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Students Mentored at Stony Brook Win $30,000 Scholarship in 2015 Siemens Competition

Three high school students mentored at Stony Brook University were awarded a $30,000 scholarship today for their research presented at the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, one of the nation’s...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

For Maryam Ige ’16, Leadership Means Service

Engaging with communities all over the world comes naturally to Maryam Ige ’16. While she was attending a boarding school in Nigeria, Maryam learned the value of community service. During the six years she spent there...

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Faculty/Staff Main University Research Stony Brook Matters

Learning How to Survive the Ice Age, Hands-On

John J. Shea is a paleoanthropologist — he studies human origins through archaeology, tapping into our mysterious, prehistoric past. No stranger to fieldwork, Shea’s traversed the Horn of Africa and the Middle East to...

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Stony Brook Research Team Shares in 2016 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics

A team led by Stony Brook’s Chang Kee Jung participated in the neutrino oscillation experiments honored this week with the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The prize, worth $3 million, will be awarded to...

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Main University President Research Stony Brook Matters

Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, Calls on Scientific Community to Develop Ways to Embrace and Encourage Younger Scientists

In an October 13 op-ed appearing in Scientific American, Stony Brook University president Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, calls on the scientific community to develop ways to embrace and encourage younger scientists...

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Chimps Shed Light on Origins of Human Walking

Stony Brook-led research using chimpanzees demonstrates how upper body motion contributed to walking proficiency in our early human ancestors. A research team led by Nathan Thompson, a PhD student in the Department of...

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Awards and Honors Main University Research Stony Brook Matters

Nobel Prize in Physics Has Stony Brook Connection

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has a Stony Brook connection. The Prize, awarded on October 6 to Takaaki Kajita (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, University of Tokyo) and Art McDonald (SNO collaboration, Queen’s...

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Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Lukas Vasadi ’16 Flying High Following NASA Internship

It’s fitting that Lukas Vasadi ’16 was one of six students honored at the Stars of Stony Brook Gala in New York City last May. Lukas has had his head in the stars since he was old enough to remember. “I was a self...

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Faculty/Staff Featured Story Main University Research Stony Brook Matters

SBU Research Will Help Astronauts on Future Deep-Space Missions

As NASA plans for long-duration space exploration by the 2020s, faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Stony Brook University will investigate questions about astronaut health and performance on these missions to...

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Advancement Giving Back Research Stony Brook Matters

PSEG Supports Explorations in STEM Program

Thanks to a generous grant from PSEG, 16 Stony Brook students this summer are participating in the university’s Explorations in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) Research Program. The summer program...

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Awards and Honors Featured Story Main University Research Stony Brook Matters

Stony Brook’s Got the Power: How One University Earned Four Major Energy Research Awards in Less Than a Year

It took only six months for Stony Brook University to hit an energy research grand slam, earning major federal funding on four projects poised to revolutionize the world’s energy technology. “These four projects, which...

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Awards and Honors News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Alum Receives Award from BNL for PhD Thesis Research

Stony Brook University alum Benjamin Bannier, who earned his PhD in Physics last May, has received this year’s RHIC/AGS Thesis Award at the annual RHIC/AGS Users’ Meeting, which was held at Brookhaven National...

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Alumni Features Alumni Spotlight Medicine and Research Medicine Today Research Stony Brook Matters

Stony Brook Medicine Alum Fights the War on Ebola

Dr. Dario Gonzalez Back Home After Heading Up an Ebola Treatment Unit in Liberia Dario Gonzalez’s four grandchildren have no idea where “Papi” goes when he leaves town for work. Given the nature of his work as a globe...

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Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Giving Back Research Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters

Sociology Professor Arnout van de Rijt Awarded NSF Grant for Research

with Simons Foundation and Anonymous Donor-Funded Advanced Computational Institute Arnout van de Rijt, an associate professor in Stony Brook University’s Department of Sociology and the Institute for Advanced...

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News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Alumni Eugene and Carol Cheng Create Endowment

Stony Brook Medicine has received a major gift from Stony Brook University alumni Eugene ’97, and Carol Cheng ’97, to support cardiovascular imaging research that advances non-invasive techniques to diagnose and treat...

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SBU Receives $3M for Shinnecock Bay Restoration

The once rich shellfish beds of Shinnecock Bay may thrive again thanks to an ambitious environmental restoration project funded in part by a philanthropic gift from the Laurie Landeau Foundation matched by a gift from...

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Research Stony Brook Matters

Gelfond Donates $1M to SB for Study of Mercury

The Gelfond Fund for Mercury Related Research and Outreach, established by SBU alum Richard Gelfond, CEO and Director of IMAX Corporation and Chair of the Stony Brook Foundation, will advance scientific understanding of...

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Category - Research

Students Mentored at Stony Brook Win $30,000 Scholarship in 2015 Siemens Competition

For Maryam Ige ’16, Leadership Means Service

Learning How to Survive the Ice Age, Hands-On

Stony Brook Research Team Shares in 2016 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics

Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, Calls on Scientific Community to Develop Ways to Embrace and Encourage Younger Scientists

Chimps Shed Light on Origins of Human Walking

Nobel Prize in Physics Has Stony Brook Connection

Lukas Vasadi ’16 Flying High Following NASA Internship

SBU Research Will Help Astronauts on Future Deep-Space Missions

PSEG Supports Explorations in STEM Program

Stony Brook’s Got the Power: How One University Earned Four Major Energy Research Awards in Less Than a Year

Alum Receives Award from BNL for PhD Thesis Research

Stony Brook Medicine Alum Fights the War on Ebola

Alumni Eugene and Carol Cheng Create Endowment

SBU Receives $3M for Shinnecock Bay Restoration

Gelfond Donates $1M to SB for Study of Mercury

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