Stony Brook University’s fifth annual Sparks of Innovation: The Future of Teaching and Learning Colloquium, will be held on Friday, April 12, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm and promises to be a day of innovative interaction on the future of education. The Colloquium will take place in the Center for Learning and Service, H Quad, [...]

Stony Brook University ranked among the top 100 graduate programs in the categories of Engineering, Fine Arts, Health, Science, and Social Sciences and Humanities in the U.S. News 2014 Best Graduate Schools rankings, which were released on March 12. Four programs — clinical psychology, math, physics and astronomy, and psychology — ranked in the top [...]

Situating Moral Justification: Rethinking the Mission of Moral Epistemology Alison Jaggar is College Professor of Distinction in Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Jaggar works in the areas of contemporary social, moral and political philosophy, often from a feminist perspective. In the past decade, her work has introduced [...]

Stony Brook University and Stony Brook Medicine are competing for two grants through the Livestrong Community Impact Project — Camp Kesem and Creative Arts. Both of these grants will bring needed services to support families fighting cancer in our community. A team of Stony Brook students wants to bring Camp Kesem to Stony Brook and the Long Island area. [...]

Sounds and ideas from Asian cultures — ranging from gamelan to the I Ching, from the qanun to the Zen koan — are central to 20th-century percussion repertoire. Experience and explore these cross-cultural connections in an evening of Asian and Asian-inspired compositions from John Cage, Tan Dun and James Tenney, performed by Christopher Graham, from Stony BrookUniversity’s Department of Music, and [...]

Work by three graduate students of fine arts will be exhibited in the University Art Gallery in the Staller Center from Saturday, March 16, through Saturday, April 6. A reception honoring the artists will be held on Saturday, March 16, from 7 pm to 9 pm. “MFA Thesis Exhibition 2013” includes paintings, photographs and mixed [...]

“Get Radical About Critical Social Work” was the theme of the 11th annual Advocacy Day, hosted by Stony Brook University’s School of Social Welfare and its Graduate Student Government on March 1 in the Student Activities Center. Nearly 230 students, faculty and representatives from 11 activist groups — covering topics as diverse as the environment, racism, [...]

More than 200 people attended the University Scholars Sandy Hook Benefit Concert on March 4 in the Tabler Center Black Box Theatre. The group raised $650 for the United Way’s Sandy Hook School Support Fund to provide assistance to those families affected by the tragic shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, this past December. [...]

Hilton Garden Inn® the award-winning brand of upscale, yet affordable, hotels, has opened its 135-room Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook, representing an addition to the brand’s growing portfolio of more than 550 hotels worldwide. The Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook is operated and managed by Crescent Hotels and Resorts and is located at 1 Circle [...]

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 [...]