André Gorgenyi has been appointed Senior Director of Planned Giving for University Advancement. Prior to joining Stony Brook University, Gorgenyi served eight years as the Planned Giving and Donor Relations Representative for the Salvation Army in the Boston area, where he raised more than $12 million in legacy and major gifts. At Stony Brook, Gorgenyi [...]

Two Stony Brook University professors, Ken A. Dill and Eugene Feinberg, have been appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professorship by the State University of New York Board of Trustees as recommended by campus colleagues and SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher. Distinguished Professorship is the University’s highest faculty designation. All distinguished faculty in active service [...]

Christopher C. Sellers book, Crabgrass Crucible, Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America, has been published by The University of North Carolina Press. Sellers, an associate professor of history at Stony Brook University, holds a PhD in American studies from Yale University and an MD from the University of North Carolina at [...]

Jon Longtin, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University and his team have been awarded a Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) 2012 R&D award from the United States Department of Energy for research entitled “Thermoelectric-Driven Sustainable Sensing and Actuation Systems for Fault-Tolerant Nuclear Incidents.” This award is part of [...]

Gerald Smaldone, Professor and Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine and Rany Condos, Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, NYU School of Medicine, along with colleagues from Stony Brook and NYU, announced an exclusive license agreement with Nostrum Pharmaceuticals for the development [...]

In a paper published in the May 20, 2012, edition of the journal Nature Physics, a research group from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University reports the development and demonstration of a novel probe for atomic quantum matter. The paper, “Probing an Ultracold-Atom Crystal with Matter Waves,” describes a proof-of-principle experiment on [...]

There is a Japanese cherry tree on Stony Brook’s campus that stands for everything academia should be — it was planted in 1995 just outside of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Building to mark the passing of one of Stony Brook’s own — History Professor Hugh G. Cleland. Cleland’s memory sprang to life again at [...]

Evidence of ancient water at a Martian crater is the latest in a long series of discoveries by a surprisingly long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, according to a paper published in the May 4 edition of the journal Science, “Ancient Impact and Aqueous Processes at Endeavour Crater, Mars.” The latest discovery was made at the [...]

The National Geographic special “Bones of Turkana” follows the story of famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his wife Meave, daughter Louise and their colleagues as they work in the arid northern regions of Kenya’s Turkana Basin to unravel the mysteries of human evolution. Leakey is a professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University and founder [...]

In early May Orion magazine announced that its prestigious Orion Book Award would be given this year to School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Adjunct Professor Carl Safina’s latest volume, The Vew From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World. Beginning with Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World’s Coasts and [...]