#7 Kristina Garcia takes a shot during Sunday's game. Photo courtesy of Stony Brook Athletics
The Stony Brook University women’s soccer team defeated New Hampshire, 1-0, on Sept. 15. Kristina Garcia provided the game-winning goal in the 78th minute, propelling the team to its third straight victory.
The two sides played a scoreless first half, with Nicolette Pasquarella stopping the lone shot she faced in the opening 45 minutes. Linn Beck had an early shot on goal that was turned away. Later on, Garcia had a shot on goal that was stopped as well.
With the match still level to start the second half, Pasquarella made a pair of saves in the opening 10 minutes of second-half action. Reilly Rich and Aneta Sováková had shots that were off target or blocked and Luciana Setteducate’s attempt to break the ice was stopped in the 73rd minute.
Minutes later, it was Garcia and Sováková who teamed up to put Stony Brook on top, 1-0, in the late moments of the contest. Sováková fed a ball into the box on a corner set-piece that Garcia volleyed off a defender and into the back of the net. The goal was the first of Garcia’s collegiate career.
The Wildcats had one last chance to find an equalizer, but Pasquarella was up to the task and neutralized the threat. Pasquarella and Stony Brook closed out a third consecutive clean sheet to end the non-conference slate.
“I’m proud of the team. The girls were challenged with the three games in seven days, two of them away, but they got it done,” head coach Tobias Bischof said. “Three wins, three shutouts and 10 goals scored isn’t easy. UNH is a physical team with some very good players, but we handled it well. Now we are going to recover and get ready for conference play.”
The team returns home to host Charleston in the CAA opener on Sept. 22 at noon.
Caption: Stony Brook University’s Red Hot Clothing Recycling Bin. Photo by John Griffin
Stony Brook University’s Facilities and Services recently rolled out revamped donation bins for its clothing recycling program. 11 “Red Hot” clothing bins were outfitted with enhanced signage and messaging to encourage students, faculty, and staff to think and act green.
The clothing recycling program has been in existence on campus for more than 20 years, but now, there is a scannable QR code on each bin that links you to the Stony Brook University recycling website. It also explains where your donated goods are going.
Wearable Collections, a New York City-based waste management company, owns the campus clothing recycling bins and collects the donations approximately every two weeks. According to the Wearable Collections website, the donations are diverted away from the landfill and instead go to someone in need, are turned into cleaning rags, or transformed into fibers that are used for mattress stuffing or high-grade paper. The university collects around 10 tons, or about 22,046 pounds of material annually.
“We are excited to share that our new clothing donation bins have been installed across our campus,” said William Herrmann, vice president for facilities & services. “These bins make it more convenient for everyone to contribute, while also highlighting our commitment to reducing landfill waste and fostering a greener future. We look forward to seeing the positive impact these bins will bring not only to our campus but the wider community as well.”
The Stony Brook University recycling website also offers an interactive map that highlights where the clothing donation bins can be found around campus, including Chapin Apartments, Roosevelt Quad, and Roth Quad. Items accepted include clean clothing– even with rips or tears– footwear, belts, handbags, hats, linens, towels, and curtains.
Minghao Qiu presenting at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco last year.
Photo courtesy of M. Qiu
By Daniel Dunaief
When Minghao Qiu woke up in Beijing on Jan. 12, 2013during his freshman year in college, he couldn’t believe what he was seeing or, more appropriately, not seeing. The worst air pollution day in the history of the city mostly blocked out the sun, making it appear to be closer to 8 p.m. than a typical morning.
Minghao Qiu
While Qiu’s life path includes numerous contributing factors, that unusual day altered by air pollution had a significant influence on his career.
An Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University, Qiu straddles two departments that encapsulate his scientific and public policy interests. A recent hire who started this fall, Qiu will divide his time equally between the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and the Renaissance School of Medicine’s Program in Public Health.
Qiu studies fundamental questions in atmospheric sciences as they influence human health.
He is part of several new hires who could contribute to the climate solutions center that Stony Brook is building on Governors Island and who could provide research that informs future policy decisions.
Noelle Eckley Selin, who was Qiu’s PhD advisor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is Professor in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, suggested Qiu is a valuable scientific, policy and educational asset.
“Stony Brook is doing a lot to address climate in a serious way with great research,” Selin said. Qiu joining the institution “could really help out the university’s broader climate efforts and make them more impactful.”
