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Two SBU Professors Write Op-Ed on Interdisciplinary Research

Stony Brook Music Professor Margaret Schedel and Ecology Professor Heather Lynch are collaborating on a joint study of interdisciplinary research and recently co-authored an op-ed on the subject, Interdisciplinary...

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Norm Prusslin Champions the Spirit of College Radio

Since he was a child in the late 1950s, Norm Prusslin has been tuned in to the joys and possibilities of radio. It was a passion that stayed with him when he entered Stony Brook University as an English major in 1969...

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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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Undergrad Receives Funding to Support Research on Montauk Tribe

Grace Armann ‘23, researcher of the month for July, received URECA funding this summer to support her research on a local legal history of the indigenous Montauk tribe.

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Forbes Spotlights Cancer Drug Research of Stony Brook Grads

Ann Lin '18 and Chris Giuliano '18 co-authored a paper that was published in the influential interdisciplinary medical journal Science Translational Medicine.

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SoMAS, Geosciences Take to the Road in the EarthBus

The EarthBus Partnership will recruit and mentor students at high schools with large populations of underrepresented students, bringing awareness of geoscience careers.

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Setting Her Global Sights on Helping At-Risk Populations

To Isabelle Loop ’21, strangers are only friends she hasn’t met yet. And “strange” places are only places where she will meet them. It’s how the biochemistry major from rural Spencer, New York came to enroll at Stony...

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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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From the Rainforest to the Land of Opportunity and Stony Brook

It’s as if Rubens Meza Henderson ’23 has lived two lives, both charmed. Now in his 50s, the Peruvian born-and-raised economics major at Stony Brook University enjoyed an idyllic boyhood in the rainforest near the banks...

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Always Striving to Find the Perfect Fit

Being the proverbial square peg in the round hole is nothing new to Pavithra Venkataraman ’22. In fact, that is how she has felt both in her hometown of Columbus, Indiana, and in Chennai, India, where she lived from...

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Esther S. Takeuchi Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

An expert in battery research, her innovative work inventing lithium/silver vanadium oxide (Li/SVO) has been instrumental in saving innumerable lives.

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Professor Peter Khalifah (middle) with graduate students Zhuo Li (left) and Gerard Mattei (right) holding a "pouch cell" battery attached to a frame used for synchrotron x-ray studies (Note: This photo was taken prior to current COVID-19 social distancing guidelines). Courtesy of Brookhaven Laboratory

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Chemistry Professor Peter Khalifah and Grad Students Test Lithium-Metal Batteries

Peter Khalifah, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, and graduate students Zhuo and Gerard Mattei are among a group of scientists that has identified the primary cause of failure in a...

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Two SBU Students Receive SUNY Honors for Academic Excellence

Physics major Neomi Lewis and biology major Erika Nemeth are recipients of the 2021 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, and they were honored at a virtual ceremony on April 14.

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Jessica Gurevitch, co-leader of the Climate Interventional Biology working group. Credit: Julia Postol

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Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

Ecologist Jessica Gurevitch leads a team that is examining the consequences of using stratospheric aerosol intervention to help cool the Earth as fossil fuel emissions are reduced.

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Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

These Graduate Research Fellowships provide successful applicants in NSF-supported STEM disciplines with three years of funding for graduate school.

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Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Nicholas Post — the URECA researcher of the month for April 2021 — is a nontraditional, first-generation college student majoring in Anthropology, currently doing an honors thesis on Hominin Phylogenetics under the...

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SBU Places Two Subjects in U.S. News 2021 Global Top 100

Stony Brook University has placed two subjects in the top 100 in the U.S. News & World Report 2021 rankings of the Best Global Universities. The subject of Psychiatry/Psychology climbed to 63 in the publication’s...

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Tag - College of Arts and Sciences

Two SBU Professors Write Op-Ed on Interdisciplinary Research

Norm Prusslin Champions the Spirit of College Radio

Quantum Computing Lab Is Building a Better Internet

Striving for Fluency in the Language of STEM

Forbes Spotlights Cancer Drug Research of Stony Brook Grads

SoMAS, Geosciences Take to the Road in the EarthBus

Setting Her Global Sights on Helping At-Risk Populations

Video Features SBU Professors Discussing the Exploration of Mars

From the Rainforest to the Land of Opportunity and Stony Brook

Always Striving to Find the Perfect Fit

Esther S. Takeuchi Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Chemistry Professor Peter Khalifah and Grad Students Test Lithium-Metal Batteries

Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

SBU Places Two Subjects in U.S. News 2021 Global Top 100

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