Category - Global

Diversity Faculty/Student Spotlights Global Service Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Student Fights for the Rights of the Undocumented

Imagine saying goodbye to the mother who raised you and not knowing when you might reunite, if ever. That was the pain of separation that Gabriela Quintanilla ’16 and her sisters felt when their mother left their native...

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Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Student Spotlights Global News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Stony Brook PhD Student in History Wins Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

Erica Mukherjee, a doctoral student in the Department of History, has been awarded a highly competitive Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) grant through the Department of Education. These grants...

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Global Main University Research Stony Brook Matters

Deforestation Isn’t Caused by Coca Cultivation, Research Shows

Most of the world’s coca—the plant source of cocaine—grows in the Amazon forests of the Andean countries of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, where many think this illicit crop causes deforestation. However, a team led by...

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Diversity Featured Story Global Main University President Stony Brook Matters

Stony Brook University is Front and Center at HeForShe 2nd Anniversary Celebration

Highlighting its commitment to achieving gender equality on campus and across the globe, Stony Brook University co-hosted the UN Women’s HeForShe second anniversary event, welcoming world leaders, activists, change...

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Diversity Global Main University President Stony Brook Matters

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Discusses Gender Equality

President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD welcomed Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, to deliver a timely and provocative Presidential Lecture on...

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Diversity Faculty/Student Spotlights Global News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Yelbi Balima ’18 Brings Light to Burkina Faso

A quick look at a satellite image of Africa at night reveals the continent’s pressing need for electrical power. Stony Brook University exchange student Yelbi Balima ’18 has big plans to change that situation, beginning...

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Diversity Faculty/Student Spotlights Global Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

To Lydia Senatus ‘17, the Great Wall is No Barrier

This summer, Lydia Senatus ‘17 took her passion for international studies, as well as her academic and professional development to another level. She has just returned from a month-long study abroad experience in Wuhan...

3 min read

Global Main University News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Drones Used to Improve Healthcare Delivery in Madagascar

A partnership between Stony Brook University’s Global Health Institute, the University’s Centre ValBio and Vayu, Inc. used self-guided drones to transport lab samples from rural villages to centralized labs August 5...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Global Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

For Rima Madan, the Rainforest Was a Classroom

When Rima Madan joined the Madagascar Study Abroad program the summer after her freshman year, she had yet to discover how that one experience would transform the rest of her undergraduate education. “It was amazing...

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Alumni Spotlight Diversity Global News Highlights Service Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

A Summer Internship Launched Haley Wodarczyk’s ’16 Journey to Social Commitment

Haley Wodarczyk ’16 always knew she wanted to help people, but she wasn’t sure how best to translate her inclinations into meaningful action.. Her mother had acted as her role model, volunteering for organizations...

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Awards and Honors Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Featured Story Global Research Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters

Meave Leakey Awarded Hubbard Medal, National Geographic Society’s Highest Honor

Millions of years from now, an aspiring anthropology student may brush the dust off a gleaming gold artifact we call the Hubbard Medal, and wonder to whom it belonged. But today, we know the most recently minted Hubbard...

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Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights Global Medicine Research Stony Brook Matters

Del Poeta Receives NIH Grants to Battle Global Fungal Infections

Empowered with NIH grants totaling more than $6 million, Maurizio Del Poeta, MD, a professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at Stony Brook University, expects to change the landscape of...

4 min read

Diversity Faculty/Student Spotlights Global Research Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

For Andrew Lee ’16, Research was a Bridge Between Cultures

“I can’t really imagine my four years at SB without research,” reflects Andrew Seunghyun Lee. “I spent most of my time doing research. And the only reason I did was because I really loved it. Around sophomore year, I...

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Events Global Main University Medicine Stony Brook Matters

Madagascar Officials Visit Stony Brook to Discuss Future Collaborations

Reflecting the global impact of Stony Brook’s research and public service initiatives, ministers of the government of Madagascar met with University officials May 16 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding extending the...

3 min read

Awards and Honors Faculty/Student Spotlights Global News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Students Honored With Prestigious Fulbright Grants

Two Stony Brook University students earned prestigious Fulbright grants for 2016–17, and another student who received a grant for 2015–16 has been asked to renew her English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) in Turkey...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Global News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Melina Seabrook ’17 Digs Deep in Iraq and Kenya

Some of us just dream about time travel. Through world-spanning archaeological research, Melina Seabrook ’17 is making it happen. The junior anthropology major from Monroe, Washington, has experienced hands-on research...

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Giving Back Global Main University Stony Brook Matters

Science and Health Care in Madagascar: An Integrated Approach

Herrnsteins Donate $3M to Establish Global Health Institute, Simons Match Raises Total Impact to $6M On one of Jim Herrnstein’s early visits to Centre ValBio, a frantic mother rushed into the Madagascar research station...

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Category - Global

Student Fights for the Rights of the Undocumented

Stony Brook PhD Student in History Wins Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

Deforestation Isn’t Caused by Coca Cultivation, Research Shows

Stony Brook University is Front and Center at HeForShe 2nd Anniversary Celebration

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Discusses Gender Equality

Yelbi Balima ’18 Brings Light to Burkina Faso

To Lydia Senatus ‘17, the Great Wall is No Barrier

Drones Used to Improve Healthcare Delivery in Madagascar

For Rima Madan, the Rainforest Was a Classroom

A Summer Internship Launched Haley Wodarczyk’s ’16 Journey to Social Commitment

Del Poeta Receives NIH Grants to Battle Global Fungal Infections

Madagascar Officials Visit Stony Brook to Discuss Future Collaborations

Students Honored With Prestigious Fulbright Grants

Melina Seabrook ’17 Digs Deep in Iraq and Kenya

Science and Health Care in Madagascar: An Integrated Approach

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