Pathways: Routes Through Life, Science, and Protein Folding Are Seldom Straight Lines Ken Dill is Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Stony Brook University and Director of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology. He received the first Hans Neurath Award in 1998 from the Protein Society for his research on the structures of [...]
On Saturday, April 9, 2011 Stony Brook’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) will host the 2011 Sigma Xi Northeastern Research Symposium at the Stony Brook University Center of Excellence for Information and Wireless Technology (CEWIT) to showcase the work of top undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students from across the country in various fields of science. Sponsored [...]
The Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program and the Alumni Relations Department at Stony Brook sponsored an Engineering Panel on March 9. Eighty students attended and listened to professionals from different companies talk about how college influenced their career decisions. The panelist discussed their careers and how being women in college in their majors [...]
The Impossible Necessary Sabbath: What an Ancient Institution Has to Teach Us in These Postmodern Times Judith Shulevitz is a cultural critic and magazine editor who helped to start both Slate and Lingua Franca, which won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence under her co-editorship. She has been a columnist for Slate and the [...]
The Swartz Foundation‘s annual exploration of the mysteries of the mind will be held on Monday, April 11, at 4:30 pm as Dr. Allison J. Doupe discusses “What Songbirds Can Teach Us About Learning and the Brain” at the 15th Annual Swartz Foundation Mind/Brain Lecture. Baby songbirds learn to sing the same way human infants learn [...]
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Tsunami! One of Nature’s Most Destructive and Fearsome Events: Could It Happen to Us? Malcolm Bowman is Professor of Physical Oceanography and Distinguished Service Professor in Stony Brook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. He is the Founding Director of the Stony Brook Storm Surge Research Group, Distinguished Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, [...]
Reteaching Gender and Sexuality Reteaching Gender and Sexuality is a national campaign that is contributing additional queer youth voices to influence policies and practices that impact queer youth lives. Its aim is to steer the conversation beyond the symptom of bullying to address the systematic issues and deeper beliefs about gender and sexuality. This lecture [...]
Virtual network computing is now available to all Stony Brook students. Nearly a year ago, Matthew Froehlich, Manager of Instructional Computing Systems in the Teaching, Learning + Technology (TLT) department, assembled his team of support personnel to begin working on a plan to build a virtual computer lab at Stony Brook. After a significant testing [...]
As Stony Brook students, faculty, and staff struggle to comprehend the breadth of devastation caused by the magnitude 8.9 earthquake, tsunami, and emergency conditions surrounding the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, the question we are all asking is: How can we help? A University-organized response team is now in place, anchored with resources from the Japan Center [...]
