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Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility

The new Electron Ion Collider will bring major benefits to the regional economy and offer unprecedented research opportunities to Stony Brook faculty.

January 10, 2020

4 min read

Research

Scientists Turn Up the Heat to Create New Nanostructured Metals

At team of scientists led by Stony Brook’s Karen Chen-Wiegart have developed a new approach for making metal-metal composites and porous metals with a 3-D interconnected “bicontinuous” structure in thin films at...

November 20, 2019

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty/Student Spotlights Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters Student

Tethered Chem Combos Could Revolutionize Artificial Photosynthesis

Stony Brook University graduate student Lei Wang is part of a team of scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) who have doubled the efficiency of a chemical combo that captures light and splits water molecules...

November 4, 2019

4 min read

Research

Machine-Learning Analysis Could Help Reduce Carbon Emissions

In a novel approach that could help reduce carbon emissions, a team of scientists led by Stony Brook’s Anatoly Frenkel have described a way to use artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate the conversion of...

October 22, 2019

3 min read

Research

ATLAS Phase I Upgrade Set to Advance High-Energy Particle Physics

The ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is ready to begin another chapter in its search for new physics. Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) are leading a significant...

September 27, 2019

3 min read

Alumni News Alumni Spotlight Awards and Honors News Highlights Recent Grads Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Perseverance Pays Off for International Engineering Alum

Haitian-born Jean Clifford Brutus was thrilled to discover that he was the cover story of Minority Engineer’s spring 2019 issue, but it might not have ever happened had he let a rejection letter from Stony Brook...

September 9, 2019

5 min read

Research

Discovery by Nanomaterials Scientists Could Enable Ultra-Tiny Electronics

Findings that could facilitate the next generation of ultra-tiny electronics have been published by Brookhaven Lab scientists, along with Ashwanth Subramanian, a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and...

August 29, 2019

3 min read

Alumni Spotlight News Highlights Recent Grads Research STEM Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Christopher Hayes ’19 Researches Solar Energy at Brookhaven National Lab

Chemistry was the subject in school that Christopher Hayes enjoyed the most. However, the Long Island native entered Stony Brook University unsure of his course of study. This past spring, he graduated with degrees in...

August 12, 2019

5 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories Research Stony Brook Matters

Building a Network for Long-Distance Quantum Communication

From the rooftop of the decommissioned Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor (BGRR) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Health Sciences Tower at Stony Brook University —...

August 5, 2019

4 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Transforming Advanced Nanoscience Data into Interactive Art

Stony Brook’s Margaret Schedel, in collaboration with Brookhaven Lab Center for Functional Nanomaterials scientist Kevin Yager and Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Melissa Clarke, has generated novel...

July 29, 2019

7 min read

Academics Alumni Hottest Stories College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Medicine and Research News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Nanowire Research Could Advance Harvesting of Solar Energy

New research on nanowires that could facilitate the harvesting of solar energy has been published by a team of scientists from Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Naval Research Laboratory...

July 8, 2019

3 min read

Academics College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Research Sustainability

New Research Could Boost Efficiency of Solar Cells

Solar energy could be made more efficient in the future, thanks to new findings published by scientists from Stony Brook and the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). As described in a paper...

June 12, 2019

3 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Mircea Cotlet Named One of Battelle’s “Inventors of the Year”

Materials scientist Mircea Cotlet, an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University and a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) has been named one of seven...

May 21, 2019

3 min read

Research

Catalyst Renders Nerve Agents Harmless

A team of scientists including researchers at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory has studied a catalyst that decomposes nerve agents, eliminating their harmful and lethal effects. The research was...

April 22, 2019

4 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

‘Electron Shuttle’ Protein Offers New Strategy for Tailoring Plant Products

Scientists studying plant cell walls—structural supports that help plants overcome the downward pull of gravity—have discovered mechanistic details of a protein involved in the assembly of lignin, a key cell-wall...

April 9, 2019

2 min read

Faculty/Staff Research

Research Team Builds Quantum Network with Long-Distance Entanglement

Scientists from Stony Brook University, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, and DOE’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) are collaborating on an experiment that puts U.S. quantum...

April 8, 2019

4 min read

News Highlights Research Student Spotlight

High-Performance Computing is Music to her Ears

“Get involved in research as early as you can,” advises URECA Researcher of the Month Nicole Soder ’19.”Just keep looking until you find the right match.” Soder, an Applied Mathematics and...

April 1, 2019

2 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences News Highlights Research

Illuminating Water Filtration

For the first time, a team of researchers from Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have revealed the molecular structure of membranes used in reverse osmosis...

March 28, 2019

4 min read

Tag: Brookhaven National Lab

Scientists Turn Up the Heat to Create New Nanostructured Metals

Tethered Chem Combos Could Revolutionize Artificial Photosynthesis

Machine-Learning Analysis Could Help Reduce Carbon Emissions

ATLAS Phase I Upgrade Set to Advance High-Energy Particle Physics

Perseverance Pays Off for International Engineering Alum

Discovery by Nanomaterials Scientists Could Enable Ultra-Tiny Electronics

Christopher Hayes ’19 Researches Solar Energy at Brookhaven National Lab

Building a Network for Long-Distance Quantum Communication

Transforming Advanced Nanoscience Data into Interactive Art

Nanowire Research Could Advance Harvesting of Solar Energy

New Research Could Boost Efficiency of Solar Cells

Mircea Cotlet Named One of Battelle’s “Inventors of the Year”

Catalyst Renders Nerve Agents Harmless

‘Electron Shuttle’ Protein Offers New Strategy for Tailoring Plant Products

Research Team Builds Quantum Network with Long-Distance Entanglement

High-Performance Computing is Music to her Ears

Illuminating Water Filtration

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