Stony Brook Medicine has received a major gift from Stony Brook University alumni Eugene ’97, and Carol Cheng ’97, to support cardiovascular imaging research that advances non-invasive techniques to diagnose and treat heart disease. The gift will be matched by the Simons Foundation Challenge Grant to establish the Carol and Eugene Cheng Cardiovascular Imaging Research [...]
Stony Brook alumnus Paul Fenaroli ’10 has been signed to the New York Giants practice squad, Newsday reports. After four seasons as the Seawolves’ FCS All-American starting center, Fenaroli played professionally for six different teams in three different leagues. At 6-3, 310 lbs., Fenaroli could add some heft to the Giants’s offensive line, and now [...]
Indian physicist Ashoke Sen, who earned his doctorate at Stony Brook University, received the first-ever Fundamental Physics Prize for his contribution to string theory. The prize, founded in July 2012 by Russian physicist and Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner, awards Sen $3 million, the world’s most lucrative prize in physics. Eight other scientists from the United [...]
Five prominent graduates of Stony Brook University have been named recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award, which represents the Stony Brook Alumni Association’s highest honor. All will be honored at an awards dinner on November 13, 2012, at Flowerfield in St. James, New York. The 2012 honorees are Vito A. Cannavo (BA ’75), partner, [...]
Steven Christe, a Stony Brook University alumnus (BA ’01, Physics and Mathematics) and a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is co-principal investigator along with Jessica Gaskin on NASA’s new “High Energy Replicated Optics to Explore the Sun” or HEROES project. His team’s project has been chosen as the recipient of [...]
Former Stony Brook track & field standout Lucy Van Dalen ’12 has arrived in London, where she will compete in the 2012 Olympic Games. Van Dalen will run her signature event, the 1,500, for New Zealand. Van Dalen’s 4:05.76 race earlier this year ranked her among the top 30 in the world. Her time was achieved in [...]
Stony Brook alumni, Al Bello ’89, Chief Sports Photographer at Getty Images (left), and Bedel Saget ’88, Sports Graphics Editor for The New York Times in London covering the 2012 Summer Olympics.
At a decoration ceremony held at the Italian Consulate in New York City on June 2, 2012, Mr. Richard Nasti received the prestigious Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Cavaliere (Knight). In bestowing the award on behalf of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, Consul General Natalia Quintavalle recounted some of the accomplishments of Mr. Nasti, [...]
There is a Japanese cherry tree on Stony Brook’s campus that stands for everything academia should be — it was planted in 1995 just outside of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Building to mark the passing of one of Stony Brook’s own — History Professor Hugh G. Cleland. Cleland’s memory sprang to life again at [...]
Ikal Angelei, who earned her master’s in public policy and political science at Stony Brook, is one of six winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize for her campaign to block construction of the Gibe 3 Dam on the Omo River in Ethiopia. If completed, the dam would be the largest hydroelectric plant in Africa and [...]
