Stony Brook University News

SBU Computer Science Professor Receives Prestigious CAREER Award

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:00 PST

Donald E. Porter, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, was selected to receive the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award

SBU PhD Student Chosen for Prestigious Museum Internship

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:16:16 PST

Stony Brook University PhD student Suzanne Swartz has been chosen to participate in the Lipper Intern School Partnership Program at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in lower Manhattan.

George Sterman Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:32:22 PST

George Sterman, PhD, director of the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University, has been named a Fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Peter W. Stephens Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:23:05 PST

Peter W. Stephens, PhD, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, has been named a Fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Lorna Role Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:06:24 PST

Lorna Role, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, co-director of the Institute for Advanced Neurosciences and member of the Central Nervous System Disorders Center in the Centers for Molecular Medicine, has been named a Fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Benjamin S. Hsiao Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:57:58 PST

Benjamin S. Hsiao, PhD, chair of the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University has been named a Fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Stony Brook University Medical Receives Award for Treatment of Heart Failure Patients

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:53:48 PST

Stony Brook University Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Heart Failure Gold Quality Performance Achievement Award.

Stony Brook's Intel 8: SBU Mentors Intel Finalists from all over United States

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:33:48 PST

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.

Four SBU Professors Elected AAAS Fellows

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:35:38 PST

Four Stony Brook University professors – Ben Hsiao, Lorna Role, Peter Stephens and George Sterman – have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and will be honored for their contributions to science at the February 18, 2012, Fellows Forum during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Stony Brook University Medical Center Receives 2nd Consecutive AHA Award

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:43:42 PST

For the second consecutive year, Stony Brook University Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award.

SBU Receives Three "Best of LI 2012" Designations

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:43:13 PST

Stony Brook University has earned three “Best of LI 2012” designations by readers of the Long Island Press in the newspaper’s seventh annual Best of LI competition.

SBU Faculty Member Sanjay Sampath Named Distinguished Professor

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:20:02 PST

Dr. Sanjay Sampath, a faculty member at Stony Brook University, has been appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor by the State University of New York Board of Trustees as recommended by campus colleagues and SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher.

SBU Named a 2011-2012 Best Value Public College by Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:32:06 PST

Stony Brook University was named the 35th best value in public colleges and universities for in-state students and the 29th best value for out-of-state students by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance in their top 100 rankings of public four-year institutions for combining “outstanding education with economic value.”

Stony Brook University's Top 11 News Stories of 2011

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:30:29 PST

In case you missed some of the most exciting stories at Stony Brook University over the course of the past year, here is a sampling of the top 11 for 2011.

Stony Brook University Collaborative Experiment Named a Top 10 Breakthrough of 2011 by Physics World Magazine

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:18:33 PST

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 Receives $150 Million Gift from Jim and Marilyn Simons and the Simons Foundation

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:05:17 PST

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.

Stony Brook Distinguished Professor Receives International Award

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:42:17 PST

Arthur Grollman, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Pharmacological Sciences, Evelyn G. Glick Professor of Experimental Medicine, and Director of the Zickler Laboratory of Chemical Biology at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, has received the 2011 Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) Award. The honor is conferred annually by the EMS in recognition of outstanding research contributions in the area of environmental mutagenesis.

Three SBU Faculty Members Nominated for the 2012 Indianapolis Prize

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:42:00 PST

Poachers, disease, civil wars, heat, cold, rain, drought, pollution, ignorance, indifference. Those are just some of the challenges faced by the 29 conservationists, three of whom are Stony Brook University faculty members, who have devoted their lives to saving the Earth’s endangered species and have been nominated to receive the biennial Indianapolis Prize, the world’s leading award for animal conservation.

SBUMC Physician, Nursing Administrator receive health care heroes awards

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:12:04 PST

Two of Stony Brook University Medical Center’s finest were honored as recipients of the annual Health Care Heroes awards by Long Island Business News on Nov. 10.

Stony Brook Medical Faculty Receive Award for Excellence in Clinical Practice

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:06:36 PST

Frank S. Darras, M.D., Professor of Urology, and James A. Vosswinkel, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, were selected by their faculty peers as the recipients of this year’s Stony Brook University Physicians Award for Excellence in Clinical Practice.