The first Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Clinical Research Day at Stony Brook University Medical Center this spring kicked off a gathering of scientists with the purpose of fostering future research collaboration in the development of new biomedical discoveries and technologies between the two institutions. Faculty from Stony Brook University School of [...]

SUNY campuses statewide were recognized by SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, The New York Academy of Sciences and The Research Foundation of State University of New York at a reception on May 26 celebrating Research and Innovation in New York State. The reception was held at the New York Academy of Sciences headquarters at 7 [...]

The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) at Stony Brook recently hosted the 2011 Sigma Xi Northeastern Research Symposium at the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information and Technology to showcase the work of top undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students from across the country in various fields of science. Organized by a team of undergraduate researchers [...]

Now in its fourth year, Young Investigators Review—Stony Brook’s student-run undergraduate journal of science—fosters student research, connects undergraduates with mentors, and provides an outlet for students enthusiastic about science writing. The annual journal, published twice so far, features original research articles, reviews, essays, commentary, science news, and interviews covering a wide range of scientific disciplines. [...]

The National Science Foundation has designated the Center for Dynamic Data Analytics (CDDA)—a partnership between Stony Brook University and Rutgers University—as a new Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). The CDDA, based at Stony Brook’s Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) will have a base budget exceeding $2M over the initial five-year period. [...]

Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., joined other university leaders and U.S. Senators on March 31 for a roundtable discussion at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on the vital role university-based scientific research plays in fueling innovation and sparking economic growth. The event was organized by the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach [...]

Stony Brook scientists have discovered evidence for a superfluid state of neutrons in the neutron star at the center of the supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A. Neutron stars are the compressed remnants of supernova explosions and are among the most inexplicable objects in the universe. The findings, “Rapid Cooling of the Neutron Star in Cassiopeia A [...]

In a paper recently published in Current Anthropology, Professor John Shea from Stony Brook’s Department of Anthropology, who is also a research associate with the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya, disproves the myth that the earliest humans were significantly different from us. The idea that human evolution follows a progressive trajectory is one of the [...]

Stony Brook students are having the experience of a lifetime learning hands-on about field research in Kenya’s Turkana Basin. Much of the record for human evolution is written in the rocks of the Turkana Basin in northern Kenya. The first anatomically modern people evolved there about 195,000 years ago, the population from which all of [...]

The Research Foundation of the State University of New York marked 60 years of supporting SUNY research on February 15. Established in 1951, “to assist in developing and increasing the facilities of the State University of New York to provide more extensive educational opportunities for and service to its students, faculty, staff and alumni, and [...]