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Takeuchi Team Earns Secretary of Energy Achievement Award

Esther S. Takeuchi, Distinguished Professor and William and Jane Knapp Endowed Chair in Energy and the Environment at Stony Brook University, was honored Jan. 24 along with a team of scientists with the Secretary of...

January 27, 2023

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John Fleagle to Receive Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award

John Fleagle, distinguished professor of anatomical sciences at Stony Brook University’s Renaissance School of Medicine, has won the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award. Granted by the American Association of...

January 11, 2023

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Alum Kathleen McGarry Named Thomas Muench Endowed Chair of Economics

Renowned economist Kathleen McGarry will be joining the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences as the Thomas Muench Endowed Chair of Economics beginning this summer. A proud Stony Brook University...

January 11, 2023

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Physics and Astronomy Faculty Earn NSF Early CAREER Awards

Assistant Professors Cyrus Dreyer and Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi Receive More Than $1M in Total Grants Stony Brook University Assistant Professors Cyrus Dreyer and Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi in the College of Arts and...

January 9, 2023

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Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research STEM University

Cano and Global Team of Physicists Demo Method for Designing Topological Metals

Jennifer Cano, an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy, was part of a team of U.S. and European physicists that has demonstrated a new method for predicting whether...

December 6, 2022

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Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Humanities News Highlights University

‘Writing Beyond the Prison’ Amplifies Voice of the Incarcerated and Their Families

When shared with the wider world, writing moves beyond an act of individual consciousness and self-expression to become a communal exchange that creates knowledge, compassion, empathy, recognition of shared conditions...

December 5, 2022

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

Alan Alda and Irina Petrushina Honored by New York Academy of Sciences at Annual Gala

Alan Alda and Irina Petrushina were both honored by the New York Academy of Sciences at its 2022 Gala, held November 14 at Cipriani 25 Broadway in New York City. Alda was given the Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award...

November 30, 2022

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Barry Barish Awarded Copernicus Prize for Contributions to Science

Barry Barish, a world-renowned experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate who will be joining Stony Brook University as the inaugural President’s Distinguished Endowed Chair in Physics, has been awarded the Copernicus...

November 29, 2022

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Stony Brook Bach Festival Features Internationally Acclaimed Musicians

The Department of Music presents Bach at Stony Brook, a two-day festival featuring internationally renowned musicians on Wednesday, November 30, and Thursday, December 1. All events are free and open to the general...

November 18, 2022

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Academics Advancement College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff News Highlights University

Katrín Sigurdardóttir Named Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor in Studio Art

Internationally renowned visual artist Katrín Sigurdardóttir, MFA, has been named the next Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professorship in Studio Art in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Art. In her...

November 17, 2022

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Geosciences Grad Student Nandita Kumari Contributes Research to NASA Artemis Mission

The Moon’s south polar region is of special interest to scientists because of the occurrence of water ice in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) around it. Craters in this region are scientifically important because...

November 10, 2022

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Nikita Nekrasov Awarded 2023 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Nikita Nekrasov, a professor at Stony Brook University’s Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, has been awarded the 2023 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical...

November 10, 2022

4 min read

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$13.6M DOE Grant Renewal Enables Researchers to Focus on Energy Storage

The Center for Mesoscale Transport Properties (m2M#S) was awarded renewed funding for research focused on electrochemical energy storage.

October 29, 2022

3 min read

In February Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory hosted a Quantum Information Science Workshop that brought together more than 200 attendees interested in QIST research.

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QuEST Project Increases Pre-College Exposure to Quantum Information Science

With $1.5 million in funding from the NSF, three SBU faculty are spearheading this effort with the potential of directly impacting 800 students and 160 teachers in New York City and Long Island.

October 25, 2022

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New Course on Energy, Climate and Society Is a Cross-College Collaboration

The energy consumption of 21st century societies is causing the Earth’s climate to warm at an alarming rate, but our way of life is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Knowing how we came to this moment in time...

October 24, 2022

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The College of Arts and Sciences Announces its 2022-23 Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series

The College of Arts and Sciences is proud to present the Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series for 2022-23. The series kicks off on Wednesday, October 12, with the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature’s...

October 11, 2022

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Academics College of Arts & Sciences Humanities News Highlights University

Tomczak Proposal Awarded NEH Grant for ‘Dyckman Discussions’ Series

The project aims to create more unified communities as people see commonalities between themselves and their neighbors.

October 7, 2022

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Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Newsletter-Spotlight University

Newman Awarded NEH Grant for Virtual Educators Program

The project will be a 2023 summer institute on “Making the Good Reader and Citizen: The History of Literature Instruction in American Schools.”

October 5, 2022

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Takeuchi Team Earns Secretary of Energy Achievement Award

John Fleagle to Receive Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award

Alum Kathleen McGarry Named Thomas Muench Endowed Chair of Economics

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Earn NSF Early CAREER Awards

Cano and Global Team of Physicists Demo Method for Designing Topological Metals

‘Writing Beyond the Prison’ Amplifies Voice of the Incarcerated and Their Families

Alan Alda and Irina Petrushina Honored by New York Academy of Sciences at Annual Gala

Barry Barish Awarded Copernicus Prize for Contributions to Science

Stony Brook Bach Festival Features Internationally Acclaimed Musicians

Katrín Sigurdardóttir Named Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor in Studio Art

Geosciences Grad Student Nandita Kumari Contributes Research to NASA Artemis Mission

Nikita Nekrasov Awarded 2023 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

$13.6M DOE Grant Renewal Enables Researchers to Focus on Energy Storage

QuEST Project Increases Pre-College Exposure to Quantum Information Science

New Course on Energy, Climate and Society Is a Cross-College Collaboration

The College of Arts and Sciences Announces its 2022-23 Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series

Tomczak Proposal Awarded NEH Grant for ‘Dyckman Discussions’ Series

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