A massive collection of fish specimens and water quality data from the Hudson River was donated to Stony Brook University. Experts say the collection, which spans 44 years, will show how an ecosystem changes over time.
What does it mean to be human? Paleoanthropologists have long wrestled with this question. Ancient DNA analysis has enabled them to probe new depths of our ancestral past.
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to lose weight and keep it off, experts say strategies like the ones Ebony Freeman of Greenport used offer the best chance of success.
In June, Diana Squitieri of Holbrook wasn’t making sense. Her son Joe noticed that she was also stumbling while her face was drooping.When he brought her to his car to take her to the hospital, she became so disoriented that he asked his wife, Erin, to call 911. That decision, and the new vehicle that arrived, may have saved her life.
Recent Stony Brook Department of Computer Science PhD recipient Abbas Razaghpanah was interviewed as part of an NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt story about online and mobile app security.
Honoring more than 1700 talented graduates and sending them on their way to a world of opportunity, the University held its 22nd annual December Commencement ceremony in the Island Federal Credit Union Arena on Friday, December 20.
John Shea’s research focuses on the archaeology of human origins and evolution during the Pleistocene Ice Ages. His interests include early hominid adaptive radiations, the origin of Homo sapiens, the extinction of the Neanderthals, and lithic (stone tool) technology. He has investigated these subjects through projects in Israel, Jordan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya. An expert stone-tool-maker, Shea uses the results of experiments using stone tools to improve archaeological methods for reconstructing prehistoric human behavior.
