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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

"For Nanotyrannus to be a juvenile T. rex, it would need to defy everything we know about vertebrate growth," explains James Napoli, an anatomist at Stony Brook University and co-author of the research.

From Science Daily Nov. 2, 2025

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

Dr. Palfrey, who seems not to have known of the existence of these remains, says that the spot must have been somewhere in Waltham or Weston, and most likely near the mouth of Stony Brook.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various

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