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Stony Brook

American  

noun

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


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Shadmany, Jaffe, Schuster, and Simon, as well as Aishwarya Kumar of Stony Brook, hold a patent on the resonator geometry demonstrated in this work.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

“He was a reassuring presence in the absence of national leadership,” said Leonie Huddy, a political psychologist at Stony Brook University who studies gender in politics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 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

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

After I moved to Stony Brook, I started going to Atmananda's parties regularly.

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

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