Selin appreciated how Qiu was eager to dive deeper into questions, wanting to ensure that conclusions were valid and asking how to use data to test various ideas.
As a mentor, Qiu has proven inspirational.
“A lot of my current students will go and talk to him and come back to me and say, ‘[Qiu] had five excellent ideas on my project,’” Selin said. “That’s characteristic of how he works. He’s really generous with his time and is always thinking about how to look at problems.”
Policy focus
Using causal inference, machine learning, atmospheric chemistry modeling, and remote sensing, Qiu focuses on environmental and energy policies with a global focus on issues involving air pollution, climate change and energy transitions.
Qiu would like to address how climate change is influencing the air people breathe. Increasing heat waves and droughts cause people to use more energy, often through air conditioning. The energy for the electricity to power temperature controls comes from natural gas, coal, or fossil fuels, which creates a feedback loop that further increases pollution and greenhouse gases.
“Our work tries to quantify this,” Qiu said.
He also analyzes the impact of climate change on wildfires, which affects air quality.
In a research paper published last year, Qiu joined several other scientists to analyze the impact of wildfires on air quality.
The study, published in the journal Nature, found that since at least 2016, wildfire smoke eroded about a quarter of previous decades-long efforts to reduce the concentration of particulates above 2.5 microgram in several states.
Wildfire-driven increases in ambient particulates are unregulated under air pollution laws.
The authors showed that the contribution of wildfires to regional and national air quality trends is likely to grow amid a warming climate.
In his research, Qiu seeks to understand how to use energy and climate policy to address air pollution and greenhouse gases.
“Renewable energy and climate policy in general provides potential benefits,” Qiu said.
He uses publicly available data in his models.
New York pivot
While wildfires have been, and likely will continue to be, an area of focus for his work, Qiu plans to shift his focus to the kind of pollution that is typically more prevalent in New York.
In large urban cities, pollution often comes from a concentration of traffic, as people commute to and from work and drive to the city for entertainment and cultural events.
“We are going to pivot a little bit, especially to factors that are more relevant” to the Empire State, he said.
While climate change is a broad category that affects patterns across the world, air pollution and its impacts are more regional.
“The biggest impact of air pollution happens locally” particularly in terms of health effects, Qiu said.
From Beijing to MIT
Born and raised in Beijing, Qiu began connecting how climate or energy policy influences air pollution at MIT.
“When I started my PhD, there was not much real world data analysis” that linked how much renewable energy helps air quality, Qiu said. “We have historical data to do that, but it’s a lot more complex.”
After he graduated from MIT, Qiu moved to Stanford, where he shifted his focus to climate change.
“There, I got to collaborate more directly with people in the public health domain,” he said, as he focused on wildfires.
Personal choices
Despite studying air pollution and climate change, Qiu does not have HEPA filters in every room and, by his own admission, does not live a particularly green life. He does not have an electric car, although he plans to get one when he needs a new vehicle. He urges people not to sacrifice the living standards to which they are accustomed, which can include eating their preferred foods and traveling to distant points in the world.
Qiu believes there are choices individuals can make to help, but that the kind of decisions necessary to improve the outlook for climate change come from centralized government policy or large enterprises.
“I have great respect for people who change their personal behavior” but he recognizes that “this is not for everyone.”
A resident of Hicksville, Qiu lives with his wife Mingyu Song, who is a software engineer. The couple met when they were in high school.
When he’s not working on climate models, he enjoys playing basketball and, at just under six feet tall, typically plays shooting guard.
As for his research, Qiu does “rigorous scientific research” that draws from historical data.
“I feel a sense of urgency that we would like to get the answers to many of the scientific evidence as quickly as possible to communicate to policy makers,” he said.
He wants his research to be impactful and to help policy makers take “appropriate measures.”
Stony Brook University has announced the hiring of Christopher Martin as the new associate vice president for Campus Planning, Design & Construction. He will report to William Herrmann, vice president for facilities & services. In this role, Martin will lead the operation and management of all campus construction activities including planning, capital budgeting, architecture, design, engineering, and construction management.
Martin joins Stony Brook with over 35 years of professional experience, most recently serving in a dual capacity as vice president for integrated real estate & facilities and assistant vice president for facilities infrastructure, projects & compliance at MedStar Health System in Maryland, an organization he’s been a part of for eight years.
