Stony Brook tests stem cells on heart patient (Newsday)
Until his recent heart attack, David Kenney of East Moriches was running six miles daily. Now he's a pioneering patient in a clinical study that will determine whether 100 million stem cells infused into his body can fix his ailing heart. (Newsday, Jan 31, 2010 - 9:13:10 AM)
Apple’s New Device Looks Like a Winner. From 1988. (NY Times)
The contest, in 1988, was to describe and design a computer for the year 2000. Steven Skiena, who lives in Manhattan and is a now a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, was on the team that won — for suggesting a tablet computer. Oh, and the contest was sponsored by Apple Computer. (Everyone knows what Apple unveiled on Wednesday.) (New York Times, Jan 28, 2010 - 12:31:55 PM)
EDITORIAL: Stony Brook's new energy center needs dedicated funding (Newsday)
The whiz-bang new energy technologies of the future, which will light our Island more inexpensively and reliably, will likely emerge from an advanced energy center in a hyper-green building soon to open at Stony Brook University. The building is paid for, but not the staffing - until now. The New York Power Authority will provide first-year operating funds. But a future funding stream is still needed. (Newsday, Jan 18, 2010 - 8:50:29 AM)
EDITORIAL: Is tuition flexibility coming for SUNY? (Newsday)
The state's tuition policy for public higher education is perfect. Perfectly wrong. In good times, when families have money, tuition doesn't go up at all. In bad times, when families are hurting, the tuition rises sharply. Some students get through their entire undergraduate education with no increases. Some absorb crushing hikes. This is irrational and unfair, and it has to stop. (Newsday, Jan 18, 2010 - 7:39:02 AM)
Woman gets special honors at Stony Brook graduation
By the time Sumaira Zammurad received her bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University Tuesday, she'd lived through more than most college students: She'd left her parents and sisters in Pakistan. She'd been married. She'd become a widow. (Newsday, Dec 23, 2009 - 8:00:37 AM)
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