NEWS
Dr. David Tonjes won the 2024 ECO Award for the research designed to improve the management of solid waste in New York State.
Congratulations David!
Understanding the Role of Social Norms in Recycling Behavior: A New York City Study funded by EREF
The study was spearheaded by Elizabeth Hewitt, Ph.D., an Associate Professor at Stonybrook University. She presented an EREF Science Session: Unwrapping Recycling in NYC for the Holidays discussing her research and results.
The Department of Technology and Society invites all individuals with a research interest in ethics, climate, and health to consider applying to Stony Brook University’s IDEA Fellows Program.
The Increasing Value of Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS), by Anthony Pennings, PhD, Department of Technology and Society, SUNY Korea, August 27, 2023
Automotive Ethics, an interview with Professor Wolf Schafer of the Department of Technology and Society
Dr. Klaus Mueller, Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Technology and Society has been named 2024 IEEE Fellow.
Congradulations Klaus!
Newsworthy Publication:
CSTEP and STEP Programs Celebrate 35 + years of Promoting College Success (May 2023)
Professor David Tonjes, Yiyi Wang, Sameena Manzur, Sagarika Srivastava and Firman Firmansyah attended the Global Waste Management Symposium in Palm Springs, CCA, from February 15-17, 2022. Yiyi Wang presented her paper “Trees and the Forest” on methods to compare waste characterization studies and Firman Firmansyah presented his paper “Determining variation in waste generation” which described trends in daily, seasonal, and annual waste generation.
Sameena Manzur, Yiyi Wang and David Tonjes attended the New York State Association for
Solid Waste Management (NYSASWM) fall meeting on landfill technologies at Clayton,
NY
September 26-28, 2021. They had an exhibitor table for the Waste Data and Analysis
Center in
support of the New York State solid waste characterization project.
Matthew Johnston, Mark Meigher, Sagarika Srivastava, and Yiyi Wang and Sameena Manzur do research from the Waste Data and Analysis Center and traveled to Walton, NY, September 19-22, 2021, to characterize solid waste and recyclables in the Delaware County system.
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SBU Magazine has featured the work of Professor Schafer's Automotive Ethics team in the Evolution of Education.