Susan Larson, a professor in Stony Brook’s Department of Anatomical Sciences in the School of Medicine, wrote an article that appeared in the October 26 issue of Science, a journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “Did Australopiths Climb Trees?” discusses the lifestyle of Australopithecus afarensis, early members of the human [...]

Two Stony Brook-sponsored conferences scheduled to take place this week have been postponed due to damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. Life Sciences Summit 2012, which was to have taken place October 29-30, has been postponed to a later date as yet to be determined.  No penalties will be assessed for canceling with less than 48 hours [...]

Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University have developed a high-resolution, 3D optical Doppler imaging tomography technique that captures the effects of cocaine restricting the blood supply in vessels – including small capillaries – of the brain. The study, reported in Molecular Psychiatry, and with images on the journal’s October 2012 [...]

Douglas Futuyma, PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, has been selected to receive the prestigious Joseph Leidy Award for Research Achievement presented by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. The award, recognizing creative research and experimental tenacity in the natural sciences will be presented at [...]

An interdisciplinary team of Stony Brook University researchers has been selected to receive a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the development of a personalized asthma monitor that uses nanotechnology to detect known airway inflammation biomarkers in the breath. The project, “Personalized Asthma Monitor Detecting Nitric Oxide in Breath,” comes with a $599,763 award [...]

A new study, published online in Biology Letters on September 19, has utilized a massive molecular dataset to reconstruct the evolutionary history of lizards and snakes. The results reveal a surprising finding about the evolution of snakes: Most snakes we see living on the surface today arose from ancestors that lived underground. The article, entitled [...]

All tadpoles grow into frogs, but not all frogs start out as tadpoles, reveals a new study on 720 species of frogs to be published in the journal Evolution. The study, “Phylogenetic Analyses Reveal Unexpected Patterns in the Evolution of Reproductive Modes in Frogs,” led by John J. Wiens, an associate professor in the Department [...]

Daniel N. Klein, professor of clinical psychology and chair of the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University, received the 2012 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology at the Society of Clinical Psychology’s annual meeting held in Orlando, Florida. This award is the Society’s highest honor presented to those who have made distinguished [...]

The once rich shellfish beds of Shinnecock Bay may thrive again thanks to an ambitious environmental restoration project funded in part by a philanthropic gift from the Laurie Landeau Foundation matched by a gift from the Simons Foundation for a total impact of $3 million. These targeted funds will be used by Stony Brook’s School [...]

SUNY Distinguished Professor Esther Sans Takeuchi, who holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University, and is chief scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been selected as the 2013 recipient of the E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry from the [...]