Page 5 - Faculty Staff News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Findings Are Based on Nearly 19 Million Publicly Available Tweets A study led by Stony Brook University political scientists and published in PNAS analyzed nearly 19 million publicly available tweets from 2019 to 2021, and they found consistently that as the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths increased, fewer tweets about climate change occurred. Additionally, tweets about climate change during those periods are characterized by less fear, anger and negative sentiment on the issue. Oleg Smirnov, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and lead author, says that the data fro...

Stony Brook researchers were awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $550K to help transition academic research into industry and commercialization

J.D. Allen Was Awarded for His Climate Change Podcast Higher Ground Stony Brook University School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) lecturer and WSHU managing editor J.D. Allen received an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Excellence in Science Communication Award from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The award is for the first season of Allen's ongoing climate change podcast Higher Ground, produced for WSHU, a Long Island National Public Radio affiliate station. The award is in the Best Science Reporting on the Local/Regional Level category. "The National Aca...

The University of Cincinnati celebrated the grand opening of its Digital Futures building, a facility for interdisciplinary research, on Friday in the Cincinnati Innovation District.

A Stony Brook research team is working to improve CAR-T immunotherapy by shortening cell expansion and making it more cost-effective, accessible and timely for patients