Current News
12/3/2025
Esther Takeuchi - featured in a newsletter from the Office of Research and Innovation with respect to a Nature Portfolio article (link provided) featuring not only her
work and efforts but also those of Kenneth Takeuchi and Amy Marschilok. Well done
to all!
11/5/2025
Ping Liu – one of five SBU faculty honored as part of 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers for her groundbreaking work on materials for energy production, conversion and storage. Her research explores the theoretical properties of diverse materials across various forms, including nanostructures and surfaces. see more
11/5/2025
Thomas Knoll (a 5th year Chemistry PhD student in Ben Levine's group) won the American
Chemical Society Pride Merck Graduate Research Award. The award, sponsored by Merck,
recognizes excellent graduate research in the chemical sciences from researchers who
are members of the LGBTQIA2S+ (LGBTQ+) community.
10/1/2025
Surita Bhatia: Her $1M NSF ExLENT Award (with Carlos Colosqui) for a "CEAS-CAS Partnership with BNL
and Industry for Nanomanufacturing Training" was featured in a recent CAS newsletter.
9/23/2025
Ken Dill: Recipient of Biophysical Society’s 2026 Founders Award
9/23/2025
Benjamin Hsiao - Compositions and Methods for Removal of Negatively Charged Impurities Using Metal-see more
- SWFT labs - Zero-Waste Biotech Innovation in Agriculture
9/5/2025
Iwao Ojima: - For his work with Martin Kaczocha on the drug compound ART 26.12 (licensed by Artelo Biosciences), highlighted on Association of American Universities' website and in a recent CAS newsletter. For a patent collaboration with faculty (including Maurizio del Poeta) on "Anti-fungals compounds targeting the synthesis of fungal sphingolipids“, featured in a recent weekly CAS newsletter.
7/8/2025
Jiangyong Jia - recent work in the ATLAS Collaboration has been (a) highlighted by the CERNCourier
(CERN 's flagship news publication), (b) accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett. (PRL), and (c)
selected as a PRL Editors' Suggestion. Relevant links: https://journals.aps.org/prl/accepted/10.1103/ldcn-r2lq
https://cerncourier.com/a-new-probe-of-radial-flow/
5/14/2025
News article in Times Beacon Record – Esther Takeuchi
4/25/2025
Ojima Distinguished Fourth Annual Lecture
Dr. Veronique Gouverneur, University of Oxford
"Rethinking Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind"
4/24/2025
4/13/2025
4/11/2025
Franklin Johnson Seventh Annual Lecture
Dr. Jeffrey R. Long, University of California, Berkeley
"Cooperative Adsorption and Gas Separations in Metal–Organic Frameworks"
4/11/2025
3/27/2025
3/20/2025
3/18/2025
2/21/2025
2/12/2025
2/11/2025
1/2/2025
Award Title: Complex Amines from Simple Amino Acids via Pyridoxal-Mimicking Radical (Photo) Catalysis
