Chili-scorched chicken, cumin-showered lamb, hand-stretched noodles, treasure-filled hot pots. These new arrivals on Long Island’s Chinese restaurant menus can be found in profusion inside the narrow triangle whose points are Selden to the east, Centereach to the west and Setauket to the north.
Pregnant women using opioids is a growing epidemic. Dr. David Garry, director of maternal-fetal medicine, says he hopes his “Maternal Opioid Maintenance Support," or MOMS, program will help stifle the dangerous trend.
Political Science Prof. Helmut Norpoth weighs in that the Democratic near miss in the Ohio special election augurs well for the party’s prospects in November.
Stony Brook University has been named the 34th best college in the US, as well as the 22nd best public institution, in an annual ranking released by MONEY Magazine. This is a 10-place jump from last year.
The feet of primates function as grasping organs. But the adoption of bipedal locomotion – which reduces the ability to grasp – was a critical step in human evolution.
Batter up. A total of 24 Stony Brook baseball student-athletes represented the Seawolves in eight different leagues around the nation this past summer.
Helmut Norpoth is co-author of The American Voter Revisited, covering the images of presidential candidates, party identification, and why Americans turn out to vote. He has also written a book about public reactions to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, especially her economic and foreign policies. Norpoth has designed models to forecast elections in the U.S., Britain, and Germany. His Primary Model correctly predicted Obama's re-election as early as February of 2012 and correctly predicted that Donald Trump would be the next President of the United States.