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Lily McInerney, a senior journalism major with a multidisciplinary cultural analysis concentration, placed seventh in the nation in a recent Hearst Journalism Awards competition. McInerney placed in the multimedia category for a story that she began working on in January 2023. Humanity behind History tells the story of a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor and how she came to terms with and shared her experiences. The piece goes beyond the term survivor and seeks to humanize subjects by explaining the interests and hobbies of those who suffered deeply.  Click here to read the original article.  

Graduate students Ava Nederlander (left) and Jennifer L. O’Connor with the first issue of The SBU Graduate Arts & Sciences Magazine. Photos by John Griffin. An eclectic group of attendees gathered in the Shore Room in the Student Activities Center for the May 1 unveiling of The Stony Brook University Graduate of Arts and Sciences Magazine, the first magazine and platform of its kind at Stony Brook. The aim of the project is to showcase the academic and creative endeavors of graduate students, including academic articles, poetry, and student spotlights from more than 20 departments. The first issue, titled The Human Connection, highlights the threads of commonality that bind us together.  Click here to read the original article.

SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. addresses the ceremony honoring the 2024 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence (CASE) winners in Albany. Photo by Valerie Caviness/SUNY   Thirteen Stony Brook University students were honored by the State University of New York (SUNY) with the 2024 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence (CASE) — the highest honor awarded to SUNY students who have best demonstrated academic excellence and leadership. The awards ceremony was held April 11 in Albany, NY. The Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence was created in 1997 and acknowledges students who have received recognition for distinguished achievements. This year, 193 students from 62 campuses received this award. Nominations are sought for students who have best demonstrated the integration of SUNY excellence within many aspects of their lives, including academics, leadership, diversity, equity, inclusion and justice, campus involvement, community service, research and development, and the arts. Click here to read the original article.   

A rendering of The New York Climate Exchange on Governors Island in New York City.   Stony Brook University students are invited to compete in the first-ever Climate Exchange AI Innovation Challenge, where teams from eight universities will present cutting-edge solutions to stormwater management challenges faced by New York City. The Challenge is presented by The New York Climate Exchange along with its partners: Stony Brook University, City University of New York, Duke University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), IBM, Moody’s, New York University, Pace University, Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Washington. Students will develop stormwater management solutions using IBM’s watsonx.ai technology and the Call for Code platform, Moody’s insights and datasets, and GOLES’s community touchpoints. Stormwater management is critical in enabling coastal resiliency efforts and an important component of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ recently announced Green Economy Action Plan. Click here to read the original article. 

  The QS World University Rankings — a leading organization for international rankings — rated the world’s top universities by subject area, and once again placed Stony Brook University’s Physics and Astronomy program in the top 100, coming in at #99. Eight other subjects placed in the top 300 globally: Natural Sciences (#191), Mathematics (#151-200), Geology (#201-240), Geophysics (#201-240), History (#201-230), Biological Sciences (#201-250), Computer Science and Information Systems (#251-300) and Psychology (#251-300). To produce the rankings for this year, QS analyzed the reputation and research output of almost 5,000 institutions. From this group, 1,561 were ranked across 55 narrow subjects and five broad subject areas, creating more than 19,100 entries. Click here to read the original article. 

  Daniel Julian ’25 — the URECA researcher of the month for April — is an Honors College junior double majoring in physics and applied mathematics. Since January 2023, he has been working under the mentorship of Assistant Professor Jesús Pérez-Ríos on using machine learning for atomic and molecular physics, and was listed as a co-first author for his contributions to a Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy article titled, “The database of spectroscopic constants of diatomic molecules (DSCDM): A dynamic and  user-friendly interface for molecular physics and spectroscopy.”   Click here to read the original article.   

Students from Stony Brook University’s Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program spent two Saturdays with scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory. Photo by David Rahner/Brookhaven National Laboratory.   Women in Science and Engineering students got a glimpse into life as a scientist at BNL As part of an ongoing collaboration between Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Stony Brook University, students in Stony Brook’s Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program spent two Saturdays at BNL completing hands-on activities with scientists from the lab’s Physics Department and the Nuclear Science and Technology Department, and engaging in conversations with scientists about the passions, triumphs, and difficulties that come with a career in STEM. Click here to read the original article. 

