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.
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.
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