Talking on a cell phone or texting while walking may seem natural and easy, but it could be dangerous and result in walking errors and interfere with memory recall. A group of Stony Brook researchers found this to be the case in a study of young people walking and using their cell phones. The study [...]
Fish parents can pre-condition their offspring to grow fastest at the temperature they experienced, according to research published in the February 2012 edition of Ecology Letters. This pre-conditioning, known as transgenerational plasticity (TGP), occurs whenever environmental cues experienced by either parent prior to fertilization changes how their offspring respond to the environment. Stephan B. Munch, [...]
Long Island high school student Samantha Garvey, whose success despite personal struggle has captured hearts across the country, is one of 30 Intel Science Talent Search semifinalists mentored this year by Stony Brook University faculty. The mentors come from a range of departments and disciplines throughout the University, including biomedical engineering, chemistry, computer science, ecology [...]
Stony Brook University Physics Professor Chang Kee Jung, along with an international team of physicists working on the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) collaboration, have been named seventh in a list of the top 10 breakthroughs of 2011, according to Physics World magazine for their experiment that appears to have measured, for the first time, muon neutrinos changing [...]
The American Geophysical Union has announced that the 2011 Inge Lehmann Medal will be awarded to Distinguished Professor Donald J. Weidner from the Department of Geosciences. Awarded once every two years, the medal recognizes “outstanding contributions to the understanding of the structure, composition, and dynamics of the Earth’s mantle and core. “This is an exceptional [...]
A team of researchers led by James Glimm, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, has been awarded 35 million hours of supercomputing time on the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, one of only 60 projects chosen for the 2012 U. S. Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and [...]
Devinder Mahajan, a professor in the Materials Science & Engineering Department and co-director of the Chemical and Molecular Engineering Program at Stony Brook University who holds a joint appointment with Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named a 2011-2012 Jefferson Science Fellow, an honor given to only 13 individuals this year and 66 since its inception [...]
Aristolochic acid, a component of a plant used in herbal remedies since ancient times and still used in certain herbal medicines worldwide, leads to kidney failure and upper urinary tract cancer in individuals exposed to the toxin. This association is reported by Arthur Grollman, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, [...]
The Department of Chemistry has been named ninth on the list of academic research and development (R&D) spending at universities and colleges throughout the nation, according to data released by the National Science Foundation for the fiscal year 2009. The department’s ranking has steadily increased with successive rankings of #46 (2006), #29 (2007), #24 (2008), [...]
Stony Brook University and 10 other world-class private and academic medical centers have announced the collaboration of the New York Genome Center, one of the largest bioinformatics and genomics facilities in North America with the goal of significantly accelerating progress toward a new era of genomic research. Through this partnership, scientists and physicians from Stony Brook and other member institutions will share diverse clinical and genomic data on a scale not yet realized in order to discover the molecular underpinnings of disease, identify and validate biomarkers, and accelerate development of novel diagnostics and targeted therapeutics to improve clinical care.
