The University library was abuzz with the sound of students tapping away on their laptops as they edited maps online in a collaborative effort to help recovery efforts in Puerto Rico.
University student Tyler Mendoza listened while Bernie Sanders talked about the seemingly unreachable Holy Grail of free tuition. Sanders’ run may have struck some as fantasy, but now free tuition increasingly is very much a reality in New York State.
Stony Brook University Hospital has named a new chief executive. Ernest Baptiste, who is CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/ Kings County in Brooklyn, will assume the post on Nov. 27, the hospital said.
The 2017 “22 under 22 Most Inspiring College Women” list from "Her Campus" has been released, senior Biochemistry and Economics major Ann Lin, made the cut. In Spring 2017 Lin was recognized nationally as a Goldwater Scholar and she has drawn attention as a rising star at scientific meetings and hack-a-thons.
A study published in Nature Communications reveals that Adelie penguin abundance may not be a direct measure of ocean health and changes in climate as once thought.
Researcher Shu Jia received $1.97 million from the NIH to develop new biophotonic tools to create next-generation light microscopy used in biomedical research.
James Lattimerhas made a number of fundamental contributions to the field of nuclear astrophysics with a particular focus on neutron stars, which are ultra-dense objects formed in supernova explosions. In 1974, he proposed that the origin of many heavy elements stems from neutron star mergers, which should soon be observed in gravitational radiation. In 1986, he computed the neutrino signal from supernova that matched observations of a nearby supernova in 1987. In 2011, his team discovered superfluidity in the core of a neutron star for the first time.