Stony Brook University Professors Paul Gootenberg, Department of History, and James M. Lattimer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, have been appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees. Stony Brook’s professors were among 16 total SUNY faculty who were appointed to distinguished ranks. “In bestowing its highest faculty honor, SUNY [...]

The May/June 2013 issue of The Saturday Evening Post features a Q&A with renowned actor Alan Alda, discussing his work as a visiting professor at Stony Brook and founder of the University’s Center for Communicating Science (renamed the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science on April 24 at the Stars of Stony Brook Gala, where [...]

The Earthstock Festival at Stony Brook University added a tradition in 2013 — honoring individuals who have made the greatest impact on protecting the environment — locally, regionally and nationally.  Two students and one faculty member were the recipients of the first-ever Environmentalists of the Year awards on Friday, April 19, at the Charles B. [...]

Clare Grey, who has full professorships in the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University and at the University of Cambridge, was awarded the 2013 Günther Laukien Medal at the 54th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance conference in Asilomar, California. She was awarded for her innovative applications of solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to energy storage systems, [...]

Michele H. Bogart, a professor of art history and criticism at Stony Brook University, has been awarded a 2015 Terra Foundation Visiting Professorship at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Bogart has taught American visual culture studies at Stony Brook since 1982. Her areas of expertise include urban design and [...]

Brooke Belisle, who just earned her PhD in rhetoric with emphases in film and new media from the University of California, Berkeley, has been elected a 2013 New Faculty Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and will join Stony Brook University’s Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory. Belisle received a bachelor’s degree [...]

The CBS television news show “Sunday Morning” aired an April 21 report spotlighting renowned television actor Alan Alda and his work with Stony Brook University’s Center for Communicating Science. Affiliated with the School of Journalism, the Center for Communicating Science works to enhance understanding of science by helping train the next generation of scientists and [...]

Science and art took center stage at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics on April 10, when readings of the four 10-minute plays that won the 2012–2013 Stony Brook University Science Playwriting Competition were presented before an enthusiastic crowd that filled the auditorium. Following a brief reception, the readings began with two plays that [...]

University Ombudsman Judi Segall will be presenting at a plenary session of the 2013 International Ombudsman Association Conference in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday, April 24, in which academic, government and corporate ombudsmen will examine sector-specific issues and challenges as well as professional best practices. In addition to Stony Brook University’s ombudsman, panel participants include ombudsmen [...]

For philosopher, science writer and historian Robert P. Crease, playwriting was uncharted territory — until he heard about Stony Brook’s Science Playwriting Competition. For 10 years Bob Crease, professor and former chair of the Department of Philosophy, science writer, and historian of Brookhaven National Laboratory, played with the idea of turning an article he wrote [...]