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Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences

Makoto Fujita Receives Inaugural Ojima Distinguished Lectureship Award in Chemistry

The Ojima family's endowment will help ensure that eminent scholars can continue to enrich the university.

May 27, 2022

4 min read

Research Student Spotlight

Chemists Develop New Machine Learning Framework to Improve Catalysts

Chemists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new machine-learning (ML) framework that can zero in on which steps of a multistep chemical conversion should be tweaked to improve productivity. The approach...

May 19, 2022

2 min read

Events On Campus

April 29 Provost’s Lecture: Makoto Fujita Explores Latest Advances in Coordination Self-Assembly

Makoto Fujita introduced the concept of “metal-directed self-assembly” to supramolecular chemistry, creating building blocks from transition metal groups and organic molecules that self-assemble into large...

April 21, 2022

2 min read

Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Research Stony Brook Matters

Karena Chapman Receives Hanawalt Award for Research on Challenging Materials Problems

Karena Chapman, the Joseph Lauher and Frank W. Fowler Endowed Chair in Materials Chemistry at Stony Brook University, has received the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) 2022 Hanawalt Award “for her...

April 18, 2022

3 min read

College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Research Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Engineering Major Says Research Is All About Troubleshooting

“Honestly that’s what research is. It’s all troubleshooting,” said Joshua Heuvel-Horwitz ’23 — the URECA researcher of the month for March 2022 — who has experienced the day-to-day process of working through...

March 1, 2022

3 min read

College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Tracking Lithium Provides Clues to Better Batteries

Before lithium metal batteries can be used in electric vehicles, scientists must first figure out how to extend their lifetimes.

March 1, 2022

6 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research School of Medicine Stony Brook Matters University

Four SBU Faculty Are Named 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows

Michael Airola, Eszter Boros, Jennifer Cano and Prerana Shrestha were among 118 early-career scholars to be recognized by the program.

February 15, 2022

5 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Home Page Spotlight Research STEM Stony Brook Matters University

Esther Takeuchi Receives 2022 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences

The internationally recognized inventor, researcher and educator received the award in recognition of her breakthrough contributions in the understanding of electrochemical energy storage.

January 25, 2022

3 min read

$Enyuan Hu (front) and Peter Khalifah, two of the principal investigators for battery research projects that just received DOE funding, at Brookhaven Lab’s NSLS-II X-ray Powder Diffraction beamline.$

College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research

SBU’s Peter Khalifah Part of Team to Receive DOE Funding for Electric Vehicle Battery Research

Brookhaven Lab received funding for Battery500 Phase 2 — research aimed at understanding and improving materials for EV batteries.

December 9, 2021

2 min read

Daniel Knopf worked with DOE fieldwork samples on the Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Photo courtesy of Knopf.

College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Research Stony Brook Matters

Professor Daniel Knopf Tries to Predict How Ice Forms in Clouds

Atmospheric scientist Daniel Knopf, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, and his research group pursue a wide range of aerosol-related interests, including imaging analysis, particle...

November 4, 2021

2 min read

College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research

To Mask or Not to Mask? Study Provides Mechanism to Test Materials

Led by Professor Amy Marschilok, the findings suggest that adsorptivity of mask materials is an important feature in providing protection from viruses such as SARS-CoV-2.

October 27, 2021

4 min read

José Rodriguez conducts research into catalysts to improve clean-energy production and control environmental pollution.

Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Research Stony Brook Matters

Chemist José Rodriguez Named Fellow of the American Vacuum Society

José Rodriguez, an adjunct professor in the departments of Chemistry and Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at Stony Brook University and a chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named a 2021 Fellow...

October 20, 2021

3 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Research STEM Stony Brook Matters University

DOE Award Aims to Accelerate Advancements in Zero-Emissions Vehicles

Fossil-fuel powered cars and trucks are a leading cause of air pollution and carbon emissions. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, transportation is the biggest single contributor to greenhouse gas...

August 24, 2021

3 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research STEM Stony Brook Matters University

Stanislaus Wong Named 2021 American Chemical Society Fellow

He joins scientists who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in chemistry and have made important contributions to ACS, the world’s largest scientific society.

August 9, 2021

2 min read

Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Stony Brook Matters

SBU Track Star Triumphs at USATF Masters Athletics Championships

Roxanne Brockner, assistant to the director of Stony Brook’s Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, won three individual events and helped Team USA set a world relay record at the recent USA Track and Field...

July 30, 2021

2 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Research STEM University

Christopher Johnson Awarded $750K from DOE Early Career Research Program

The chemistry professor will receive $150,000 a year over five years for his research, "Tracking the Mechanisms of Catalytic Reactions on LigandProtected Gold Nanoclusters."

June 2, 2021

3 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Research University

For the Love of Chemistry

Professor Inspires Lab Team by Tapping Into His Past By Liza N. Burby | Photography by John Griffin Carlos Simmerling, PhD, was one of those kids with a chemistry kit in his basement and tolerant parents who didn’t mind...

May 3, 2021

7 min read

Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Stony Brook Matters

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.

April 26, 2021

3 min read

Tag: chemistry

Makoto Fujita Receives Inaugural Ojima Distinguished Lectureship Award in Chemistry

Chemists Develop New Machine Learning Framework to Improve Catalysts

April 29 Provost’s Lecture: Makoto Fujita Explores Latest Advances in Coordination Self-Assembly

Karena Chapman Receives Hanawalt Award for Research on Challenging Materials Problems

Engineering Major Says Research Is All About Troubleshooting

Tracking Lithium Provides Clues to Better Batteries

Four SBU Faculty Are Named 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows

Esther Takeuchi Receives 2022 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences

SBU’s Peter Khalifah Part of Team to Receive DOE Funding for Electric Vehicle Battery Research

Professor Daniel Knopf Tries to Predict How Ice Forms in Clouds

To Mask or Not to Mask? Study Provides Mechanism to Test Materials

Chemist José Rodriguez Named Fellow of the American Vacuum Society

DOE Award Aims to Accelerate Advancements in Zero-Emissions Vehicles

Stanislaus Wong Named 2021 American Chemical Society Fellow

SBU Track Star Triumphs at USATF Masters Athletics Championships

Christopher Johnson Awarded $750K from DOE Early Career Research Program

For the Love of Chemistry

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

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