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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

Josh Rice and Kim Stauffer, theater actors and Stony Brook faculty, ran a two-day workshop at the University at Albany in May.

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

I happily spent time instead with my brother, Atmananda, and the other Stony Brook Chinmoy disciples.

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

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