An international team of scientists, led by the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, has used DNA to determine that groups of dusky sharks (Carcharhinus obscurus) and copper sharks (Carcharhinus brachyurus) living in different coastal regions across the globe are separate populations of each species.
Three Stony Brook University Professors — Agnes Weiyun He, Ph.D., Sachiko Murata, Ph.D., and Jeffrey A. Segal, Ph.D.— have been named 2011 Guggenheim Fellows.
Recycling on Long Island has seen a marked decrease of some 20 percent over the past decade, according to a study conducted by Stony Brook University.
This conference brings together experts in various fields of engineering to discuss the state of the art and find solutions and trends for the future development of this exciting and cutting edge research and technology domain.
The National Science Foundation has designated the Center for Dynamic Data Analytics (CDDA)—a partnership between SBU and Rutgers University—as a new Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC).
Yaseen Eldik, a Stony Brook University student from Kings Park, has been named a 2011 Truman Scholar.
Stony Brook University will host the 2011 Sigma Xi Northeastern Research Symposium to showcase the work of top undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students from across the country in various fields of science.
John Milnor, Professor of Mathematics and Co-director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences has been awarded the $1 million Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters “for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra.”
Just as human babies learn to speak by listening to adults and then hearing their own attempts at speech, so young songbirds learn their distinctive melodies by hearing and then vocalizing the songs of adult birds.
Nancy B. Jackson, President of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Joan Dawson, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and widow of the late Professor Paul Lauterbur, and others will be at Stony Brook University on Friday, March 11 to commemorate via ACS historic landmark designation the first construction of an image by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance by Prof. Paul Lauterbur 30 years ago in the Stony Brook University Department of Chemistry. This work led to the awarding of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine to Professor Lauterbur.
Scientists at Stony Brook University have discovered evidence for a superfluid state of neutrons in the neutron star at the center of the supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A.
On Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, 2011 Stony Brook Manhattan will host an international conference called “Rival Sisters: Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism.”
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are caused by single-celled plants, or phytoplankton, in coastal waters and have a negative impact on coastal ecosystems worldwide, costing the U.S. economy alone hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The impact of harmful algal blooms have intensified in recent decades and most research has focused on chemical nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus as causative agents of these blooms.
Stony Brook University today announced that a technical collaboration agreement has been established with Subsea Oil Technologies, Inc. (“Subsea”) of Houston, Texas, for research and development in, but not limited to, subsea oil and/or gas spill (blowout) containment methods and apparatus configurations.
In a paper recently published in Current Anthropology, SBU Professor John Shea disproves the myth that the earliest humans were significantly different from us.
A new study by a Stony Brook University professor shows that structures that have been evolutionarily lost for hundreds of millions of years can be regained.
On Friday, March 4th, the City University of New York Center for the Humanities will host the conference The Scandals of Susan Sontag, in collaboration with Stony Brook University’s Humanities Institute.
Scientists from Stony Brook University are reporting new evidence that cultivating coca bushes, the source of cocaine, is speeding up destruction of rainforests in Colombia and threatening the region’s “hotspots” of plant and animal diversity.
A powerful new painkiller, which was developed on the basis of the research conducted at Stony Brook University and with no apparent side effects or addictive qualities, may now be only a year or two from the consumer market.
Thirty-two (32) high school students who worked with Stony Brook University faculty were named among the 300 semifinalists in the national 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition.
A new study compared the neural correlates of long-term married and in love individuals with individuals who had recently fallen in love. Researchers discovered highly similar brain activity.
Stony Brook University Professor of Geosciences and Physics, Artem Oganov, along with several colleagues, appears to have solved the long-standing mystery of excessive heat on the planet Neptune. Using Oganov’s innovative method for crystal structure prediction, the researchers have established support for theory that the sinking of massive amounts of diamond in Neptune’s interior creates its heat.
The Stony Brook University Police Department, under the leadership of Chief Robert Lenahan, recently received accreditation status from the New York State Law Enforcement Accreditation Council , announced University President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., MD.
