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State University of New York at Stony Brook, commonly known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York

Stony Brook is a political subdivisions of New York#Hamlet located in the Brookhaven, New York in Suffolk County, New York, which is on Long Island....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, United States
United States

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 (on the North Shore
North Shore (Long Island)

The North Shore of Long Island is the area along Long Island's northern coast, bordering Long Island Sound. Traditionally, the region has been the most affluent on Long Island and among the most affluent in the New York metropolitan area, which has earned it the nickname "the Gold Coast." Though some consider the North Shore to include parts...
 of Long Island
Long Island

Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are Borough s of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban....
, about east of Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
).

Stony Brook is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York
State University of New York

The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the world, with a total enrollment of 438,361 students, plus 1.1 million adult education students spanning 64...
 system, and has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students. The University operates two SUNY-wide research centers (the Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Marine Sciences Research Center).






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State University of New York at Stony Brook, commonly known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York

Stony Brook is a political subdivisions of New York#Hamlet located in the Brookhaven, New York in Suffolk County, New York, which is on Long Island....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (on the North Shore
North Shore (Long Island)

The North Shore of Long Island is the area along Long Island's northern coast, bordering Long Island Sound. Traditionally, the region has been the most affluent on Long Island and among the most affluent in the New York metropolitan area, which has earned it the nickname "the Gold Coast." Though some consider the North Shore to include parts...
 of Long Island
Long Island

Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are Borough s of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban....
, about east of Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
).

Stony Brook is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York
State University of New York

The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the world, with a total enrollment of 438,361 students, plus 1.1 million adult education students spanning 64...
 system, and has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students. The University operates two SUNY-wide research centers (the Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Marine Sciences Research Center). The University also operates Brookhaven National Labs under contract from the U.S. Department of Energy.

History


The university was founded in 1957 as the State University College on Long Island with about 100 students enrolled. The first temporary campus was at the William Robertson Coe Planting Fields estate
Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park

Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, which includes the Coe Hall Historic House Museum, is an arboretum and state park covering over 400 acres located in the Upper Brookville, New York in the town of Oyster Bay , New York....
 in Oyster Bay. Originally, Stony Brook was a college for preparing secondary school teachers in mathematics and the sciences. Since 1962, the campus has been located in Stony Brook on land donated by philanthropist Ward Melville
Ward Melville

John Ward Melville was an United States philanthropist, and businessman, born to Frank Melville, Jr. Ward Melville attended college at Columbia University, where he was active in the school newspaper and the Philolexian Society, and he continued to be involved with the university after graduation....
. The original donation consisted of over 400 acres (1.6 km²), but the campus has since grown to about three times that size. Among the four SUNY University Centers, Stony Brook is the only one that was founded after the SUNY system was established.

The Stony Brook campus was initially concentrated around what was called G-Quad (now Mendelsohn Quad), and almost all offices were located here. Classes took place in the Humanities building, and some classes were still offered at Oyster Bay. However, the 1960s and 1970s witnessed rapid growth under university president John S. Toll
John S. Toll

John S. Toll is a physicist and well-known educational administrator.He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Yale University in 1944, after which he served in the United States Navy in World War II....
. More buildings were erected on campus, and academic programs and enrollment grew.

In the 1990s the school underwent a project to revitalize the campus. Numerous buildings were renovated, including the Student Activities Center, as well as each residential quad. More recently, the school completed construction of a massive Charles B. Wang Asian American Center that was funded, in part, by a $50 million dollar donation from Charles Wang
Charles Wang

Charles B. Wang is the co-founder of CA, Inc., Inc. and owner of the New York Islanders ice hockey team. He was born in Shanghai, but moved to Queens, NY, when he was eight years old....
. The university also constructed Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium
Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium

The Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium is the main stadium for the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York, USA. Construction began in 2000 at a cost of approximately $22 million....
 for $22 million in 2002. Recently new apartments have been added for undergraduates. Renovations were recently completed on the original Humanities building, and new apartments continue to be built. Recently, a donation of $60 Million was made by retired math professor Dr. James Simons for the construction of the Simons Center for Physics and Geometry.

Due to its long history as a concert venue it was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame
Long Island Music Hall of Fame

The Long Island Music Hall of Fame is an organization located in Lake Grove, New York. It was incorporated in July 2005 under the New York State Board of Regents as a non profit organization and holds a provisional charter to operate as a museum in the state of New York....
 on October 15, 2006.

Although Stony Brook is a state institution, private philanthropy plays an ever-increasing role in the development of the university. Stony Brook's endowment, managed by the Stony Brook Foundation, currently amounts to over $201 million.

