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. [...]

Stony Brook University’s 15th Annual Diversity Day will bring members of the campus community together for a day of cross-cultural appreciation, celebration and unity. Held every spring on the Student Activities Center Plaza during Strawberry Fest, Diversity Day features a cultural showcase of performances by an array of student organizations, a diversity trivia contest and giveaways. [...]

Stony Brook University’s Department of Art is presenting its annual exhibition of works by senior art majors. This year’s show will be on view at the Paul W. Zuccaire Art Gallery in the Staller Center from Saturday, May 4, through Wednesday, May 22. A reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, May 4, [...]

The 2013 America East Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse Championships will both be held at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium this week, and the Seawolves will play a major role in both. The fourth-seeded men will take on top-seed Albany May 2 at 7 pm. Preceeding the Seawolves game is No. 2 seed Hartford against No. 3 seed [...]

Comedians Regie Cabico and Hari Kondabolu will perform at the Charles B. Wang Center Theater on Thursday, April 25, at 8 pm. Poet and spoken word artist Regie Cabico is a performer with tremendous expressive range, able to shift between wry humor, indignation and poignant longing in only minutes on stage. Called the “Lady Gaga of spoken [...]

MOOCs: Been There, Done That, Want It Different Eric Rabkin is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English Language and Literature and of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His current research interests include fantasy and science fiction, graphic narrative, the quantitative study of culture, traditional literary criticism and theory, and [...]

The State of America’s Children Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. She will be coming to Stony Brook to present a Presidential Lecture on Tuesday, May 7, at 4 pm on the Staller Center’s Main Stage. Under [...]

Exploring the Human Side of Medicine As it prepares to graduate its second class of students next month, Stony Brook University’s Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics is now accepting applications on a rolling basis for the Fall 2013 semester of its Medical Humanities MA program. Open to anyone interested in exploring the [...]

The University Orchestra will present its spring concert on Tuesday, April 30, on Staller Center’s Main Stage at 8 pm. The featured soloist is violinist Jonathan Block, winner of the 2013 Undergraduate Concerto Competition, who will perform Prokovief’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor with the University Orchestra. The concert will also include Brahms’ [...]

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 [...]