Stony Brook University's annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Celebration was held in the Student Activities Center on May 2, 2023
Andrew Bae — the URECA Researcher of the Month for April — is a student in the Honors College majoring in applied mathematics and statistics with a minor in computer science. He was recently announced as a recipient of...
The Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery in the Staller Center will feature artwork by Stony Brook University students this April. The undergraduate Senior Show 2023 and the URECA Student Art Exhibition will be on view together...
Nicholas Smith ’23 — URECA Researcher of the Month for March — is a first-generation college student in the Honors College at Stony Brook University majoring in human evolutionary biology. For his senior honors...
Lyrikah Rodrigues — the URECA Researcher of the Month for February — is a junior in the Honors College at Stony Brook University, pursuing dual majors in psychology and biology (neuroscience track). She has been a...
Matthew Venezia ’23 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for January — is a senior majoring in biology with a minor in writing and rhetoric whose deep interest in plant biology and biotechnology was sparked early on as a...
Nadine Areikat ’23 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for December — is double majoring in biology and psychology and is completing her biology honors thesis on “Characterization of Apoptosis During Murine Fracture...
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...
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...
Evan Trommer — the URECA Researcher of the Month for September — is a senior majoring in physics and mathematics who has been exploring experimental plasma physics under the mentorship of Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi from...
Hannah Philipose — the URECA Researcher of the Month for July — is a senior in the Honors College majoring in biology with a minor in health, medicine, and society. She is one of three recipients of a 2022 Sass...
Christopher Moore ’24 — the URECA Researcher of the Month for June — is a biomedical engineering major in the Honors College whose research under the mentorship of Wei Lin, associate professor in the Department of...
Franklin Eck ‘22 — the URECA researcher of the month for April 2022 — is a history major with a passion for early American history. Working under the mentorship of Professor Paul Kelton, Gardiner Chair in American...
“Honestly that’s what research is. It’s all troubleshooting,” said Joshua Heuvel-Horwitz ’23 — the URECA researcher of the month for March 2022 — who has experienced the day-to-day process of working through...
Sasha McKay — the URECA researcher of the month for February 2022 — graduated summa cum laude in December 2021 with a double major in biochemistry and sociology. Since June 2020, she has been investigating racial and...
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."