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Vol. 8 No. I – Spring 2011 |
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Two Professors Lead New Graduate Programs
With SUNY facing large budget cuts, the university has sought ways to increase revenue internally – a necessity when the administration cannot raise tuition rates without State approval. Neta Dean, the director of the Master’s program in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, says their new master’s program was a result of the university’s initiative.....More>> Doctoral Program Intended to be a Center for Science Education on Long Island
Other Graduate Student News
Mireya Mayor, who graduated from Stony Brook with a Doctorate in Anthropology in 1998, was recently profiled on her career and travels on CNN. Click the following link to read the story...More>>
The 2009-2010 Graduate Student Achievements The 2009-2010 Graduate Achievements was recently published on the Stony Brook Graduate School’s website in a new electronic format. The Graduate Achievements has been produced by the Graduate School for the past 15 years. It includes grants, fellowships, awards, peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, professional positions obtained by Stony Brook’s graduate students, and much more.....More>>
Researchers at Stony Brook University Medical Center led by Shenhong Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Hematology and Oncology, have found the drug Avastin (bevacizumab), a chemotherapy agent, is linked to higher mortality rates among cancer patients when combined with other therapies. The meta-analysis of over 10,000 patients was published February 2nd in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).....More>>
Other University News John Milnor, Professor of Mathematics and Co-director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook University has been awarded the $1 million Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters “for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra.” Oyvind Osterud, President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, made the announcement in Oslo on March 23.... More>> Three Stony Brook University professors – Jorge L. Benach, Ph.D., Jessica Gurevitch, Ph.D., and Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Ph.D., have been named 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows, and will be recognized for their contributions to science at the Fellows Forum to be held on 19 February 2011 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C....More>> Researchers Have Discovered the First Direct Evidence for a Superfluid at the Core of a Neutron Star Scientists at Stony Brook University, and colleagues, have discovered evidence for a superfluid state of neutrons in the neutron star at the center of the supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A. Neutron stars are the compressed remnants of supernova explosions—and are among the most inexplicable objects in the universe.....More>> |
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Dr. Keith Sheppard is the graduate director of the new PhD program in Science Education. He envisions the program as being the center for Science Education on Long Island, training students to work as science educators in higher education, to be policy makers, be the heads of science departments in Long Island high schools, and to be a source for established educators to receive more expertise their fields. The first cohort began their studies this past fall....
Anthropology PhD Alum Profiled on CNN Travel
Stony Brook Researchers Link Cancer Drug to Higher Death Rates