• Anurag Purwar
  

  Associate ProfessorMechanical Engineering2025-2027 Will introduce freshman engineering students to the fundamental concepts of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), with an emphasis on hands-on, project-based learning.
• Tony Scarlatos
  

  Senior LecturerComputer Science2025-2027 The proposed “Future of History” course will focus on the integration of information technology into cultural spaces, such as museums, libraries, and galleries.
• Margaret Schedel
  

  ProfessorMusic2025-2027 By examining how filters shape audio and visual media and programming these filters with the help of AI, students will develop both technical expertise and critical thinking skills essential for modern careers.
• Brooke Belisle
  

  Associate ProfessorArt & Art History2025-2027 Systematically explores how to redesign foundational courses for meaningful learning in an online and AI-saturated environment, with particular attention to supporting first-year and firstgeneration student retention through authentic engagement.
• Linda O'Keeffe
  

  Professor & ChairArt & Art History2024-2026 Explores the intricate relationships between sound, environment, and community, utilising her unique 'Listening as Practice' methodology.
• Stephanie Wade
  

  LecturerWriting & Rhetoric2025-2026 Uses ecology to understand writing and to build projects that support justice, equity, and access.
• Chris Sellers
  

  ProfessorHistory2024-2026 Developing innovative new courses that will provide valuable humanitisc and hands-on extenstion of Stony Brook's expanding environmental and climate curricula.
• Mark Chambers
  

  LecturerHistory2024-2026 Developing innovative new courses that will provide valuable humanitisc and hands-on extenstion of Stony Brook's expanding environmental and climate curricula.
• Gary Mar
  

  ProfessorPhilsophy2024-2026 Creating, and collecting, Mathematically inter-Active Games for Improving
  
  Comprehension of Algorithmic and Logical Thinking (hereafter, MAGICAL Thinking).

ALUMNI

• Sharon Pochron
  

  Assistant ProfessorSustainability Studies2022-2023 Runs the Sustainability Studies Earthworm Ecotoxicology Lab where she and her students investigate the role of environmental toxins, like acid rain, Roundup, and fertilizer on earthworm biomass and survivorship.
• Peter Khost
  

  Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric Associate ProfessorProgram in Writing & Rhetoric2022-2023 Worked with first-student populations on "transfer" - the ability to apply previously-learned concepts and skills into new contexts.
• Robert Kaplan
  

  Associate  Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Advanced Senior LecturerProgram in Writing & Rhetoric2022-2023 Worked with first-student populations on "transfer" - the ability to apply previously-learned concepts and skills into new contexts.
• Susan Scheckel
  

  Associate ProfessorEnglish2023-2025 Developing public humanities courses, including a collaboration with the Walt Whitman Birthplace in Huntington, NY.
• Lisa Diedrich
  

  ProfessorWomen's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 2023-2025 Multi-modal approaches to pedagogy, especially the use of comics and graphic narratives as a key component to her pedagogy, both in terms of materials she teaches and activities she has students do.
• Mei Lin (Ete) Chan
  

  Assistant Professor of PracticeBiomedical Engineering2023-2025 Importance of fostering career readiness via experiential learning - gaining insight into further enhancing students’ awareness of experiential learning in Stony Brook.
• Roger Thompson
  

  ProfessorWriting & Rhetoric2024-2025  Harnessing Stony Brook's "Belonging Project in Freshman Writing" to improve retention of under-represented groups.