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New Genomic Research Reveals Bats Originated in Europe

The largest study ever of bat genome research combined with bat fossils reveals that bats originated in Europe some 65 million years ago.

September 23, 2026

5 min read

Stony Brook University Professors Awarded More Than $270K by New York State DEC

Stony Brook University Professors Robert Thacker and Elizabeth Watson have received awards from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

September 8, 2026

3 min read

Stony Brook Researchers Use Satellites to Track What Penguins Eat from Space

Stony Brook researchers are using satellite images of Adélie penguin colonies to determine what they eat and how sea ice changes affect the Antarctic food web.

July 8, 2026

4 min read

Heather Lynch Selected as 2027-28 George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University

Stony Brook Professor Heather Lynch has been honored with the 2027-2028 George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford University.

June 23, 2026

4 min read

DNA Study of Post-Roman Europeans Reveals Emergence of Complex New Society

A new Stony Brook-led study that uses ancient human DNA analyses is helping scientists learn about the Early Medieval people who inhabited Western Europe.

June 11, 2026

5 min read

Fulbright Amazonia Paper Earns ERL Editor’s Choice Award for 2025

A Fulbright Amazonia paper co-authored by Stony Brook Professor Liliana Dávalos has won an Editor's Choice Award from the journal Environmental Research Letters

April 10, 2026

2 min read

Tara Smiley Named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow for Early-Career Research

Tara Smiley, an assistant professor in Stony Brook University's Department of Ecology and Evolution, has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow.

February 17, 2026

3 min read

Could Extinct Species Save Today’s Forests? Scientist Makes the Case for Darwin Day

Darwin Day at Stony Brook University serves as a reminder that “evolutionary thinking is the bedrock of our understanding of the living world.”

February 16, 2026

5 min read

How the Incredible Shrinking Shrew Adapts to Winter

Stony Brook University scientists are learning more about how Eurasian shrews can adapt to winter, which can shed light on metabolic and neurological diseases.

February 3, 2026

4 min read

International Team Reports Large Human Impacts from Extreme Weather Events in the Amazon

Researchers call for action on reporting, mitigation and adaptation A new study published in Environmental Research Letters and conducted by an international team supported in part by the Fulbright Amazonia Program...

December 8, 2025

4 min read

Social Justice Summer Grants Roundtable Highlights Impact of Student Research

The Center for Changing Systems of Power presented a roundtable featuring four summer grantees who each had an opportunity to share their work and its impact.

November 25, 2025

7 min read

Film Prompts Discussion About What a ‘Rewilded’ Earth Might Look Like

The American Humane Society documentary film, 'Escape from Extinction: Rewilding,' was screened on September 24 as part of Stony Brook's Science + Cinema.

October 6, 2025

3 min read

Five Early Career Faculty Win Stony Brook Trustees Faculty Awards

Five early-career assistant professors were awarded the Stony Brook Trustees Faculty Award, worth up to $20,000 each to support research and scholarship.

August 26, 2025

4 min read

Tara Smiley Wins NSF CAREER Award to Unlock Small-Mammal Fossil Record

Tara Smiley, an assistant professor in Stony Brook's Department of Ecology and Evolution, has received the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.

August 26, 2025

4 min read

SBU Doctoral Student Wins Leakey Grant to Study Kenya’s Coastal Primates

A Stony Brook University doctoral student was awarded a grant from The Leakey Foundation to study how primates have adapted to living in coastal Kenya.

July 9, 2025

4 min read

How One Couple Is Changing the Lives of Stony Brook Students

Jim and Janice Rohlf have been connected to Stony Brook University for a combined 78 years, and have been supporting students and programs for almost 40 years.

April 25, 2025

3 min read

The Evolution of Nuclear Landscapes: A Darwin Day Discussion

Timothy Mousseau was invited by the SBU Department of Ecology and Evolution to speak about Chernobyl, Fukushima and other “hot places" as part of Darwin Day.

February 19, 2025

5 min read

Tune in to Collaborative for the Earth Podcast on WUSB-FM

C4E Presents, a podcast from Stony Brook University's Collaborative for the Earth (C4E), is now broadcasting on WUSB-FM

February 18, 2025

3 min read

Tag: Ecology and Evolution

New Genomic Research Reveals Bats Originated in Europe

Stony Brook University Professors Awarded More Than $270K by New York State DEC

Stony Brook Researchers Use Satellites to Track What Penguins Eat from Space

Heather Lynch Selected as 2027-28 George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University

DNA Study of Post-Roman Europeans Reveals Emergence of Complex New Society

Fulbright Amazonia Paper Earns ERL Editor’s Choice Award for 2025

Tara Smiley Named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow for Early-Career Research

Could Extinct Species Save Today’s Forests? Scientist Makes the Case for Darwin Day

How the Incredible Shrinking Shrew Adapts to Winter

International Team Reports Large Human Impacts from Extreme Weather Events in the Amazon

Film Prompts Discussion About What a ‘Rewilded’ Earth Might Look Like

Five Early Career Faculty Win Stony Brook Trustees Faculty Awards

Tara Smiley Wins NSF CAREER Award to Unlock Small-Mammal Fossil Record

SBU Doctoral Student Wins Leakey Grant to Study Kenya’s Coastal Primates

How One Couple Is Changing the Lives of Stony Brook Students

The Evolution of Nuclear Landscapes: A Darwin Day Discussion

Tune in to Collaborative for the Earth Podcast on WUSB-FM

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