Fellows

Anurag Purwar
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering

2025-2027

Will introduce freshman engineering students to the fundamental concepts of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), with an emphasis on hands-on, project-based learning.

Tony Scarlatos
Senior Lecturer
Computer Science

2025-2027

The proposed “Future of History” course will focus on the integration of information technology into cultural spaces, such as museums, libraries, and galleries.

Margaret Schedel
Professor
Music

2025-2027

By examining how filters shape audio and visual media and programming these filters with the help of AI, students will develop both technical expertise and critical thinking skills essential for modern careers.

Brooke Belisle
Senior Lecturer
Computer Science

2025-2027

The proposed “Future of History” course will focus on the integration of information technology into cultural spaces, such as museums, libraries, and galleries.

Linda O'Keeffe
Professor & Chair
Art & Art History

2024-2026

Explores the intricate relationships between sound, environment, and community, utilising her unique 'Listening as Practice' methodology.

Stephanie Wade
Writing & Rhetoric

2025-2026

Uses ecology to understand writing and to build projects that support justice, equity, and access.

Chris Sellers
Professor
History

2024-2026

Developing innovative new courses that will provide valuable humanitisc and hands-on extenstion of Stony Brook's expanding environmental and climate curricula.

Mark Chambers
Lecturer
History

2024-2026

Developing innovative new courses that will provide valuable humanitisc and hands-on extenstion of Stony Brook's expanding environmental and climate curricula.

Gary Mar

Professor
Philsophy

2024-2026

Creating, and collecting, Mathematically inter-Active Games for Improving Comprehension of Algorithmic and Logical Thinking (hereafter, MAGICAL Thinking).

Sharon Pochron
Assistant Professor
Sustainability Studies

2022-2023

Runs the Sustainability Studies Earthworm Ecotoxicology Lab where she and her students investigate the role of environmental toxins, like acid rain, Roundup, and fertilizer on earthworm biomass and survivorship.

Peter Khost
Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric Associate Professor
Program in Writing & Rhetoric

2022-2023

Worked with first-student populations on "transfer" - the ability to apply previously-learned concepts and skills into new contexts.

Robert Kaplan

Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric Associate Professor
Program in Writing & Rhetoric

2022-2023

Worked with first-student populations on "transfer" - the ability to apply previously-learned concepts and skills into new contexts.

Susan Scheckel
Associate Professor
English

2023-2025

Developing public humanities courses, including a collaboration with the Walt Whitman Birthplace in Huntington, NY.

Lisa Diedrich
Professor
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

2023-2025

Multi-modal approaches to pedagogy, especially the use of comics and graphic narratives as a key component to her pedagogy, both in terms of materials she teaches and activities she has students do.

Mei Lin (Ete) Chan
Assistant Professor of Practice
Biomedical Engineering

2023-2025

Importance of fostering career readiness via experiential learning - gaining insight into further enhancing students’ awareness of experiential learning in Stony Brook.

Roger Thompson
Professor
Writing & Rhetoric

2024-2025

 Harnessing Stony Brook's "Belonging Project in Freshman Writing" to improve retention of under-represented groups.