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 [...]

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 [...]

Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, has been appointed Chair of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), a group of 25 experts who advise the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the heads of all federal departments and agencies that conduct [...]

Stony Brook University Chemistry Professors Iwao Ojima and Nancy Goroff have been selected to receive 2013 American Chemical Society (ACS) Awards for pioneering work in their respective specialties. Distinguished Professor Ojima, also director of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at Stony Brook, will be awarded the 2013 ACS Award for Creative Work [...]

Stony Brook Child Care Services (SBCCSI) teachers landed two mini-grants from the Suffolk AEYC (Association for the Education of Young Children) this year, making them the only two grant recipients in Suffolk County. According to Denise Masone, program director at SBCCSI, there were more applicants than usual this year. The grants were awarded to Josefina [...]

Chaplain Sanaa Nadim, or Sister Sanaa, who serves as the Muslim Chaplain for Stony Brook University’s Interfaith Center, attended this year’s annual Iftar dinner hosted by President Barack Obama in the State Dining Room of the White House on August 10. The Iftar is the meal that breaks the day of fasting during Ramadan, when [...]

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 [...]

An eNews article on Brookhaven National Laboratory’s (BNL) Photon Sciences website featured the use of a Stony Brook-managed facility — the Synchrotron Topography Station, Beamline X19C, at the National Synchrotron Light Source — at BNL for the development of a NASA telescope. This facility is managed by Professor Michael Dudley, Chair of Stony Brook University’s [...]

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 [...]

David Ferguson will take on a new role at Stony Brook, serving as Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion. He will continue in his position as Chair of the Department of Technology and Society. Throughout his distinguished career, Ferguson has served the University and the nation in many capacities. First, for more than two decades, he [...]