Stephanie Brown, an associate professor in the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, is one of nine researchers from the United States and Great Britain to receive the 2010 Science of Generosity Award, issued by the University of Notre Dame. [...]
As chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List Standards and Petitions Subcommittee, Professor H. Resit Akçakaya, Department of Ecology and Evolution and a member of the Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental Research, helped develop guidelines for the application of rules used in assessment of threatened species. Now, a major synthesis of [...]
F. Barry Florence, Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Director of the Stony Brook University Ambulatory Surgery Center, has been selected by his peers as the recipient of the 2010 Stony Brook University Physicians Award for Excellence in Clinical Practice. He was presented with this award at the Clinical Practice Management Plan (CPMP) [...]
Congratulations to Iwao Ojima, Director, Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery (ICB&DD) and Project Leader, and Ramesh Gupta, Vice President, ChemMaster International Inc. and Principal Investigator) on receiving a Phase II STTR/SBIR award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for the project, “Preclinical Studies on Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid-Taxoid Conjugate for IND Filing.” The NCI [...]
Alfredo Fontanini, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, has been named by President Barack Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the United States government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. He is one [...]
Markus Seeliger, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences, has received the 2010 New Scholar Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation, a non-profit corporation supporting basic biomedical research on aging relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. Seeliger is the first Stony Brook professor to win this award, which includes [...]
The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) was selected to receive the Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Excellence in Teaching Award. Professors John Kincaid, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Joseph Mitchell, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, were this year’s recipients. The awards were presented by Mikysha Tolbert, University Relations Representative for Aerospace Systems, along [...]
Forty-eight high school students who worked with Stony Brook University faculty mentors were recently announced as regional finalists (18) and or semifinalists (30) in the 2010 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology—one of the top nationwide research competitions for high school researchers. Many of the competition winners participated in summer research programs offered at [...]
Stony Brook University Medical Center will host the inaugural Harvest Luncheon on Thursday, November 18, at the Watermill Restaurant in Smithtown. Bring your friends and enjoy a delectable lunch, silent auction, and many surprises all to benefit children with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and MS research at the National Pediatric MS Center at SBUMC as well [...]
Balaji Sitharaman, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is a 2010 recipient of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. Only a select group of early-career biomedical researchers nationwide receive this award, which includes a five-year $1.5 million grant. Sitharaman is engineering a nanotechnology-based theranostic (integrating therapeutic and diagnostic) technology for combined non-invasive [...]
