Following a nationwide search that began last September, Benjamin S. Hsiao, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University has been appointed Vice President for Research at Stony Brook effective May 1, 2012. In this new role Hsiao will serve as the chief research officer/senior academic administrator at Stony Brook University. [...]

Stony Brook University researchers in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) and the Department of Ecology and Evolution are receiving a share of the $2.4 million awarded by the New York Sea Grant (NYSG) program for fiscal years 2012-2013 to fund research and education about issues important to coastal New Yorkers such as [...]

Nithin Tumma, who was mentored by Stony Brook’s Berhane Ghebrehiwet, has been awarded first prize in the prestigious 2012 Intel Science Talent Search. A native of Fort Gratiot, Michigan, Nithin worked with Ghebrehiwet in the Simons Summer Research Program. He was awarded a $100,000 scholarship in recognition of his outstanding research relating to breast cancer therapy. Also honored [...]

A team headed by two Stony Brook professors, Elizabeth Stone and Paul Zimansky, found evidence of an ancient settlement during the first archaeological excavation in Iraq outside of Kurdistan by any foreign team in a decade and the first by an American team in more than 20 years. Professor Stone, Department of Anthropology, and Professor [...]

Thomas Cubaud, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was selected to receive the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award for his work in combining educational and research activities designed to expand the scientific foundations for new and improved manipulations of highly viscous fluids at the microscale [...]

Joseph S.B. Mitchell, professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and research professor of Computer Science, was among only 46 fellows selected by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2011. ACM selected Mitchell and his colleagues for their contributions in providing fundamental knowledge to the computing field and generating multiple technological advances [...]

The research of Stony Brook ecology and evolution graduate student Patrick Lyons and colleagues is featured in Marine Ecology Progress Series and highlighted in Science Now. Lyons, who works in the marine ecology lab of Distinguished Professor Jeffrey Levinton, has been studying a novel behavior of Pacific red lionfish (Pterois volitans), which have been a major [...]

Brentwood High School student Samantha Garvey, whose triumph over adversity made national headlines in January, met with President Barack Obama when she participated in the second White House Science Fair on February 7. Garvey was chosen as an Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist after being mentored by Stony Brook University Professor Dianna Padilla from the [...]

Stony Brook University has mentored a record eight of the 40 high school students chosen as finalists in the prestigious 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, which accounts for 20 percent of the nation’s total. Five of the students are from Long Island, two are from California and one is from Michigan. The eight Stony Brook-mentored [...]

Professor Iwao Ojima, Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery (ICB&DD) and a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, recently announced a multi-year research collaboration with Sanofi, a multinational pharmaceutical company, on a potential treatment for Tuberculosis (TB) and other bacterial infections. Ojima and a team of researchers at the [...]