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SBU Awarded as #1 Blood Center Donation Site

At Citi Field on April 30, Stony Brook University was presented with the Most Donations – New York State Colleges and Universities Award from the New York Mets College Championship program. Created to raise...

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Measles Outbreak – Why it Happened and What to Do

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as of April 26, 2019, there have been 704 cases of measles reported in the United States. This is the greatest number of cases since the disease was thought to have...

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Representatives of Senator Gillibrand and Congressman Zeldin met with MicroRid Technologies Inc. co-founders at the I&E showcase.

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Stony Brook Startup Featured at University and Innovation Entrepreneurship Showcase in Washington, DC

Stony Brook University (SBU) School of Medicine Professor Maurizio Del Poeta and SBU alumnus Brian McCarthy were selected to feature their startup company, MicroRid Technologies, Inc. at the University Innovation and...

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Il Memming Park Wins $200K Stony Brook Discovery Prize

Dr. Il Memming Park and three Stony Brook early career research colleagues took the stage and presented their high-risk, high-reward concepts to a panel of prestigious judges at the 2019 Discovery Prize competition in...

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Vaping Teens May Not Know How Much Nicotine They Consume

Teens may be unaware of how much nicotine they are consuming when they vape, according to a study led by Rachel Boykan, MD, of the Department of Pediatrics at the Renaissance School of Medicine. In an anonymous study...

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3MT Competition Puts Communication Skills to the Test for Doctoral Candidates

In a well-known Billy Joel song, a composer rues the fact that his life’s work has been shortened to three minutes, five seconds to accommodate the needs of the radio business. But even the Piano Man had more time to...

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Dr. Joel Saltz Formally Invested as Cherith Foundation Chair in Biomedical Informatics at Stony Brook University

Endowed chair forges connection between medicine and engineering The fight against cancer and other deadly diseases is constantly becoming more and more advanced. To make these advances possible, new tools based on...

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‘Electron Shuttle’ Protein Offers New Strategy for Tailoring Plant Products

Scientists studying plant cell walls—structural supports that help plants overcome the downward pull of gravity—have discovered mechanistic details of a protein involved in the assembly of lignin, a key cell-wall...

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Stony Brook Medicine Brings Mobile Stroke Units to Long Island

Speedy advanced care at the scene, critical for stroke victims during the first hour, is now available after the launch of Stony Brook Medicine’s Mobile Stroke Units, the first of their kind on Long Island. The...

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Stony Brook University Hospital Named One of America’s 100 Best

Stony Brook University Hospital has been named one of “America’s 100 Best Hospitals” for 2019 by Healthgrades, the first organization in the country to rate hospital quality based on actual clinical outcomes. “At Stony...

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Breast Cancer Survivor Supports Further Advances With Gift

Ronald and Rosanne Rogé Breast Cancer Innovation Fund will support pilot projects at Stony Brook Cancer Center From the start of her treatment at Stony Brook Cancer Center, Rosanne Rogé knew that her journey from breast...

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BNL Experiment Sheds Light on Proton Spin Puzzle

New data from the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory‘s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) add detail—and complexity—to an intriguing puzzle that scientists have been seeking to solve: how the...

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Evie Vlahakis, PT ’89: Where Is She Now?

Bio: I am currently seeing complex patients in their home, office and gym privately, as well as working with two PT clinics in a similar capacity for homecare therapy. I also launched a side career as a consultant for...

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Mind Brain Lecture: What is Consciousness?

Join us for the 23rd Annual Swartz Foundation Mind Brain Lecture Monday, April 1, 2019 4 pm Staller Center for the Arts, Main Stage Stony Brook University Scientists have long wondered what consciousness is and where it...

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PTSD in 9/11 Responders Linked to Dementia

There appears to be a link between chronic PTSD in 9/11 responders and dementia, according to a new pilot study led by researchers at Stony Brook University and the Stony Brook World Trade Center Health and Wellness...

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Mark N. Hochman, DDS ’84 Selected to Receive the 2019 Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award

Each year the School of Dental Medicine Alumni board receives nominations to recognize one of their outstanding alumni as the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award (DAA). This year, the board has selected Dr...

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Gabrielle Paniccia ’19 Dives Deep into Molecular Biology

“Something that I’ve enjoyed about the research I’ve done is that, over time, I’ve been able to see myself grow as a scientist,” says undergraduate researcher Gabrielle Paniccia ’19. “I’ve moved...

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Do Animals Think and Feel?

What, if anything, are your pets thinking? Do they value you beyond your reliability as a source of food? What cognitive traits do we share with the elephant, the wolf, primates and other so-called “higher...

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Category - Medicine and Research

SBU Awarded as #1 Blood Center Donation Site

Measles Outbreak – Why it Happened and What to Do

Stony Brook Startup Featured at University and Innovation Entrepreneurship Showcase in Washington, DC

Il Memming Park Wins $200K Stony Brook Discovery Prize

Vaping Teens May Not Know How Much Nicotine They Consume

3MT Competition Puts Communication Skills to the Test for Doctoral Candidates

Dr. Joel Saltz Formally Invested as Cherith Foundation Chair in Biomedical Informatics at Stony Brook University

‘Electron Shuttle’ Protein Offers New Strategy for Tailoring Plant Products

Stony Brook Medicine Brings Mobile Stroke Units to Long Island

Breast Cancer Survivor Supports Further Advances With Gift

BNL Experiment Sheds Light on Proton Spin Puzzle

Mind Brain Lecture: What is Consciousness?

Mark N. Hochman, DDS ’84 Selected to Receive the 2019 Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award

Gabrielle Paniccia ’19 Dives Deep into Molecular Biology

Do Animals Think and Feel?

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