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SoCJ Awarded Solutions Journalism Network Grant

Stony Brook’s School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) has won a $10,000 award from the Solutions Journalism Network’s Student Media Challenge. The school’s Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting will use...

August 21, 2023

4 min read

SBU Advocacy Corps meets virtually with DC-based SBU alumnus Arun Seraphin.

Alumni Chapters & Groups Alumni News News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Advocacy Corps Meets with DC-based Alumnus and Alan Alda Center Graduate Program Director

In February, Stony Brook University’s (SBU) Advocacy Corps met virtually with Arun Seraphin, who just completed a very successful tenure at the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services as a professional staff...

February 28, 2022

2 min read

Alda Center Faculty/Staff

Alda Center’s Holesovsky Joins Board of Science Communication Trainers Network

The Network helps build collaboration across organizations and individuals who help scientists and other researchers communicate more effectively.

January 13, 2022

2 min read

Alda Center (Private)School of Communication and Journalism

Alda Center Launches The Link

The initiative, which features research synopses, webinars and other content from science communication professionals from around the country, will link science communication research to professional practice.

November 29, 2021

3 min read

Alda Center (Private)School of Communication and Journalism

Alda Center, School of Communication & Journalism Welcome First Science Communication Graduate Cohort

The program helps researchers combine their expertise with effective communication to help increase public engagement with science.

September 14, 2021

5 min read

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Eszter Boros wins the $200K Stony Brook Discovery Prize

Eszter Boros, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, was announced as the winner of the 2021 Stony Brook Discovery Prize on April 28. Included with the prestigious award is $200,000 in new funding, meant...

April 28, 2021

8 min read

School of Communication and Journalism

Stony Brook to Launch Science Communication Master’s Program

The Stony Brook University School of Communication and Journalism this spring will launch a new Master of Science in Science Communication program, focused on helping trained scientists become professional communicators...

March 8, 2021

3 min read

Leadership News Highlights Stony Brook Matters University

Laura Lindenfeld Named Dean of Journalism School

Dr. Lindenfeld is a highly effective leader who has established a comprehensive strategic vision and developed new programmatic opportunities for the School of Journalism.

March 2, 2020

3 min read

Academics Alumni News SoMAS Stony Brook Matters

For Carolyn Hall ’09, Mixing Science and the Arts is a Thrilling Dance

Early on in her training as a dancer, Carolyn Hall ’09 had to learn to be able to pivot quickly. Who knew it would have such valuable application as a life skill? Hall, who holds an MS in Marine Science from Stony Brook...

April 15, 2019

12 min read

Academics Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff Main University School of Communication and Journalism Stony Brook Matters

Actor and SBU Visiting Professor Alan Alda Honored at SAG Awards

Acclaimed actor Alan Alda, a visiting professor in the Stony Brook University School of Journalism’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, was honored for a lifetime of acting at the 25th annual Screen Actors...

January 30, 2019

1 min read

Academics Awards and Honors Graduate School News Highlights Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

SBU Postdoc Wins Prestigious AAAS Science Policy Fellowship

After winning the NASA Fame Lab science communication competition in 2014, Pharmacology Postdoc Lyl Tomlinson (’17) will now make an even broader impact as one of the American Association for the Advancement of...

June 6, 2018

4 min read

Academics Awards and Honors

Stony Brook Postdoc Wins 2018 Flame Challenge, Answering “What Is Climate?”

“What is climate?” Over the past several months, 5th and 6th graders from around the world have asked scientists for a user-friendly answer. More than 100 submissions poured in for consideration by hundreds of 11-year...

May 30, 2018

3 min read

Awards and Honors News Highlights Sustainability

Kids Pick Finalists in Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge, Including SBU Researcher

As a boy, Emmy Award-winning actor Alan Alda was fascinated with the world around him. He yearned to know exactly how things worked and often developed his own makeshift experiments for fun. At age 11, he turned to his...

April 25, 2018

5 min read

On Campus

Play The Flame Challenge Game, ‘Jargon Police’

The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science just released its latest video in a series designed to help scientists prepare for The Flame Challenge™, an annual contest that challenges scientists to communicate...

January 31, 2018

2 min read

Faculty/Staff Featured Story Stony Brook Matters

Physicist Chang Kee Jung Keeps His Eye on the Ball

Chang Kee Jung, a SUNY Distinguished Professor in Physics, represents a rare breed of scientists who not only understand the densest of subject matter but can break it down in a way that makes it come alive for the lay...

December 28, 2017

11 min read

Community

Alda Center Sponsors Science Haiku Competition

The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science invites scientists of all ages to express the passion for the science they do in a haiku–a “sci-ku”–and share it on Twitter. What keeps you...

November 22, 2017

2 min read

University

Stony Brook’s Alan Alda and Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Mariette DiChristina Kick-off Free Live-Streamed Web Series for Scientists

Stony Brook’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, in collaboration with Scientific American, will launch a free, five-episode online series aimed at helping scientists and engineers write blogs and op-eds...

October 11, 2017

3 min read

Academics Global School of Communication and Journalism

Alda Center Responds to Increased Demand for Improvisation-Based Science Communication Training

Alda Center Conducts International Workshops and Expands Capacity with New Faculty and Staff The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University is responding to an ever-growing global demand for...

September 25, 2017

3 min read

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SoCJ Awarded Solutions Journalism Network Grant

Advocacy Corps Meets with DC-based Alumnus and Alan Alda Center Graduate Program Director

Alda Center’s Holesovsky Joins Board of Science Communication Trainers Network

Alda Center Launches The Link

Alda Center, School of Communication & Journalism Welcome First Science Communication Graduate Cohort

Eszter Boros wins the $200K Stony Brook Discovery Prize

Stony Brook to Launch Science Communication Master’s Program

Laura Lindenfeld Named Dean of Journalism School

For Carolyn Hall ’09, Mixing Science and the Arts is a Thrilling Dance

Actor and SBU Visiting Professor Alan Alda Honored at SAG Awards

SBU Postdoc Wins Prestigious AAAS Science Policy Fellowship

Stony Brook Postdoc Wins 2018 Flame Challenge, Answering “What Is Climate?”

Kids Pick Finalists in Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge, Including SBU Researcher

Play The Flame Challenge Game, ‘Jargon Police’

Physicist Chang Kee Jung Keeps His Eye on the Ball

Alda Center Sponsors Science Haiku Competition

Stony Brook’s Alan Alda and Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Mariette DiChristina Kick-off Free Live-Streamed Web Series for Scientists

Alda Center Responds to Increased Demand for Improvisation-Based Science Communication Training

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