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• LI nonprofit gets $20,500 Stanford University grant

  Family & Children's Association, a Mineola-based nonprofit group, who helped him transition from a high school dropout to a Stony Brook University honors graduate now pursuing an MBA at Stanford.For Negron, 26, Family & Children's has been a lifeline, sheltering   Read more »

• Cops: Girl, 14, hit, killed by car in East Hampton Village

  Village Ambulance to the East Hampton Airport, police said. From there, the Suffolk County police helicopter flew her to Stony Brook University Hospital, where she died, police said. Police did not provide the name and gender of the 73-year-old driver, who   Read more »

• LI communities that are rich in the arts

  Weekend during which visitors can stroll, see the works of local artists on display -- and possibly adopt an animal.Stony Brook University's Staller Center (pictured) is home to the Stony Brook Film Festival, an annual summer event featuring new, independent   Read more »

• LI bedbug team creates trap that kills the pests

  get very agitated and they apparently don't live longer than a couple of days," said Miriam Rafailovich, co-director of Stony Brook University's chemical and molecular engineering program.The traps, which could hit the market by year's end, will be affordable   Read more »

• LI people on the move, June 10, 2013

  Heidi Hutner will serve as the interim director of the sustainability studies program at Stony Brook University . The Huntington resident also will continue in her role as director of environmental humanities and associate professor of sustainability and English.   Read more »

Around the web

• Newly found Bix piano gets stage, home

  He was known the jazz world over as a cornet player, but Bix Beiderbecke was adept at the keyboard as well. "There was no piano that Bix went by that he would not stop, sit down and start playing,” said Albert Haim, a music historian and Bix aficionado. 6/19/13 from Quad-City Times Read more »

• SBUH Names New Chief Medical Officer

  STONY BROOK, N.Y., June 19, 2013 – Joseph H. Laver, MD, Executive Vice President at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has been named Chief Medical Officer of Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) and Professor of Pediatrics in the Stony Brook Unive 6/19/13 from Stony Brook News Read more »

• Brookhaven Lab Physicist/Stony Brook University Professor Awarded Prestigious Humboldt Research Award

  Dmitri (Dima) Kharzeev in the Main Control Room for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider STONY BROOK AND UPTON, NY, June 19, 2013 — Dmitri "Dima" Kharzeev, a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, with a 6/19/13 from Brookhaven National Laboratory News Read more »

• General News. FREE "Movie Night" at LaValle Stadium July 30

  Stony Brook, N.Y. - Stony Brook University Athletics will host FREE "Movie Night" presented by Team Ardolino and Realty Connect USA and Bethpage Federal Credit Union, Tuesday, July 30 at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium at 7 p.m (rain date July 31). The gates   from Stony Brook Official Athletic Site Read more »

• SBU Radio Personality Brings Music to Stony Brook Children's Hospital

  STONY BROOK, N.Y., June 18, 2013 — Every Friday afternoon, one of the best shows in town has been held not at Jones Beach Theater or the Nassau Coliseum, but on the 11th floor of Stony Brook Children’s Hospital. That’s when 47-year-old Mark Klein of West   from Stony Brook News Read more »