Stony Brook University is ranked in the highest grouping in two categories of the newly released U-Multirank rankings. In the Research category, Stony Brook achieved a top ranking of “A”—“very good”—for citation rates, research publications (both absolute and normalized numbers), and top-cited publications as a percentage of total publications.
For her heroic and selfless dedication to protecting the lemurs, ecosystems and people of Madagascar, Indianapolis Zoological Society officials today announced Dr. Patricia Chappelle Wright as winner of the 2014 Indianapolis Prize, the world’s leading award for animal conservation. As the Indianapolis Prize winner, Wright, a distinguished professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University, will receive $250,000 and the Lilly Medal, joining the ranks of some of the most celebrated conservationists on Earth.
A strong handshake can say a lot about a person—it can indicate power, confidence, health, or aggression. Now scientists at Stony Brook University and the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) say that the strength of a person’s grasp may also be one of the most useful ways to measure people’s true age. About IIASA: IIASA is an international scientific institute that conducts research into the critical issues of global environmental, economic, technological, and social change that we face in the twenty-first century. Our findings provide valuable options to policy makers to shape the future of our changing world. IIASA is independent and funded by scientific institutions in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. www.iiasa.ac.at
Nicole Bustamante, a Stony Brook University senior majoring in Health Sciences with a concentration in Public Health and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, at has been selected to participate in the prestigious Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX), a year-long, federally-funded fellowship to study and work in Germany. Ms. Bustamante, a Tappan, New York native, was selected as one of 75 participants for this unique fellowship program. Since 1984, approximately 1,700 Americans have been awarded this opportunity to gain cultural, academic, and practical work experience in Germany. Bustamante will be participating in the 31st year of the CBYX program.
Stony Brook University has been designated a “Tree Campus USA” by the National Arbor Day Foundation, in recognition of the university’s dedication to campus healthy forestry management, sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Would you be able to recognize the signs and symptoms of stroke? Do you know what to do if you suspect that you or a family member is having one?
James H. Simons, research professor and former chair of the Department of Mathematics at Stony Brook University and chairman of the board of the Simons Foundation, has been named a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries that were elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, and brings the total number of Stony Brook University’s NAS membership to 24.
In a study that uses website-based experiments to uncover whether “success breeds success” is a reality, researchers found that early success bestowed on individuals produced significant increases in subsequent rates of success,.
STONY BROOK, NY, April 28, 2014 – The results of the 2014 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition are in, and four Stony Brook University students—cited for their research potential—have been announced as winners of the coveted slots. This year’s competition attracted a record 15,000 applicants from among the nation’s top STEM graduate students; 2000 awards were made across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Stony Brook University was recognized twice during a week of Earth Day celebrations for environmental stewardship programs that place it as a leader in sustainability among all U.S. university and college campuses. The Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) named Stony Brook as one of the nation’s most environmentally friendly or “green” colleges for the fifth year in a row, and, in the RecycleMania 2014 tournament, Stony Brook finished strongly in multiple categories, and recycled the most e-waste of all colleges and universities for the second straight year.
The Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian and the fossil remains uncovered there continue to be a source of evolutionary fascination. The disappearance of these fossils en route from China to the American Museum of Natural History in 1941 has added to the mystery. While China’s contribution to our understanding of primate and human evolution has grown immeasurably since that time and is now far greater than Peking Man, the historical and scientific importance of the Zhoudoudian site, fossils and artifacts is extraordinary.
On Earth Day—Tuesday, April 22—the Stony Brook campus community, and the global twitter-verse came together – virtually and in person – with Stony Brook University’s three Indianapolis Prize finalists: Russell A. Mittermeier; Carl Safina; and, Patricia C. Wright, during the University’s first ever “Tweet-Up” – an official event of the 2014 Earthstock celebration.
STONY BROOK, NY, April 22, 2014 – Three Stony Brook University professors — Mark Aronoff, PhD, William Chittick, PhD, and Eva Kittay, PhD — have been named 2014 Guggenheim Fellows based on distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for the future. The fellowships, often called “midcareer” awards, are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
There was a time when no one thought about light bulbs—one blew, you screwed another one in. Nowadays, it’s more complicated, as energy efficiency concerns have given rise to a slew of options, including incandescent, compact fluorescent lights, and light emitting diodes.
Being tired and run-down during her second trimester of pregnancy was something that 25-year-old Sharon Savino had felt before being pregnant with her son and daughter. But after developing a bad cough around Christmas, she started coughing up blood, and knew something was completely wrong.
