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stony

[stoh-nee] / ˈstoʊ ni /


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The costs are wildly different: average annual cost on the College Scorecard is $3,967 at Cal State Los Angeles, $18,784 at Stony Brook and $25,239 at St. Michael’s.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

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

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

“This trackway is particularly beautifully preserved,” says paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey of Stony Brook University and director of the Koobi Fora Research Project.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024

"You are young. Other wars will come, and you shall do your great deeds. For now, we are commanded to harry the Stony Shore."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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