Stony Brook has been selected among the first 21 teams for the inaugural class of the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) awards. I-Corps is a program designed to guide promising university research with commercial potential into the marketplace. Recipients receive a $50,000 grant to begin assessing the commercial readiness of emerging technology concepts, and [...]
The Center for Biotechnology at Stony Brook University, in collaboration with Demy-Colton Life Science Advisors, and key opinion leaders from the biotech and biopharmaceutical industries, academia, medical research foundations, and investment community, has organized a two-day event to forge partnerships to accelerate the development of new treatments for some of the world’s most devastating diseases [...]
Forty-one high school students who worked with Stony Brook University faculty mentors have been announced as regional finalists and/or semifinalists in the 2011 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology—one of the top nationwide research competitions for high school researchers. Stony Brook annually ranks among the leaders in universities nationwide who mentor high school researchers. [...]
Come to CEWIT2011, the Eighth Annual International Conference and Expo on Emerging Technologies for a Smarter World. The conference takes place at the Hyatt Regency Long Island in Hauppauge on Thursday, November 3. It is an excellent opportunity for networking and hearing industry and academic experts discuss innovative ideas and applications in special topic sessions on Cloud Computing, [...]
The future of clean and renewable energy technology will be showcased at the Advanced Energy 2011 conference on October 12-13 at the Hyatt Regency in Buffalo, New York, where a broad range of speakers and attendees will discuss and present some of the latest developments in advanced energy technology, policy, and workforce issues. Advanced Energy [...]
By employing optogenetics, a new field that uses genetically altered cells to respond to light, and a tandem unit cell (TCU) strategy, researchers at Stony Brook University have demonstrated a way to control cell excitation and contraction in cardiac muscle cells, the details of which are published in the early online edition of Circulation: Arrhythmia [...]
A team headed by Lei Zuo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering working through the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center at Stony Brook University, has won a prestigious R&D 100 Award—dubbed the “Oscar of Invention”—for the development of an energy-harvesting shock absorber that converts vibration, bumps, and motion experienced by the suspension [...]
Stony Brook University graduate student Qiang Zhu, together with Professor of Geosciences and Physics Artem R. Oganov, postdoc Andriy O. Lyakhov and their colleagues from the University de Oviedo in Spain, have predicted three new forms of carbon, the findings of which were published in a paper, Denser than diamond: Ab initio search for superdense [...]
Scientists from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) are joining colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, several other U.S. academic institutions and laboratories in Japan and Spain on the first international, multidisciplinary assessment of the levels and dispersion of radioactive substances in the Pacific Ocean off the damaged Fukushima nuclear [...]
A research team in the Department of Pathology at Stony Brook University School of Medicine has discovered a laboratory method to expand adult hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) using the SALL4 gene. Lead Author Professor Yupo Ma and colleagues used this method to produce a more than 10,000-fold increase in HSCs derived from normal human bone [...]