If you are trying to quit smoking one method to incorporate is to do new, exciting “self-expanding” activities that can help with nicotine craving. This is the take-home message from a new study published online in PLOS ONE.
On Wednesday, April 16, 2014, in New York City, Stony Brook University honored one of its own, long-time conservationist and lemur expert Dr. Patricia C. Wright at its 15th annual Stars of Stony Brook Gala 2014. On top of being feted by her University, Dr. Wright was also riding the wave of stardom as her work with lemurs is the central storyline of the new IMAX® documentary Island of Lemurs: Madagascar. As a continuing tradition, Stony Brook University also recognized six young scholars at the gala for their academic talent and ambition.
On Earth Day, April 22, not only will everyone on the planet be able to bond on Twitter with Stony Brook University’s three Indianapolis Prize finalists – Russ Mittermeier, Carl Safina and Pat Wright – they will also be able to watch a live webcast of the University’s first ever “Tweet-Up” featuring these three remarkable conservationists.
On Earth Day—Tuesday, April 22—the Stony Brook campus community, and the global twitter-verse are invited to meet and tweet – virtually and in person – with Stony Brook University’s three Indianapolis Prize finalists: Russell A. Mittermeier; Carl Safina; and, Patricia C. Wright, during the University’s first ever “Tweet-Up” – an official event of the 2014 Earthstock celebration.
STONY BROOK, NY, April 11, 2014 – Stony Brook University was recently named a 2014 Groundwater Guardian Green Site by the Groundwater Foundation in recognition of its groundwater and environmental stewardship. Stony Brook University earned this exclusive designation based on its current practices related to water use, pesticide and fertilizer management, and pollution prevention.
Lyl Tomlinson, a PhD candidate in Neuroscience at Stony Brook University, has won the National Famelab USA competition, a contest that challenges young scientists to talk about their research engagingly for a general audience.
Thanks to a $500,000 donation from the Stony Brook Foundation, Stony Brook University has established the Discovery Fund, a new initiative to support the University’s vital discovery-driven research through philanthropy.
Stony Brook University received a $60 million appropriation in the 2014 State Budget for the design and construction of the first phase of a new “Innovation and Discovery Center” to be located in the University’s Research & Development Park, announced President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D.
Stony Brook, New York, April 1, 2014 – In response to increased pollution in Long Island coastal waters, experts from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) are launching the “Long Island Coastal Conservation and Research Alliance” (LICCRA), the mission for which is to engage in research and monitoring that can be used to protect and restore Long Island coastal ecosystems.
How does the brain go from perceiving something to deciding what to do about it? The quest to understand brain functions associated with perception and decision making will be addressed Monday, March 31 at 4:30 pm at Stony Brook’s Staller Center at the Swartz Foundation’s Mind/Brain Lecture Series by guest lecturer William Newsome, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University’s School of Medicine and co-chair of Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Working Group, the recently announced initiative by President Barack Obama to revolutionize the understanding of the brain. Dr. Newsome will discuss his research from three decades of study as well as his involvement in the newly launched BRAIN initiative.
Trailblazing Scientist and Her Work Also Star in the Upcoming IMAX® Nature Documentary Island of Lemurs: Madagascar Premiering April 4
Most people with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) are not even aware they have the condition, resulting in more than 30,000 deaths in the United States each year. This winter alone, Apostolos K. Tassiopoulos, MD, Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery, Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH), has seen the greatest increase of AAA cases in his entire 15 year career.
A Stony Brook University-led international research team has discovered how a cellular protein, STAT3, which is overactive in a majority of cancers, interferes with an antitumor mechanism in cells and therefore promotes the growth of cancer.
Imagine cutting down the growth of cancer cells at their earliest stages. Research conducted by Stony Brook University is showing promise in this approach with a new class of compounds that disrupt cancer cell mitochondrial metabolism.
Demian Chapman, PhD, assistant professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and assistant director for science at the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, has been awarded a 2014 Pew Fellowship in marine conservation for a new research project to determine how recently enacted international regulations affect the trade in the fins of protected shark species.
Doctors at the Stony Brook Heart Institute Electrophysiology Lab are using a new nonsurgical technique called the LARIAT Suture Delivery Device to treat patients with atrial fibrillation, or A-Fib, who cannot tolerate blood thinning medication.
