The Stony Brook University Department of Theatre Arts is running a student production of “Hamlet,” April 11 through April 14 and April 18 through April 21 (Thursday through Saturday at 8 pm; Sunday at 2 pm) in Theater One at the Staller Center. Stony Brook alumna Valerie Clayman Pye ’92, who has trained and worked [...]

Sporting Matters is a three-part speaker series in which sportswriters, academics, authors, athletes, coaches and fans explore the important issues at stake in our diverse experiences of sports. This series offers a sustained conversation about how race, gender and sexuality inhabit the world of sports. The series kicked off on March 26 when Jennifer Doyle [...]

Richard Aldrich is Professor and Chair of the Section of Neurobiology in the School of Biological Sciences and the Karl Folkers Chair II in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research at the University of Texas at Austin. He has served on the council and as president of the Society of General Physiologists, and is a Fellow and president [...]

The American Physical Society has chosen Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to host the 2014 Northeastern Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWIP). CUWIP is a national series of conferences held across the United States each year. The goal of the conference, according to the American Physical Society, “is to help undergraduate [...]

Stony Brook University, in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, held an all-day career symposium on March 19 in the Charles B. Wang Center. The Research Your Future Career Symposium was sponsored by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) for graduate students and postdocs at the participating institutions. [...]

Ninety-six students from Nassau and Suffolk county high schools came to Stony Brook University’s Center for Science and Mathematics Education on February 28 for the sixth annual Protein Challenge, sponsored by Astellas Pharma of Farmingdale, in which students built molecular models that illustrate the link between protein structure and function. This year students and their [...]

“Hooray for Hollywood” comes to Staller Center on Sunday, March 24, at 7 pm, with performers recreating more than 30 songs and dances live on stage in this nostalgic journey through the most popular movie musicals of the past 50 years. Featuring songs from Singing in the Rain and The Glenn Miller Story to Titanic, Hairspray [...]

Please join us on Monday, April 1, at 4:30 pm for our annual exploration of the mysteries of the mind at the 17th Annual Swartz Foundation Mind/Brain Lecture. Professor Michael Wigler, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), will present his genetic research findings in a presentation entitled “Considering the Genetics of Cognitive Function
Through the Prism of [...]

Charles A. Gargano, former U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago and long-time friend of Stony Brook University, has agreed to establish the Ambassador Charles Gargano Chair in Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging at Stony Brook Medicine. The $750,000 gift will be matched dollar for dollar by the Simons Foundation Challenge and Jim and Marilyn Simons, creating a [...]

Can you land the best-paid job on campus? The Stony Brook Department of Athletics is looking for highly energetic and motivated individuals to perform as Wolfie, Stony Brook University’s fun-loving, sports-promoting mascot, for the 2013-2014 year. Stony Brook students interested in joining the official Wolfie Mascot Team both at home and on the road must be skilled in [...]