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Stony Brook Recognized for Commitment to Quality Heart Failure Care

For the second consecutive year, SBU Hospital has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.

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Various bones at a Bronze Age battle excavation site, some of which were genetically tested to determine the presence of the lactase-persistent gene. Credit: Stefan Sauer / Tollense Valley Project

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Lactose Tolerance Happened Quickly in Europe, Study Shows

Genetic material from the bones of people who died around 1,200 BC suggests that lactase persistence spread in only a few thousand years.

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BNL Summer Students Tackle COVID-19

For Sonali George '21, the coronavirus pandemic presented a chance to engage in research related to the virus that forced her internship online.

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Abbigayle Cuomo ’21 Embraces Undergraduate Research

The SBU senior works in the lab of Dr. Carlos Simmerling, using molecular dynamics to investigate protein structure and folding.

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Brain Imaging May Help Predict Obesity and Self-Control Issues

A study led by SBU's Anat Biegon is the first to show a direct correlation between aromatase (an enzyme) availability in the amygdala and body mass index.

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NIH Grant to Fund Brain Imaging Study of Opioid Addiction

With a nearly $3 million grant from the NIDA, Assistant Professor Scott J. Moeller, PhD, of the Renaissance School of Medicine is studying the brains of those with opioid use disorder.

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Research Leads to New Material for Energy-Efficient Devices

A team of international physicists including SBU's Jennifer Cano has created a superlattice, which at a high temperature is a super-efficient insulator conducting current.

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Understanding Earth’s Climate through Ice Formation

Ice crystal formation plays a crucial role in precipitation formation and alters the radiative properties of clouds, thereby affecting Earth’s climate system.

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Artist's illustration of SN1987A (Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton)

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Possible Sign of Neutron Star Found in Supernova 1987A

Two teams of astronomers, including Stony Brook’s James M. Lattimer, have made a compelling case in the 33-year-old mystery surrounding Supernova 1987A.

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Professor Joel Hurowitz Celebrates Third Mars Rover Milestone

As an SBU grad student, Hurowitz was part of the Mars Exploration Rover mission in 2004. Now he is involved in the latest rover mission, Perseverance.

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LSAMP interns Stephanie Fernandez and Kamal James

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CEAS Embraces Diversity, Provides Opportunities

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is finding innovative ways to support our richly diverse community while preparing students for STEM careers.

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pale spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus discolor)

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Genetic Analysis Unlocks Secrets of Bat “Superpowers”

Liliana M. Dávalos, evolutionary biologist and co-author, worked as part of the global consortium of scientists, Bat1K, to sequence the genome of six widely divergent living bat species.

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Machine Learning Can Identify Areas Most at Risk from Pandemic

Areas most at risk from the COVID-19 pandemic can be identified by a new machine learning tool developed by researchers at startup company Akai Kaeru LLC, which is affiliated with Stony Brook University’s Department of...

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Historian Paul Kelton Tells a Tale of Two Pandemics

Paul Kelton was working on a book about the cholera pandemic of the 1830s when coronavirus emerged. “It’s been a surreal experience writing about a pandemic while one is going on,” said Kelton, professor...

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University Funds 17 COVID-Related Research Projects

Investigators begin critical research to address urgent healthcare challenges, including prognostic and therapeutic studies, as well as the far-reaching social impacts of the pandemic.

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Scientists Predict More Rain, Fewer Landfalling Hurricanes

The study by a team of researchers at SoMAS uses global climate modeling to suggest that while rain intensity is likely to increase, the number of storms that make landfall will decrease.

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Bat Study Could Provide Clues to Coronavirus

The research, funded by the NSF, will look at how viruses affect cells upon entry into the bat host’s nasal passages to explain why symptomatic disease does not occur.

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Stony Brook Researchers Explore Moiré Patterns Beyond 2D Materials

Beyond producing interesting and beautiful geometric patterns, materials scientists have explored this geometrical oddity and discovered new physics in the nanoscopic world.

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Category - Medicine and Research

Lactose Tolerance Happened Quickly in Europe, Study Shows

BNL Summer Students Tackle COVID-19

Understanding Earth’s Climate through Ice Formation

Possible Sign of Neutron Star Found in Supernova 1987A

Genetic Analysis Unlocks Secrets of Bat “Superpowers”

Machine Learning Can Identify Areas Most at Risk from Pandemic

Historian Paul Kelton Tells a Tale of Two Pandemics

University Funds 17 COVID-Related Research Projects

Scientists Predict More Rain, Fewer Landfalling Hurricanes

Bat Study Could Provide Clues to Coronavirus

Stony Brook Researchers Explore Moiré Patterns Beyond 2D Materials

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