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

Ya Jing ChenJuly 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

Matt VeneziaApril 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…

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

Maria LyndersApril 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…

Hope for the American chestnut trees, a dying species

Brianne LeddaApril 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

Alek LewisApril 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…

SBU Professor developing new way to combat Alzheimer’s Disease

Faculty News STEMJanuary 19, 2020January 26, 2020

Stony Brook University professor of Biomedical Engineering, Donghui Zhu, is working with the Institute for Engineering-Driven Medicine to develop a new way to combat Alzheimer’s disease after securing a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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