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New Anti-Cancer Therapies Could Result from MicroRNA Technology

New anti-cancer therapies could result from a technology that manipulates microRNAs (miRNAs) developed by Jingfang Ju, a biochemist and Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Renaissance School of Medicine at...

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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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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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Study Links 9/11 Responders to Cognitive Impairment

A new study of 9/11 World Trade Center responders led by Stony Brook University reveals that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is strongly associated with onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The study...

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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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Psychology Professor Awarded for Upcoming Teenage Autism Study

Autism expert Matthew Lerner, an associate professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics at Stony Brook University, has received the 2019 Richard “Dick” Abidin Early Career Award and Grant from the Society of...

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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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Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Shares $3M Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for “Invention of Supergravity”

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, is one of three...

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Matthew Murphy ’20 Unlocks Puzzles in Astronomy

For URECA Summer Researcher Matthew Murphy, doing research “feels like solving puzzles.” “I’ve always loved doing that,” he said. “I’ve loved looking at things unconventionally. Every day when I sit at my...

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Building a Network for Long-Distance Quantum Communication

From the rooftop of the decommissioned Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor (BGRR) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Health Sciences Tower at Stony Brook University —...

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Transforming Advanced Nanoscience Data into Interactive Art

Stony Brook’s Margaret Schedel, in collaboration with Brookhaven Lab Center for Functional Nanomaterials scientist Kevin Yager and Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Melissa Clarke, has generated novel...

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Professors Chen and Essig Named SBU’s First Simons Investigators

Xiuxiong Chen, Professor of Mathematics, and Rouven Essig, Associate Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University, have been named 2019 Simons Investigators, becoming the first faculty members at the University to...

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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.

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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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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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Two Faculty Honored with Prestigious PECASE Awards

Joanna Kiryluk, PhD and Sandeep Mallipattu, MD have been named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) — the highest honor bestowed by the US government to outstanding...

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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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NASA Selects SBU Team to Collaborate on Space Research

Stony Brook University’s RISE2 team is one of eight research teams chosen by NASA to collaborate on research into the intersection of space science and human space exploration as part of the Solar System Exploration...

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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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Category - Research

New Anti-Cancer Therapies Could Result from MicroRNA Technology

Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases Found on Long Island

Scientists Detect Black Hole Ringing “Like a Bell”

Study Links 9/11 Responders to Cognitive Impairment

Can Machine Learning Awaken Coma Patients?

Psychology Professor Awarded for Upcoming Teenage Autism Study

Christopher Hayes ’19 Researches Solar Energy at Brookhaven National Lab

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Shares $3M Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for “Invention of Supergravity”

Matthew Murphy ’20 Unlocks Puzzles in Astronomy

Building a Network for Long-Distance Quantum Communication

Transforming Advanced Nanoscience Data into Interactive Art

Professors Chen and Essig Named SBU’s First Simons Investigators

Scientists Awarded $3.2 Million to Improve Delivery Room Decisions

Learning to Ask for Help Launched Elle Butler Basner ’19

Two Faculty Honored with Prestigious PECASE Awards

Fossil Discoveries Illuminate Ancient Saharan Seaway

NASA Selects SBU Team to Collaborate on Space Research

Nanowire Research Could Advance Harvesting of Solar Energy

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