Featured Stories

The Romance of Wooden Boats 0
- Advanced Reporting, Featured Stories, Uncategorized
- October 25, 2022
BY Keating Zelenke On the counters and tables inside the Frank M. Penney boat shop in Sayville, screwdrivers and rubber mallets marinate under a thin layer of sawdust in repurposed Chobani yogurt containers and old coffee tins. The smell of wooden spruce planks makes a cozy building feel cozier, and the iron wood-burning stove at
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Privilege 0
- Featured Stories, Newscast
- May 13, 2019
The recent college admissions scandal has put a spotlight on the power of privilege in higher education in this country. This semester, the advanced broadcast journalism class at Stony Brook University School of Journalism took a look at some issues involving educational privilege closer to home.
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The Gift of Life 0
- Featured Stories
- February 20, 2018
Kevin Urgiles | Senior Capstone Project
Kevin drove 150 miles to Albany to film a woman in desperate need of a kidney transplant from her hospital bed to demonstrate the severe organ transplant shortage in New York.
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The Gray Collar Workforce 0
- Featured Stories
- February 20, 2018
John Feinberg | Senior Capstone Project
John identified a major new employment trend, where many white-collar workers are being attracted to blue-collar jobs, that caught the interest of reporters at the Wall Street Journal.
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Justice Divided 0
- Featured Stories
- February 20, 2018
Jessica Opatich | Senior Capstone Project
Jessica Opatich examined how stark the inequality of New York State’s county-by-county system of public defense can be even between two adjacent counties–Nassau and Suffolk. Jessica is now reporting on the impact of community radio on women in Ghana.
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Researchers, Students Join NASA on Mission to Explore Otherworldly Locations 0
- Featured Stories
- October 13, 2017
NASA recently joined forces with Stony Brook University students and researchers to venture into th New Mexico desert as part of a program designed to prepare future astronauts.
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