STEM Archives – The Statesman

Nobel laureate Barry Barish speaks at C.N. Yang colloquium series

News STEMSeptember 17, 2022

On Tuesday, Sept. 6, Nobel Prize winner in Physics Dr. Barry Barish spoke as the inaugural featured speaker of the newly established C.N. Yang Colloquium series in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Stony Brook’s 2022 iGEM team works to combat protein S deficiency

News STEMJuly 29, 2022

Eleven Stony Brook undergraduate students are representing the university at the 2022 iGEM Competition for synthetic biology in Paris, France this October. iGEM (Internationally Genetically Engineered Machine) is a global…

New RSOM hire works to better grasp disease resistance

Faculty News STEMApril 13, 2022April 13, 2022

Dr. Charles K. Vorkas — a new arrival at Stony Brook’s Renaissance School of Medicine with a diverse background in research and international patient care — is leading efforts in his newly-established lab to better understand disease resistance.

Scientists experiment with climate intervention to delay the effects of global warming

2021 Faculty News Special Issues STEMApril 22, 2021

As the consequences of global warming are becoming more dire, scientists are considering whether — in addition to reducing and eliminating greenhouse gas emissions — to use geoengineering to mitigate the effects of global warming.

Hope for the American chestnut trees, a dying species

Long Island News STEMApril 22, 2021

“A tree came down, look at that.” Sue Avery, a botanist and certified landscaper, examines a thin wire cage along the border of the Ashley Schiff Preserve on campus.

SUNY faculty and staff push for retirement fund to divest from fossil fuel investments

2021 Faculty News Special Issues STEMApril 18, 2021August 29, 2021

A group of employees of the State University of New York (SUNY) wants their retirement fund to pull their investments from industries and companies damaging to the environment and contributing to climate change.

A closer look into the School of Communication and Journalism’s new masters program

Faculty News STEMApril 18, 2021

The School of Communication and Journalism launched its Masters of Science degree in science communication this spring, one of the first of its kind in the SUNY system. They will also begin offering a Bachelors of Science in mass communication next fall.

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