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Anthropologist Meave Leakey, a research professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) at Stony Brook University, has been named a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. She is among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries that were elected in recognition for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Dr. Leakey joined the Stony Brook University faculty ranks in 2003 as an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology. In 2006 she was appointed Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the TBI. TBI is an institute in northern Kenya co-founded by the Leakeys and Stony Brook University to facilitate scientific, field based research. Dr. Leakey began her tenure as the Director of Plio-Pleistocene Research at the TBI in 2007 when she incorporated the Koobi Fora Research Project (KFRP) into TBI. In addition to her research position with TBI, she takes a leading role in Stony Brook’s TBI Field School, a full-semester field education program for undergraduate students interested in studying the sciences relevant to human evolution at Lake Turkana. She is also a Research Associate at the National Museums of Kenya, a position she has held since 2001, and a National Geographic Explorer in Residence (since 2002). read more... |
Meave Leakey, PhD |
| Two Stony Brook University professors – Leonardo Rastelli, PhD and Sheila Silver, PhD – have been named 2013 Guggenheim Fellows based on distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for the future. The fellowships, often called “midcareer" awards, are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. In the 89th annual John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation competition for the United States and Canada, Rastelli, Associate Professor in the Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Silver, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor, Department of Music, were selected as part of a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and scientists on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. They were chosen from among almost 3,000 applicants. read more... |
Leonardo Rastelli, PhD |
Sheila Silver, PhD |
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Two Stony Brook University Distinguished Professors have been elected to the 233rd class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research. Mark Aronoff, a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics, and H. Blaine Lawson, Jr., a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics, will be formally inducted at a ceremony at Academy headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 12, 2013. |
Mark Aronoff, PhD |
H. Blaine Lawson, Jr., PhD |
Jeffrey A. Segal , PhD, a SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chairman for the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University, is one of 220 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and the leading center for independent policy research.
Catherine Marrone, Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, has been named among the top 300 college and university professors in the nation by The Princeton Review in the newly released book, The Best 300 Professors.
Thomas Cubaud, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering was selected to receive the National Science Foundation's (NSF) prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award.
Benjamin S. Hsiao, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, who has achieved international prominence in the field of polymer science, has been named a Fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his distinguished contributions to the fields of polymer sciences and water purification, as well as to chemical research and education at Stony Brook University.
Joseph S.B. Mitchell, Ph.D., has been cited for his contributions to geometric computing and approximation algorithms.
Lorna Role, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Co-Director of the Institute for Advanced Neurosciences and member of the Central Nervous System Disorders Center in the Centers for Molecular Medicine, has been named a Fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her distinguished contributions in neuroscience.
Donald E. Porter, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science was selected to receive the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program Award.
Peter W. Stephens, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, has been named a Fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his distinguished contributions in developing and promoting high-resolution powder x-ray diffraction as a technique in solid-state physics and chemistry.
George Sterman, Ph.D., Director of the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University, has been named a Fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his advances in quantum field theory that helped establish the current understanding of strong interactions which facilitate the analysis of high energy particle experiments.
