stony
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Zhu, the company’s chief executive, studied at China’s elite Tsinghua University and in New York at what is now called Stony Brook University.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
"For Nanotyrannus to be a juvenile T. rex, it would need to defy everything we know about vertebrate growth," explains James Napoli, an anatomist at Stony Brook University and co-author of the research.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025
“This trackway is particularly beautifully preserved,” says paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey of Stony Brook University and director of the Koobi Fora Research Project.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024
I went to Chicago in the same trip, and I visited Theaster Gates’ Stony Island Arts Bank and was able to experience his archive of Johnson Publishing and of his ceramic work.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024
Past the covered bridge over Sand Branch we turned into Stony Lonesome Road and hit the first hole hard.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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