Two Stony Brook University professors, Ken A. Dill and Eugene Feinberg, have been appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professorship by the State University of New York Board of Trustees as recommended by campus colleagues and SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher. Distinguished Professorship is the University’s highest faculty designation. All distinguished faculty in active service [...]

Junior William Carmona went 4-for-5 with three RBI and senior Tyler Johnson went 6.1 innings as the No. 4 Stony Brook baseball team won for the third time in two days, beating UCF, 10-6, to win the Coral Gables Regional and advance to its first ever Super Regional. Stony Brook now travels to Baton Rouge [...]

Bluefin tuna exposed to radioactivity that leaked into the Pacific Ocean after Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi power plants were damaged by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011, carried that radioactivity to the waters off California, a new study by scientists from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) and Stanford [...]

Six finalists have been announced for “The Flame Challenge,” a month-long contest spearheaded by Alan Alda and the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University to answer the question, “What is a flame?” in a way that is clear, engaging and meaningful to an 11-year old. The winning entry, chosen by 11-year olds from [...]

Christopher C. Sellers book, Crabgrass Crucible, Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America, has been published by The University of North Carolina Press. Sellers, an associate professor of history at Stony Brook University, holds a PhD in American studies from Yale University and an MD from the University of North Carolina at [...]

Jon Longtin, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University and his team have been awarded a Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) 2012 R&D award from the United States Department of Energy for research entitled “Thermoelectric-Driven Sustainable Sensing and Actuation Systems for Fault-Tolerant Nuclear Incidents.” This award is part of [...]

Peter Tsantes, the treasurer of the New York chapter of the American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture (AFGLC), along with his wife Despina and their children Vasilios and Sophia, donated $100,000 to strengthen the Hellenic studies program at Stony Brook University. The gift will be matched dollar for dollar by the Simons Foundation Challenge [...]

First-year graduate student Michele Theroux, a physics major who is also getting her master’s degree in teaching through the combined BS/MAT program, listened to her professors who encouraged her throughout the semester to fill out her online course evaluations. By taking some time to provide valuable feedback on the courses she was enrolled in during [...]

Gerald Smaldone, Professor and Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine and Rany Condos, Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, NYU School of Medicine, along with colleagues from Stony Brook and NYU, announced an exclusive license agreement with Nostrum Pharmaceuticals for the development [...]

In a paper published in the May 20, 2012, edition of the journal Nature Physics, a research group from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University reports the development and demonstration of a novel probe for atomic quantum matter. The paper, “Probing an Ultracold-Atom Crystal with Matter Waves,” describes a proof-of-principle experiment on [...]