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Discoveries
Stony Brook faculty are among the top in their fields. Our commitment to both research and excellence has led to many groundbreaking discoveries, including:

  • The cause of Lyme disease

  • The Nobel Prize-winning research
         that led to MRI technology

  • The link between smoking and
         emphysema

  • The smallest electronic switch,
         using just one electron

  • Ultrasound that speeds up the
         healing of bone fractures

  • Technologies for 3-D computer
         visualization

  • The golden bamboo lemur,
         Hapalemur aureus
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