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Davis at the English Department's Spring 2020 Text & Tea event.

Alumni Hottest Stories Community Faculty/Student Spotlights Long Island Recent Grads Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight Sustainability

Grad Student Promotes Water Advocacy Through Experiential Course

Sarah Fisher Davis, a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Stony Brook University, is looking to train Long Island college and high school students to become local water activists and citizen science...

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Alumni Hottest Stories College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights STEM Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Stony Brook to Develop Advanced Computational Tools to Design Offshore Wind Farms

The project will optimize offshore wind farm layouts by leveraging high-fidelity simulations on parallel supercomputers, advanced turbine controls and artificial intelligence tools.

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Alumni Hottest Stories Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Humanities Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Michael Rubenstein Illuminates a New Field of Research: Energy Humanities

Energy humanities is a subdiscipline of the environmental humanities, with a tighter focus on the story of energy in human civilization. It arose in the early 2010s in response to renewed public awareness about energy...

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Alumni Hottest Stories Medicine and Research News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

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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Master’s Program Prepares Grad for Influencer Role

Helping to clear our shores of unsightly and dangerous plastics is both a mission and a great job for Rachael Coccia ’17, who earned a master’s degree in the Marine Conservation and Policy (MCP) program at the School of...

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Melissa Scheiber ’15 Connects People with the Natural World

The environmental humanities major, who works for the Wildlife Habitat Council, says this field of study bridged her love of wildlife and helped her communicate that passion to a larger audience.

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2020 Earthstock Festival: A Virtual Celebration of the Earth

Stony Brook University’s Earthstock celebration, a much anticipated campus tradition since 2002, is taking place in a much different format this year. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, it is entirely virtual. Stony...

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Interim President Bernstein Pens Op-Ed Explaining Impact of Higher Ed on Communities

In an op-ed published December 23 in University Business, Interim President Michael A. Bernstein explains how higher ed institutions can align the work of faculty and students with the needs, goals and interests of...

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Alumni Hottest Stories Newsletter-Spotlight Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight Sustainability

Leveraging Social Science to Fight Climate Change

While some diehards may still question the scientific validity of global warming and climate change, graduate student Talbot Andrews ’20 has seen it from a closer perch than most. Growing up in Portland, she spent her...

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The Stony Brook Food Recovery Network students (left to right): Linda Lin, Sophia Zhukovsky, Ania Parcel, Inna Trygubchuk and Anton Kobrin.

Alumni Hottest Stories Community News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight Sustainability

SBU Food Recovery Network Fights Hunger in Local Community

The Faculty Student Association (FSA) and CulinArt have recently partnered with the Food Recovery Network, a national nonprofit that helps fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise...

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Alumni Spotlight Story Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Pioneering Study Maps Ocean Areas in Need of Preservation

A first-of-its-kind global marine mapping study provides a roadmap on where to place Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in accordance with United Nations goals for environmental preservation. The study, conducted by a...

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Academics Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights News Highlights Research SoMAS Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Paul Shepson Awarded for Research on Greenhouse Gas Emission Rates

Paul Shepson, Dean of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, has received a $1.1 million award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for his project, “Observations, Analysis, and...

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Stony Brook Celebrates as Ashley Schiff Preserve Turns 50

Some students know it as a scenic shortcut from the Main Campus to South Campus and back. Others use it as a “living laboratory” to study its geographical features and learn about its rich plant and animal life. For the...

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Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Game Theory Predicts Serious Obstacles to Climate Agreement

Game theory analysis shows that much of the burden for renewing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change would fall on large developing countries, such as China and India, which would need to take action to reduce their...

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Sydney Bell holding a baby loggerhead sea turtle after a permitted nest evacuation. This was done under the supervision of professionals and should not be attempted by members of the public.

Academics Alumni Spotlight Story Awards and Honors Community Entrepreneurship Faculty/Student Spotlights Long Island News Highlights SoMAS Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight Sustainability

Sydney Bell ‘22 Receives Long Island Business News “30 Under 30” Award

Sophomore Sydney Bell has been selected as an honoree of the Long Island Business News (LIBN) “30 Under 30” Award. The award honors bright and dynamic young professionals under the age of 30 who contribute to the Long...

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Alum Acacia Leakey Develops Sustainable Off-Grid Technologies

Acacia Leakey is no stranger to sustainable engineering — in fact, she grew up with it. A 2018 graduate of Stony Brook University’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS), she received her BE and MS degrees...

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Academics Alumni Hottest Stories College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Medicine and Research News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Nanowire Research Could Advance Harvesting of Solar Energy

New research on nanowires that could facilitate the harvesting of solar energy has been published by a team of scientists from Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Naval Research Laboratory...

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Alumni Spotlight Recent Grads Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight Sustainability

Engineering Student James Haggerty ’19 Builds Carbon-Neutral Motorbike

James Haggerty ’19 is saving the planet one vehicle at a time. The engineering major, who credits a building manager for helping him decide to enroll at Stony Brook University, is part of a design team that converted a...

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Category - Sustainability

Grad Student Promotes Water Advocacy Through Experiential Course

Stony Brook to Develop Advanced Computational Tools to Design Offshore Wind Farms

Michael Rubenstein Illuminates a New Field of Research: Energy Humanities

Scientists Predict More Rain, Fewer Landfalling Hurricanes

Master’s Program Prepares Grad for Influencer Role

2020 Earthstock Festival: A Virtual Celebration of the Earth

SBU Food Recovery Network Fights Hunger in Local Community

Pioneering Study Maps Ocean Areas in Need of Preservation

Paul Shepson Awarded for Research on Greenhouse Gas Emission Rates

Stony Brook Celebrates as Ashley Schiff Preserve Turns 50

Game Theory Predicts Serious Obstacles to Climate Agreement

Sydney Bell ‘22 Receives Long Island Business News “30 Under 30” Award

Alum Acacia Leakey Develops Sustainable Off-Grid Technologies

Nanowire Research Could Advance Harvesting of Solar Energy

Engineering Student James Haggerty ’19 Builds Carbon-Neutral Motorbike

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