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When Paul Walwanis needed a helping hand in his day-to-day care, he knew he could turn to the Long Island State Veterans Home (LISVH) at
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When Paul Walwanis needed a helping hand in his day-to-day care, he knew he could turn to the Long Island State Veterans Home (LISVH) at

Zahraa Krayem Stuart, ’16, PhD ’26, was drawn to electrical engineering because she was looking for an intellectually challenging field. Stony Brook University’s Department of

Della Pietra Infinity Professor and Inaugural Director of Stony Brook University’s AI Innovation Institute, Lav Varshney, led a discussion on the impact of AI at

Congressional briefing brings together members of Congress, senior federal science leadership and researchers to discuss U.S. competitiveness, quantum innovation and the workforce of the future

For Walter Benitez and Kevin Chen, their URECA projects began with questions that had been forming long before they came to Stony Brook University. Though

The Postdoc LINK Research Symposium, presented by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, celebrated Stony Brook’s postdoctoral scholars across disciplines. Photos by John Griffin. Leadership, innovation,

Human expertise and engineering have played a central role in shaping the large language models (LLMs) we use today. People wrote training examples, ranked model

The intersection of art and exploration is where creative expression transforms physical journeys into shared human experience. This unique pairing allows creators to visualize the

The Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University named its gift shop in honor of Colonel E. David Woycik Jr. (Ret.), Esq. on

Stony Brook University celebrated an extraordinary breadth of talent and impact in its 2026 Class of 40 Under Forty alumni honorees on September 16. The
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