🌱 How Stony Brook’s Seawolves Pantry is quietly supporting thousands of students
Stony Brook, New York Patch AM: a 5 min readGood morning Stony Brook! We're back again in your inbox, keeping you updated with what's happening in and around town. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How Stony Brook’s Seawolves Pantry is quietly supporting thousands of students
- Meet the Stony Brook English professor now shaping faculty affairs campuswide
- What Stony Brook’s neurology chair says your walking speed reveals
Also on today's calendar: Artist Spotlight: Durrell Hunter and 8 more events.
Today's riddle: What music do rabbits like to dance to? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Sunday: Breezy in the morning, with a high of 84 and low of 61 degrees.
- Monday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 83, low: 64.
- Tuesday: Couple of thunderstorms, with a high of 79 and low of 73 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
1. How 4 Colleges Are Expanding Student Success (insidehighered.com) — Stony Brook University has significantly expanded its Seawolves Pantry into a full basic-needs hub, stocking culturally relevant foods, hygiene items, and multilingual resources for students facing rising living costs. Usage is up nearly 30 percent, with both undergrads and grads—commuters and residents alike—turning to the pantry, underscoring how many in the Stony Brook community quietly struggle with food and essentials. 
2. Benedict S. Robinson (stonybrook.edu) — Stony Brook residents and campus community members may want to know that longtime English professor Benedict S. Robinson has been appointed interim Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, after joining Stony Brook in 2001 and recently chairing the English department. He’s helped overhaul undergraduate programs, expand faculty hiring and shape a new B.A. proposal now moving through SUNY approval.
3. Study Links Faster Walking Speed to Lower Risk of Cognitive Decline in Adults Over 80 – [your]NEWS (yournews.com) — A new Neurology study, highlighted by Stony Brook University neurology chair Dr. Joe Verghese, finds that adults in their 80s who walk faster have about half the risk of cognitive decline compared with slower walkers. While the research doesn’t prove faster walking prevents dementia, it suggests gait speed is a simple, useful signal of overall brain and body health and supports staying safely active in later life.
4. Danielle Olivera Shares Heartfelt NICU Update on Baby Aidan: ‘Getting Stronger Every Day' (entertainmentnow.com) — A premature baby is steadily gaining strength in Stony Brook’s NICU, where reality star Danielle Olivera says the medical team has been “incredible” throughout his extended stay. Her latest update highlights the expert care at Stony Brook Medicine, the emotional ups and downs of NICU life, and the family’s hope as their son grows and inches closer to coming home.
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★ Featured events ★
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Chris Devine Live at Schnitzels in Stony Brook Village →
Schnitzels, 77 Main St, Stony Brook
4:00 pm
Sunday July 26
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Other local events
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Artist Spotlight: Durrell Hunter →
The Long Island Museum, 1200 NY-25A, Stony Brook
2:00 pm -
Let's Sing Taylor →
Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 76 Main St, Westhampton Beach
8:00 pm -
Meet the Author: Claire Bellerjeau
The Long Island Museum 1200 NY-25A, Stony Brook, NY 11790
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Free Concert featuring Slingshot
The Long Island Museum 1200 NY-25A, Stony Brook, NY 11790
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Summer Family Pop-Ups: The '70s & Vinyl Records
The Long Island Museum 1200 NY-25A, Stony Brook, NY 11790
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Summer Thursdays - Old-Timey Fun with Music, Games, and Crafts | FREE
The Long Island Museum 1200 NY-25A, Stony Brook, NY 11790
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Pirates & Mermaids Family Fun Day | Free
The Long Island Museum 1200 NY-25A, Stony Brook, NY 11790
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FREE "Pirates and Mermaids" Family Fun Day →
The Long Island Museum, 1200 NY-25A, Stony Brook
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Summer Family Pop-Ups: A World Before Cars
The Long Island Museum 1200 NY-25A, Stony Brook, NY 11790
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Summer Music Program Ends
Three Village Csd Stony Brook, NY 11790
Sunday July 19
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📣 Stony Brook Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Computational Chemistry: Tools and Techniques for Experimentalists”
Stony Brook University Institute of Advanced Computational Science
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Outdoor Summer Farmers Market →
Port Jefferson Village, NY Calendar, 101 East Broadway, Port Jefferson
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Artist Spotlight: Durrell Hunter
The Long Island Museum 1200 NY-25A, Stony Brook, NY 11790
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Walk With A Doc & Future Doc
Stony Brook University Mt. Sinai Heritage Trail,Heritage Trust Building Picnic Tables,633 Mt. Sinai-Coram Road,Mt. Sinai and Via Zoom
11:00 am
Sunday July 19
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