A team of scientists, led by the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, used video cameras to count Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) inside and outside marine reserves on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef in the Caribbean Sea.
Famed actor Alan Alda, founding member of the Stony Brook University Center for Communicating Science and a Visiting Professor in the School of Journalism, is challenging scientists to answer an 11-year-old’s “not-so-simple” question, “What is a flame?”
William E. Holt, Ph.D. and Attreyee Ghosh, Ph.D. studied the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates and the forces behind them.
A Stony Brook University researcher has found that, contrary to popular belief, there are not plenty of fish in the sea.
Stony Brook University President, Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr., a nationally prominent expert in infectious diseases, and his wife Dr. Ellen Li, a renowned gastroenterologist and researcher who holds a joint faculty appointment at Stony Brook and at Washington University in St. Louis, announced today that they are making a $125,000 donation to establish the Ellen Li and Samuel L. Stanley Jr. Endowed Scholarship in the Stony Brook University School of Medicine.
Stony Brook University has mentored a record eight of the 40 high school students chosen as finalists in the prestigious 2012 Intel Science Talent Search which accounts for twenty percent of the nation’s total.
The Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery (ICB&DD) at Stony Brook University announced a multi-year research collaboration with Sanofi, a multinational pharmaceutical company, on a potential treatment for Tuberculosis (TB) and other bacterial infections.
Fish parents can pre-condition their offspring to grow fastest at the temperature they experienced, according to research published in the February 2012 edition of Ecology Letters.
Chang Kee Jung, a Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University along with an international team of physicists working on the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) collaboration were recently named seventh in a list of the top 10 breakthroughs of 2011, according to Physics World magazine for their experiment that appears to have measured, for the first time, muon neutrinos changing into electron neutrinos.
Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., announced today that the University has received a $150 million gift from Dr. James and Dr. Marilyn Simons, and from the Simons Foundation. It is the largest gift in the history of Stony Brook University or to any one of the 64 institutions in the SUNY system, as well as one of the largest to any institution of public higher education. Present for the historic announcement, in addition to the Simons, were New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, State University of New York Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, and a number of elected representatives.
In a new article published in the December 11, 2011, online edition of the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers from Stony Brook University (NY, USA) demonstrate that “the fish are okay” belief ignores an important knowledge gap – the possible effects of CO2 during the early development of fish eggs and larvae.
The American Geophysical Union has announced that the 2011 Inge Lehmann Medal will be awarded to Stony Brook University’s Donald J. Weidner, Ph.D., a distinguished professor in the Department of Geosciences. Awarded once every two years, the medal recognizes “outstanding contributions to the understanding of the structure, composition, and dynamics of the Earth’s mantle and core.” The award will be presented to Dr. Weidner next week at the annual AGU meeting in San Francisco.
A new study involving bat skulls, bite force measurements and fecal samples collected by an international team of evolutionary biologists is helping to solve a nagging question of evolution: Why some groups of animals evolve scores of different species over time while others evolve only a few. Their findings appear in the current issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University will showcase “How ‘Thinks’ Work,” an exhibition designed to explore the human thinking process in relation to mathematics, human perception, philosophy, language and nature.
Hiring Stony Brook University students is essential for one local business owner, who this semester alone has added five more to a staff that consists of more than 25 Stony Brook students and alumni.
Eleven regional finalists and 30 semifinalists in the Siemens Competition were mentored at Stony Brook University, ranking among the leaders in universities nationwide who mentor high school researchers from Long Island and out of state.
It’s time to eat real, America. Celebrate the national program of Food Day locally at Stony Brook University on October 23 and 24. The event places a lens on healthier eating habits, expanding access to food, alleviating hunger, and sustaining the environment. Sponsored by the Nutrition Division, Department of Family Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, the event includes cooking demonstrations, discussions on local farming, a farmer’s market, documentary films on where food comes from, and garden planting activities.
On Thursday, October 24, at 4:30 pm in Lecture Hall 2 of the Charles B. Wang Center, Dr. F. James Rohlf will present the inaugural Rohlf Medal for Excellence in Morphometric Methods and Applications to Dr. Fred L. Bookstein.
The Center for Biotechnology at Stony Brook University, and leaders from the biotech and biopharmaceutical industries, plan next-generation medicines at the Life Sciences Summit, held in New York City, November 16-17.
The Stony Brook University Department of Chemistry has recently been named ninth on the list of academic research and development (R&D) spending at universities and colleges throughout the nation, according to data recently released by the National Science Foundation for the fiscal year 2009.
Stony Brook University has named Dr. Minghua Zhang to the position of Dean of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS).
The Center for Study of Working Class Life released its report "American Military Deaths in Afghanistan, and the Communities from Which These Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines Came.," today, the tenth anniversary of the start of the current war in Afghanistan.
Stony Brook University has been selected among the first 21 teams for the inaugural class of the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) awards, announced today by the National Science Foundation.
