Category - News Highlights

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Diversity and Academic Excellence are Hallmarks of Incoming Class

Stony Brook University’s class of 2023 is one of its largest and most diverse classes to date, with a total of 3,372 students enrolled, according to Stefan Hyman, interim associate provost for Enrollment and Retention...

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Alumni Spotlight Story Home Page Spotlight Long Island Medicine Medicine and Research News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases Found on Long Island

Multiple agents capable of causing human disease are present in three species of ticks in Long Island, according to a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. Jorge Benach and Rafal...

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Alumni Hottest Stories News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Scientists Detect Black Hole Ringing “Like a Bell”

A team of scientists including Will Farr, an astrophysicist at Stony Brook University, has found a way for the first time to detect multiple tones of a black hole ringing like a bell — something that most...

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Alumni News Alumni Spotlight Awards and Honors News Highlights Recent Grads Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Perseverance Pays Off for International Engineering Alum

Haitian-born Jean Clifford Brutus was thrilled to discover that he was the cover story of Minority Engineer’s spring 2019 issue, but it might not have ever happened had he let a rejection letter from Stony Brook...

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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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Academics Alumni Spotlight Story Diversity Medicine Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Medicine Today News Highlights On Campus School of Medicine Stony Brook Matters

White Coat Ceremony Welcomes New Medical Students

White lab coats – traditional attire for healthcare professionals – were donned proudly by the incoming class of 136 medical students at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University as they officially became...

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Academics Alumni News Alumni Spotlight Story College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Global News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

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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Alumni Hottest Stories Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Medicine Today News Highlights Nursing Alumni News Research Stony Brook Matters

Can Machine Learning Awaken Coma Patients?

I. Memming Park, Stony Brook’s 2019 Discovery Prize winner, built his first artificial neural network when he was in middle school. That long-held interest in how the brain works influenced his award-winning research...

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Alumni Spotlight News Highlights Recent Grads Research STEM Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Christopher Hayes ’19 Researches Solar Energy at Brookhaven National Lab

Chemistry was the subject in school that Christopher Hayes enjoyed the most. However, the Long Island native entered Stony Brook University unsure of his course of study. This past spring, he graduated with degrees in...

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Alumni Hottest Stories News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Zaynab Ubaid ’19 Blazes a Trail in Communications

Growing up in a sheltered, religiously conservative household, Stony Brook psychology major and University Scholar Zaynab Ubaid ’19 was determined to make her mark at Stony Brook. “When I enrolled, there were so many...

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Stony Brook University: Computer Engineering IV Ramakishnan, Associate Dean of Research (CEAS) and Professor of Computer Science and Petar Djuric, Chair, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering received a $3M NIH grant.

Alumni Spotlight Story Awards and Honors Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Medicine Today News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Scientists Awarded $3.2 Million to Improve Delivery Room Decisions

Stony Brook scientists have received major NIH funding to investigate a pioneering approach to fetal monitoring that could improve outcomes in the delivery room. A multi-disciplinary team led by the College of...

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Chris Tanaka has been elected to the board for the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals.

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Chris Tanaka Elected to Board of National LGBTQ* Higher Education Organization

Chris Tanaka ’07, ’10, Assistant Director of LGBTQ* Services, has been elected to the board for the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals, a national organization that aims to advance LGBTQ*...

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Alumni Hottest Stories Long Island News Highlights On Campus Stony Brook Matters

WUSB Provides Non-Commercial Radio to Long Island for 42 Years

This summer WUSB 90.1 FM Stony Brook has marked 42 years of Long Island non-commercial college radio broadcast service — providing a community forum for innovative and commercial-free radio with public service...

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Alumni Hottest Stories Faculty/Student Spotlights News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Learning to Ask for Help Launched Elle Butler Basner ’19

Sometimes it takes a little adversity to teach you how to win. This is what biochemistry and applied mathematics and statistics major Elle Butler Basner ’19 learned when she received a disappointing grade in an...

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Alumni Hottest Stories Community Faculty/Student Spotlights News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Mechanical Engineering Students Make an Impact with ‘Go Baby Go’ Project

By Patrick O’Donnell ’19 The Stony Brook University Student Chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) strives to help students develop professionally and to familiarize students with the...

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Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Fossil Discoveries Illuminate Ancient Saharan Seaway

The ancient Trans-Saharan Seaway of Africa, which existed 50 to 100 million years ago in the region of the current Sahara Desert, is described in a new paper to be published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of...

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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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Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital

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Eastern Long Island Hospital Joins Stony Brook Medicine Healthcare System

Eastern Long Island Hospital (ELIH) officially joins the Stony Brook Medicine healthcare system as of July 1, combining the best in academic and community medicine to improve access to advanced medical care for...

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Category - News Highlights

Diversity and Academic Excellence are Hallmarks of Incoming Class

Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases Found on Long Island

Scientists Detect Black Hole Ringing “Like a Bell”

Perseverance Pays Off for International Engineering Alum

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

White Coat Ceremony Welcomes New Medical Students

Alum Acacia Leakey Develops Sustainable Off-Grid Technologies

Can Machine Learning Awaken Coma Patients?

Christopher Hayes ’19 Researches Solar Energy at Brookhaven National Lab

Zaynab Ubaid ’19 Blazes a Trail in Communications

Scientists Awarded $3.2 Million to Improve Delivery Room Decisions

Chris Tanaka Elected to Board of National LGBTQ* Higher Education Organization

WUSB Provides Non-Commercial Radio to Long Island for 42 Years

Learning to Ask for Help Launched Elle Butler Basner ’19

Mechanical Engineering Students Make an Impact with ‘Go Baby Go’ Project

Fossil Discoveries Illuminate Ancient Saharan Seaway

Nanowire Research Could Advance Harvesting of Solar Energy

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