Category - News Highlights

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University to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Virtual and On-Campus Events

This year's virtual programming includes guest speakers, movie night, games and activities, music, art and cooking demonstrations.

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Nobuho Nagasawa, Transformation and Resilience (detail), 2020, 506 Broadway, NYC. Photo: Teri Henry.

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Reckoning: Faculty Exhibition 2020 Opens Online Oct. 1

Reckoning presents artwork created in 2020 that expresses a range of experiences we are living through and the underlying conditions that have brought us to this crossroads.

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Show Your Pride on #SBUGivingDay, Oct. 8

Give what you can to the areas that matter most to you — your school or college, your team or sport, your favorite professor or the students following in your footsteps.

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Sara Hamideh Advocates for Equity in Disaster Recovery

Recovering from a natural disaster isn’t easy for anyone, but some communities are more heavily burdened than others. Finding more equitable approaches to recovery is a central concern in the work of Sara Hamideh...

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Kevin Tsai ‘19 carries donations of PPE.

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Medicine Alums Present Emmy Award on National Telecast

Chosen for their involvement in the organization DonatePPE.org, siblings Karen Tsai and Kevin Tsai presented the Best Supporting Actor award at the 72nd annual Emmys on September 20.

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Eszter Boros Named 2020 Moore Inventor Fellow

Her research combines fundamental inorganic chemistry and metal radiochemistry with modern imaging methods to provide personalized medical treatments of cancer and microbial infections.

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Almstadtstrasse 43: Slide projection of former Hebrew bookstore, 1930, Berlin,1992, 33"X40" chromogenic photograph and on-location installation, Shimon Attie, courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

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Shimon Attie Named Inaugural Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor in Studio Art

The internationally renowned visual artist, whose work focuses on issues of identity and community, also has extensive experience teaching at a University level.

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SBU Again Ranked in Top 100 by U.S. News

Improving to No. 88 nationwide, SBU ranks as No. 34 among public universities — a jump of five places — according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Best Colleges.

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SB Libraries to Document University’s Experience with COVID-19

The SBU community is invited to contribute to the new digital archive project that will preserve the history of the University during this unprecedented moment in history.

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Two Stony Brook Hospitals Are National Leaders in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality

Stony Brook University Hospital and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital have been named leaders by the National LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Index of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

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Stony Brook Recognized for Commitment to Quality Heart Failure Care

For the second consecutive year, SBU Hospital has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.

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Stony Brook Ranks High in Times Higher Education World Survey

In the prestigious 2021 rankings, SBU ranked No. 301-350 globally, No. 82 in the US overall and No. 48 among US publics.

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BNL Summer Students Tackle COVID-19

For Sonali George '21, the coronavirus pandemic presented a chance to engage in research related to the virus that forced her internship online.

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Abbigayle Cuomo ’21 Embraces Undergraduate Research

The SBU senior works in the lab of Dr. Carlos Simmerling, using molecular dynamics to investigate protein structure and folding.

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Career Center Holds Diversity Town Hall with Employer Partners

Employers across the country shared best practices around diversity and inclusion issues in university recruitment during the heightened state of racial injustice.

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Research Leads to New Material for Energy-Efficient Devices

A team of international physicists including SBU's Jennifer Cano has created a superlattice, which at a high temperature is a super-efficient insulator conducting current.

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With face masks and other personal protective equipment ending up on sidewalks and other outdoor spaces, a seasonal campaign goes beyond encouraging citizens to break the single-use plastic habit by using reusable bags and bottles at the beach and local park. #DontTrashLISound reminds folks to discard #PPElitter in a secure trash can. Credit: Judy Benson / Connecticut Sea Grant

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#DontTrashLISound: Summer 2020 Social Media Campaign Focuses on PPEs

This year’s campaign centers on discarded face masks, disposable gloves and other PPE that are ending up on sidewalks, parks and other outdoor spaces instead of in the trash.

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Sixteen violinists participating in the networking experiment in which they are connected to a computer system hearing only the sound received from the computer. Photo by Chen Damari

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Using Violin Synchronization to Learn About Better Networking

By using a model of violin synchronization in a network of violin players, there are ways to drown out distractions, which could be used as a model for human networks in society.

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Category - News Highlights

Reckoning: Faculty Exhibition 2020 Opens Online Oct. 1

Show Your Pride on #SBUGivingDay, Oct. 8

Sara Hamideh Advocates for Equity in Disaster Recovery

Medicine Alums Present Emmy Award on National Telecast

SB Libraries to Document University’s Experience with COVID-19

Stony Brook Ranks High in Times Higher Education World Survey

BNL Summer Students Tackle COVID-19

Career Center Holds Diversity Town Hall with Employer Partners

Using Violin Synchronization to Learn About Better Networking

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