Stony Brook University faculty mentored three of the forty high school students named as finalists in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search. Kathy Camenzind, Aron Coraor, and Emily Pang were selected for the research they did on campus, where they worked with faculty and graduate student mentors. The students will be in Washington D.C. from March 6-12 for the final judging and a much anticipated opportunity to meet President Barack Obama, who will greet the finalists. Here are their stories.
Stony Brook University senior Neha Kinariwalla of Sayville, NY, is the first Stony Brook University undergraduate to receive a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, Kinariwalla will pursue an MPhil degree in Modern Society and Global Transformations at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. The extremely competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarship, awarded to only 40 US recipients each year, was established by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 to support post-graduate study at the University of Cambridge and to build a global network of leaders dedicated to improving the lives of others.
STONY BROOK, NY, March 4, 2014 – The National Nanotechnology Initiative defines nanotechnology as the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, at dimensions of approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Nanotechnology is taking the world by storm, revolutionizing the materials and devices used in many applications and products. That’s why a finding announced by Xiang-Feng Zhou and Artem R. Oganov, Group of Theoretical Crystallography in the Department of Geosciences, are so significant.
Stony Brook University's Daniel Moloney, Ph.D. (Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology) has been awarded a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Stony Brook University Hospital is the only institution on Long Island to offer a new imaging agent for the detection of papillary cancer of the bladder in patients with known or suspected bladder cancer.
An innovative laparoscopic procedure that implants a ring of magnetic beads to help prevent acid reflux in patients who suffer from Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is the latest tool surgeons at Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) have to treat the disease.
STONY BROOK, NY, February 27, 2014 –Tina Truglia had experienced excruciating pain in her jaw for nearly a decade and was misdiagnosed with everything from mumps to mono. Eager to have her upcoming wedding free of pain, she flew from Flagstaff, Arizona to Long Island, foregoing a week of bridal festivities, including her bachelorette party, for an appointment with Mark Marzouk, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stony Brook University Hospital.
Judging the effects of climate change on extinction may be easier than previously thought, according to a paper published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The black-footed ferret is one of the most endangered mammals in North America, but new research suggests that these charismatic critters can persist if conservationists think big enough.
Song Sun, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Stony Brook University, has been selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is one of 126 awardees from 61 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada chosen for this prestigious honor, which comes with a $50,000 two-year fellowship.
Phillipa Gill, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, has been selected to receive a 2014 Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program in the amount of $514,000. The five-year award entitled “CAREER: Illuminating the Impacts of Internet Censorship with Principled Network Measurement,” was made to Gill to direct a study focusing on the development of a system for monitoring and measuring Internet censorship around the world.
Qing (Cindy) Chang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University, has been selected to receive a 2014 Early Career Award from the NSF’s Sensors and Sensing Systems Program in the amount of $400,000.
Three renowned conservationists on the Stony Brook University faculty, Russell A. Mittermeier, Ph.D., Carl Safina, Ph.D., and Patricia C. Wright, Ph.D., have advanced as finalists for the 2014 Indianapolis Prize, the world’s leading award for animal conservation.
It’s bat evolution that interests Stony Brook University Assistant Professor Liliana M. Dávalos, who joined forces with Dr. Elizabeth Dumont, and a mechanical engineer, Dr. Ian Grosse (both of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst), in a recently published paper in Evolution -- Selection For Mechanical Advantage Underlies Multiple Cranial Optima In New World Leaf-Nosed Bats -- that lays out the team’s findings relating mechanical advantage to natural selection. The researchers also unveiled an engineering model of a skull that can be computationally manipulated to morph into the shape of any New World Leaf-nosed bat species, to help uncover evidence for selection in long-extinct organisms.
A scientific survey of 1.8 million Americans reveals that parents and non-parents have similar levels of life satisfaction, according to a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
A new study published in the January 8 issue of PLOS One by Christopher Gobler, Professor in the School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University and colleagues, has found that low pH levels within these regions represent an additional, previously unappreciated, threat to ocean animals.
Swirling, stormy clouds may be ever-present on cool celestial orbs called brown dwarfs. New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that most brown dwarfs are roiling with one or more planet-size storms akin to Jupiter's "Great Red Spot."
Imagine the challenge publishers face, pouring over thousands of manuscripts to determine if a book will be a hit. Stony Brook Department of Computer Science Assistant Professor Yejin Choi thinks she has a tool to bring some science to that art, and she is co-author of a paper, Success with Style: Using Writing Style to Predict the Success of Novels, which was unveiled at the conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2013.
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