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4 unusual facts about Stony Brook University


Gene D. Sprouse

Gene D. Sprouse is a Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Stony Brook University and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012).

Oakley C. Johnson

Johnson's primary accumulation of papers are housed in the Special Collections Library at Stony Brook University in New York.

Petar Raković

He has previously played for FK Obilić and KFK Radnički Kragujevac in Serbia and St. John's University and Stony Brook University (US College soccer) in the USA, as well as for the FK Rad.

Raven banner

The Function of the Beasts of Battle in Old English Poetry. PhD Dissertation, 1976, State University of New York at Stony Brook.


AMBER

It is maintained by an active collaboration between David Case at Rutgers University, Tom Cheatham at the University of Utah, Tom Darden at NIEHS, Ken Merz at Florida, Carlos Simmerling at Stony Brook University, Ray Luo at UC Irvine, and Junmei Wang at Encysive Pharmaceuticals.

Gary R. Mar

He was the last dissertation student of the 20th century logician Alonzo Church and currently teaches at Stony Brook University.

Jeremy Boissevain

Boissevain graduated for his PhD in 1962 at the London School of Economics and has subsequently taught at the Universities of Montreal, Sussex, Malta, New York (Stony Brook), Massachusetts (Amherst), Columbia University and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

Lavanify

Two teeth of Lavanify were discovered in 1995–1996 during joint expeditions of the State University of New York, Stony Brook University, and the University of Antananarivo to the late Cretaceous (mostly Maastrichtian, about 71 to 66 million years ago mya) Maevarano Formation of northwestern Madagascar.

Tionna T. Smalls

After completing her primary education, Tionna attended the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan and studied Sociology at Stony Brook University.

XSB

XSB is the name of a dialect of the Prolog programming language and its implementation developed at Stony Brook University in collaboration with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the New University of Lisbon, Uppsala University and software vendor XSB, Inc.


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Alia Sabur

On 19 February 2008, at 18 years of age (3 days before her 19th birthday), she was appointed to the position of International Professor as Research Liaison with Stony Brook University by the Dept. of Advanced Technology Fusion at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea.

Eldad Tarmu

Eldad studied at Tel Aviv University in Israel, holds a masters degree in Afro-Latin music from California State University Los Angeles and a master of arts degree in Classical Composition from Stony Brook University, New York.

Ruth B. Bottigheimer

In addition to her current position at Stony Brook University, Bottigheimer has also taught at Hollins College, the University of Innsbruck, Göttingen University, Princeton University, the University of California, and others.

Silent mutation

Steffen Mueller at the Stony Brook University designed a live virus vaccine for polio in which the pathogen was engineered to have synonymous codons replace naturally-occurring ones in the genome.