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Peony Tse ’20 Leverages Scholarships to Make a Difference

The first-generation college student says earning scholarships is her way of thanking her parents for their support and taking ownership of her future.

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Elif Onay ’21 Gets Out the Vote

The simple act of registering voters pushed Elif Onay ’21 out of her comfort zone, and she’s grateful for that. Now the team leader for Stony Brook’s Center for Civic Justice, the 20-year-old from Staten...

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Hayley Rein ’19 Channelled Personal Loss Into Service

Imagine being a sophomore in college and losing your father — just a year after your mother died. That was Hayley Rein’s reality. The Stony Brook University psychology and sociology double major, who will graduate in...

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Students Leaders to Cycle Across the Country for a Cause

Two Stony Brook student leaders are devoting their whole summer to cycling more than 4,000 miles across the country to raise awareness and funds for their respective charities. Justas Klimavicius ’19, President of...

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Dental School Team Staffs Pop-up Clinic in Rural Tennessee

Outside of a temporary pop-up clinic at a Cookeville, Tennessee high school, patients had been sleeping in cars and waiting upwards of 24-hours for medical, dental, and vision care. This level of need is pervasive in...

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It’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ for Service-Minded Student

Few freshmen arrive at Stony Brook with the life experience that Allison Shaw has accrued. The Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey native, who is pursuing a Bachelor of Engineering degree in chemical and molecular...

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Program Offers Spinal Cord Injury Survivors New Opportunities

Five years ago, life looked very different to Casey Ellin. At 26, he was assistant director of Stony Brook University’s intramurals and sport clubs. It was the perfect position for Ellin, who always loved sports and...

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International Scientific Team Brings Portable DNA Sequencing to Madagascar

Scientists in Madagascar have for the first time performed DNA sequencing in-country using novel, portable technology to rapidly identify the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis (TB) and its drug resistance profile...

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Puerto Rico Relief Team Returns Home

There were hugs and happy tears all around, when 23 Stony Brook Medicine staff members returned home on November 8 after more than two weeks of treating patients in Puerto Rico. Family and friends were waiting in the...

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Stony Brook Medical Staff Brings Healthcare and Supplies to Devastated Puerto Rico

As the sun was rising over Long Island, a Stony Brook Medicine task force left for Puerto Rico on October 24 to help people still struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria. Twenty-three Stony Brook staff members...

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Omar Naimi ’17 Takes a Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Education

Omar Naimi ’17 thinks of himself as “absurdly ambitious.” As a child, he wanted to become President of the United States. But as he grew older and learned about the complications inherent in politics, he traded that...

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Student Fights for the Rights of the Undocumented

Imagine saying goodbye to the mother who raised you and not knowing when you might reunite, if ever. That was the pain of separation that Gabriela Quintanilla ’16 and her sisters felt when their mother left their native...

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A Summer Internship Launched Haley Wodarczyk’s ’16 Journey to Social Commitment

Haley Wodarczyk ’16 always knew she wanted to help people, but she wasn’t sure how best to translate her inclinations into meaningful action.. Her mother had acted as her role model, volunteering for organizations...

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Hospital’s HOPE Program Inspires High School Students’ Future in Health Science, Medicine

The faculty-mentored educational program exposes students from underserved school districts to careers in healthcare May 18, 2016 – Thirteen high school seniors who completed Stony Brook University Hospital’s Health...

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SBU Student Creates Volunteer Organization to Help His Homeland

Stony Brook graduate student Erwing Alouidor is responding to the devastating earthquake that hit his homeland Haiti in 2010 by starting A Helping Hand for Haiti. “My sister and I survived the earthquake, and we...

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To Change Lives, Jason Lantier Shifts Focus From Football To Food

When Jason Lantier played football for Stony Brook in the early 2000s, his coach knew that the former defensive lineman would make a career of helping others. Sam Kornhauser, now the director of Athletic Advancement and...

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Richard Leakey Honored for Lifetime Achievement

Stony Brook’s Dr. Richard Leakey has been honored for lifetime achievement by the annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards. Founded in 2010 by Craig Hatkoff along with disruptive innovation “founding...

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Category - Service

Elif Onay ’21 Gets Out the Vote

Hayley Rein ’19 Channelled Personal Loss Into Service

Students Leaders to Cycle Across the Country for a Cause

Dental School Team Staffs Pop-up Clinic in Rural Tennessee

It’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ for Service-Minded Student

Program Offers Spinal Cord Injury Survivors New Opportunities

International Scientific Team Brings Portable DNA Sequencing to Madagascar

Puerto Rico Relief Team Returns Home

Stony Brook Medical Staff Brings Healthcare and Supplies to Devastated Puerto Rico

Omar Naimi ’17 Takes a Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Education

Student Fights for the Rights of the Undocumented

A Summer Internship Launched Haley Wodarczyk’s ’16 Journey to Social Commitment

Hospital’s HOPE Program Inspires High School Students’ Future in Health Science, Medicine

SBU Student Creates Volunteer Organization to Help His Homeland

To Change Lives, Jason Lantier Shifts Focus From Football To Food

Richard Leakey Honored for Lifetime Achievement

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