Stony Brook University Physics Professor Chang Kee Jung, along with an international team of physicists working on the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) collaboration, have been 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 [...]
Sophomore Dave Coley scored a career-high 17 points to lead the Stony Brook men’s basketball team, but the Seawolves shot only 26.7 percent and couldn’t generate enough offense to beat Rutgers, losing to the Scarlet Knights 67-58 on December 17 in the Foot Locker MSG Holiday Festival at Madison Square Garden. “We played good enough [...]
Stony Brook Men’s Basketball will play Rutgers at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, December 17. Tip-off is at 12:00 pm. Stony Brook returns to the world’s most famous arena, this time as a member of NCAA Division I in the Foot Locker MSG Holiday Festival. Stony Brook played at the Garden on January 22, 1995, [...]
The University celebrated a historic moment on December 14 as Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, and Jim and Marilyn Simons gathered at the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology to announce the Governor’s approval of Stony Brook’s $35 million NYSUNY 2020 challenge grant application and a transformational $150 million [...]
Christmas came early when three players with the NHL’s New York Islanders brought a bounty of holiday gifts to children at Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital. New York Islanders forwards Mike Haley (#18) and Tim Wallace (#36), accompanied by defenseman Travis Hamonic (#3), played the role of Santa’s helpers on December 7, delivering toys, [...]
Stony Brook University students raised more than $6,500 to benefit the Sunrise Fund at “Sunrise Shaves,” a student-run fundraiser held in the Student Activities Center Auditorium on December 7. Undergraduate student Sam Rosner coordinated the event. “The idea began during summer National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) training in August,” said Rosner. “I knew I wanted [...]
Richard Savino, a Stony Brook University alumnus (Doctor of Musical Arts ‘92, Guitar Performance), who also completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Stony Brook, has been nominated for a second consecutive Grammy Award. This year’s nomination is in the Best Small Ensemble Performance category for conducting El Mundo’s The Kingdoms of Castille, the only [...]
Stony Brook University School of Medicine has been granted continued full accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the nationally recognized accrediting authority for medical education programs leading to the M.D. degree in the U.S. and Canada. An LCME survey team, which completed a site visit to the School of Medicine in April [...]
Arthur Grollman, 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 [...]
Study in Greece this summer with the College of Business from May 21 to June 17. Ancient Greece, and in particular Athens, is critical to understanding Western culture, science, philosophy, society, theater, literature, mathematics, art, and our form of democracy. Students will be able to visit many of the actual locations where Western civilization had [...]
