http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/ News site for Stony Brook University press releases. Fri, 24 May 2013 16:36:37 PST en-us http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Long_Island_State_Veterans_Home_Nursing_Scholarships_Keep_Vacancy_Rates_Low.shtml General University News Ten employees of the Long Island State Veterans Home (LISVH) who are enrolled in nursing school have received Virgie Bowie Nursing Vision Awards and scholarships for $1,000 each in recognition of their educational pursuits, as part of an innovative approach that helps the Veterans Home maintain a nurse vacancy rate below one percent. Fri, 24 May 2013 16:16:10 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Long_Island_State_Veterans_Home_Nursing_Scholarships_Keep_Vacancy_Rates_Low.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Stony_Brook_University_Celebrates_53rd_Commencement_Ceremony.shtml General University News At Stony Brook University’s 53rd annual commencement today at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium, more than 5,600 students received their degree and the right to turn their tassels to the left becoming the University’s newest alumni. They joined more than 145,000 of their forerunners around the globe whose lives and work personify the mission of Stony Brook. Fri, 24 May 2013 15:00:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Stony_Brook_University_Celebrates_53rd_Commencement_Ceremony.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/NYSCHA_Honors_SBU_Student_Health_Advisory_Committee_Graduate_Chair.shtml General University News Stony Brook University student Krishna Satish has been selected to receive the New York State College Health Association (NYSCHA) Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2012-2013) for her efforts leading the Stony Brook University Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) as Graduate Chair. She is recognized for the success of outreach efforts including the coordination of campus dental screenings and oral health information workshops for her peers. Additionally, Stony Brook University SHAC received the Outstanding Student Group Award for promoting health through various screenings and for their vast efforts promoting Tobacco Free SUNY 2014. Fri, 24 May 2013 09:30:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/NYSCHA_Honors_SBU_Student_Health_Advisory_Committee_Graduate_Chair.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/From_GED_to_Fulbright_Scholar.shtml General University News Stony Brook University undergraduate student Samuel Katz (’13) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to conduct biomedical research at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) in Germany, announced the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Katz is one of approximately 1,800 chosen worldwide for this prestigious honor from all fields of study and the only one from Stony Brook University for 2013. Thu, 23 May 2013 10:45:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/From_GED_to_Fulbright_Scholar.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/SBUH_Opens_New_Cardiovascular_Wellness_and_Preventive_Research_Center.shtml General University News Stony Brook University has opened a new Center for Cardiovascular Wellness and Preventive Research at Stony Brook Medicine to conduct groundbreaking research into cardiovascular health and to identify and develop new options for treatment and prevention of coronary artery disease, heart failure and Alzheimer’s disease. Wed, 22 May 2013 15:30:25 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/SBUH_Opens_New_Cardiovascular_Wellness_and_Preventive_Research_Center.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Stony_Brook_University_to_Create_Center_for_the_Study_of_Men_and_Masculinities.shtml General University News Stony Brook University will receive a two-year $300,000 start-up grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to establish a new Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities. Led by Michael Kimmel, PhD, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University and one of the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today, the Center will focus on the emerging and integral discipline of men and masculinities, an important component of gender studies. The Center will open in the fall of 2013. Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Stony_Brook_University_to_Create_Center_for_the_Study_of_Men_and_Masculinities.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Huntington_HS_Sophomore_Wins_Essay_Contest_Sponsored_by_Japan_Center_at_Stony_Brook.shtml General University News The Japan Center at Stony Brook University (JCSB) recently held their eighth annual essay competition, a writing contest designed to promote awareness and understanding of Japan in the United States and to help young Americans broaden their international horizons. The competition, co-sponsored by JCSB and Canon U.S.A, Inc., is separated into a high school and college division, and open to students enrolled in high school or college (undergraduate) in the New York metropolitan area. This year’s competition brought in 199 entries from 32 different high schools and two colleges. Fri, 17 May 2013 09:45:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Huntington_HS_Sophomore_Wins_Essay_Contest_Sponsored_by_Japan_Center_at_Stony_Brook.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Dr_Deng_Wei_Donates_1_Million_for_Endowed_Chair_in_Physics_and_Astronomy_at_Stony_Brook_University.shtml General University News Stony Brook University received a $1 million donation from Dr. Deng Wei to establish the Yang Chen Ning – Deng Wei Endowed Chair in Physics and Astronomy. The gift was announced at a formal donation ceremony that took place in Beijing, China on May 17 attended by Nobel Laureate Dr. C.N. Yang, Dr. Deng, founder and chairman of Bright Oceans Corporation based in Beijing, Dr. Hong Chen (’91), founder of the Hina Group, and Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr., President of Stony Brook University. Fri, 17 May 2013 09:00:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Dr_Deng_Wei_Donates_1_Million_for_Endowed_Chair_in_Physics_and_Astronomy_at_Stony_Brook_University.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/Faculty_Student_Awards_17/Stony_Brook_University_Student_Wins_Boren_Scholarship.shtml Faculty/Student Awards Stony Brook University student Sidra Mahfooz will study Arabic at American University in Cairo, Egypt under a scholarship that enables undergraduates to study languages in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests. Thu, 16 May 2013 10:22:04 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/Faculty_Student_Awards_17/Stony_Brook_University_Student_Wins_Boren_Scholarship.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Investiture_Ceremony_Honors_New_Knapp_Chair_in_Pharmacological_Sciences.shtml General University News Basil Rigas, MD, DSc, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacological Sciences, Dean for Clinical Affairs, Vice President of Business Development, Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention at Stony Brook Medicine, and a physician-scientist specializing in gastroenterology and cancer prevention, was formally installed as the William and Jane Knapp Chair in Pharmacological Sciences during an Investiture Ceremony at Stony Brook Medicine. Tue, 14 May 2013 10:06:31 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Investiture_Ceremony_Honors_New_Knapp_Chair_in_Pharmacological_Sciences.