Prior to this role, the Nesconset resident held design and construction related roles at Northwell Health, the North Shore LIJ Health System, Gazetten Contracting, and Beth Israel Medical Center. He is a registered architect, and a member of the American Institute of Architects as well as the American Society for Health Care Engineering.
“Christopher brings with him a wealth of experience and a proven track record of success in his previous roles,” said William Herrmann. “In addition to his professional skills, Christopher possesses a range of personal strengths that make him an ideal fit for this role. He has successfully led high-performing teams towards achieving organizational goals, strategically planned to align resources with objectives and fostered collaborative environments where individuals are empowered to excel.”
“I am excited about the opportunity to join Stony Brook University and am eager to help bring innovative ideas and drive positive change within the university, including the Health Sciences Center and the Southampton Campus,” said Martin. “I look forward to joining the team to collaborate on our planning, design and construction.”
Wolfie meets with football fans. Photo by Connor Rose
Wolfie poses with a football fan. Photo by Connor Rose
Todd Rose poses with Wolfie before the game. Photo by Connor Rose
Todd Rose hands out souvenirs before the game. Photo by Connor Rose
SBU Marching Band. Photo by Connor Rose
SBU Marching Band and cheerleader. Photo by Connor Rose
By Katherine Kelton
To kick off Stony Brook Seawolves home football season, the university held the first of its Dean’s Challenge, when three deans of different colleges “guest coach” a game for three games, for a total of nine schools competing. Each dean competes to bring in the most people from their respective unit for a trophy, book scholarship and bragging rights.
The Stony Brook Development Team launched the first inaugural Stony Brook Athletics Dean’s Challenge for the fall 2023 semester. The mission is to build partnerships and bridge the gap between academics on campus and athletics.
Each school was given an opportunity to rally fans for football games during the fall season. The School of Social Welfare had the greatest attendance and was named the winner, receiving the Dean’s Challenge Trophy and a $250 book scholarship courtesy of the Athletic Department.
The first game this season included guest-coach David Wrobel, the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He said, “We thought as a nice way to build community and get people out to the game, we would bring all kinds of food in addition to giving out tickets and college swag.”
CAS had the largest number of attendees and secured $500 for student programming.
Wrobel, who joined Stony Brook this fall after a previous tenure at the University of Oklahoma, explained his decision to come to Long Island. “The thing I love about this university is that it’s exactly what a public research university has to be,” he said. “It focuses on ensuring that kids from different backgrounds and financial circumstances have access to an incredible research-centric experience.”
Wrobel said of the football team, “I hope the football players do brilliantly, there’s a new coach [Billy Cosh] so that’s fantastic. The football players are also fantastic student-athletes.”
The other two deans who competed at Saturday’s game were Stacy Jaffee Gropack of the School of Health Professions and Peter Diplock of the School of Professional Development.
Aside from the healthy rivalries inside the university, other groups set up their tents, served food and played games. Their kids cartwheeled and threw footballs around. Stony Brook merchandise tents were scattered around as well.
Fans watched the football players in their tracksuits walk into the locker room. The marching band, cheerleaders and dance squad paraded around the perimeter of the tailgate area before performing in front of LaValle Stadium.
The light rain did not scare off tailgaters as many came prepared. Todd Rose, father of freshman player Ian Rose, said, “We’re from Connecticut. We were here for all the rainy games last year and it seems we are this year too.”
Todd Rose and his mother walked around handing out 3D printed badges and beaded necklaces that demonstrate team spirit. “We like to go to New Orleans and when you walk around they have all these beads and they have all the Major League sports teams and then they have your colleges,” he explained. “But, I never saw one for Stony Brook, so what I did was I took the picture and built it into my 3D printer, and designed it myself. I just give it to the parents of the players. So we know when a person is a parent of a player.”
Rose huddled under the tent with his wife, eldest son and mother alongside other football parents. James Amburn, father of Jacob Amburn, another freshman player, came from Berkshire County, Massachusetts, to watch the game. “I wasn’t too sure about Stony Brook at first,” he said. However, after they toured the school and the surrounding community SBU was a clear choice. “The atmosphere, the people are great, Port Jefferson is nice. Just a great experience,” he added.
The Seawolves beat Stonehill Skyhawks, 37-10, with an impressive two touchdowns in the first quarter. The next home game will be against Morgan State Bears Sept. 28 at 3:30 p.m.
