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Stony Brook Community Pioneers Technology-Based Response to Puerto Rico Crisis

“In theory I would be on a plane heading for Puerto Rico, but I am a graduate student without much money — so I am glad to be helping the Red Cross with their relief efforts any way I can,” said Ian Bonnell ’16...

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SoMAS Professors Share Expertise and Advocacy on Hudson Fisheries

Three Stony Brook science professors delivered a powerful message to Capitol Hill at a public forum on water quality last month. Professors Jeffrey Levinton, Joseph Warren and Michael Frisk journeyed to Washington, DC...

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Could Concrete Help Solve the Problem of Air Pollution?

New research reveals that sulfur dioxide, a major contributor to air pollution, is removed from the air by concrete surfaces. Stony Brook University researcher Alex Orlov, PhD, and colleagues discovered how concrete...

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Nobuho Nagasawa Honored for New York City Public Art

Department of Art Professor Nobuho Nagasawa recently received the New York City Public Design Commission’s highest honor at the 34th Annual Awards for Excellence in Design, held at City Hall. Professor Nagasawa was...

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What Penguins Can Tell Us About Climate Change

In a June 25 episode of Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, NBC News’ Harry Smith journeyed to Antarctica and spoke with Stony Brook’s Heather Lynch about the signs penguins might be giving us about climate change. Dr...

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J-Students Cross Borders to Report on Life in Ecuador’s Jungles

Stony Brook journalism student Mike Adams ’19 and his classmates put their journalistic principles to the test when they traveled to report on issues confronting in the jungles of Ecuador. The 500 remaining members of...

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Food for Thought: A Day with Bobby Flay and Food Lab

It was a perfect June morning on the East End of Long Island. Breeze flowing off the water, clouds providing a slight scrim for the sun trying to push through. Sitting at a remote picnic table (although not quite remote...

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SBU Research Leads the Way on Climate Change

As the world awaits President Trump’s decision on continued US participation in the Paris Accord, the landmark global warming agreement signed in 2015, Stony Brook researchers continue to pioneer discoveries that...

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Pritchard Charitable Trust Invests $100K in Long Island Marine Monitoring

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that on a daily basis, about 80,000 chemical compounds are in commercial use nationwide. However, only a few of those chemicals are ever tested for their toxicity to humans...

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Historian Jared Farmer Named Carnegie Fellow

Jared Farmer, a cultural and environmental historian whose work appeals to lay and academic audiences alike, has been awarded a prestigious 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Farmer, an associate professor of History in...

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Southampton Food Lab Conference Features Bobby Flay, David Barber, Michel Nischan

World-famous chef and restaurateur Bobby Flay will deliver the first of two keynotes at the third annual Food Lab Conference hosted by The Food Lab at Stony Brook Southampton June 9-10, 2017. David Barber of Blue Hill...

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SBU-led Study: Climate Change Threatening Humans Through Toxic Algae Spread

One oceanic consequence of climate change is well underway, and it’s likely already having a negative impact on human health, according to a new study led by a professor at Stony Brook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric...

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Patricia Wright Searches for Lemurs with ABC Nightline News Team

World-renowned primatologist Patricia Wright led ABC’s Alex Marquardt through Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar to search for endangered lemurs. The segment aired April 1 on ABC News Nightline. Wright is...

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Fan Ye Receives NSF CAREER Award

The National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for early-career faculty (CAREER) has been awarded to Fan Ye, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied...

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PhD Student Wins ACS Award for His Work in Environmental Chemistry

PhD student Qiyuan Wu has received the 2017 Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (ACS). As the world’s largest scientific society, the ACS awards up to 20 students each...

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University Enjoys Great Relationship With Wildlife Refuge

As every Biology 101 student knows, symbiosis is a mutually beneficial relationship between two different entities. That’s a good definition of the ties between the Quogue Wildlife Refuge and Stony Brook...

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Caribbean Bats Would Need 8 Million Years to Recover from Extinctions

It will take at least eight million years to restore species recently lost to extinction, according to research on New World leaf-nosed bats by Stony Brook’s Liliana Dávalos. In the Caribbean alone, more than half...

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Stony Brook Community Pioneers Technology-Based Response to Puerto Rico Crisis

SoMAS Professors Share Expertise and Advocacy on Hudson Fisheries

Could Concrete Help Solve the Problem of Air Pollution?

Nobuho Nagasawa Honored for New York City Public Art

What Penguins Can Tell Us About Climate Change

J-Students Cross Borders to Report on Life in Ecuador’s Jungles

SBU Research Leads the Way on Climate Change

Pritchard Charitable Trust Invests $100K in Long Island Marine Monitoring

Historian Jared Farmer Named Carnegie Fellow

Southampton Food Lab Conference Features Bobby Flay, David Barber, Michel Nischan

SBU-led Study: Climate Change Threatening Humans Through Toxic Algae Spread

Patricia Wright Searches for Lemurs with ABC Nightline News Team

Fan Ye Receives NSF CAREER Award

PhD Student Wins ACS Award for His Work in Environmental Chemistry

University Enjoys Great Relationship With Wildlife Refuge

Caribbean Bats Would Need 8 Million Years to Recover from Extinctions

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