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Hilton_Garden_Inn_Celebrates_Grand_Opening_on_Stony_Brook_University_Campus.shtml General University News The newly opened Hilton Garden Inn at Stony Brook University hosted a grand opening celebration. Festivities included a ribbon-cutting ceremony; brief remarks by Barbara Chernow, Stony Brook University Senior Vice President for Administration; Robert Frey, Stony Brook Research Professor and the Director of the Program in Quantitative Finance in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the president and CEO of Harbor Construction Management, the company that developed the property and Frank Toner, COO of Harbor Construction Management and a Stony Brook alumnus. Mon, 13 May 2013 21:33:48 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Hilton_Garden_Inn_Celebrates_Grand_Opening_on_Stony_Brook_University_Campus.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Lyme_Disease_Vaccine_Shows_Promise_in_Clinical_Trials.shtml General University News The results of a phase 1/2 clinical trial in Europe of an investigational Lyme disease vaccine co-developed by researchers at Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and at healthcare company Baxter International S.A., revealed it to be promising and well tolerated, according to a research paper published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The vaccine was shown to produce substantial antibodies against all targeted species of Borrelia, the causative agent of Lyme disease in Europe and the United States. Baxter conducted the clinical trial of the vaccine. Mon, 13 May 2013 13:24:41 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Lyme_Disease_Vaccine_Shows_Promise_in_Clinical_Trials.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/SBU_Student_Receives_Goldwater_Scholarship.shtml General University News Stony Brook University student Peter Giattini has been named a Goldwater Scholar, one of the most prestigious honors given nationally to college undergraduate students. Presented by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in Education Foundation for the 2013-2014 academic year, the award will cover the cost of tuition, fees, books and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year for up to two years. Giattini is the 32nd Stony Brook University student to be named a Goldwater Scholar since 1992. Mon, 13 May 2013 10:00:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/SBU_Student_Receives_Goldwater_Scholarship.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/Faculty_Student_Awards_17/World-Renowned_Anthropologist_Elected_to_National_Academy_of_Sciences.shtml Faculty/Student Awards Anthropologist Meave Leakey, a research professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) at Stony Brook University, has been named a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. She is among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries that were elected in recognition for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Thu, 09 May 2013 12:30:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/Faculty_Student_Awards_17/World-Renowned_Anthropologist_Elected_to_National_Academy_of_Sciences.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Two_SBU_Professors_Inducted_into_American_Academy_of_Arts_Sciences.shtml General University News Two Stony Brook University Distinguished Professors have been elected to the 233rd class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research. Mark Aronoff, a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics, and H. Blaine Lawson, Jr., a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics, will be formally inducted at a ceremony at Academy headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 12, 2013. Thu, 09 May 2013 10:00:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Two_SBU_Professors_Inducted_into_American_Academy_of_Arts_Sciences.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/Conferences_Events_18/Stony_Brook_University_Establishes_Children_s_Defense_Fund_Freedom_School.shtml Conferences & Events Stony Brook University is to be the site of a new Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom School announced University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, alongside Marian Wright Edelman at the University’s Presidential Lecture Series, at which she was the lecturer. Mrs. Edelman is founder and president of the CDF, the preeminent non-profit child advocacy organization under which the Freedom Schools program was established in 1992. Tue, 07 May 2013 13:00:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/Conferences_Events_18/Stony_Brook_University_Establishes_Children_s_Defense_Fund_Freedom_School.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/Medical_Center_Health_Care_4/Stony_Brook_Medicine_Appoints_Ellen_Li_as_Chief_of_GI_Division.shtml SB Medicine News Ellen Li, MD, PhD, a gastroenterologist and research scientist investigating digestive diseases, has been appointed Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the Department of Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, announced Vincent Yang, MD, PhD, the Simons Chair of Medicine at Stony Brook University. Dr. Li will oversee the clinical, research and training of a Division that specializes in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the digestive tract and liver. Mon, 06 May 2013 16:04:28 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/Medical_Center_Health_Care_4/Stony_Brook_Medicine_Appoints_Ellen_Li_as_Chief_of_GI_Division.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Stony_Brook_Professors_Named_2013_Guggenheim_Fellows.shtml General University News Two Stony Brook University professors - Leonardo Rastelli, PhD and Sheila Silver, PhD - have been named 2013 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. Thu, 02 May 2013 11:00:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Stony_Brook_Professors_Named_2013_Guggenheim_Fellows.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Game_On_Stony_Brook_s_10th_Annual_Game_Programming_Competition_on_May_17.shtml General University News On Friday, May 17, at 5 pm in the Charles B. Wang Center Theater, the Stony Brook University Computer Science Department is hosting its 10th Annual Game Programming Competition. Wed, 01 May 2013 16:00:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Game_On_Stony_Brook_s_10th_Annual_Game_Programming_Competition_on_May_17.shtml http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/SBU_Professor_Receives_NSF_Award_to_Study_Antarctic_Seabird_Populations.shtml General University News Heather Lynch, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University was selected to receive the National Science Foundation's (NSF) prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program award for her work entitled, "The Use of Quantitative Geography to Predict Population Tipping Points for Colonial Seabirds." The project, a five-year $782,839 award, is being jointly funded by Geography and Spatial Sciences and the Office of Polar Programs. Professor Lynch joins four other Stony Brook University professors that have been award NSF CAREER Awards in 2013. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:30:00 PST http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/SBU_Professor_Receives_NSF_Award_to_Study_Antarctic_Seabird_Populations.shtml