World Trade Center worker. Photo courtesy Steven Spak
By Daniel Dunaief
Sean Clouston takes some time to reflect each year around this time.
Sean Clouston
A professor in the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine in the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University, Clouston studies the long term implications of the exposure and experiences of first responders after the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Clouston, who published research this summer that chronicled the higher rates of dementia among first responders in the years after the attack, spoke exclusively with the Times Beacon Record Newspapers about the work he does and the interactions he’s had with people who were in harm’s way in the days and weeks after the terrorist attacks.
Each September 11th is a “quiet day,” Clouston said, as he takes time to remember those lostand reflect on those who are continuing to deal with the health consequences of being there.
Clouston recalls thinking about how the attacks shaped the way he thought about what he should be doing with his life.
In the work he’s done in monitoring the role of long-duration exposures at the World Trade Center on neurological health of responders to the events following the Sept. 11 attacks, Clouston has interacted with survivors, spouses, and families, receiving regular updates.
“It’s a pretty big part of my everyday social network,” Clouston said.
He’s heard numerous stories from a day in which the comfortable, clear air provided an incongruous backdrop for the mass murders. He has heard about people who were blown out of the buiding amid a combustible blast and about how difficult it is to put out a cesium fire.
“There were definitelly so many different stories that speak to me,” Clouston said.
As someone who studies the outcomes of severe or early life challenges, Clouston is aware of how the traumatic events of that day reoccur for so many people, as they reexperience the moments that sometimes haunt their dreams and that can continue to affect them physically and cognitively.
People generally consider post traumatic stress as a “fairly short condition” where someone has it “immediately after an event and it kind of goes away,” Clouston said.
For first responders, however, “that’s not true. They are dealing with it for years or decades after the traumatic event.”
Indeed, first responders not only feel the effects of the physical and emotional trauma, but the experience affects their body chemistry and “changes how their immune system reacts.”
Researchers can see how it “wears away at the body over the years and over the decades,’ Clouston added.
The study of post traumatic stress allows him to focus on and understand the link between the mind and the body.
How can people help?
Clouston suggested that people who want to help first responders need to start by recognizing the specific challenges each person may be facing.
“What you do depends a lot on who the person is and what they remember and what they’re struggling with,” said Clouston.
Sept. 11th each year can be a hard time, as people confront painful memories.
People can help others by “being available to listen,” he suggested. Try to understand “why it affects them and how.”
Therapists can help, as can doctor-prescribed medications.
First responders may feel angry, which people don’t always anticipate feeling.
In his research, Clouston focuses less on day-to-day changes and more on how their exposure and experience affects them in the longer term.
First responders can become physically weaker and slower, as they are less able to lift weights.
Cognitively, the effect of the experience has also been significant.
Earlier this year, Clouston published a paper in which he found an “enormous difference” between people with minimal exposure to dust and other particulates at the World Trade Center site compared to those who were more heavily exposed, he said.
“The incidence of dementia is building on prior work showing that the longer you were on site, the more likely responders were to have slowed down cognitive function in general,” he added.
Future questions
Clouston and his colleagues are hoping to understand what disease is affecting first responders. They are unsure whether it’s a form of dementia related to other conditions or whether it’s unique to this group and this exposure.
They are hoping to explore whether people who were on site have anything in their blood that is a measure of exposure, such as chemicals or metals.
First responders don’t all need care now, but one of the goals of the research is to make sure scientists and doctors are “on top of what is really happening” as they prepare to provide any necessary help in future years.
People develop diseases when three things occur: a noxious or toxic element or viral particle exists, they are exposed to it, and people are vulnerable to its effects.
Researchers are working to understand the level of exposure and different levels of vulnerability.
Clouston also highlighted the connection between the immune system and tau proteins, which can trigger dementia in Alzheimer’s and which can spread throughout the brain.
Researchers have been exploring how some immune systems might spread these proteins, while other immune systems trigger a slower spread and, potentially, fewer and less severe symptoms.
In theory, scientists could learn from the immune system that causes a slower spread, although “we’re years away from doing anything like that,” he said.
Alternatiely, researchers and pharmaceutical companies are working on ways to remove these proteins.
“You can fight fires in two ways,” he said.
Stony Brook has been considering “those ideas. To get there, we have to first understand excatly where are we and what is the problem,” he said. “That’s where we really are for the next couple of years.”
As for his interaction with first responders, Clouston has been inspired by the way the first responder community has rallied around people who are struggling with physical and cognitive challenges.
