One of Michael E. White’s prized possessions is a flag commemorating the first Earth Day in 1970. More than a half-century later, the environmental lawyer has been selected by Stony Brook University to serve as interim director of its Waste Reduction and Management Institute. He is principal investigator overseeing a state-funded study of Long Island’s municipal trash and recycling programs. The institute is using a $250,000 grant for the research.

As turkey fryers have become more popular, so have burns to people using them around Thanksgiving, said Dr. Robert Schwaner, medical director of the department of emergency medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital. One big mistake is dropping a frozen turkey into the oil-filled fryer, which can result in flames shooting up from the vat. “People get burned all the time,” Schwaner said. “When you put the turkey in the vat, people splash themselves but if there is any frozen water, the vat will boil over.”

Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University has announced its first endowment, with contributions from two families, commitments for more and hopes the fund can help expand offerings to former service members in “a place they have earned and deserve.”

“Your eyes stop growing between ages 18 and 25, so it’s especially important to pay attention to this issue in younger children,” said Daniel Cyr, a pediatric ophthalmologist at Stony Brook Medicine. “The younger they’re found to be myopic, the more likely it is they will become ‘highly’ myopic, which is an extreme form of nearsightedness — they can only see things that are right in front of their faces, within a foot — which puts them at greater risk for degenerative eye conditions such as vision loss, retinal detachment, cataracts and glaucoma.”

Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport has been doing its part to alleviate that stress and last week announced the opening of two new recovery homes, created specifically for women and members of the LGBTQ community.

Horseshoe crabs have been declining for at least 15 years, according to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Populations considered “good” in 2009 dropped to “poor” in 2019. The culprits have been habitat loss and unsustainable harvesting. Noted ecologist Carl Safina, a professor at Stony Brook University, says more than 4 million horseshoe crabs have been killed in Long Island waters alone since 2000.

“Dicke’s ideas are of great significance in quantum information science and technology (QIST). For example, there are intense efforts to harness super- and subradiance in arrays of quantum emitters coupled to one-dimensional waveguides,” says Schneble, also a member of Stony Brook’s Center for Distributed Quantum Processing (CDQP).

Stony Brook University has named Michael E. White the interim director of the Waste Reduction and Management Institute (WRMI), which resides in the university’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) and is overseen by Dean Paul Shepson. White is presently a SoMAS adjunct faculty lecturer and works as a consultant on special projects with Winters Bros. Waste Systems of Long Island, LLC, which was recently acquired by Waste Management of New York. He is an attorney and has concentrated his law practice in the areas of environmental law, solid waste, municipal law, land use, natural resources and freight rail transportation. White is also the president and owner of LI Strategies, Inc., an environmental planning consulting firm.

The borrower “should notify their lender immediately,” said Ree Wackett, a senior business adviser and small business educator at the Small Business Development Center at Stony Brook University. “They may create a new payment plan; they will completely restructure the loan because they want their money back.”

After Saturday, “our next chance for precipitation looks like Monday night, there’s a slight chance,” Pollina said. “That usually means mainly dry, but some areas might see a passing shower. Nothing through midweek after that.” The weather change since the late summer “certainly sets off a small alarm,” said David Black an associate professor at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.