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SEA MATE Program Reducing Acid in Oceans, CO2 in the Atmosphere

A team of researchers led by Stony Brook Professor Matthew Eisaman is using electricity to remove acid from the ocean while also taking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Biomedical Engineering Academy Gives Middle Schoolers Hands-On Experience

This NSF-funded program provides participants first-hand experience of how engineering works and how engineering design and innovation impacts our daily lives.

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SBUH Cardiac Surgery Team Top Rated for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery

The three-star rating from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is a testament to the Heart Institute's deep commitment to bringing the best in cardiac care to the community.

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Quantum Computing Lab Is Building a Better Internet

Eden Figueroa has long been fascinated with quantum mechanics. It’s a strange, Star Trek-like world in which objects can exist in two or more states simultaneously, interact with each other instantly over long...

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Striving for Fluency in the Language of STEM

Marcela Muricy ‘23 grew up in Brazil, is fluent in Portuguese and proud of her heritage. But there is another language the University Scholar is trying to master: Speaking STEM.

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Helping Underrepresented Teens Reach for the STARS

In 2018, Carol Carter, professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, crossed paths with Stony Brook alumnus Jason Williams ’04, currently...

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Video Features SBU Professors Discussing the Exploration of Mars

In a new video, Distinguished Professor Scott McLennan and Associate Professor Joel Hurowitz of the Department of Geosciences at Stony Brook University talk about their experience with the Mars exploration rover...

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Stony Brook Doctors Help Kenyan Teen Begin a New Life

Saline Atieno developed a dangerous and disfiguring bacterial necrosis called Noma as a young child in Kenya. Though the disease has a 90 percent mortality rate, Saline somehow survived, only to face an extremely...

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Pursuing a Childhood Dream of Helping Children

Victoria Dotto ’22 wanted to be a pediatrician even when she was a child. So every chance she got along the way, she has volunteered to work with children. “Ever since I was little, I had a curiosity about science and...

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Carol Carter’s Discovery 20 Years Ago Changed the Future of Antiviral Drugs

On July 3, 2001, a research paper co-authored by Carol Carter, professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook, and a team of fellow researchers, was...

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Student’s Mural Celebrates Women Engineers

A striking mural in the Light Engineering building, "Luna the Future" by Sejal Mehra uses a stylized boxer to suggest the power of women scholars and the challenges they face in the field.

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SBU Researchers Studying Mercury Levels Under Ice

Scientists have been studying mercury uptake into the food chain during the winter, and how mercury uptake may change in the future, as climate conditions change.

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Eszter Boros wins the $200K Stony Brook Discovery Prize

Eszter Boros, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, was announced as the winner of the 2021 Stony Brook Discovery Prize on April 28. Included with the prestigious award is $200,000 in new funding, meant...

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Gobler Lab Joins the Battle Against Algal Blooms

Lake Agawam in Southampton Village has recently looked more like pea soup than the pristine body of water that it has been for so many years. Dense algal blooms have affected the lake since 2003, according to the 2017...

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Student Entrepreneurs Rise to WolfieTank Challenge

While college is a stepping stone to greater things for many people, a growing number of Stony Brook students have dreams that include launching businesses of their own, some even while still in school. WolfieTank —...

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SBU’s Physics & Astronomy Program Ranks in Top 100 Universities Worldwide

According to leading international ranking organization QS, Stony Brook's Physics and Astronomy program ranked #89 in the top 100 universities in the world.

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In the laboratory in which Stony Brook researchers study tissue and investigate the loss of function in PLD1 variants, are researchers: Michael Frohman, MD, PhD (rear center); 5th year Pharmacology student Christian Salazar (seated); 5th year Biochemistry and Structural Biology student Forrest Bowling, and Michael Airola, PhD.

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Study Identifies Important Cause of Congenital Heart Disease

A team of researchers co-led by SBU's Michael Frohman discovered that certain loss of functions in the Phospholipase D1 gene causes congenital right-sided cardiac valve defects and neonatal cardiomyopathy.

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Mathematician John Milnor Honored with 2020 Lomonosov Gold Medal

One of the greatest living mathematicians, he has made fundamental discoveries in many areas of mathematics, including topology, dynamical systems and algebraic K-theory.

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Category - STEM

Biomedical Engineering Academy Gives Middle Schoolers Hands-On Experience

SBUH Cardiac Surgery Team Top Rated for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery

Quantum Computing Lab Is Building a Better Internet

Striving for Fluency in the Language of STEM

Helping Underrepresented Teens Reach for the STARS

Video Features SBU Professors Discussing the Exploration of Mars

Stony Brook Doctors Help Kenyan Teen Begin a New Life

Pursuing a Childhood Dream of Helping Children

Carol Carter’s Discovery 20 Years Ago Changed the Future of Antiviral Drugs

SBU Researchers Studying Mercury Levels Under Ice

Eszter Boros wins the $200K Stony Brook Discovery Prize

Gobler Lab Joins the Battle Against Algal Blooms

Student Entrepreneurs Rise to WolfieTank Challenge

Study Identifies Important Cause of Congenital Heart Disease

Mathematician John Milnor Honored with 2020 Lomonosov Gold Medal

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