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COVID-19 Diversity Featured Story Medicine

Stony Brook Experts Take on Healthcare Disparities in Virtual Town Hall

With its strong focus on the health sciences as well as diversity and inclusion, Stony Brook University has long been committed to the importance of global health and health disparities. SBU’s expertise in the area was...

August 26, 2020

8 min read

Research

Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Center to be Established at BNL

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Brookhaven National Laboratory to lead one of five National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers.

August 26, 2020

4 min read

Research

New Understanding of a Protein Complex May Lead to Better Disease Research

The research helps to build an understanding of the underlying causes of a number of diseases with the ultimate goal of developing new therapeutics.

August 25, 2020

3 min read

Alumni News Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff

NEH Funds Seminar for K-12 Teachers

The grant will fund a project by SBU's Andrew Newman that will guide 16 high school teachers through an exploration of the history of high school literature instruction in the 20th century.

August 20, 2020

3 min read

Academics Alumni Spotlight Story Featured Story Research STEM Stony Brook Matters

Scientists Confirm Age of Universe is 13.8 Billion Years

The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, according to new research published in a series of papers by an international team of astrophysicists, including Stony Brook’s Neelima Sehgal. Using observations from the...

July 15, 2020

4 min read

Alumni Chapters & Groups Alumni Spotlight Story Black/Latino Group Diversity Events Featured Story Recent Grads Stony Brook Matters

Taking on Social Justice in the Wake of the George Floyd Killing

“The names we’ve all heard, but we need to say them — Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Walter Scott, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd — and understand...

July 9, 2020

8 min read

Awards and Honors Humanities News Highlights Student Spotlight

History Doctoral Candidate Heading to France with Chateaubriand Fellowship

Spencer Austin is the second Seawolf to be honored with this fellowship since 2015, and he will spend the Spring ’21 semester studying in France.

July 2, 2020

4 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story COVID-19 Faculty/Student Spotlights Recent Grads Research STEM Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Bernard Essuman ’21 Tackles COVID-19 Research

The study will help researchers understand how COVID-19 interacts with 3D-printed face shields, cotton, skin and hair, and could predict how long it sticks to surfaces.

June 30, 2020

3 min read

Faculty/Staff News Highlights

Stephanie Kelton Cracks Best Seller List

A professor of economics and public policy, Dr. Kelton is a leading authority on Modern Monetary Theory, an approach to economics that is drawing great interest worldwide.

June 26, 2020

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story COVID-19 Faculty/Staff Featured Story Humanities Medicine and Research Stony Brook Matters

Historian Paul Kelton Tells a Tale of Two Pandemics

Paul Kelton was working on a book about the cholera pandemic of the 1830s when coronavirus emerged. “It’s been a surreal experience writing about a pandemic while one is going on,” said Kelton, professor...

June 23, 2020

6 min read

Alumni Chapters & Groups Alumni Spotlight Story COVID-19 Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research News Highlights Nursing Alumni Research STEM Stony Brook Matters

University Funds 17 COVID-Related Research Projects

Investigators begin critical research to address urgent healthcare challenges, including prognostic and therapeutic studies, as well as the far-reaching social impacts of the pandemic.

June 19, 2020

5 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story COVID-19 Faculty/Staff Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Nursing Alumni News STEM Stony Brook Matters

Bat Study Could Provide Clues to Coronavirus

The research, funded by the NSF, will look at how viruses affect cells upon entry into the bat host’s nasal passages to explain why symptomatic disease does not occur.

June 15, 2020

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Stony Brook Researchers Explore Moiré Patterns Beyond 2D Materials

Beyond producing interesting and beautiful geometric patterns, materials scientists have explored this geometrical oddity and discovered new physics in the nanoscopic world.

June 9, 2020

5 min read

Faculty/Staff News Highlights SB Southampton

SBU Experts Featured on Kids’ Game Show

Several of Stony Brook’s “know-it-alls” are being tested on the Disney+ channel's educational kids' show, "The Big Fib," featuring experts and rising comedians who engage in a battle of wits.

June 3, 2020

3 min read

Alumni News Alumni Spotlight Story COVID-19 Giving Back News Highlights Stony Brook Matters

From Math to Masks: Alumni Group Helps SBU During Crisis

Former students of Professor Xiuxiong Chen were both moved and concerned enough to reach out to their former teacher and mentor to offer help.

May 14, 2020

4 min read

COVID-19 News Highlights Research

Laufer Center Leverages Computing to Fight Coronavirus

Computer-aided research aimed at drug discovery to combat COVID-19 is being coordinated through five faculty research groups.

May 11, 2020

1 min read

COVID-19

Podcast Features Engineering-Driven Medicine as Coronavirus Response

The podcast will be aired on the University’s Facebook page on Wednesday, May 6, at 1 pm ET.

May 5, 2020

1 min read

Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Stony Brook Matters

Surita R. Bhatia Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Surita R. Bhatia, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor, Department of Chemistry, to its College of...

March 31, 2020

3 min read

Tag: College of Arts and Sciences

Stony Brook Experts Take on Healthcare Disparities in Virtual Town Hall

Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Center to be Established at BNL

New Understanding of a Protein Complex May Lead to Better Disease Research

NEH Funds Seminar for K-12 Teachers

Scientists Confirm Age of Universe is 13.8 Billion Years

Taking on Social Justice in the Wake of the George Floyd Killing

History Doctoral Candidate Heading to France with Chateaubriand Fellowship

Bernard Essuman ’21 Tackles COVID-19 Research

Stephanie Kelton Cracks Best Seller List

Historian Paul Kelton Tells a Tale of Two Pandemics

University Funds 17 COVID-Related Research Projects

Bat Study Could Provide Clues to Coronavirus

Stony Brook Researchers Explore Moiré Patterns Beyond 2D Materials

SBU Experts Featured on Kids’ Game Show

From Math to Masks: Alumni Group Helps SBU During Crisis

Laufer Center Leverages Computing to Fight Coronavirus

Podcast Features Engineering-Driven Medicine as Coronavirus Response

Surita R. Bhatia Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

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