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Helping Underrepresented Teens Reach for the STARS

In 2018, Carol Carter, professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, crossed paths with Stony Brook alumnus Jason Williams ’04, currently...

June 21, 2021

3 min read

Diversity Entrepreneurship Main University Stony Brook Matters

University’s Center for Corporate Education Focuses on Empowering Women

Before she started her first corporate job, Anna Goldberg ’09, ’12 said she didn’t recall experiencing gender bias. All that changed when at age 24 she participated in a meeting with predominantly male co-workers and...

August 9, 2018

5 min read

Community Diversity Research

BNL-Stony Brook Joint Outreach Exposes Young Women to Nanoscience

Opportunities to experience what scientists do were few and far between for Shruti Sharma while growing up in India. This lack of early exposure to hands-on science activities contributed to Sharma—now a fifth-year PhD...

July 2, 2018

5 min read

Events On Campus

SUNY-Industry Conference to be Held at Stony Brook, June 3-5

Science and Engineering for Social Good Building on more than 20 years of transformative reform initiatives in STEM learning that have impacted educators at more than 500 institutions, the National Center for Science...

June 1, 2018

3 min read

Academics Awards and Honors

Stony Brook Postdoc Wins 2018 Flame Challenge, Answering “What Is Climate?”

“What is climate?” Over the past several months, 5th and 6th graders from around the world have asked scientists for a user-friendly answer. More than 100 submissions poured in for consideration by hundreds of 11-year...

May 30, 2018

3 min read

Academics College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Featured Story Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Amna Haider ’18 Aspires to be Physician, Innovator

As the daughter of a civil engineer and medical doctor, Amna Haider ’18 was exposed to a barrage of ideas and information early on and learned to ask big questions. She wanted to know how things worked. She...

May 29, 2018

6 min read

Global Main University News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight Sustainability Wellness

Taking Flight: SBU Researchers Use Drones to Push Boundaries, Innovate and Learn

Most people still think of drones as weapons. At Stony Brook University, however, researchers and students are pioneering the peaceful use of drones – also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – for scientific and...

May 25, 2018

9 min read

Community Events Global Main University On Campus Research Stony Brook Matters

University Set to Host Final Championship of World-Wide Science Competition

On July 12, 2018, Stony Brook University is joining The Center for Science Teaching and Learning (CSTL) in presenting the Spellman High Voltage Electronic Clean Tech Competition. The event, open to the public, will take...

May 21, 2018

2 min read

Academics College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

WISE Student Alexa Rockwell ’18 Understands Technology’s Potential in a World that Needs It

Alexa Rockwell wanted to learn how to code in high school, but her district didn’t offer any computer science courses. She wanted to compete in the Long Island High School Robotics competition, but her school didn’t...

May 9, 2018

4 min read

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

Engineering Professor Karen Chen-Wiegart Receives NSF CAREER Award for Her Research at SBU and BNL

Karen Chen-Wiegart, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering (MSCE) in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been awarded the 2018 National Science Foundation...

May 7, 2018

4 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Medicine Research Stony Brook Matters

NSF CAREER Award: Professor Romeil Sandhu Applies Mathematics to Improve Security and Reliability of Complex Networks

Romeil Sandhu, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) jointly administered by the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and School of Medicine, has earned a 2018 National Science...

May 1, 2018

3 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Faculty/Staff Medicine Today News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Using Computational Biology to Fight Deadly Infections

Tom MacCarthy, Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Stony Brook’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of...

April 30, 2018

2 min read

Academics College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Events Medicine On Campus Stony Brook Matters

Distinguished Lecture: The Deep Learning Revolution, May 7

As part of the Engineering-driven Medicine Distinguished Lecture Series, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and School of Medicine will host Professor Terrence Sejnowski, Head of the Computational...

April 27, 2018

2 min read

Awards and Honors News Highlights Sustainability

Kids Pick Finalists in Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge, Including SBU Researcher

As a boy, Emmy Award-winning actor Alan Alda was fascinated with the world around him. He yearned to know exactly how things worked and often developed his own makeshift experiments for fun. At age 11, he turned to his...

April 25, 2018

5 min read

On Campus Student Spotlight

A Life-changing Moment at InnovateIT for Freshman Kelvin Rodriguez

Freshman Kelvin Rodriguez participated in InnovateIT, hosted by Stony Brook University iCREATE March 2 through March 3. InnovateIT is a hackathon-style event that offers students the chance to take an idea and build...

April 16, 2018

4 min read

Events On Campus

Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne to Lecture at Simons Center, April 19-20

The Simons Center will host a lecture series by Kip Thorne, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of...

March 29, 2018

2 min read

Events On Campus

April 9 Provost’s Lecture on Innovations in Science Education

The Dynamic Genome Program: A Model for Bringing the Excitement of Authentic Research into Foundational Laboratory Courses Susan Wessler is Distinguished Professor of Genetics and the Neil and Rochelle Campbell...

March 29, 2018

2 min read

Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Researchers Describe Role of Stratosphere in ‘Bomb Cyclones’

People have become familiar with “bomb cyclones” this winter, as several powerful winter storms brought strong winds and heavy precipitation to the U.S. east coast, knocking out power and causing flooding. With strength...

March 28, 2018

4 min read

Tag: STEMM

Helping Underrepresented Teens Reach for the STARS

University’s Center for Corporate Education Focuses on Empowering Women

BNL-Stony Brook Joint Outreach Exposes Young Women to Nanoscience

SUNY-Industry Conference to be Held at Stony Brook, June 3-5

Stony Brook Postdoc Wins 2018 Flame Challenge, Answering “What Is Climate?”

Amna Haider ’18 Aspires to be Physician, Innovator

Taking Flight: SBU Researchers Use Drones to Push Boundaries, Innovate and Learn

University Set to Host Final Championship of World-Wide Science Competition

WISE Student Alexa Rockwell ’18 Understands Technology’s Potential in a World that Needs It

Engineering Professor Karen Chen-Wiegart Receives NSF CAREER Award for Her Research at SBU and BNL

NSF CAREER Award: Professor Romeil Sandhu Applies Mathematics to Improve Security and Reliability of Complex Networks

Using Computational Biology to Fight Deadly Infections

Distinguished Lecture: The Deep Learning Revolution, May 7

Kids Pick Finalists in Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge, Including SBU Researcher

A Life-changing Moment at InnovateIT for Freshman Kelvin Rodriguez

Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne to Lecture at Simons Center, April 19-20

April 9 Provost’s Lecture on Innovations in Science Education

Researchers Describe Role of Stratosphere in ‘Bomb Cyclones’

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