Stony Brook University Center for Laser Manufacturing

Newsletters March 6, 2020

No. 481: In which aspirin arrives, coronavirus hits home and microbes pig out

Week strain: It’s been a stressful five days, dear readers, with the crashing stock markets and global pandemics, but you’ve persevered again – another Friday reached, another weekend on tap. Well done. It’s March 6 out there, and a fairly busy day on Planet Earth: Independence Day in Ghana, Foundation Day across the Norfolk Islands and Europe’s Day of the Righteous, honoring those who choose a moral path. Culture clash: Here in the States,…

Newsletters March 4, 2020

No. 480: On coronavirus, coronavirus and coronavirus – and introducing our 2020 Master of Innovation

Don’t worry, we washed our hands: Put ’er there, dear readers, and welcome to Wednesday, as we hurtle the hump of this latest busy (and blessedly spring-like) winter workweek. It’s March 4 out there – St. Casimir’s Day, honoring the patron saint of Poland and Lithuania, and National Pound Cake Day, celebrating the world’s most versatile cake. Strong language: It’s also National Grammar Day, a celebration of proper written and verbal grammar, desperately needed…

Manufacturing March 3, 2020

Next-gen lasers cut to the heart of manufacturing

By GREGORY ZELLER // Fire all lasers! But not just for cutting – Stony Brook University is warming up new tech that uses energy beams to both shape materials and alter their molecular states, a next-level manufacturing breakthrough. Welcome to the new Center for Laser Manufacturing, which aims open this fall inside SBU’s long-awaited Innovation and Discovery Center, a state-funded $60 million jewel for Stony Brook’s commercialization crown. Alongside the Center of Excellence in Wireless…