Coyne ’16 Is a Team Player

Alisa Rybkin ’16 Has Chemistry on the Dance Floor

Two-Time Iraq Veteran Aspires to Career in Brain Injury Care

PhD Student Wins Silver Medal at International Supercomputing Research Competition

Advancing Science Communications with Art, Stony Brook Playwriting Competition Changes the “T” in “S-T-E-M” to Theatre

For Maryam Ige ’16, Leadership Means Service

Cross Country Captain Christina Melian ’16 Goes the Distance

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