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 [...]

Exciting new fossils discovered east of Lake Turkana confirm that there were two additional species of our genus, Homo, living alongside our direct human ancestral species, Homo erectus, almost two million years ago. The finds, announced in the prestigious scientific journal Nature on August 9, include a face, a remarkably complete lower jaw and part [...]

Scott McLennan, a professor of geosciences at Stony Brook University, has been selected as a participating scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission with the proposal “Sedimentary Petrology at the Mars Science Laboratory Site.” McLennan is one of 30 participating scientists selected from a total of 149 proposals to NASA, and will join more [...]

The National Academies has released a report examining the health and competitiveness of our nation’s research universities. The report discusses the importance of research universities partnering with government and industry to strengthen the national economy and to help the nation reach its goals. The report was commissioned by Congress, which charged the National Academies with [...]

Rouven Essig, an assistant professor at Stony Brook University’s C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been selected for a Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award. The prestigious award is given to junior faculty at universities and for staff at national laboratories. Essig, one of 68 awardees [...]

Inspired by a European study, a team of Stony Brook University researchers looked into the potential impact of healthy human skin tissue (in vitro) being exposed to ultraviolet rays emitted from compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. The results, “The Effects of UV Emission from CFL Exposure on Human Dermal Fibroblasts and Keratinocytes in Vitro,” were [...]

The Science Coalition, an organization of 50 leading public and private research universities in the United States, recently hosted a roundtable discussion with a select group of senior research officers from top universities and science media in Washington, D.C. Stony Brook University Vice President for Research, Benjamin Hsiao participated in the discussion, which focused on [...]

Joshua Rest, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, has co-authored an article appearing in BMC Genomics, “Horizontal transfer of expressed genes in a parasitic flowering plant,” detailing the first evidence of substantial horizontal gene transfer from a host to the parasitic flowering plant Rafflesia cantleyi. Rest was [...]