Category: "Green"

Administration Announces Decision to Close Most of SB Southampton

  Additional reporting by Katie Watt  Facing yet another round of state budget cuts, Stony Brook University took the drastic step of announcing that by summer’s end, the Stony Brook Southampton campus would no longer operate as a semi-independent college, leaving the school’s 500 students to find a new university by the fall.  “Everything will [...]

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Hotel Would Destroy Valuable Field Lab

Caitlin Fisher-Reid is a PhD candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolution whose dissertation on the evolutionary processes of the terrestrial woodland salamander will be significantly impacted should construction on the property begin before she completes her research in two years.

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THiNK Exclusive: On-Campus Hotel Approved by University Senate

After years of debate and discussion, an on-campus hotel to be placed at the main entrance of Stony Brook University has been approved by the University Senate. The current proposal calls for a five-story building to accommodate 135 rooms, a 5000 square foot conference center, an indoor pool, and a restaurant, exercise facility and sundry [...]

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Green Technology on Display at CES

Green technology is slowly creeping towards affordability for the average consumer. But are we there yet?

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