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 [...]

Sustainability Studies  and Chemistry faculty member Kate Aubrecht and Sustainability Studies faculty members Arlene Cassidy, Jim Hoffmann and Jim Quigley have been awarded a $195,524 grant from the National Science Foundation Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science program for their project “Development, Implementation and Assessment of Novel Inquiry-based Interdisciplinary Materials on Sustainability for the Chemistry Curriculum.” The [...]

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 [...]

An international team led by Artem R. Oganov, a professor of theoretical crystallography in the Department of Geosciences at Stony Brook University, has established the structure of a new form of carbon. The results of their work, “Understanding the Nature of Superhard Graphite,” were published June 26 in Scientific Reports, a new journal of the [...]

World-renowned primatologist Patricia Wright, Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, the Madagascar Minister of Higher Education, members of the Transitional Congress and Chief of the Region, officially inaugurated NamanaBe Hall (NamanaBe means “big friendship” in the Malagasy language), the new 15,000-square-foot building designed to enhance the conservation, research and community outreach capabilities [...]

Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, is making his first visit to Africa to visit Stony Brook-affiliated research institutes, centers and community outreach programs and to see first-hand the work being done, research conducted and relationships that have developed in each unique location. President Stanley’s 10-day itinerary includes stops in Centre ValBio [...]

Matthew Colson has been appointed to the position of Executive Director of Alumni Relations at Stony Brook University. He will oversee a staff of five with the mission of providing superior programs and services for Stony Brook’s more than 150,000 alumni worldwide. Colson will work closely with the Stony Brook Alumni Association’s Executive Committee and [...]

Timothy Glotch, an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Stony Brook University whose research has been featured in the journals Science, Nature and more, was selected to receive the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program award for his research in identifying the mineral composition of planetary bodies using [...]

James R. Taylor Jr., MD, FACS, Vice Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at St. Francis Hospital and Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital, and Harold A. Fernandez, MD, Director of the Division of Heart Failure Surgery at St. Francis Hospital, have been appointed Professors of Surgery in the Stony Brook University School of Medicine [...]

Balaji Sitharaman, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University, and a team of researchers developed a new, highly efficacious, potentially safer and more cost-effective nanoparticle-based MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) contrast agent for improved disease diagnosis and detection. The most recent findings are discussed in detail in his team’s research [...]