LaLota Announces Over $4.1 Million in Additional Funding for Stony Brook

STONY BROOK, NY - Today, June 13th, 2023, Rep. Nick LaLota (NY-01) announced additional funding for research programs at Stony Brook University. These grants total an additional $4,105,669 in federal funding.

“The more federal dollars that come home to Suffolk County, the better,” said LaLota. “Washington should spend less time using Long Island as a personal piggy bank and more money investing in our communities. I will continue to fight for Long Islanders and ensure that we get good returns on our hard-earned tax dollars.”

Background:

LaLota previously announced grants totaling $1,402,843, bringing the total grant funding to date to $5,508,512.

To date, here is a list of grants provided to Stony Brook’s research programs:

• Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Greenhouse Gas Emission Rates for Urban Environments Along the U.S. Northeast Coast

    • $255,304

• National Science Foundation

  • Uniformization and Rigidity in Metric Surfaces and in the Complex Plane

    • $239,774

  • Holomorphic Dynamics and Related Themes

    • $369,435

  • Uniformization of Surfaces and Mapping Problems in Metric Spaces

    • $148,072

  • A Doppler Radar Climatology of Updraft Proxy Characteristics in Supercells

    • $440,962

  • Higher Multiplier Ideals and Other Applications of Hodge Theory in Algebraic Geometry

    • $499,999

  • Conference: Quasiworld Workshop

    • $39,816

  • Collaborative Research: Deformation Mechanisms in Microstructurally Tailored High Strength Alloys Near the Ideal Limit

    • $420,000

  • NSF-BSF: Collaborative Research: AF: Small: Algorithmic Performance through History Independence

    • $299,975

  • Quasiconformal analysis, optimal triangulations, and fractal geometry

    • $417,872

• Department of Health and Human Services

  • Research in pharmacology, physiology, and biological chemistry

    • $390,258

  • Research for mothers and children

    • $417,453

  • Heart and vascular diseases research

    • $732,692

  • Diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolic research

    • $250,335

  • Biological research related to deafness and communicative disorders

    • $587,565

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