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NSF-Funded Research Probes Intersection of Tectonics and Biology

How does landscape history affect the diversity of mammals over time? Why are there more species in the Andes than there are in the Amazon? Over the next three years, a team of geophysicists, geochemists and biologists...

April 23, 2019

3 min read

Awards and Honors Faculty/Staff News Highlights

Linguist Thomas Graf Receives 2019 NSF CAREER Award

Assistant Professor Thomas Graf, Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project, “Abstract Universals in...

April 22, 2019

2 min read

Research

Researchers Model the Neural Basis of Expectation

Sensory stimuli, especially powerful ones like taste, are affected by expectation, which is a trigger to improving stimuli detection, distinction and reaction. Yet scientists know little about how expectation shapes the...

April 15, 2019

1 min read

Awards and Honors Research

Dávalos Receives Award to Study the Regenerative Powers of the Shrew

Liliana Dávalos will be studying the phenomenal capabilities of the shrew after being named one of the international recipients of the Human Frontier Science Program’s (HFSP) 2019 collaborative research grants. Dávalos...

April 3, 2019

2 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Research School of Medicine

2019 Discovery Prize Finalists Announced

Four young scholars are competing for the 2019 Discovery Prize, a $200,000 award given to a Stony Brook University faculty member in the STEM disciplines whose research project embraces risk and innovation and embodies...

April 2, 2019

4 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

Academics College of Arts & Sciences College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Entrepreneurialism Service Student Spotlight Sustainability

Stony Brook’s Student Entrepreneurs are Growing and Glowing

For most students, going to college is a stepping stone to greater things, a means of reaching their professional goals and aspirations. But a growing number of Stony Brook students are getting a head start on...

March 22, 2019

8 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Humanities Long Island

Susan Scheckel Throws a Humanist’s Hat Into the Ring

Susan Scheckel, Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, is on a mission. She’s committed to showing that education in the humanities provides invaluable training in the acquisition of real-world skills...

March 12, 2019

4 min read

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

Rowan Ricardo Phillips Honored for Best Literary Sports Writing

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, a professor in the English Department of the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently awarded the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing for his book, The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. This...

March 5, 2019

3 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Sustainability

Saving the Brown Bears of Italy

We sat down with Roger Thompson, director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University and author of No Word For Wilderness: Italy’s Grizzlies and the Race to Save the Rarest Bears on Earth (Ashland...

February 26, 2019

6 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Grant Will Aid Lynch’s Penguin Colony Research

Ecologist Heather J. Lynch, an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, has been awarded a Microsoft/National Geographic AI for Earth Innovation Grant that will support her use of artificial...

December 14, 2018

2 min read

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

Tiniest Ever Fossil Ape Discovered in Kenya

When Stony Brook University anthropologist James Rossie began sifting through sediment in the Tugen Hills of Kenya during his first day of the dig, he didn’t know he’d discover teeth from a previously undiscovered tiny...

November 6, 2018

3 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences Humanities Research Stony Brook Matters

Political Science Professor Casts Her Vote On the Independent Voice This Election

As an associate professor of political science who has spent countless hours gaining insight into the minds and behaviors of voters, Yanna Krupnikov knows a lot about what goes into casting a ballot each Election Day...

November 5, 2018

5 min read

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

Ken Dill Awarded Max Delbruck Prize

Ken A. Dill, distinguished professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Departments of Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy and the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Endowed Chair of Physical and Quantitative Biology, has...

October 30, 2018

3 min read

Academics News Highlights School of Professional Development Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Rachel Witt ’19 Finds the Right Fit in Secondary Education Program

Like many students choosing a university, Rachel Witt ’19 knew she wanted a strong science program, but she didn’t have a clear idea of what she wanted to do with her life. “Stony Brook seemed like the perfect place for...

October 27, 2018

4 min read

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

Chemistry Professor Trevor Sears Named American Physical Society 2018 Fellow

The American Physical Society (APS), the world’s largest physics organization, has elected Trevor Sears, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Chemistry, as a 2018 fellow. Professor Sears was...

October 12, 2018

3 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters

American Psychological Foundation Honors Marvin Goldfried for Lifetime Achievement

Dr. Marvin Goldfried, distinguished professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology in Stony Brook University’s College of Arts and Sciences, recently received the American Psychological...

October 5, 2018

3 min read

Tag: College of Arts and Sciences

NSF-Funded Research Probes Intersection of Tectonics and Biology

Linguist Thomas Graf Receives 2019 NSF CAREER Award

Researchers Model the Neural Basis of Expectation

Dávalos Receives Award to Study the Regenerative Powers of the Shrew

2019 Discovery Prize Finalists Announced

Illuminating Water Filtration

Stony Brook’s Student Entrepreneurs are Growing and Glowing

Susan Scheckel Throws a Humanist’s Hat Into the Ring

Rowan Ricardo Phillips Honored for Best Literary Sports Writing

Saving the Brown Bears of Italy

Grant Will Aid Lynch’s Penguin Colony Research

Political Science Professor Casts Her Vote On the Independent Voice This Election

Ken Dill Awarded Max Delbruck Prize

Rachel Witt ’19 Finds the Right Fit in Secondary Education Program

Chemistry Professor Trevor Sears Named American Physical Society 2018 Fellow

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