Stony Brook University News

SBU Named "Best Value College" by Princeton Review

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:44:07 PST

Stony Brook University is one of the nation’s “Best Value" colleges and universities according to The Princeton Review, a Massachusetts-based education services company that profiled Stony Brook in its just-published book, The Best Value Colleges: 2012 Edition and on a special area on its website.

Stony Brook Southampton Offers School Break Writing Workshops for Gifted Young Writers

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:59:35 PST

The Young American Writers Project (YAWP), created and sponsored by Stony Brook Southampton's MFA in Creative Writing and Literature, has announced that it will offer weeklong School Break Writing Workshops for teens during the winter and spring school breaks.

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's Journalism Without Walls Program Sends Student Journalists to Cuba for a Week of Hard News Reporting

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:25:24 PST

A team of student journalists from Stony Brook University spent a week in Cuba chipping away at long-standing barriers between Cuban officials and the American press as part of the school’s “Journalism Without Walls” program.

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.

Quenching a Thirst for Knowledge

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:15:44 PST

The Stony Brook University Center for Communicating Science and the School of Journalism present "Science on Tap," a free evening of enticing scientific conversations at the University Café.

President Stanley, wife Ellen Li, Make Six Figure Donation to Support Economically Disadvantaged Students at University's School of Medicine

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:10:00 PST

Stony Brook University President, Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr., a nationally prominent expert in infectious diseases, and his wife Dr. Ellen Li, a renowned gastroenterologist and researcher who holds a joint faculty appointment at Stony Brook and at Washington University in St. Louis, announced today that they are making a $125,000 donation to establish the Ellen Li and Samuel L. Stanley Jr. Endowed Scholarship in the Stony Brook University School of Medicine.

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.

SBU Faculty Mentors 30 Semifinalists in National Intel Science Talent Search Competition

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:29:41 PST

Stony Brook University mentors have guided 30 more high school students into the semifinals of the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search competition, one of the two national competitions where high school students spend countless hours conducting research under the direction of Stony Brook faculty members and graduate students.

SBU Announces Collaboration with Sanofi on Pioneering Tuberculosis Drug

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:30:40 PST

The Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery (ICB&DD) at Stony Brook University announced a multi-year research collaboration with Sanofi, a multinational pharmaceutical company, on a potential treatment for Tuberculosis (TB) and other bacterial infections.

Walking and Texting at the Same Time? Stony Brook Study Says Think Again

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:15:44 PST

Talking on a cell phone or texting while walking may seem natural and easy, but it could be dangerous and result in walking errors and interfere with memory recall. Researchers at Stony Brook University found this to be the case in a study of young people walking and using their cell phones. The study is reported in the online edition of Gait & Posture.

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.

Stony Brook's WTC Health Program Expands to Winthrop-University Hospital

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:41:46 PST

The Stony Brook University World Trade Center Health Program is expanding its clinical Center of Excellence to Winthrop-University Hospital which enables care and treatment for thousands more who were exposed to toxic chemicals and who continue to suffer from upper and lower respiratory ailments, mental health symptoms, and other conditions related to the environment at Ground Zero.

New SBU Study Finds Fish Offspring Grow Best at Same Temperature as Parents

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:30:15 PST

Fish parents can pre-condition their offspring to grow fastest at the temperature they experienced, according to research published in the February 2012 edition of Ecology Letters.

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 Faculty Named "People of the Year"

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:22:36 PST

The Village Times Herald has named four Stony Brook University faculty members as People of the Year for 2011. These include Margaret M. McGovern, M.D., Ph.D., as Woman of the Year; Eckard Wimmer, Ph.D., as Man of the Year in Medicine; Carl Safina, Ph.D., as Man of the Year in Science; and Charlie Backfish, as Man of the Year in the Arts. Stories on their respective impact in their fields and in the community are featured in the newspaper’s December 29, 2011, edition. Also selected as People of the Year in Education is The School of Professional Development’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

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.

Study of WTC Responders: PTSD and Respiratory Illness Linked

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:27:06 PST

More than 10 years after 9/11, when thousands of rescue and recovery workers descended on the area surrounding the World Trade Center in the wake of the terrorist attacks, a research team led by Benjamin J. Luft, M.D., the Edmund D. Pellegrino Professor of Medicine, and Medical Director of Stony Brook’s World Trade Center Health Program, and Evelyn Bromet, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, has published results of a study examining the relationship between the two signature health problems among WTC first responders—respiratory illness and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).