Boeing engineer Madeline Augustin, who earned her bachelor’s in engineering science from Stony Brook University in 2005, received top honors from the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and the Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) organization for her exceptional work in developing manufacturing and assembly processes. Augustin, a materials, process and physics engineer in [...]
Eugene A. Feinberg, a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Stony Brook University, has been named a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), an award reserved for distinguished individuals who have demonstrated outstanding and exceptional accomplishments and experience in operations research and the management sciences. [...]
Shen Zhao, a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University, was recently awarded a 2012 Graduate Student Award from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Environmental Chemistry. He is one of only 23 graduate students nationwide selected for this award. Zhao graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, [...]
When it comes to Stony Brook Child Care Services Inc. (SBCCSI), the quality of care has kept pace with the number of children and staff at its facility. Since the building was erected on its current site on South Drive, enrollment has grown from 90 to 160 children and the number of permanent staff has [...]
The Center for Dance, Movement and Somatic Learning will present Closed Body/Safe Heart, the Stony Brook Performance Dance Ensemble’s spring performance opening on Thursday, April 12, at 8 pm in Nassau Hall. Performances include the premier of Aconteceu/It Happened, a story depicting the lives of street children in Rio de Janeiro; Hey Penny, a contemporary [...]
A $5,000 donation made by Stony Brook University Campus Residences “Tis the Season” campaign will help pay for required kitchen improvements at Sayville’s Having Friends Inn, a Long Island soup kitchen that serves dinner four nights a week to about 50 people each night. After kitchen safety problems limited the Inn’s menu options, organizers of [...]
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded a $285,000 grant to the School of Journalism’s Center for News Literacy to fund the creation and delivery of digital materials demanded by the rapid spread of news literacy courses. “This is the rocket fuel we need to launch Stony Brook’s web-based news literacy education [...]
Nithin Tumma, who was mentored by Stony Brook’s Berhane Ghebrehiwet, has been awarded first prize in the prestigious 2012 Intel Science Talent Search. A native of Fort Gratiot, Michigan, Nithin worked with Ghebrehiwet in the Simons Summer Research Program. He was awarded a $100,000 scholarship in recognition of his outstanding research relating to breast cancer therapy. Also honored [...]
Lina Obeid, a physician-scientist and biomedical researcher, has been appointed dean for research and professor of medicine at Stony Brook School of Medicine. She comes to Stony Brook from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). At Stony Brook she will oversee the Office of Scientific Affairs (OSA), which facilitates the biomedical research enterprise of [...]
On Friday, April 13, at 8 pm, and Sunday, April 15, at 2 pm, the Stony Brook Opera and Stony Brook Baroque Ensemble will present a fully staged production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s popular opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), on Staller Center’s Main Stage. The opera recounts the efforts [...]