  For the 11th consecutive year, Stony Brook University has been named a Tree Campus Higher Education Institution for efforts conducted during the 2023 calendar year. Tree Campus Higher Education, a national program launched in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation, honors colleges and universities, and their leaders, for promoting healthy trees and engaging students and staff in the spirit of conservation. Click here to read the original article. 

Stony Brook student Vignesh Subramanian ‘24 founded One More Option, which hosted the rally at Stony Brook University for suicide awareness and prevention. Photos by John Griffin.   The struggle of young adults with anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges becomes more prominent with each passing year. For Vignesh Subramanian ‘24, a senior biology and psychology double major, the battle hit close to home after witnessing peers’ struggles with suicidal thoughts and experiencing the trauma of losing a loved a one to suicide. On February 23, student leaders from seven colleges across Long Island rallied at Stony Brook University for suicide awareness and prevention. Subramanian said he was thrilled to lead an event in which student leaders, county and state lawmakers, and university administrators came together in a show of unity behind efforts to enact a statewide student suicide prevention law. Click here to read the original article.   

  Undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs at Stony Brook University continue to showcase their work on a global scale. Although final award announcements will come through later this spring, with more than 85 applicants for the 2024-2025 cycle, there is no sign of slowing down. In December, the Graduate School’s External Fellowships unit held an “I Hit Submit!” celebration for those who had submitted their fellowship applications. The event featured a few student speakers who spoke about their fellowship experiences at the undergraduate and graduate level.   Click here to read the original article. 

Sophomore Eddie Smink got the win for the Seawolves in their 5-2 victory over LSU on February 23.   For the Stony Brook University baseball team, Baton Rouge is a home away from home. The Seawolves, on a southern swing through Texas and Louisiana, defeated No. 2/3 Louisiana State University — the reigning NCAA national champions — 5-2 on Friday, February 23, at LSU’s Alex Box Stadium, with all nine starters in the lineup reaching base safely. Click here to read the original article

  While some students spent the weekend resting or preparing to watch the Super Bowl, others were armed with caffeine and laptops to compete in the sixth annual SBUHacks, a 48-hour “invention marathon.” Click here to read the original article

  To help provide a glimpse of higher education and the job market that awaits them, Stony Brook University is reaching out to college-bound high schoolers through an innovative outreach program in an effort to highlight the opportunities expected to exist in the energy workforce in the coming years. The program grew from an initiative designed to provide local high school teachers the fundamentals of offshore wind technology. Click here to read the original article

  Thomas R. Sexton ’79, PhD and Margherita (Terry) Sexton ’85, MS ’88 share a long history with Stony Brook University. Both obtained degrees from Stony Brook — graduating from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences — their children attended the university, and Tom helped shape the College of Business into what it is today. They met as undergraduates at St. John’s University, and in 1977, Tom was hired at Stony Brook for a research associate position in the W. Averell Harriman College for Urban and Policy Sciences. He began teaching, and never left. “I’ve been teaching at Stony Brook for 47 years now, and they can’t get rid of me!” Click here to read the original article. 

At Stony Brook, the collaborative spirit among students is palpable, and nowhere is this more evident than in the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) team of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, working together on tissue regeneration research.   The VIP Program unites undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members in multidisciplinary teams to work on long-term, real-world projects in research, design and entrepreneurship. Two years ago, Miriam Rafailovich, distinguished professor in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, along with Marcia Simon, professor in the Department of Oral Biology and Pathology in the School of Dental Medicine; Gurtej Singh, associate professor in the Department of Surgery in the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony University; and Alexander Dagum, MD, chief of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Division in the Renaissance School of Medicine, discussed whether it would be possible to 3D print skin tissue and posed this question to the VIP students. Click here to see the original article