A potentially dangerous algae has been detected in Long Island waters. Prof. Christopher Gobler says Suffolk consistently tops the state's list of the most cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, in its fresh bodies of water.
Sleep can be amazing — particularly if you've been pulling all-nighters lately — but if you're experiencing some problems with getting shut-eye lately, you may need to get a better sleep routine. There are many potential reasons that your sleep may be disturbed or non-existent, experts tell Bustle, and many of them start with how you wind down at night.
Kathleen Valerio, Stony Brook University's health educator, spearheaded a program that resulted in over 1,000 new registrants to the New York State Organ Donation Registry, Senator John Flanagan's office announced. No New York State college registered more new organ donors than Stony Brook.
There are now about 250,000 cesspools in place in Suffolk County, and another 100,000 Suffolk properties deploy septic systems. “That’s not a good thing,” said Frank Russo, associate director for wastewater initiatives at the Stony Brook Center for Clean Water Technology. “We’re dumping sewage into the ground, and that eventually makes its way to the groundwater.”
Findings that could facilitate the next generation of ultra-tiny electronics have been published by Brookhaven Lab scientists, along with Ashwanth Subramanian, a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering.
Training for an actual marathon is in many ways its own “marathon.” Just ask Gabrielle Russo, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. To be clear, she’s not training for just any marathon, she’s training for the 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials.
Josephine Connolly-Schoonen’s expertise is in the area of nutritional management of obesity and chronic illnesses from the individual, school and community level. In addition, she directs the Stony Brook Dietetic Internship Program and a series of community nutrition projects funded by the New York State Department of Health since 1994. She is also the author of Losing Weight Permanently with the Bull’s Eye Food Guide (Bull Publishing, 2004).
