Stony Brook University welcomed its 49th class of medical students to the recently renamed Renaissance School of Medicine on Sunday with a white-coat ceremony recognizing students' accomplishments thus far and preparing them for the years ahead.
Physicist Peter van Nieuwenhuizen of Stony Brook University and two collaborators will share the most lucrative award in science — a $3 million Breakthrough Prize — for developing the highly influential theory of “supergravity.”
Throughout his career — in engineering, heavy construction and government — Ambassador Charles A. Gargano played a central role in protecting the beating heart of New York’s economy. On May 29, the University recognized the Ambassador's role in caring for the hearts of Long Island as Hal Skopicki, MD, PhD was formally invested as the Ambassador Charles A. Gargano Chair in Cardiology.
Mónica Bugallo, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Faculty Director of the Women in Science and Engineering Honors program, has been appointed Associate Dean for Diversity and Outreach in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
The first year of the new Audio Podcast Fellows program developed by Stony Brook Southampton Graduate Arts has been an unqualified success, with each of the nine students in the two-semester program writing, recording and producing their own individual podcasts on a wide range of engaging topics.
Dr. Apostolos Tassiopoulos has expertise in minimally invasive (endovascular) management of abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms, aortic dissections, vascular trauma, lower extremity vascular disease (PAD), treatment of venous disease (including minimally invasive percutaneous closure for varicose veins), treatment and prevention of deep-vein-thrombosis, inferior vena cava filters, thrombolysis, renal and mesenteric artery stenosis, surgery for stroke prevention (carotid stenting and endarterectomy), dialysis access procedures, and limb-salvaging procedures. He also has experience with surgical quality improvement programs and with improving safety of surgical patients.