He recalled a firefighter who was struggling with age-related conditions.
“His fellow firefighters came together and built in some lifts and ramps to help him and his spouse get around the house and use the bathroom,” he said. “Moments like that are really touching.”
Stony Brook Cancer Center’s CancerWise Café returns to SBU’s Charles B. Wang Center, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook on Saturday, Sept. 28 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Cancer Center experts will discuss the latest advances in screening, prevention, diagnosis, management and treatment of several types of cancer, along with educational displays, community organization resource tables and lunch.
The event including lunch is free but registration is required by Sept. 22. To RSVP, visit stonybrook.info/cafe2024 or click here.
The Stony Brook University women’s soccer team scored five goals en route to a shutout victory over Le Moyne on Sept. 9 at LaValle Stadium. Four different Seawolves tallied a goal, with Reilly Rich scoring twice to help Stony Brook improve to 3-0 this season at home.
Stony Brook opened the scoring when Rich scored her first goal of the season in the seventh minute, assisted by Sammy Hannwacker on a set-piece from the far corner. The Seawolves added another score on a goal from Luciana Setteducatein the 18th minute, assisted by Linn Beck and Mercy Sabuni Soderling. Stony Brook carried a 2-0 lead into the halftime break.
Stony Brook padded the lead to three goals on Beck’s 58th-minute goal, her first of the season. Setteducate and Rich assisted the goal. The Seawolves added another tally on a 65th-minute goal from Rich, her second of the contest. Hannah Maracina got in on the action, adding a goal in the 76th minute with an assist from Leah Rifas. The goal was Stony Brook’s fifth of the afternoon and the score would hold as the clock hit zeros at LaValle Stadium.
“The performance from the team today was very good, as I expected,” head coach Tobias Bischof noted postgame. “Today was a game where we could show what we can do offensively, and we did that. I was happy with the overall performance, both offensively and defensively.”
The team is back in action on Sept. 12 when they visit UMass Lowell. The game will streamlive at 5 p.m. on ESPN+.
Cathy Barbash (Sitting center) and Susan Barbash (Right sitting) present Stony Brook University Special Collections members Kristen Nyitray (Left sitting), Lynn Toscano (Left) and Jamie Saragossi (Right) a small collection of papers relating to their late activist father Maurice Barbash’s work to stop a proposed 4 lane highway down the spine of the Fire Island and the creation of the Fire Island National Seashore (FINS). Photo by John Griffin/SBU
Timed with the 60th Anniversary Establishment of FINS Becoming a National Park
Stony Brook University Libraries have received a donation of historic documents that outline the battle to stop the construction of a highway on Fire Island while fighting successfully to create the Fire Island National Seashore (FINS), New York. The documents reveal the efforts of the Citizen’s Committee for a Fire Island National Seashore, the grassroots community campaign that prevented Robert Moses’ plan in the 1960s. The collection was gifted by the Barbash family. Maurice Barbash, the father of Cathy, Susan, and Shepard Barbash, and their uncle Irving Like led the committee’s efforts and organized it.
The collection has historical importance in the establishment of the Fire Island National Seashore (FINS) and includes committee meeting minutes, press releases, and correspondence with New York State Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Stuart Udall, Secretary of the Interior. The timing of the donation coincides with the upcoming 60th anniversary of the legislation that created FINS as a unit of the National Park Service (September 11, 1964).
“We are very excited to have the papers of the Citizen’s Committee for a Fire Island National Seashore as a part of Stony Brook University Libraries’ collections. With the upcoming 60th anniversary, preserving and providing access to this collection is of great importance,” said Jamie Saragossi, Associate Dean of Content Services.
These items will become part of the University Libraries’ Special Collections, which oversees and curates the university’s rare books, maps, archival materials, manuscripts, and historical maps. Details about the collection will be accessible via a dedicated webpage, and the papers will be digitized and made freely available online.
“The papers offer first-hand, historical evidence of the remarkable grassroots efforts that protected the natural environments of both Long Island and Fire Island for future generations,” said Kristen J. Nyitray, Director of Special Collections and University Archives, and University Archivist. “The papers are an important addition to Special Collections and highlight our commitment to collect, preserve, and provide access to diverse histories of Long Island.”
