Four faculty members at Stony Brook University were selected to receive the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program award. The award, which includes a substantial grant to support research over a five-year period, is given to promising young faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar through outstanding research, excellent [...]

Stony Brook University PhD student James Herrera has been awarded the prestigious Explorer Club Eddie Bauer Youth Grant of $25,000. Since Herrera is currently in Madagascar doing fieldwork, his professor, Patricia Wright, accepted the award on his behalf at the Explorer’s Club annual black tie dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on [...]

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 [...]

The 2013 Graduate School Awards will be presented to the winning students, faculty and staff at the Graduate School’s Annual Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 22, in the Student Activities Center Ballroom. “The winners represent the very best of Stony Brook, and I congratulate you all,” said Charles Taber, Interim Dean of the Graduate School. “I am most [...]

Rouven Essig, PhD, an assistant professor at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, has been selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is one of 126 awardees from 61 colleges and universities in the United States [...]

Campus Dining Services welcomes nutritionist Kristina (Tina) Tiernan, RD, as the newest member of their culinary team. Tina will be working closely with Campus Dining chefs to develop healthier menu choices in all dining locations as well as adding more variety to the vegan and vegetarian options available on campus. “It’s all about finding nutritious [...]

The Honorable Gus M. Bilirakis, U.S. Representative for Florida’s 12th congressional district, congratulated the 2012 National Academy of Inventors’ (NAI) charter fellows in the House of Representatives on February 28. Among the 101 fellows is Stony Brook University’s Distinguished Professor Esther Sans Takeuchi, who holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and the [...]

Dallas W. Bauman III, Assistant Vice President for Campus Residences at Stony Brook University, has been honored by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), College Student Educators International — the primary professional association for educators in the field of student affairs — as a Diamond Honoree for his substantial contributions to the fields of higher [...]

Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, Director of Resuscitation Research at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, speaks to the issue of death as a process, not a moment, and sheds light on 21st century medicine’s capabilities to increase resuscitation rates during an interview with Terry Gross, host of the syndicated program, “Fresh Air,” that aired on National Public [...]

The Stony Brook University School of Journalism has received the pledge of a $25,000 gift from Stony Brook Senior Vice President of Administration Barbara Chernow and her husband, William Farber, to establish The Carol Chernow Memorial Scholarship in Journalism. This gift will endow a scholarship to support the development of young writers, which was a life-long goal [...]