Category - Sustainability

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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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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.

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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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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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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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Donovan Finn Receives Early Career Faculty Innovator Award

Donovan Finn, an assistant professor of Environmental Design, Policy and Planning in the Sustainability Studies Program at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, is one of nine early...

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Graduating Seawolf Sean Deery Has Advice for New Students: Get Involved

College campuses can seem large and intimidating to some new arrivals, but “there’s a lot of opportunity if you go make it yourself.” That’s the advice Sean Deery ‘19 wants to share with new students, and he speaks from...

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Chris Crosby ‘19 Aims to Leave the Planet Healthier Than He Found It

Maybe it was going hunting and fishing with his grandmother. Or being glued to the Discovery Channel as a kid. Either way, Chris Crosby’s love of nature was too strong to ignore, and led him to enroll at Stony Brook...

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Supercomputer Cloud Modeling Could Help to Predict Climate Change

One of Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) core faculty members from SoMAS (The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) — Marat Khairoutdinov — has created a global cloud...

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Stony Brook Southampton Volunteers Clean Up Warner Island

The annual Stony Brook Southampton Beach Clean-Up on Warner Island took place on Saturday, May 4, and despite some sketchy weather, the event was a success. Volunteers collected several bags of trash, consisting mostly...

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NSF-Funded Research Probes Intersection of Tectonics and Biology

How does landscape history affect the diversity of mammals over time? Why are there more species in the Andes than there are in the Amazon? Over the next three years, a team of geophysicists, geochemists and biologists...

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Celebrate Earth Day 2019 at Stony Brook

Earthstock, Stony Brook University’s annual celebration of Earth Day, features a week of educational and social events that culminate in the Earthstock Festival on the Academic Mall on Friday, April 19, from 11 am to 3...

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Alumni Hottest Stories Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

‘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’s Sustainable Impact Rated High in Times Higher Education Ranking

Stony Brook University comes in at No. 78 in the world in the new 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking, a global university ranking that aims to measure an institution’s impact on society based on its...

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Researchers to Test Energy-Efficient Batteries

A new type of energy-efficient storage battery will be tested by Unique Technical Services under the supervision of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC), a New York State Center of Excellence at...

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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 - Sustainability

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

Donovan Finn Receives Early Career Faculty Innovator Award

Graduating Seawolf Sean Deery Has Advice for New Students: Get Involved

Chris Crosby ‘19 Aims to Leave the Planet Healthier Than He Found It

Supercomputer Cloud Modeling Could Help to Predict Climate Change

Stony Brook Southampton Volunteers Clean Up Warner Island

NSF-Funded Research Probes Intersection of Tectonics and Biology

Celebrate Earth Day 2019 at Stony Brook

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

Researchers to Test Energy-Efficient Batteries

Do Animals Think and Feel?

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