About the Campaign
The efforts of community citizen-activists on Fire Island were instrumental in the legislation that formally established the Fire Island National Seashore. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill into law in 1964, preventing the construction of a proposed highway extending eastward from what is currently Robert Moses State Park.
Cathy Barbash reflected on the decision to donate the collection and its research significance. “We are honored that Stony Brook University has agreed to accept the original minutes of the Citizen’s Committee for a Fire Island National Seashore and related research and correspondence. The Committee was founded on September 12, 1962, by fourteen volunteer citizens who worked tirelessly for two years to promote the creation of the National Seashore against steep odds. The Committee was founded and co-chaired by our father, Maurice Barbash, and our uncle, Irving Like.”
“This collection is significant because the minutes and other materials document in great detail the strategies, organization, and actions of a group of concerned citizens who came together spontaneously, pooling their intellectual, professional, and social resources to create an effective grassroots movement to fight the destruction of a natural area by creating a common good. The research included in the collection also sheds light on the political backstory and maneuvering between powerful political figures in mid-century America that shaped the overall battle and ultimate success of the campaign for the National Seashore,” she added.
In addition to the papers of the Citizen’s Committee for a Fire Island National Seashore, the collection includes digital files used in the exhibition “Protecting a Ribbon of Sand: The Creation of Fire Island National Seashore,” curated by Susan and Cathy Barbash for the 50th anniversary of FINS at the Fire Island Lighthouse Fresnel Lens Building.
When asked about why the family chose Stony Brook to be the home for the collection, Cathy Barbash said, “We are donating the papers to Stony Brook University for two reasons. First, both Stony Brook University and the Fire Island National Seashore are located in Suffolk County, New York and we believe it is important that these materials are in the library of a major research university so close to their subject matter. Secondly, Irving Like’s papers are already in Stony Brook’s special collections. Because he and our father were the prime movers in this campaign and in other civic causes, we felt it appropriate that the collections belonged together to promote ease of research.”
Susan Barbash added, “The epic battle against Robert Moses’ plan to build a four-lane highway down the center of Fire Island took place in 1964, when my sister Cathy and I were children. Though we had many memories of the role our father Murray Barbash played in the fight against Moses, and subsequent fight for National Seashore designation, we had no idea that the victory over Moses was far from inevitable.”
Stony Brook University MAT Program serves a key role in graduating future physics teachers
For the seventh time in nine years, Stony Brook University (SBU) has been recognized by the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) as a member of the Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) 5+ Club for its outstanding work in graduating nine physics teachers in the 2022-2023 academic year.
From left, Muxi Liu (Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Physics), Dr. Gillian Winters (Lecturer, MAT Program in Physics), and Daniel Treu (MAT Graduate). Photo by David Genik
This significant feat was achieved through the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program, which is part of the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy and administered by the Institute for STEM Education and the School of Professional Development.
“In this science and technology driven modern society, early physics education is increasingly important. In recent years, the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been a national leader in producing well qualified high school teachers through its MAT program, now directed by Professor Angela Kelly,” said Chang Kee Jung, distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. “We have received the 5+ Club recognition seven out of the past nine years, and in Academic Year 2022-23, we graduated nine new physics teachers, which is an historic record for our MAT program. As the chair of the Department I challenge the program to become a member of the 10+ Club, which is yet to be established. We are very close to the Chair’s challenge goal and I am very proud of our MAT program.”
“The SBU Department of Physics has a long history of excellence in physics teacher preparation, which grew under the stewardship of Dr. Robert McCarthy for many years,” said Angela Kelly, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for STEM Education and director of the MAT Program. “We plan on redoubling our recruitment efforts to reach the Chair’s goal of 10 physics teachers per year to serve secondary students on Long Island and beyond.”
According to the APS and AAPT, graduating more than five physics teachers in an academic year puts SBU in the 99th percentile of all US colleges and universities. With a shortage of qualified physics teachers in the United States, SBU’s MAT program serves as a driver in remediating this shortage. Further, the MAT program was previously identified as a thriving physics teacher education program in the 2018 PhysTEC study of eight exemplary programs in the United States.
He’s heard numerous stories from a day in which the comfortable, clear air provided an incongruous backdrop for the mass murders. He has heard about people who were blown out of the buiding amid a combustible blast and about how difficult it is to put out a cesium fire.
Stony Brook Cancer Center’s CancerWise Café returns to SBU’s Charles B. Wang Center, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook on Saturday, Sept. 28 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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