The annual campus community kick-off celebration for Black History Month will be Wednesday, February 1, from 12:40 pm to 2:10 pm in the Student Activities Center, Ballroom A. The Opening Ceremony features guest speaker Andrez S. Carberry, Employment Counsel for Avon Products, NA. There will be cultural performances, student organization display tables, and light refreshments. [...]

A scientist walks into a bar, sits down with a former producer of 60 Minutes, orders a beer and talks to a live audience. No punch line here, this is “Science on Tap,” a new pilot project of Stony Brook’s Center for Communicating Science. The mission? To demystify scientific topics during a free evening of [...]

Stony Brook Medicine is dedicated to the health and well being of our community. Throughout February, American Heart Month, Stony Brook supports the American Heart Association’s national campaign, “Go Red for Women,” and will host free opportunities for you to get screened, get educated and get involved in your own heart health. Calendar of Events

Are you 60 or older? Do you have one or more of the following risk factors for an aneurysm, stroke or vascular disease? • Current or past smoker • High blood pressure • High cholesterol • Diabetes • Heart disease • Family history of aortic aneurysm In celebration of Women’s Heart Health month, Stony Brook [...]

Mark Norell is curator and chair of the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his PhD in 1988 at Yale University. Norell’s research concerns diversity through time and includes naming new dinosaurs, deciphering growth patterns in dinosaurs, studying the relationships of small carnivorous dinosaurs to modern [...]

Aldon Morris is the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. His interests include race, social inequality, religion, politics, theory and social movements. Morris is the author of the award winning book, The Origins of the Civil rights Movement. In 1986 Origins won the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of [...]

Freedom from obesity is attainable. The key to success is to choose the right combination of tools and support within an individualized clinical program directed by a leader in the field. Stony Brook’s Bariatric and Metabolic Weight Loss Center develops treatment plans tailored to each patient’s needs, lifestyle and goals. Options may include behavior modification, [...]

Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr. and his wife Ellen Li have made a $125,000 donation to establish the Ellen Li and Samuel L. Stanley Jr. Endowed Scholarship in the Stony Brook University School of Medicine. This merit-based scholarship will provide critical financial assistance to young people who have received their undergraduate degree [...]

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 20 percent of the nation’s total. Five of the students are from Long Island, two are from California and one is from Michigan. The eight Stony Brook-mentored [...]

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 Fellows Forum during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. They are among 539 AAAS members elected for [...]