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Always Striving to Find the Perfect Fit

Being the proverbial square peg in the round hole is nothing new to Pavithra Venkataraman ’22. In fact, that is how she has felt both in her hometown of Columbus, Indiana, and in Chennai, India, where she lived from...

May 14, 2021

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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

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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

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Professor Peter Khalifah (middle) with graduate students Zhuo Li (left) and Gerard Mattei (right) holding a "pouch cell" battery attached to a frame used for synchrotron x-ray studies (Note: This photo was taken prior to current COVID-19 social distancing guidelines). Courtesy of Brookhaven Laboratory

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Chemistry Professor Peter Khalifah and Grad Students Test Lithium-Metal Batteries

Peter Khalifah, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, and graduate students Zhuo and Gerard Mattei are among a group of scientists that has identified the primary cause of failure in a...

April 19, 2021

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Two SBU Students Receive SUNY Honors for Academic Excellence

Physics major Neomi Lewis and biology major Erika Nemeth are recipients of the 2021 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, and they were honored at a virtual ceremony on April 14.

April 15, 2021

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F. William Studier in 2004; in the 1980s, Studier and a team of collaborators deciphered key details of the T7 bacteriophage and turned what they learned into a system to produce copious amounts of desired proteins. The production of today's mRNA COVID-19 vaccines relies on these foundational discoveries. Photo courtesy of Brookhaven Lab

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Former SBU Professor Collaborated on Biotech Tools Used to Produce COVID Vaccines

The first two vaccines approved for battling COVID-19 in the United States use a relatively new approach — injections of simple packets containing mRNA, a genetic material that instructs our cells to make coronavirus...

April 15, 2021

4 min read

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The Evolution of Education

A pioneering cross-disciplinary program accelerates student collaboration and growth By Rob Emproto | Photography by John Griffin Knowing how to collaborate effectively across diverse disciplines is essential for...

April 8, 2021

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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.

April 6, 2021

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Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

These Graduate Research Fellowships provide successful applicants in NSF-supported STEM disciplines with three years of funding for graduate school.

April 1, 2021

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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...

April 1, 2021

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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...

March 26, 2021

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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...

March 26, 2021

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Stephanie Dinkins Named Inaugural Yayoi Kusama Endowed Professor of Art

Professor Stephanie Dinkins, from Stony Brook University’s Department of Art, has been named the inaugural Yayoi Kusama Endowed Professor of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences. A transmedia artist who creates...

March 25, 2021

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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...

March 23, 2021

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A Passion for Teaching Helps Students Stay Engaged During Pandemic

PhD student and instructor Omar Badessi has been tremendously successful in effectively communicating with his students despite some limitations posed by the COVID pandemic.

March 19, 2021

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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.

March 11, 2021

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Ballet Dancer ‘On Pointe’ for a Promising Business Career

Had it not been for a simple twist of fate and a change of heart, Diana Atoian ’23 might be starring in The Nutcracker in her native Russia rather than having aspirations to be an economist — or even the next Janet...

March 11, 2021

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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.

March 10, 2021

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Tag: College of Arts and Sciences

Always Striving to Find the Perfect Fit

For the Love of Chemistry

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

Chemistry Professor Peter Khalifah and Grad Students Test Lithium-Metal Batteries

Two SBU Students Receive SUNY Honors for Academic Excellence

Former SBU Professor Collaborated on Biotech Tools Used to Produce COVID Vaccines

The Evolution of Education

Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

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

Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards

Stephanie Dinkins Named Inaugural Yayoi Kusama Endowed Professor of Art

Chemistry Faculty Receive International Prize for Water Research

A Passion for Teaching Helps Students Stay Engaged During Pandemic

Latest Discoveries Revealed at SBU’s Virtual Postdoc Spotlight

Ballet Dancer ‘On Pointe’ for a Promising Business Career

Study on Caribbean Mammal Extinctions Helps Guide Conservation Strategies

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