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Stony Brook’s Student Affairs Wins Three National Awards

Stony Brook’s Division of Student Affairs was recognized with three silver awards from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) this January. Every year, NASPA highlights distinguished...

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SBU scores high in US News graduate school rankings

Stony Brook graduate schools and programs have again been rated impressively in the U.S. News and World Report annual graduate school rankings. In the 2020 edition of Best Graduate Schools, Stony Brook University was...

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Rising-Star CS Professor Wins VMware Early-Career Faculty Grant

On the heels of being named a rising star in computer networking, Computer Science Professor Aruna Balasubramanian has been awarded a highly selective VMware Early-Career Faculty Grant, which is given to recently...

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Rowan Ricardo Phillips Honored for Best Literary Sports Writing

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, a professor in the English Department of the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently awarded the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing for his book, The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. This...

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Lauren Richmond Named a 2019 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science

The Association for Psychological Science (APS) has named Dr. Lauren Richmond a 2019 Rising Star, a designation that is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. Dr...

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Roxanne Brockner and Dale Dreuckhammer at the USATF Award Ceremony

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Two SBU Track Stars Soar in USATF Masters Athletics

Roxanne Brockner, Assistant to the Director of Stony Brook’s Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, was awarded Female Masters Track of the year and Dale Drueckhammer, Professor of Chemistry, was...

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Professor Nikiforakis and his team of students collaborate in the PragSec lab in the New Computer Science Building.

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Computer Science Professor Nick Nikiforakis Receives Amazon Research Award

Nick Nikiforakis is helping to make the Internet more secure. An assistant professor from the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University, Nikiforakis has...

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History Professor Eric Zolov Earns Fulbright Scholarship

Eric Zolov, an associate professor in the Department of History at Stony Brook University, has been selected by the Fulbright Scholars Program to teach at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, next...

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Actor and SBU Visiting Professor Alan Alda Honored at SAG Awards

Acclaimed actor Alan Alda, a visiting professor in the Stony Brook University School of Journalism’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, was honored for a lifetime of acting at the 25th annual Screen Actors...

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Winning Hack to Transform the Lives of ALS Patients

Computer scientists — including computer science students — are pioneering ways to improve our daily lives through the use of software. What better way to have a lasting impact on individuals than giving them the power...

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Left to right: Carol Gomes, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Quality Officer, Stony Brook University Hospital; Jill Kavoukian, Director of Healthcare Safety & Sustainability, Stony Brook University Hospital; Ken Lynch, Executive Deputy Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

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SBUH Awarded for Commitment to Sustainability

Stony Brook University Hospital was among an elite group of organizations to receive the 2018 Environmental Excellence Award from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). These awards are...

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Grant Will Aid Lynch’s Penguin Colony Research

Ecologist Heather J. Lynch, an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, has been awarded a Microsoft/National Geographic AI for Earth Innovation Grant that will support her use of artificial...

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Kaushansky, Studier Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Two distinguished Stony Brook scholars have been elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, MACP, Senior Vice President of the Health Sciences and Dean of the Renaissance School...

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President Stanley (back row, center) with some of this year’s Distinguished Professors. Bottom row (from left to right): Kathlyn Parker, Lina Obeid and Ira Cohen; top row: Frederick Grine, Mikhail Lyubich, President Stanley, Peter Djuric, Arthur Samuel (not pictured: Fotis Sotiropoulos, Scott McLennan and J. Peter Gergen)

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SBU Faculty and Staff Recognized for Outstanding Achievements

On November 8, 2018, President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD and Provost Michael A. Bernstein hosted the Annual Awards Dinner to celebrate faculty achievements and the recipients of Chancellor’s Awards and Distinguished...

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Eight SBU Faculty Appointed to SUNY Distinguished Ranks

Reflecting the world-class faculty and top-tier education offered by Stony Brook University, the State University of New York Board of Trustees has selected eight Stony Brook faculty members for its highest honor — the...

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Six SBU Faculty Named 2018 AAAS Fellows

Robert B. Grubbs, K. Daniel O’Leary, Eliza Reilly, Steven Skiena, Esther Takeuchi and Dr. Vincent W. Wang have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a fellow...

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Presidential Lecture Series Honors Conservationist Emmanuel de Merode

Renowned conservationist and anthropologist Prince Emmanuel de Merode delivered the Presidential Lecture on November 28, introducing the film Virunga and receiving an honorary degree from the State University of New...

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Stony Brook Faculty Win Prestigious Veblen Prize in Geometry

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) awarded two Stony Brook University faculty and one former faculty member with the 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. Among this year’s recipients are Xiuxiong Chen, a professor...

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Category - Awards and Honors

Stony Brook’s Student Affairs Wins Three National Awards

Rising-Star CS Professor Wins VMware Early-Career Faculty Grant

Rowan Ricardo Phillips Honored for Best Literary Sports Writing

Two SBU Track Stars Soar in USATF Masters Athletics

Computer Science Professor Nick Nikiforakis Receives Amazon Research Award

History Professor Eric Zolov Earns Fulbright Scholarship

Actor and SBU Visiting Professor Alan Alda Honored at SAG Awards

Winning Hack to Transform the Lives of ALS Patients

SBUH Awarded for Commitment to Sustainability

Grant Will Aid Lynch’s Penguin Colony Research

Kaushansky, Studier Elected to National Academy of Inventors

SBU Faculty and Staff Recognized for Outstanding Achievements

Eight SBU Faculty Appointed to SUNY Distinguished Ranks

Six SBU Faculty Named 2018 AAAS Fellows

Presidential Lecture Series Honors Conservationist Emmanuel de Merode

Stony Brook Faculty Win Prestigious Veblen Prize in Geometry

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