2+ hour, 50+ min ago  (387+ words) Stony Brook University alumnus Zain Zaidi, a former Barry Goldwater Scholar and recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence, has been named a 2026 Fellow by The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, one of the nation's most competitive…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (135+ words) Meet Justin Harper, a leading Computer Science student who talks about his experiences with machine learning! Justin is no stranger to machine learning, with his first experience with programming being in high school where he participated in a hackathon at…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (948+ words) The annual Swartz Foundation Mind/Brain Lecture at Stony Brook University drew a packed audience for a talk that discussed the mechanics of sight and human emotion. Neuroscientist James J. Di Carlo, MD, Ph D, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (225+ words) Stony Brook University's Department of Physics and Astronomy has been ranked No. 85 in the 2026 QS World University Rankings by Subject, placing it once again among the top 100 university programs globally in the field. Stony Brook, New York's number one public…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (352+ words) Rajput's team uses a tool called NMR spectroscopy to study these liquids. But interpreting NMR data comes with challenges. One major problem is that liquids don't exist in one stable form, as they contain many different stable molecular arrangements at…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (163+ words) James J. Di Carlo, MD, Ph D, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present the 2026 Swartz Foundation Mind/Brain Lecture on Monday, March 30, at 4 pm on Staller Center's Main Stage. His presentation, "AI-derived Mechanisms of Human Vision," will also be…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (193+ words) In his office lined with hand-drawn diagrams and alphabet-like symbols, Stony Brook researcher Jeffrey Heinz is trying to answer a deceptively simple question: How well, exactly, can today's neural networks learn, and where do they fail? Heinz, a professor with…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (534+ words) Stony Brook University Professor H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. , Awarded American Mathematical Society's "2026 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement'news. stonybrook. edu Stony Brook University Professor H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. , Awarded American Mathematical Society's "2026 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement STONY BROOK, NY'January 21, 2026'The…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (280+ words) The inaugural Convergence lecture series continues with "Get in the Game! Data Analytics Via Sports," a deep dive into the fast-paced world of professional sports, where data and statistics play a key role in developing the strategies that drive teams…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (120+ words) Researchers at Stony Brook University and Salesforce AI Research are discovering why professional writers often feel disappointed with Large Language Models (LLMs) and are proposing a manually polished model that can aid in aligning a machine's language to our own....