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Cincinnati President Chosen to Lead SUNY

The SUNY Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to name Nancy Zimpher as Chancellor, the first woman to hold the position. Her tenure will begin June 1st of this year. Zimpher was praised for her work at the University of Cincinnati for reigning in deficits left by her predecessor... More>>

SBU Scientist A Major Contributor to the Discovery of a New Form of Boron

A team of scientists, including Artem Oganov from Stony Brook, have isolated a previously unknown pure form of boron. The findings were reported in Nature this February... More>>

Anthropology Alum to Star in Mark Burnett’s “Expedition Africa”

Mireya Mayor (Ph.D., ‘08) will be one of the stars for a new television series produced by reality-show guru Mark Burnett. The series, called “Expedition Africa: Stanley & Livingstone,” will follow four explorers as they retrace the path of Henry Stanley, a British journalist who rescued missing explorer David Livingstone in 1871... More>>

Stony Brook Poll Documents Deep-Rooted Economic Concerns on Long Island; Majority Think Recovery will Take More Than Two Years

The Center for Survey Research at Stony Brook University polled Long Islanders on their opinions about the economy in February and early March, 2009, and uncovered widespread concern about economic conditions amidst beliefs that an economic recovery is not imminent. Roughly 800 Long Islanders were interviewed for the study.... More>>

Historian's New Study Of Cocaine: U.S. Drug Plague Of 1980s Was Spurred By Earlier Interventions In Andes

Paul Gootenberg, Professor of History and Co-Director of Latin American Studies at Stony Brook University in New York, published a controversial new book on the history of modern cocaine, the illicit drug that menaced U.S. cities during the 1980s and prompted an Andean "War on Drugs" which is now in its third decade. The book, Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug, is published by the University of North Carolina Press, and is based on more than a decade of research in international archives, including specially declassified U.S. documents of the DEA and its predecessors.....More>>

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Student Profiles (Physical Sciences)

Black Holes, Collapsars, Gamma Rays, and other Bizarre Outer Space Stuff

Gamma ray bursts rank second in the universe to the Big Bang in terms electromagnetic luminosity (the energy in one of these bursts is a bit less than the amount of energy released by the Sun during its 10 billion year life). But where do these bursts come from? That is a question which scientists have been pondering over the past 45 years or so. I talked to Enrique Moreno-Mendez from the physics department, who is part of a research group that attempts to understand the mechanism by which gamma ray bursts occur...More>>

Carving out Medical Geology

Stony Brook’s Minerals, Metals, Metalloids, and Toxicity (3MT) Program is an interdisciplinary endeavor to deal with some of the problems associated with biology and geology due to their disciplinary borders. I interviewed Shavonne Hylton, who's research involves not only trying to understand the effect that exposure to certain metals has on living tissue, but to come up with a protocol for other scientists to measures those relationships...More>>