University Scholars

Big Ideas, Local Impact: Honors Students Shine at INNOVATE Challenge

Stony Brook University’s top undergraduates came together for INNOVATE: Honors Edition, and were challenged to turn innovative ideas into actionable solutions.

October 23, 2025

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Alum Nancy Neff Establishes Endowed Fund for WISE

Nancy Neff ’72 has made it a point throughout her career to help mentor colleagues and now clients through her consulting business. Wanting to ensure students have the resources and guidance they need to succeed, she...

August 25, 2025

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SBU Students Joining The New York Climate Exchange Summer Internship Program

Four Stony Brook University students have been selected to participate in the highly competitive The New York Climate Exchange Summer Internship Program.

May 5, 2025

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Student Excellence: 14 SBU Students Honored with SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

Fourteen outstanding Stony Brook University seniors were among the 193 students recognized with the SUNY 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.

April 30, 2025

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Humanities Student Reflects on Her Undergraduate Research Journey at Stony Brook

Laci Burton — the URECA researcher of the month for March — is a University Scholar majoring in English with minors in Writing and Rhetoric and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is a participant in the English...

March 3, 2025

3 min read

URECA Researcher of the Month to Present Thesis Project in April

Miranda Argyros — the URECA researcher of the month for March — is a senior in the University Scholars honors program, majoring in English and psychology. She is completing an English departmental honors thesis under...

March 1, 2024

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University Scholar Reflects on His Research Experiences at Stony Brook

Aiden Gauer ’23 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for November — is a senior in the University Scholars honors program, double majoring in chemical engineering and physics. For more than a year, he has been engaged in...

November 1, 2022

2 min read

Undergrad’s Summer Research Experience Helped Her Learn to Think Critically

Marcela Muricy ’23 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for October — is in the University Scholars honors program, double majoring in biology and women’s gender and sexuality studies. For the past year, she has been...

October 3, 2022

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Undergrad’s Extensive Research Experience Was Supported by Several Key Programs

The biology major says that at Stony Brook he was able to get "awesome research experience, which has been super valuable to me, and to have great mentors."

January 10, 2022

3 min read

Scholars Program Brings Out Leadership Skills in Future Physician

Ethan Ertel applied to SBU because of its academic and research reputation and its strong biomedical engineering program. He began his academic journey as a University Scholar in 2018.

September 24, 2021

4 min read

Pursuing a Childhood Dream of Helping Children

Victoria Dotto ’22 wanted to be a pediatrician even when she was a child. So every chance she got along the way, she has volunteered to work with children. “Ever since I was little, I had a curiosity about science and...

June 4, 2021

5 min read

Commitment to Service Translates to a Bright Medical Future

Service to others — a requirement for all University Scholars — is at the heart of Anika Porwal’s ’23 philosophy as a student, and has also shaped her career path in medicine. Porwal was a student in Jeremy Marchese’s...

April 14, 2021

5 min read

Volunteering Overseas Confirms Student’s Decision to Become a Doctor

Cassandra (Casey) Yap ’21 was well acquainted with the medical profession at a very young age. She decided to follow in the footsteps of her internist father, Dr. Wilson Yap, after growing up going to his clinic — which...

January 22, 2021

4 min read

Samantha Romano ’19 Finds a Path to Empowerment

By her own admission, Samantha Romano ’19 was painfully shy in high school — too reserved, in fact, to raise her hand to ask or answer a question in class. Today, after four years as a psychology and political science...

January 29, 2019

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