Stony Brook Medicine will host the Second Annual Converging Science Summit, a daylong conference on new developments in translational medical science, on April 15, 2013, in the Student Acitvities Center on the main campus. The theme for this year’s summit is “Advancing Health Outcomes: The Intersection of Health and Technology.” The mission of the annual [...]

Four faculty members at Stony Brook University were selected to receive the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program award. The award, which includes a substantial grant to support research over a five-year period, is given to promising young faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar through outstanding research, excellent [...]

The URECA website regularly features students’ perspectives on research and/or creative activities. This month’s featured student is Ariana Levin, a junior majoring in biology with a minor in mathematics who is a member of Women in Science and Engineering. In summer 2011 after completing her freshman year, she volunteered in Christopher Hammell’s lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she learned [...]

Rouven Essig, PhD, an assistant professor at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, has been selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is one of 126 awardees from 61 colleges and universities in the United States [...]

Shmuel Einav, PhD, a professor of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University and the Herbert J. Berman Chair for Vascular Bioengineering at Tel Aviv University, has received one of the most prestigious annual awards given to an Israeli scientist for his lifetime achievements in cardiovascular biomedical engineering. Einav received the 2012 Mifal Hapayis Landau Prize [...]

Two Stony Brook University faculty members are being highlighted for their life-long research in two of the top scientific journals. The February 8 Science article on Anthropology Professor John J. Shea, also a research associate at the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya, focuses on how he is challenging the traditional idea of “behavioral modernity” — [...]

Minerals found in the subsurface of Mars, a zone of more than three miles below ground, make for the strongest evidence yet that the red planet may have supported life, according to research “Groundwater Activity on Mars and Implications for a Deep Biosphere,” published in Nature Geoscience on January 20, 2013. One of the co-authors [...]

Stony Brook University has reached a research collaboration agreement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. for the development of a new inactivated polio vaccine based on novel highly attenuated polio viral seed strains. These strains, when inactivated, have the potential to be as effective and as safe as the current inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV). Distinguished Professor Eckard [...]

Stony Brook University’s Department of Chemistry included laboratory safety demonstrations for the first time in its annual Chemistry Research Day, which was held on January 18. The celebration showcases the department’s research, what students study and learn, and how it is all done in a safe environment. This emphasis on safety is a conscious step [...]

Stony Brook University faculty have mentored four of the 40 high school students chosen as finalists in the prestigious 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, which accounts for 10 percent of the 40 finalists announced by Intel. All four finalists participated in the Simons Summer Research Program at Stony Brook University where they worked in University labs [...]