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Alfredo Fontanini, M.D., Ph.D., to be honored by President Obama at the White House.

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Interactive web-based map highlights dozens of university sustainability measures.

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Leading Energy Organizations to Highlight Latest Job-Producing Energy Technologies at Nov. 8-9 Conference in N.Y.C.

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Advanced Energy Conference, Nov. 8-9 in NYC, to spotlight cutting-edge technologies for clean energy jobs and a growing economy.

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Interaction between 'kiss of death' marker and protein-chopping factory - new target for anti-TB drugs.

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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).

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The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook (HISB) is planning an interdisciplinary conference on the subject of memory and emotion.

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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

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Low-cost, non-invasive nanomedicine tool monitors signaling gas in exhaled breath.

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Rising CO2 levels in atmosphere contribute to lower ocean pH levels, which interfere with development of shellfish larvae.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Actor Alan Alda immersed in evolving the new Center; goes head-to-head with renowned physicist Brian Greene at Commemorative Event on September 23.

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Program serves students from a wide range of academic disciplines and professional backgrounds

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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.

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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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Proposed new Adult Disability Dependency Ratio measures aging based on the ratio of those who need care to those who provide care.

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Projects encourage math and science teaches in at-need district, integrating statistical and logical reasoning in computer programs, and the study of herding in complex systems.

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A symposium that brings together leaders in the field of neurosciences to share the latest advances on four focused sessions including state-of-the-art stroke and cerebrovascular care, multiple sclerosis, neuro-oncology, and spinal cord injury.

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Psychotherapy practitioners and researchers often carry out their work in separate worlds, and there exists a great need to close the gap between them, says Marvin R. Goldfried, Ph.D., Stony Brook University Psychology Professor.

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Stony Brook University has created an Advanced Graduate Program in Health Communications to provide both health care and media professionals as well as graduate students in related fields the necessary skills to communicate health-related issues to the public directly or through the press.

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Stony Brook will offer a new Master of Science degree in journalism beginning in June 2011, the first in the SUNY system. The program will focus on coverage of health, science, the environment and technology while preparing students to thrive as all-around journalists in the rapidly changing media landscape.

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Small boat acoustic sampling augments larger vessel surveys and could impact krill fishery management.

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Hydroelectric power project demonstrates potential of New York’s renewable energy sources.

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National survey looked at starting and mid-career salaries at private and public colleges.

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Lorna W. Role, Ph.D. to receive up to $2.5 million over five years for research that could help individuals with Alzheimer's and other degenerative brain diseases.

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Study by team at Stony Brook University found biological evidence as to why emotions related to breaking up are so difficult to control.

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Stony Brook University received a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant to build what its creator described as the closest thing in the world to Star Trek's "holodeck."

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Scientific evidence presented indicates top-down regulation by predators operates in most ecosystems.

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Fly over Manhattan in the year 2150. Witness a virtual colonoscopy that is non-invasive, fast and inexpensive. Experience the movement of jellyfish and soap bubbles blowing in the wind. Break the barrier between illusion and reality in what will be the world's largest visualization facility.

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Interdisciplinary program will prepare students for careers protecting the ocean and its inhabitants.

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Kenneth Kaushansky, M.D., Chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California, San Diego, has been appointed as Dean of the School of Medicine and Sr. V.P. of the Health Sciences for Stony Brook University.

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded Stony Brook University a four year, $ 1.5 million dollar grant to enhance science education.

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Close relationship researchers have previously found that Easterners (those from collectivistic cultures such as China) seem to regard love differently from Westerners (those from individualist cultures such as the United States).

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Kudzu, “the vine that ate the South,” is not just swallowing landscapes and altering ecosystems in the southeastern U.S., it is also increasing ozone pollution according to a new report published in the May 17, 2010 on line edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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The Advanced Energy Center today announced a partnership with the New York State Department of Labor, The New York City Labor Market Information Service (NYCLMIS) at the CUNY Graduate Center, the State University of New York at Albany, and SUNY in the first comprehensive New York State research project to measure employer demand for “green jobs” against the capacity of educational and training resources to address these needs.

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The Gelfond fund for Mercury Related Research and Outreach, established by Richard Gelfond, CEO and Director of IMAX Corporation and Chairman of the Stony Brook Foundation, will advance scientific understanding of methylmercury accumulation in human diets and its effects on human health.

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Reported in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, the Study Links Traits to Thinking

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Studies of calcium under pressure reveal an unexpected level of complexity and new phenomena that change our ideas about simple metals.

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Dr. David O. Conover, Dean of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, has accepted a position as the Director of the Division of Ocean Sciences with the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective July 19, 2010. Dr. Conover has served with distinction as Dean of SoMAS for the past seven years, and will remain a faculty member with SoMAS during his service to the NSF.

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Linking power generators along U.S. East Coast could compensate for natural wind fluctuation, provide more consistent electricity production.

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People who are shy or introverted may actually process their world differently than others, leading to differences in how they respond to stimuli, according to Stony Brook researchers and collaborators in China.

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Research Finding - Income & Education Likely to Affect Everyday Health. People with lower education and income levels are more likely to experience symptoms of colds and flu, headaches, and pain.

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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) today formally announced the reclassification of beluga sturgeon in the Caspian Sea as “critically endangered” on its Red List, providing strong evidence that fishing and international trade should be halted and a stock-rebuilding plan should be initiated immediately.

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Presenters at this event will review trends in sturgeon trade regulation over time, the history of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species interventions, and the current status of sturgeons and paddlefishes globally.

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Economic Development Assistance Program grant to focus on aquaculture, agriculture and environmental technologies.

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A first-of-its-kind study of a Caspian Sea beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) fishery demonstrates current harvest rates are four to five times higher than those that would sustain population abundance. The study’s results, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Conservation Biology, suggest that conservation strategies for beluga sturgeon should focus on reducing the overfishing of adults rather than heavily relying upon hatchery supplementation.

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Physicists from the Japanese-led multinational T2K collaboration announced today that they had made the first detection of a neutrino which had travelled all the way under Japan from their neutrino beamline at the J-PARC facility in Tokai village (about an hour north of Tokyo by train) to the gigantic Super-Kamiokande underground detector near the west coast of Japan, 295 km (185 miles) away from Tokai. Stony Brook University has been the leading US institution in the T2K experiment.

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The recovery of consciousness following traumatic brain injury and recent advances in neuroimaging and deep brain stimulation will be discussed at the 14th Annual Swartz Foundation Mind/Brain Lecture at Stony Brook University on Monday, March 15, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. in the Staller Center for the Arts.