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Stony Brook

American  

noun

  1. a town in N Long Island, in SE New York.


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Meredith Slopen, an assistant professor at the Stony Brook School of Social Welfare, also pointed out that caregiving situations are sometimes harder to define than parental leave following the birth of a child.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

It’s the brainchild of Alan Alda, who helped start what is now called the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Long Island’s Stony Brook University more than 15 years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

But Paul Gootenberg, a professor at Stony Brook University and author of “Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug,” characterized Trump’s military operation as a “simplistic” approach to complex social problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2025

Besides Brown University and Stony Brook University in the US, the other winning bids came from institutions in France, Germany, Japan, Pakistan, the UK.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025

We both were Stony Brook freshmen who had learned about Chinmoy through Atmananda's lectures.

From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Mark Eliot Laxer

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