Hurricane Irene is showing no signs of changing course or losing steam. And that means Stony Brook University could be in for a windy, wet and potentially dangerous first week of the Spring semester. Think Magazine continues our extensive coverage of the biggest storm of the decade.
Hurricane Irene is on it’s way, and with landfall expected on Long Island on Sunday (as thousands of students return to campus), Stony Brook announced today it would open the dorms a day early to returning students in an attempt to avoid a wet mess.
A powerful earthquake rocked the DC metro area on Tuesday afternoon, but the tremors carried all the way up into Canada. Reaction at Stony Brook University was mixed, with some evacuating buildings and others unaware that anything out of the ordinary had occurred.
Stony Brook University will announce today that Dr. Dennis Assanis, a distinguished engineering professor at the University of Michigan has been appointed as the next provost of the university. The appointment comes one month after Eric Kaler, the previous provost, stepped…
Former Stony Brook University President and science advisor to President George W. Bush John H. Marburger has died, according to the Office of The Vice President of Research. He was 70 years old. Marburger was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in…
This week, Stony Brook University began construction of a new 135-room Hilton Garden Inn by clearing a 3 acre plot of land that was, until today, a hundreds-year-old untouched woodland. See our photo gallery.
By Alexander Niculescu It was the spring of 2011— the flowers were blossoming, Stony Brook was doing renovations so incoming freshman don’t immediately think the school is ugly and I was on commute. Even though I live about two and…
The Script Kiddies have released a huge cache of what the group describes as internal Walmart documents. Most of the documents are mundane and seemingly unimportant or uninformative, but several dozen employees are listed alongside their social security numbers.
The Script Kiddies, the hacktivist group made famous by their July 4 hacking of the Fox News Politics Twitter account, spoke exclusively with Think about today’s two biggest stories: News Corp’s own illicit behavior and the arrests of fellow cyber-activists from the group Anonymous.