Changing human activities coupled with a dynamic environment over the past few centuries have caused fluctuating periods of decline and recovery of corals reefs in the Hawaiian Islands, according to a study sponsored in part by the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University. Using the reefs and island societies as a model social-ecological system, a team of scientists reconstructed 700 years of human-environment interactions in two different regions of the Hawaiian archipelago to identify the key factors that contributed to degradation or recovery of coral reefs.
SBU School of Journalism today announced that the Robert R. McCormick Foundation is providing a $330,000 grant to the Center for News Literacy to fund the delivery of training and materials demanded by the rapid spread of News Literacy courses.
On Tuesday, October 4th, noted Physicist Brian Greene will deliver the inaugural talks for the Della Pietra Lecture Series at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University.
Dr. Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Stony Brook University School of Medicine and the Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Emotion and Cognition (LSEC), has been named by President Barack Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers. She is one of 94 researchers in the nation to receive the award this year, and the third from Stony Brook University in the past three years.
Stony Brook University will showcase Recycling & Reincarnation: An Exhibition of Industrial Design, Installation and Mixed Media Art, featuring the work of artists affiliated with East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.
As part of IBM's centennial celebration, SBU is hosting the multinational technology leader for part of their Centennial Lecture Series, a series of conversations and lectures to discuss technology's role in shaping the past and guiding the future.
Stony Brook University researchers, Artem R. Oganov, Professor of Geosciences and Physics and Dr. Andriy O. Lyakhov, Research Fellow, have developed an algorithm capable of predicting new superhard materials.
By employing optogenetics, a new field that uses genetically altered cells to respond to light, researchers at Stony Brook University have demonstrated a way to control cell excitation and contraction in cardiac muscle cells.
On Monday, September 26 at 7 PM, SBU Anthropology Professor John J. Shea will lend an insightful perspective as the guest speaker at the Port Jefferson Documentary Series showing of Werner Herzog’s ground-breaking documentary film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson.
Dennis N. Assanis has been appointed Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Stony Brook University. He will also serve as Vice President for Brookhaven Affairs.
The discovery of the mechanism of action behind a novel class of anticancer drugs designed to disrupt cancer cell mitochondrial metabolism may be a major step toward furthering clinical trials of the agents.
“Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth,” a review paper that will be published on July 15, 2011, in the journal Science, concludes that the decline of large predators and herbivores in all regions of the world is causing substantial changes to Earth’s terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.
According to a newly released Stony Brook Poll conducted in association with Left Right Research, a Long Island based Marketing Research supplier, more than 81 percent of approximately 7,000 people surveyed believe that they had contributed enough to Social Security to support themselves in retirement, or more than they will receive during their lifetime.
A team at Stony Brook University has won a prestigious R&D 100 Award—dubbed the “Oscar of Invention”—for the development of an energy-harvesting shock absorber that converts vibration, bumps, and motion experienced by the suspension of a vehicle or train into electric power. The regenerative shock absorber for cars can harvest over 100 watts from the vehicle vibrations under normal driving conditions.
Building on the success of its offerings in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s literature, the Southampton Writers Conference which author Tom Wolfe called “the best in the country,” is offering additional conferences and workshops in theatre and film this July for screenwriters, filmmakers, playwrights and directors.
The international T2K collaboration announced today that they have observed an indication of a new type of neutrino transformation or oscillation from a muon neutrino to an electron neutrino. Neutrinos come in three types, or “flavors”; electron, muon, and tau.
In a coincidental and ironic twist, two 2011 ACLS fellows will effectively “switch places” between Stony Brook University in New York and Brown University in Rhode Island.
Today Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced a bill to implement the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Program
Stony Brook University graduate student Qiang Zhu, together with Professor of Geosciences and Physics, Artem R. Oganov, postdoc Andriy O. Lyakhov and their colleagues from the University de Oviedo in Spain, have predicted three new forms of carbon, the findings of which were published in a paper entitled “ Denser than diamond: Ab initio search for superdense carbon allotropes ,” in the June 7, 2011 online edition of Physical Review B.
Scientists from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) are joining colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, several other U.S. academic institutions and laboratories in Japan and Spain on the first international, multidisciplinary assessment of the levels and dispersion of radioactive substances in the Pacific Ocean off the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. The research effort is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
As colleges across the country honor their graduates this commencement season, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) honored Stony Brook University as a leader among institutions of higher education for their support of volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement. Stony Brook University was admitted to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with distinction for its strong institutional commitment to service and compelling campus-community partnerships that produce measurable results for the community.
On Wednesday, May 25, 2011, Stony Brook will celebrate the 51st Commencement Ceremony.
The Center for Biotechnology (CFB) at Stony Brook University has established the Biotechnology Commercialization Fund to accelerate the development of promising biomedical technologies emerging from Stony Brook University. Created with support from the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology, and Innovation (NYSTAR) and the Office of the Vice President for Research at Stony Brook University, the Fund will immediately help develop six technologies in partnership with researchers University-wide.
For more than two hundred years, the question of why there are more species in the tropics has been a biological enigma.
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.
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