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Students band together to form new surf club on campus

News Student LifeNovember 10, 2021

Stony Brook students and surfing enthusiasts founded a new club to share their passion for the sport with surfers and non-surfers alike.

UNITI Cultural Center finds permanent home after 43 years

News Student LifeOctober 31, 2021November 4, 2021

The UNITI Cultural Center (UCC) held its ribbon cutting ceremony on Oct. 23 in the Stony Brook Union to celebrate the new 3,500-square-foot permanent space, funded by a three million New York State Assembly grant.

SBU helps fight critical blood shortage, hits close to home for one student

News Student LifeSeptember 28, 2021

Stony Brook University’s Student Blood Drive Committee hosted a 9/11 memorial blood drive on Sept. 9, partnering with the New York Blood Center to fight the blood shortage currently affecting blood centers & hospitals.

Ideologies clash as Turning Point USA protest arrives to SBU campus

Long Island News Student Life Top StorySeptember 13, 2021September 13, 2021

About 200 people from Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the New York Young Republican Club, the Long Island Loud Majority and surrounding community members gathered around the fountain at the Academic Mall on Sunday, Sept. 12, to protest mandatory vaccines.

SBU to combine parking zones five and seven immediately, as failed protest gathered

Breaking News Student LifeSeptember 8, 2021September 25, 2021

On Tuesday, Sept. 7, Parking Services announced that residential parking zones five and seven will now be combined into one larger lot. The new zone now combines parking spaces in H, Mendelsohn, Chavez and Tubman communities.

Stony Brook University introduces three new food concepts at Roth Food Court

Back on Campus 2021 News Special Issues Student LifeSeptember 8, 2021September 9, 2021

Stony Brook University has introduced three new food options at Roth Food Court, along with a Peet’s Coffee location in the Alan S. deVries Center.

SBU students’ startup Soulo set to land this August

News Student LifeAugust 26, 2021August 29, 2021

Having witnessed their elder family members struggle with performing personal care, Stony Brook student Joshua Zhu and his partner Jialin Ke created Soulo, a long-handled motorized nail trimmer as a solution.

BREAKING: University gives resident students exclusive opportunity to get Moderna vaccine

Breaking News Student LifeApril 1, 2021

#BREAKING Resident students will have the opportunity to receive the first dose of the Moderna vaccine at the Stony Brook Union on Tuesday, April 6 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Diet culture’s complicated relationship to body positivity

Features News Sex and Relationships 2021 Student Life Top StoryMarch 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Danaher has struggled with anorexia nervosa — an eating disorder characterized by distorted body image and a compulsive fear of being overweight — since the age of 13. She is now 22.

Instagram account features Black student narratives to show that Black Lives Matter

Black History Month 2021 Features News Special Issues Student LifeFebruary 13, 2021February 19, 2021

2020 was a milestone year for racial unrest and protests. During the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, one student at Stony Brook University made it their mission to show the racial unrest within the campus community.

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Stony Brook students protest against sexual violence in “Take Back the Night”

Roth Regatta 2022: Racing through the Sands of Time

Stony Brook students march in support of abortion rights

End hall lounges removed from H and Mendelsohn Communities

Stony Brook student to aid Ukrainian refugees over spring break