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Flooding at Stony Brook U. prompts school to offer students money to not move in
Stony Brook University has experienced "significant flooding" damage from storms that hit the tri-state area Sunday night – adding stress and uncertainty to the start of a new school year for students. In an email sent out to students, Rick Gatteau, Stony Brook’s Vice President of Students Affairs and...
Flooding strikes Stony Brook University campus; no patient care disruptions
The Stony Brook University campus wasn’t spared from the overnight flooding that wreaked havoc across the hamlet and beyond, collapsing roads and prompting evacuations. Several areas of the university campus have been “affected” by the flooding, a spokesperson said. However, she stressed, Stony Brook University Hospital and...
Basketball Coach Scores at the Library | Reasons to Love Libraries
When Coach Feiler signed on to work as our high school library teaching assistant, he transformed the programming and the vibe. Our library at Smithtown (NY) High School West, on the north shore of Long Island, serves around 1,200 students. This year, our district decided to hire teacher assistants (TAs) to help in the library. After receiving few applications from librarians, we expanded to include TAs with other backgrounds. I reasoned that the high school library could benefit from someone with STEM or maybe Spanish language expertise.
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