We all know that crocodiles are reptiles with long snouts, conical teeth, strong jaws and long tails. But according to researchers at Stony Brook University in New York, we don’t know what we thought we knew. Rather, some crocodiles possessed a dazzling array of adaptations that resulted in unique and sometimes bizarre anatomy, including blunt, pug-nosed snouts, pudgy bodies and short tails.
Stony Brook University Distinguished Professors Iwao Ojima of Chemistry and Miriam Rafailovich of Material Science and Engineering worked with winners during summer research programs
In a new ranking by ScienceWatch.com, Stony Brook University has been named one of the top 10 institutions worldwide for Hadron Collider research. SBU was named 8th best overall—which includes national laboratories—and the 3rd best university in the world.
A team of scientists studying Antarctic ice cores have found surprising evidence of a fluctuating pattern of carbon monoxide concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere caused by biomass burning in the Southern Hemisphere over the past 650 years.
Harmful algal blooms, which negatively affect coastal ecosystems, public health, economies and fisheries around the world, may be promoted by vitamins B-1 and B-12 according to Stony Brook University scientists, whose findings were published in an early online edition (Nov. 10) and in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS ) in an article entitled "Most harmful algal bloom species are vitamin B1 and B12 auxotrophs."
Now Physician Assistants around the country and around the globe can obtain an advanced degree and further their careers with a new distance learning option at Stony Brook University.
Research article, 'The Impact of Conservation on the Status of World’s Vertebrates' recognized as one of the largest collaborations in the study of ecology.
Scientists from the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University (SBU), who also are members of the university’s faculty, are teaching the first course offered through the new graduate program, M.A. in Marine Conservation and Policy.
This new Poll, to be conducted jointly with Left Right Research, a Long Island based marketing research concern, will focus on how well Americans understand money, financial systems and financial math.
Post-professional masters program provides affordable 30-credit option.
Alfredo Fontanini, M.D., Ph.D., to be honored by President Obama at the White House.
Interactive web-based map highlights dozens of university sustainability measures.
Leading Energy Organizations to Highlight Latest Job-Producing Energy Technologies at Nov. 8-9 Conference in N.Y.C.
Advanced Energy Conference, Nov. 8-9 in NYC, to spotlight cutting-edge technologies for clean energy jobs and a growing economy.
Interaction between 'kiss of death' marker and protein-chopping factory - new target for anti-TB drugs.
Supervisor Mark Lesko and Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., M.D., announced that the Town of Brookhaven has become the newest member of the University’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for BioEnergy Research and Development (CBERD).
The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook (HISB) is planning an interdisciplinary conference on the subject of memory and emotion.
Study of ocean migration indicates that local management of the population may be insufficient and supports recently proposed listing for Atlantic sturgeon under U.S. Endangered Species Act
Low-cost, non-invasive nanomedicine tool monitors signaling gas in exhaled breath.
Rising CO2 levels in atmosphere contribute to lower ocean pH levels, which interfere with development of shellfish larvae.
Following two years of preparation, Stony Brook University's Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) was awarded full accreditation status by the Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP), at the September meeting of its Council on Accreditation.
Using data from the Diviner Lunar Radiometer, an instrument uniquely capable of identifying common lunar silicate minerals, scientists at Stony Brook University in New York and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have found previously unseen compositional differences in the crustal highlands of the Moon, and have confirmed the presence of anomalously silica-rich material in five distinct regions.
Leaders from every sector of the new energy economy to convene in New York City to address recent events, solutions for the future, November 8-9.
Actor Alan Alda immersed in evolving the new Center; goes head-to-head with renowned physicist Brian Greene at Commemorative Event on September 23.
Program serves students from a wide range of academic disciplines and professional backgrounds
The Center for Biotechnology at SBU has organized a summit that will bring some of the world’s top bioscience companies together with entrepreneurs and academic innovators to explore the next generation of biomedical solutions.
Series free to the public, includes 10 additional readings, author signings in Southampton and Manhattan from Sept. 27 through Dec. 8.
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