The use of a new brain tumor-targeting contrast agent that differentiates between normal and cancer cells in conjunction with a high-powered microscopy system could potentially lead to a method of more precise neurosurgery for brain tumors, according to research paper published as a cover story in the December issue of Translational Oncology. Developed by researchers [...]

Stony Brook University mentors have guided 34 high school students into the semifinals of the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search Competition, one of the two national competitions in which budding high school researchers conduct and present their research to nationally recognized professional scientists. This number accounts for more than 10 percent of the 300 semifinalists [...]

Phillip Baldwin, an associate professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at Stony Brook University, attended the Tesla Spirit Award Benefit at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan on January 5 to celebrate the life of scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla. At the conference, Baldwin demonstrated how humans and computers can interface with each other [...]

Low-intensity vibrations led to improvements in the immune function of obese mice by restoring B and T-cell populations and thereby diminishing consequences of obesity, according to a study published online in The FASEB Journal. Professors Ete Chan and Clinton Rubin in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University believe if the same effect can be found [...]

The Stony Brook University School of Journalism received a $50,000 gift from Elaine Crosson and her son Daniel to establish The Matthew T. Crosson Memorial Scholarship in Journalism, which will endow a scholarship to support young journalists who wish to carry on the pursuit of public affairs journalism and advance public discourse for which the [...]

The Village Times Herald has named Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, “Man of the Year” for 2012 and four faculty members as “People of the Year,” including Josephine Connolly Schoonen in Health; Dr. Henry Woo in Medicine; Dr. Lawrence Hurst and Maria Badalamente in Science; and the Stony Brook Seawolves baseball team [...]

Nine Stony Brook University scholars have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and will be honored for their contributions to science and engineering at the Fellows Forum held during the AAAS Annual Meeting on February 16, 2013, in Boston, Massachusetts. Stony Brook’s nine recipients are among 702 newly [...]

Members of the Stony Brook University community gathered at the Old Field Club on November 28 to congratulate faculty awardees on their professional accomplishments and the outstanding work for which they were being recognized. The distinguished faculty who were honored at the annual Faculty Achievement Dinner have demonstrated stellar scholarly activity and service to their [...]

Eckard Wimmer, PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Stony Brook University has been selected to receive the 2012 Robert Koch Gold Medal, a prestigious international scientific award by the Robert Koch Foundation under the patronage of the German Minister of Health. The award recognizes Wimmer’s lifetime achievements in infectious [...]

Nationally recognized physician-scientist and cancer researcher Vincent Yang, MD, PhD, was formally installed as the first Simons Chair of Medicine during Stony Brook University’s inaugural Investiture Ceremony. Held at the Wang Center on November 16, the ceremony began a new tradition at Stony Brook that recognizes newly endowed professors and chairs and the generosity of [...]