The Statesman

University home to giant Reality Deck

Frank Posillico • May 8, 2013

Stony Brook is home to a new reality: the Reality Deck, a room about half the size of a basketball court whose walls are plastered with 416 Samsung LCD monitors. When they're all turned on and showing one image, the monitors surround the viewer in a near realistic experience. Charilaos Papadopoulos is a PhD candidate who works with the Reality Deck and was one of the few who helped build it. Papadopoulos, along with Kal Petkov, is one of only two graduate students who work with Arie Kaufman, the head of the project and chair of the computer science department.

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Going bald for a cause

Frank Posillico • April 18, 2013

Nicole Bansen, a Stony Brook Journalism student and editor at The Statesman, decided to donate her hair and shave it all off for St. Baldrick's this year.

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Center for the Arts to increase awareness of art programs on campus

Frank Posillico • December 4, 2011

The College of Arts and Sciences is in the planning stages to create a Center for the Arts, which will combine the efforts of the art, theater and music departments and cDACT (the Consortium for Digital...

Shared services take effect in Theatre and Art departments

Frank Posillico • October 24, 2011

After suffering some of the largest budget cuts in its recent history, Stony Brook University has started, to implement shared services, a decisive change in the way it handles administrative services within departments. This controversial idea is meant to keep the same services people are used to, but with fewer personnel.

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Hospital CEO announces resignation

Frank Posillico • September 30, 2011

Steven Strongwater, who has served as the chief executive officer of Stony Brook medical Center for almost five years, has announced he will resign as CEO effective Nov. 15.

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John Marburger, the incurable optimist

Frank Posillico • September 11, 2011

John H. Marburger III, was known to be an incurable optimist. He was the university’s third president, the director of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Presidential Science advisor under George...

Dennis Assanis appointed as new provost

Frank Posillico • August 2, 2011

Dennis Assanis, a professor at the University of Michigan and Director of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute, has been named as the new Provost of Stony Brook University and VP for Brookhaven Affairs.

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SBU’s Second President, Dead at 87

Frank Posillico • July 15, 2011

John S. Toll the second president of Stony Brook University died Friday the age of 87.

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Semester by the Sea Program Set to Start in Fall at Southampton

Frank Posillico • May 11, 2011

Stony Brook Southampton, though now a deserted shell of what it used to be, continues to serve a purpose for the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences as well as a handful of students in Christopher...

Students May Have to Slice Projects Without Laser

Frank Posillico • May 5, 2011

Graduate student Chris Corder may have to start his research from scratch if the laser hidden away in the basement of the Physics building isn’t replaced before the end of its life cycle. Corder,...

New President Isn’t Aloof, He’s Maloof

Frank Posillico • April 24, 2011

In a heated and highly contested election that had people on both sides scrambling for votes, the candidate that some saw as the underdog and others as the students' last chance came out on top by more...

SBU Loses Former CIO

Nicole Siciliano • April 5, 2011

Just months after retiring, former Chief Information Officer and co- founder of the New York State Education and Research Network, Richard Reeder died. Reeder succumbed to a quickly advancing disease...