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Newswise: Study Reveals a New Finding Helping to Solve the “Spin Crisis”
Released: 21-Jun-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Study Reveals a New Finding Helping to Solve the “Spin Crisis”
Stony Brook University

New research findings published in Physical Review Letters provides theorists with new input for calculating how much gluons—the gluelike particles that hold quarks together within protons and neutrons—contribute to a proton’s spin.

Newswise: New Advanced HPC System to Accelerate Research Across Many Disciplines
Released: 6-Jun-2023 3:50 PM EDT
New Advanced HPC System to Accelerate Research Across Many Disciplines
Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University will soon deploy a new High-Performance Computing (HPC) system built using new technologies launched this year by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Intel. Stony Brook is the first academic institution in the United States to set up this new HPC solution that uses the Intel Xeon CPU Max series on HPE ProLiant servers.

Released: 1-Jun-2023 10:45 AM EDT
Simons Foundation Announces Historic $500 Million Gift To Stony Brook University Endowment
Stony Brook University

The Simons Foundation, a philanthropy working to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, today announced a historic $500 million endowment gift to Stony Brook University during a news conference at the foundation’s Manhattan headquarters. This monumental gift — the combined largesse of the Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International — is the largest unrestricted donation to an institution of higher education in U.S. history.

Newswise: Rethinking the Protein Inhibitor Approach to Cancer Therapy
Released: 25-May-2023 12:05 PM EDT
Rethinking the Protein Inhibitor Approach to Cancer Therapy
Stony Brook University

A new method than enables researchers to dial up or tone down the amount of a certain metastatic protein inhibitor (BACH1) within a cell could provide a new path in cancer research that reassesses the effectiveness of protein inhibitors to treat disease.

Newswise: Stony Brook Simons STEM Scholars Program Welcomes Inaugural Class
Released: 24-May-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Stony Brook Simons STEM Scholars Program Welcomes Inaugural Class
Stony Brook University

Stony Brook’s Simons STEM Scholars Program has signed its first-ever cohort of incoming students after a rigorous selection process. Roughly 800 erudite applicants were considered in a series of interviews and symposiums to determine the finalists.

Newswise: World-Renowned Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey To Be Honored at Week-Long Conference at Stony Brook University
Released: 18-May-2023 2:30 PM EDT
World-Renowned Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey To Be Honored at Week-Long Conference at Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University will honor the life and legacy of eminent paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician Richard E. Leakey by hosting “Africa: The Human Cradle: An International Conference Paying Tribute to Richard E. Leakey” from June 5 - 9, 2023 at the university’s Charles B. Wang Center. The Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) and Stony Brook are hosting the conference, in partnership with the National Geographic Society. Thought leaders from around the world will celebrate the immeasurable, life-long contributions by Leakey to furthering the appreciation of Africa’s centrality in the narrative of human evolution.

Newswise: New Study of Supernova Images Helps Scientists Measure Universe’s Expansion Rate
Released: 15-May-2023 3:30 PM EDT
New Study of Supernova Images Helps Scientists Measure Universe’s Expansion Rate
Stony Brook University

A new technique to measure the expansion rate of the Universe may serve as a tool to help scientists more accurately determine the Universe’s age and better understand the cosmos. An international team of researchers that includes two Stony Brook University professors highlighted their data based on the technique in a paper published in Science.

Newswise: Is BCAA Catabolism a Driver of Acute Kidney Injury?
Released: 8-May-2023 7:05 AM EDT
Is BCAA Catabolism a Driver of Acute Kidney Injury?
Stony Brook University

Sian Piret, PhD, in the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to investigate a certain metabolic process called BCAA catabolism that is known to occur with acute kidney injury, but its exact role remains unknown.

Newswise: Prevalence of Transposable Elements May Provide Clues to Worldwide Mammal Biodiversity
Released: 1-May-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Prevalence of Transposable Elements May Provide Clues to Worldwide Mammal Biodiversity
Stony Brook University

A scientific project that compares the genomes of 240 living species of mammals has identified transposable elements (TEs) – genes that can change their position within a genome, creating or reversing mutations and thus altering a cell’s genetic identity – as a crucial area of study to help uncover the evolutionary process of mammals and to better understand biodiversity.

Newswise: Stony Brook PhD Candidate and Biologist, Fanny M. Cornejo, Wins Inaugural Indianapolis Prize
Released: 19-Apr-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Stony Brook PhD Candidate and Biologist, Fanny M. Cornejo, Wins Inaugural Indianapolis Prize
Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University graduate student Fanny M. Cornejo has been named the winner of the newly-created “Emerging Conservationist Award" presented by the Indianapolis Prize. This award recognizes professional wildlife conservationists, biologists and scientists under 40-years of age who are working to make strides in saving animal species from extinction. Cornejo was selected from among 10 finalists and will receive $50,000 provided by the Kobe Foundation to continue Yunkawasi’s conservation work.

Newswise: Mapping Dark Matter Like Never Before
10-Apr-2023 1:40 PM EDT
Mapping Dark Matter Like Never Before
Stony Brook University

A new groundbreaking image from one of the world’s most powerful telescopes that reveals the most detailed map of dark matter distributed across one quarter of the sky, and deep into the cosmos, offers scientists a perspective that may lead to new methods to demystify dark matter. The research that led to the image, completed by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, also provides further support to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which has been the foundation of the standard model of cosmology for more than a century.

Released: 10-Apr-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Brookhaven National Laboratory’s New Director JoAnne Hewett To Join Stony Brook Faculty
Stony Brook University

The United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory’s (BNL) newly appointed director, theoretical physicist JoAnne Hewett, will be joining Stony Brook University as a tenured faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics. Hewett is the first female director to lead BNL.

Newswise: Can Controlling Retinoic Acid be a Key to Preventing Infections in the Gut?
Released: 28-Mar-2023 1:55 PM EDT
Can Controlling Retinoic Acid be a Key to Preventing Infections in the Gut?
Stony Brook University

A team of scientists from the Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM) at Stony Brook University have identified a distinct role of retinoic acid, a metabolite of vitamin A, during the immune response of the gut.

Newswise: New AI Model Using Social Media Posts May Help Predict Community Deaths from Opioid Use
Released: 22-Mar-2023 12:20 PM EDT
New AI Model Using Social Media Posts May Help Predict Community Deaths from Opioid Use
Stony Brook University

A study led by a team of computer scientists at Stony Brook University and published in Nature Digital Medicine presents a unique approach using artificial intelligence (AI) and social media posts to predict opioid mortality rates. The findings revealed that an AI algorithm that was able to surprisingly predict opioid death rates going back to previous years and actual rates.

   
Newswise: New Fossil Analysis Reveals Dinosaur with Record-Holding 15-Meter-Long Neck
13-Mar-2023 9:00 AM EDT
New Fossil Analysis Reveals Dinosaur with Record-Holding 15-Meter-Long Neck
Stony Brook University

An international scientific team led by Stony Brook University paleontologist Andrew J. Moore, PhD, has revealed that a Late Jurassic Chinese sauropod known as Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum sported a 15-meter-long neck. The details will be published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology and provide fresh insights on the evolution of the iconic sauropod body.



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