Category - News Highlights

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Sharon Nachman, MD, Lists Top 10 Truths About Influenza

Flu season is already here, with more than 10,085 cases confirmed in New York State during the week ending January 4, 2020 alone, and a total of 32,848 cases for the season so far. According to Sharon Nachman, MD...

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Men’s Hoops Ranked in Mid-Majors Top 25 for the First Time

As the win streak keeps growing, so does the national spotlight. For the first time this season, the Stony Brook men’s basketball program cracked the CollegeInsider Mid-Major Top 25, currently sitting 23rd. The...

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Undergrad Researcher Marcia-Ruth Ndege ’21 Overcomes Challenges, Finds Fulfillment

“Research can be stressful, frustrating, demanding, and even overwhelming in the beginning,” cautions undergraduate researcher Marcia-Ruth Ndege ’21. “Even then, you should definitely stick around because, after the...

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Study Uses New Forecasting Tools to Show How Climate Change Affected Hurricane Florence

Change in extreme weather is one of the most serious ways that we experience the impact of climate change. A study led by Kevin Reed, Assistant Professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook...

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Computer Science PhD Grad Featured on NBC Nightly News

Recent Stony Brook Department of Computer Science PhD recipient Abbas Razaghpanah (‘15 MS, December ‘19 PhD) was interviewed as part of an NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt story (“Privacy and Power”) about online and...

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Daniel Zamora ’15 Gets Ready for Spring Training

Stony Brook alum Daniel Zamora’s eyes tilted upward when he was summoned from the visitors’ bullpen at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Aug. 17, 2018, for his major league debut in relief of New York...

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School of Dental Medicine Opens Center for Implant and Digital Technology

With the cutting of a ceremonial ribbon, Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine officially opened the doors to its Center for Implant and Digital Technology (CIDT). The Center will serve as state-of-the-art space for...

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Undergrad Researchers Study Ancient Crocodiles

Leveraging CT scans of fossilized crocodiles, Arthur Erb ’20 and Olivia Taubenfeld ’20 are probing the mysteries of ancient life under the mentorship of paleontologist Alan Turner, whose focus is...

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Irvin Huang performed research in Stony Brook’s zebrafish facility. The zebrafish is a model species that can offer clues to the developmental and behavioral effects of sublethal exposure to pharmaceuticals found in wastewater effluent. (photo by Irvin Huang).

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SBU Grad Student Selected for Competitive Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Irvin Huang, a PhD candidate in the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, has been chosen as a fellow in the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program, which matches highly qualified...

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Stony Brook’s Commitment to Madagascar Preserved through Endowed Chair

Award-winning conservationist Patricia Wright invested as inaugural Herrnstein Family Endowed Chair for Conservation Biology “I have a great picture of Robin Herrnstein helping me haul cement in a wheelbarrow,” said...

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Josh Cohen ’20 Experiences Alaska Through National Student Exchange

A lifetime Long Islander, Josh Cohen ’20 was seeking an experience totally out of his comfort zone. Through the National Student Exchange (NSE) program, Cohen spent a semester at the University of Alaska in...

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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.

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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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Women’s Soccer Wins America East Championship

For the second time in three seasons, the Stony Brook women’s soccer team are champions of America East. The Seawolves knocked off Hartford in the championship game November 10, with goals from juniors Erin...

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SMART Cluster, Reality Deck 2.0 Unveiled

Stony Brook University celebrated the opening of its astonishing new SMART Cluster, a dual use GPU Cluster for both machine learning and visualization, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on campus November 4. The high-tech...

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Van Nieuwenhuizen Accepts Breakthrough Prize in Star-Studded Ceremony

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, distinguished professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University, accepted a...

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Peter Davis ’20 Takes a Hands-On Approach to Civil Engineering

Peter Davis has been captivated by the sciences for as long as he can remember. “Where my childhood friends would watch action-packed cartoons, all I ever wanted to watch was the Science Channel,” Davis said...

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Aspiring Singer Follows Dream Through Stony Brook

The road to any dream can be long and winding, and the dreamer rarely knows how long the road will be. Analise Buker ’21, however, knows exactly how far away she is from her dream: 55 miles, the distance between Stony...

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Alumni and Friends Celebrate Homecoming 2019

This October, Stony Brook welcomed over 1,500 alumni and friends back to campus in celebration of Homecoming – a week of alumni and student events leading up to a thrilling Seawolves Football game. Alumni and Friends...

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Category - News Highlights

Sharon Nachman, MD, Lists Top 10 Truths About Influenza

Men’s Hoops Ranked in Mid-Majors Top 25 for the First Time

Undergrad Researcher Marcia-Ruth Ndege ’21 Overcomes Challenges, Finds Fulfillment

Study Uses New Forecasting Tools to Show How Climate Change Affected Hurricane Florence

Computer Science PhD Grad Featured on NBC Nightly News

Daniel Zamora ’15 Gets Ready for Spring Training

School of Dental Medicine Opens Center for Implant and Digital Technology

Undergrad Researchers Study Ancient Crocodiles

SBU Grad Student Selected for Competitive Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Stony Brook’s Commitment to Madagascar Preserved through Endowed Chair

Josh Cohen ’20 Experiences Alaska Through National Student Exchange

SBU Food Recovery Network Fights Hunger in Local Community

Women’s Soccer Wins America East Championship

SMART Cluster, Reality Deck 2.0 Unveiled

Van Nieuwenhuizen Accepts Breakthrough Prize in Star-Studded Ceremony

Peter Davis ’20 Takes a Hands-On Approach to Civil Engineering

Aspiring Singer Follows Dream Through Stony Brook

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