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Racial Unrest of 2020: Experiences from the Stony Brook University Community

SBU Libraries New Oral History Digital Collection The Stony Brook University Libraries’ Anti-Racism Task Force, along with student workers and personnel from the Africana Studies department documented racial encounters, experiences, and perceptions around racial injustice that members of the Stony

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A Student Perspective: Reflecting on the End of the English Major

Authored by Fatou Lemon Administrative Intern to the Dean of University Libraries Political Science Major, 2024 After attending the “Reflecting on “The End of the English Major,” event hosted by the Stony Brook University Libraries, it is clear that the

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Library faculty team up with undergraduate student to promote open access

In the opening paragraph of his recent post to the Program in Writing and Rhetoric’s RhetComp blog, student Matt Hono explains a typical undergraduate experience of using databases to write a research paper: “Overwhelmed with the simple goal of finishing

Posted in About Us, Databases, Education, Electronic Resources, Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Outreach, OER, Open Access, Writing and Literature

Call for Proposals: Symposium on Advancing Equity in Higher Education on Long Island

Stony Brook University Libraries is pleased to invite proposals for presentations, panels, and interactive workshops for a virtual Spring 2021 symposium on Advancing Equity in Higher Education on Long Island. This inaugural symposium aims to bring together college and university

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Stony Brook Medicine Healthy Libraries Program (HeLP): Upcoming Webinar on Influenza

The Stony Brook Medicine Healthy Libraries Program (otherwise known as SBMHeLP) has an upcoming webinar on Tuesday, November 3rd from 2-3pm entitled “The Flu Vaccine: What You Need to Know.” The webinar will provide general information about the flu vaccine,

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Breaking Out New Ideas

A new type of instructional activity broke out last week when the SBU Libraries Academic Engagement team introduced our new Breakout Boxes. Similar in concept to the popular breakout rooms, these boxes challenge teams to work together with the goal

Posted in Education, Events, Library Outreach

Dr. Elena Davidiak on Raising and Educating Bilingual Children

Dr. Elena Davidiak (Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature) presented her research on early childhood bilingualism, with a specific emphasis on challenges and strategies for parents and educators.  Sharing her own experience as a researcher and as the mother of

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Education

Dr. Anurag Purwar on Innovating and Inventing Mechanical Motion Generating Devices

On April 19, the final lecture of the spring 2017 University Libraries STEM Speakers Series, Dr. Anurag Purwar engaged audiences with his talk, “Innovating and Inventing Mechanical Motion Generating Devices” in the Special Collections Seminar Room, second floor of the

Posted in About Us, Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Technology

Title IX Training

Earlier this month, library faculty and staff attended a Title IX training on sexual harassment and other sexual misconducts. The training included information on the following topics: What are appropriate/inappropriate behaviors. What to do if you or someone is subjected

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Flame Challenge: What is Sleep?

The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science asks “What is Sleep?” Some Stony Brook University students seem to be already doing some head nodding experimentation in the library. If it’s your dream to take on this challenge, though, Stony Brook

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