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Brightspace garners mixed reactions from Stony Brook students and professors

Daniel PariseauNews Student LifeOctober 17, 2022October 27, 2022

Students and professors at Stony Brook University have mixed feelings about using D2L Brightspace to access their assignments this Fall 2022 semester.

Stony Brook students connect with refugees in Uganda through text

Mike AdamsNewsFebruary 18, 2018

Sophomore political science and sociology major Andrew Bearkland has been forming a friendship with a refugee halfway around the world since last semester as part of a professor’s ambitious correspondence project.

New program trains faculty to communicate as public intellectuals

Brittany TesorieroFeatured News Top StoryMarch 22, 2016March 23, 2016

The program was composed of four workshops during the Fall 2015 semester and was led by Naomi Wolf, a visiting lecturer and accomplished journalist.

SBU researcher: new study suggests infections could be a cause of depression

Zach RoweNewsJanuary 27, 2015January 27, 2015

Stony Brook psychology professor Turhan Canli has a radical idea on the cause of depression, a condition that is estimated by the CDC to affect one in 10 Americans.

Under the microscope: The effect of loneliness on physical and mental health

Ruchi ShahNewsOctober 3, 2013April 1, 2014

For decades, scientists and psychologists hinted at the link between mental health and physical health. While Stony Brook University Associate Professor of Integrative Neuroscience Dr. Turhan Canli explained the anecdotal evidence of centenarians being more social than their counterparts, his work focuses primarily on molecular characteristics of individuals with certain personality traits and the correlation of those characteristics with physical health.