Shmuel Einav, PhD, a professor of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University and the Herbert J. Berman Chair for Vascular Bioengineering at Tel Aviv University, has received one of the most prestigious annual awards given to an Israeli scientist for his lifetime achievements in cardiovascular biomedical engineering. Einav received the 2012 Mifal Hapayis Landau Prize [...]

Stony Brook University’s Vice President for Research Benjamin Hsiao is featured in an interview with Jim Paymar, host of Long Island Business Report, WLIW21’s half-hour weekly business series. The show premieres on Wednesday, February 20, at 7 pm, with encore presentations on Thursday, February 21, at 11:30 pm, and Sunday, February 24, at 9:30 am on [...]

Two Stony Brook University faculty members are being highlighted for their life-long research in two of the top scientific journals. The February 8 Science article on Anthropology Professor John J. Shea, also a research associate at the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya, focuses on how he is challenging the traditional idea of “behavioral modernity” — [...]

Minerals found in the subsurface of Mars, a zone of more than three miles below ground, make for the strongest evidence yet that the red planet may have supported life, according to research “Groundwater Activity on Mars and Implications for a Deep Biosphere,” published in Nature Geoscience on January 20, 2013. One of the co-authors [...]

Stony Brook University has reached a research collaboration agreement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. for the development of a new inactivated polio vaccine based on novel highly attenuated polio viral seed strains. These strains, when inactivated, have the potential to be as effective and as safe as the current inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV). Distinguished Professor Eckard [...]

Stony Brook University faculty have mentored four of the 40 high school students chosen as finalists in the prestigious 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, which accounts for 10 percent of the 40 finalists announced by Intel. All four finalists participated in the Simons Summer Research Program at Stony Brook University where they worked in University labs [...]

Stony Brook Southampton faculty member Christine Vachon, co-founder of indie film production powerhouse Killer Films, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, to support two films she produced that were screened at the Festival. But she also spent her time spreading the word to industry insiders and her peers about the new film [...]

Professor Nancy Tomes, from Stony Brook University’s Department of History, will be featured in a segment of the weekly public radio show “This American Life.” The broadcast will air Friday, January 25, and then will be available for streaming starting Sunday, January 27, after 8 pm Eastern Standard Time at thisamericanlife.org. The theme of the [...]

Stony Brook University Director of Athletics Jim Fiore has named former Wisconsin assistant coach Coley Pawlikowski as the new Seawolves volleyball head coach. A rising star in the collegiate volleyball coaching ranks and a tenacious recruiter of student-athletes, Pawlikowski is a three-time recipient of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Thirty Under 30 award. “We [...]

Trumpet player Kevin Cobb and trombonist Michael Powell, both artists-in-residence with Stony Brook University’s Department of Music, are members of the American Brass Quintet (ABQ), which will receive Chamber Music America’s (CMA) highest honor: The Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award. The award will be presented at CMA’s national conference banquet in New York City [...]