Category - STEM

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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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PhD student Huy Vu used filming skills, writing, directing, editing and choreographing to create his thesis video.

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Computer Science Grad Student Is “Dancing His PhD”

PhD student Huy Vu has found a creative way to explain his thesis — by writing, directing, producing and dancing in a video. The third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University...

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Postdocs Power AI Research at Stony Brook

Baojian Zhou and Naoya Inoue are spearheading new research that will advance our understanding of online optimization, explainable AI, natural language processing and machine learning.

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SBU’s Qiang Li Collaborated on Discovery That Can Advance Quantum Computing

The team discovered a light symmetry switch that creates the opportunity to carry a dissipationless electron current, which can be useful in wide-scale adoption of quantum computing.

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SBU Will Help Launch State’s New Offshore Wind Training Institute

As part of the largest public investment in offshore wind workforce development by any state in the country, the State University of New York (SUNY) and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)...

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Kedar Kirane Receives ASME ORR Early Career Award

The engineering professor was rewarded for his contributions to knowledge and technology that can enable safer, reliable and efficient structures in various engineering applications.

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Four SBU Grad Students Win BNL Scholarship for Their Research

Four Stony Brook University graduate students have been selected for the 2020 Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship: Erwei Huang, Advisor Dr. Ping Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory Struti Iyer, Advisor Dr. W. Richard...

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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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LSAMP interns Stephanie Fernandez and Kamal James

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CEAS Embraces Diversity, Provides Opportunities

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is finding innovative ways to support our richly diverse community while preparing students for STEM careers.

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Scientists Confirm Age of Universe is 13.8 Billion Years

The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, according to new research published in a series of papers by an international team of astrophysicists, including Stony Brook’s Neelima Sehgal. Using observations from the...

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Stony Brook to Develop Advanced Computational Tools to Design Offshore Wind Farms

The project will optimize offshore wind farm layouts by leveraging high-fidelity simulations on parallel supercomputers, advanced turbine controls and artificial intelligence tools.

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Bernard Essuman ’21 Tackles COVID-19 Research

The study will help researchers understand how COVID-19 interacts with 3D-printed face shields, cotton, skin and hair, and could predict how long it sticks to surfaces.

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University Funds 17 COVID-Related Research Projects

Investigators begin critical research to address urgent healthcare challenges, including prognostic and therapeutic studies, as well as the far-reaching social impacts of the pandemic.

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Bat Study Could Provide Clues to Coronavirus

The research, funded by the NSF, will look at how viruses affect cells upon entry into the bat host’s nasal passages to explain why symptomatic disease does not occur.

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Nick Nikiforakis Receives Dual Early Career Awards

The computer science professor has been awarded the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award.

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Category - STEM

Student Entrepreneurs Rise to WolfieTank Challenge

Study Identifies Important Cause of Congenital Heart Disease

Mathematician John Milnor Honored with 2020 Lomonosov Gold Medal

Computer Science Grad Student Is “Dancing His PhD”

Postdocs Power AI Research at Stony Brook

SBU Will Help Launch State’s New Offshore Wind Training Institute

Four SBU Grad Students Win BNL Scholarship for Their Research

Scientists Confirm Age of Universe is 13.8 Billion Years

Stony Brook to Develop Advanced Computational Tools to Design Offshore Wind Farms

Bernard Essuman ’21 Tackles COVID-19 Research

University Funds 17 COVID-Related Research Projects

Bat Study Could Provide Clues to Coronavirus

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