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Norm Prusslin Champions the Spirit of College Radio

Since he was a child in the late 1950s, Norm Prusslin has been tuned in to the joys and possibilities of radio. It was a passion that stayed with him when he entered Stony Brook University as an English major in 1969...

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The Best of Both Worlds: Stony Brook Film Festival Is Back, Live and Online

The 26th annual Stony Brook Film Festival presented by Island Federal makes its glorious and long-awaited return to the Staller Center for the Arts with live, in-person screenings from July 22-31, and will also hold an...

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Pollock-Krasner House’s “Tracing Paint” Wins a Telly Award

The virtual reality studio tour enables visitors to experience the studio as it was when Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner worked there, see their paintings and hear the artists talk.

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Stony Brook Film Festival Releases Schedule

The Stony Brook Film Festival presented by Island Federal has released its schedule of films for its live in-person festival and a virtual festival. The live festival will be July 22-31, and the virtual festival will be...

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Stony Brook Film Festival Returns In Person, with an Online Encore

Passes are now on sale, with several different options for patrons. Early Bird discounts are available, so purchase your pass before June 8 for a reduced rate.

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“Seeing Past the Future” Online Exhibition Opens June 10

“Seeing Past the Future,” an online exhibition of works by 2019-2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipients, will open on June 10. The project was conceived by Shimon Attie, the inaugural Charles C...

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Student’s Mural Celebrates Women Engineers

A striking mural in the Light Engineering building, "Luna the Future" by Sejal Mehra uses a stylized boxer to suggest the power of women scholars and the challenges they face in the field.

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Alan Alda Film Festival, May 20-23

Proceeds from the festival will support the Alda Center for Communicating Science, which offers programs for researchers to help them learn to effectively share their work and engage with others.

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Nikola Calle, Hydra, 2021, URECA Art Exhibition

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Senior Show and URECA Art Exhibition at Zuccaire Gallery

Exhibitions are on display through May 19 in-gallery and online, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, prints, photographs, video and digital media by SBU’s talented studio art students.

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Stephanie Dinkins Named Inaugural Yayoi Kusama Endowed Professor of Art

Professor Stephanie Dinkins, from Stony Brook University’s Department of Art, has been named the inaugural Yayoi Kusama Endowed Professor of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences. A transmedia artist who creates...

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Stony Brook MFA Students Sweep Television Writing Fellowships

MFA in Television Writing first-year student Mallory Baysek won in the Drama category and second-year student Galen Foote won for Comedy.

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MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021 at Zuccaire Gallery

"Four: MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021" presents new work by Stony Brook's graduating Master of Fine Arts students Stuart Balius, Marta Baumiller, Yifei Cheng and Annemarie Waugh.

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Ensemble Decipher after performing at the NowNet Arts Conference on November 4, 2020.

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Stony Brook Students Awarded USArtists International Grant

The experimental music group Ensemble Decipher has been awarded the grant by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation to perform at the New Music for Strings Festival in Denmark in August 2021.

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Roger Rosenblatt, Book Revue Launch New Literary Series, Write America

Novelist Roger Rosenblatt, a Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor of English and Writing, has launched a new weekly literary series, Write America, which features renowned and emerging writers in weekly...

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Music Alum and PhD Student Featured in Washington Post

Stony Brook alum Flannery Cunningham ’18 and PhD student Niloufar Nourbakhsh are highlighted in a Washington Post article, “21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow.” Both studied with...

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Staller Center’s Spring 2021 Film Series Goes Virtual Feb. 11

This year's Series features 13 independent films you won't see anywhere else and presents award-winning and record-breaking films from around the world.

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Spirit of Stony Brook Students Perform at College Football Championship

College marching ensembles from across the nation will collaborate in a virtual performance, showcasing their talents and commitment to the performing arts. Three members of the Spirit of Stony Brook will be performing...

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Meave Leakey’s Memoir Explores Her Own Past and Mankind’s

The memoir tells the exciting tale of Meave Leakey's quest for our human origins and the challenges she has faced as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field.

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Category - Arts & Entertainment

Norm Prusslin Champions the Spirit of College Radio

The Best of Both Worlds: Stony Brook Film Festival Is Back, Live and Online

Pollock-Krasner House’s “Tracing Paint” Wins a Telly Award

Stony Brook Film Festival Releases Schedule

Stony Brook Film Festival Returns In Person, with an Online Encore

“Seeing Past the Future” Online Exhibition Opens June 10

Alan Alda Film Festival, May 20-23

Stephanie Dinkins Named Inaugural Yayoi Kusama Endowed Professor of Art

MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021 at Zuccaire Gallery

Roger Rosenblatt, Book Revue Launch New Literary Series, Write America

Music Alum and PhD Student Featured in Washington Post

Staller Center’s Spring 2021 Film Series Goes Virtual Feb. 11

Spirit of Stony Brook Students Perform at College Football Championship

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