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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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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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Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Two Stony Brook University students have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP) by the National Science Foundation. Another six SBU students earned honorable mentions. This nationally...

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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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Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards

Two Stony Brook University faculty have recently received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards. Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award for...

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Chemistry Faculty Receive International Prize for Water Research

Benjamin S. Hsiao, distinguished professor, and Priyanka Sharma, research assistant professor, both from the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, received the Creativity Prize — which is awarded to water...

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Latest Discoveries Revealed at SBU’s Virtual Postdoc Spotlight

The annual event — designed like a TED talk — gave Stony Brook’s postdocs the opportunity to present their cutting-edge research to an audience in five minutes.

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Sloths, rodents and primates — some of the largest and smallest mammals on Caribbean islands — are among those most vulnerable to extinction. Credit: David Rini, Johns Hopkins University

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Study on Caribbean Mammal Extinctions Helps Guide Conservation Strategies

Information from historical, archaeological and recent fossil records must inform current-day conservation, or else we risk losing these remarkable species forever.

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Study Shows Mars’ Early Climate Was Intermittently Warm

Samples from the Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission, may help to reveal evidence of Mars' climate changes during its existence and possible signs of previous life.

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President McInnis and Four Others from SBU Make Top 25 Most Powerful in LI Education

President McInnis placed second on Long Island Business News' list along with Eden Figueroa (#10), Richard Reeder (#11), Jason Trelewicz (#15) and Richard Gatteau (#17).

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SBU Professors Ready to Learn if There Was Life on Mars

Geosciences Professors Scott McLennan and Joel Hurowitz are actively involved in the Mars exploration rover Perseverance mission, a two-year science investigation of Mars’ Jezero Crater.

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Patricia Wright to Receive Wildlife Conservation Award

Patricia Wright, the founder of Centre ValBio, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and the Herrnstein Professor of Conservation Biology at Stony Brook University, will be awarded the Wildlife Conservation Award...

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Scientists Probe How the Brain Creates Taste Aversion

The discovery could have broader implications in the area of neurobiology intervention for helping people to break addictions to harmful substances.

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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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Taking on Social Justice in the Wake of the George Floyd Killing

“The names we’ve all heard, but we need to say them — Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Walter Scott, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd — and understand...

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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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Historian Paul Kelton Tells a Tale of Two Pandemics

Paul Kelton was working on a book about the cholera pandemic of the 1830s when coronavirus emerged. “It’s been a surreal experience writing about a pandemic while one is going on,” said Kelton, professor...

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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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Tag - College of Arts and Sciences

Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

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

Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards

Chemistry Faculty Receive International Prize for Water Research

Latest Discoveries Revealed at SBU’s Virtual Postdoc Spotlight

President McInnis and Four Others from SBU Make Top 25 Most Powerful in LI Education

SBU Professors Ready to Learn if There Was Life on Mars

Patricia Wright to Receive Wildlife Conservation Award

Scientists Probe How the Brain Creates Taste Aversion

Scientists Confirm Age of Universe is 13.8 Billion Years

Taking on Social Justice in the Wake of the George Floyd Killing

Bernard Essuman ’21 Tackles COVID-19 Research

Historian Paul Kelton Tells a Tale of Two Pandemics

University Funds 17 COVID-Related Research Projects

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