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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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ACS Names Chemistry Doctoral Candidate a 2020 CAS Future Leader

Johnny Lee, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, has been named a 2020 Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Future Leader by the American Chemical Society (ACS). A division of ACS for more than 110 years, CAS...

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Chemistry Department Gears Up to Produce Hand Sanitizer

The team made 17 gallons of hand sanitizer on March 24, the first day of the call for help, and are in the process of making more.

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Facebook Offers Clues to Medical Distress, Research Shows

The language people use on Facebook subtly changes before they make a visit to the emergency department, according to a new study published in Nature Scientific Reports.

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Robert J. Frey Inducted into 2020 CEAS Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame

Update: The Engineering Ball and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony has been rescheduled to September 30, 2020. Robert J. Frey, ’80 BS, ’87 PhD, renowned investor and academic in the field of advanced mathematics, has...

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SBU-Led Team to Teach AI Systems to Understand and Respond Like Humans

A critical next step in AI system development is applying common-sense knowledge to infer and react to a situation as a human would. When people communicate with each other, they don’t need to explicitly say everything...

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19 HS Students Mentored at SBU Make Regeneron Science Competition Top 300 Scholars

The top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2020 have been announced and 19 of those high school seniors were mentored by Stony Brook University faculty. The Regeneron Science Talent Search — the...

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Category - STEM

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

ACS Names Chemistry Doctoral Candidate a 2020 CAS Future Leader

Facebook Offers Clues to Medical Distress, Research Shows

Robert J. Frey Inducted into 2020 CEAS Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame

SBU-Led Team to Teach AI Systems to Understand and Respond Like Humans

19 HS Students Mentored at SBU Make Regeneron Science Competition Top 300 Scholars

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