Academics

The University is divided into numerous schools:
  • College of Arts and Sciences
  • College of Business
  • College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • School of Dental Medicine
  • School of Health Technology and Management
  • School of Journalism
  • School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Nursing
  • School of Professional Development
  • School of Social Welfare


Stony Brook was one of ten national universities awarded a National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering....
 recognition award in 1998 for their integration of research and education. In 2001 it became a member of the Association of American Universities
Association of American Universities

The Association of American Universities is an organization of leading research university devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education....
 (AAU), an invitation-only organization of the top 62 research universities in the U.S. In the last three years two Nobel Prizes were awarded to professors for their work conducted at Stony Brook. The University generates $160 million annually in external research funding and has an annual $4.65 billion economic impact on the region. Stony Brook co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory , is a United States United States Department of Energy National Labs located in Upton, New York on Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S....
 through Brookhaven Science Associates, a 50-50 partnership with Battelle Memorial Institute
Battelle Memorial Institute

The Battelle Memorial Institute is a private nonprofit corporation applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio....
. Stony Brook is also one of only two public schools in New York to have a medical school and a dental school, the other being University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly known as the University at Buffalo or , is a public university research university which has multiple campuses located in Buffalo, New York and Amherst, New York, USA....
.

Admissions


The middle 50% of the 2008 Enrolled Freshmen had the following score ranges:
  • SAT Math: between 650 and 680
  • SAT Critical Reading: between 540 and 630
  • SAT Writing: between 530 and 620
  • ACT: between 24 and 28
  • The average SAT score was 1210/1600
  • GPA
    Grade

    Grade may refer to:...
    : 3.3-3.7 (average of 3.6), or 87-94 (average of 91)
With 25,163 Applications the acceptance rate for 2008 was 43%, 2,799 enrolled.

State University of New York Research Centers


The Marine Sciences Research Center
Marine Sciences Research Center

Marine Sciences Research Center is a research center at Stony Brook University. The center studies coastal oceanographic processes and atmospheric sciences....
 (MSRC) is the State University of New York's center for marine and atmospheric research, education, and public service. More than 200 graduate and undergraduate students from 16 different nations currently work and study at MSRC. The Center's students study coastal oceanographic processes and atmospheric sciences in a natural and academic setting that offers abundant opportunities for conducting field work, solving real problems in both local and distant environments, and learning to express their opinions in the weekly seminars. The Marine Sciences Research Center was incorporated into the new School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SOMAS) on June 15, 2007. The new school also includes the newly approved marine undergraduate majors and faculty at Southampton.

Also, the University co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory , is a United States United States Department of Energy National Labs located in Upton, New York on Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S....
, joining an elite group of universities – including Berkeley
Berkeley

Berkeley may refer to:...
, University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
, Cornell, MIT, and Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
 – that run federal laboratories. In the Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering area, some of the research centers of Stony Brook University are the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics
C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics

C. N. Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics is a research center of the State University of New York Stony Brook. In 1965, it was the vision of then University President J....
, the Nuclear Theory Institute, among others. In the biomedical sciences, the Center for Biotechnology, the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, among many others. In March, 2008, the University received $60 million endowment from James Simons to establish the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics.

In July 2007 Stony Brook "won a grant from the Department of Defense to devise ways to prevent terrorists from corrupting computers, and another from the Department of Homeland Security to design a system to detect radiation without triggering false alarms."

The campus


Main campus


The main campus is located at the geographic midpoint of Long Island
Long Island

Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are Borough s of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban....
, approximately east of New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 and west of Montauk
Montauk, New York

Montauk is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the hamlet population was 3,851....
. It is split into three portions: West Campus, East Campus, and South Campus.

The West Campus houses the majority of academic buildings and campus housing. It is the location of the original buildings at the Stony Brook site, including Mendelsohn Quad, which now serves as a residential quad. In addition to this quad, there are five other residential quads located on the West Campus, in addition to apartments for both graduates and undergraduates. The residential quads surround the Academic Mall, which contains the academic buildings. The center of the mall is the Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library
Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library

The Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library is the main library at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. It is named for the father of philanthropist Ward Melville....
, and around this building are academic buildings housing the arts, sciences, and engineering departments. The Student Activities Center is the focus of campus life and is located across from the library. The Staller Center
Staller Center

The Staller Center for the Arts is the main arts building at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Originally called the fine arts center, it was renamed after a $2 million donation by the Staller family, including former Old Field Mayor Cary F....
 sits adjacent to the library and contains the largest movie screen in Long Island
Long Island

Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are Borough s of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban....
's Suffolk County
Suffolk County, New York

Suffolk County is a Political subdivisions of New York State#County located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island....
. The Stony Brook Sports Complex
Stony Brook Sports Complex

Stony Brook Sports Complex is a 5,226-seat multi-purpose arena in Stony Brook, New York. The arena opened in 1990. It is home to the State University of New York at Stony Brook Seawolves basketball, swimming and diving, and volleyball teams....
 holds various facilities for athletics and the largest gym in Suffolk County with a capacity of more than 5,000 people. Behind the Sports Complex sits the Kenneth P. Lavalle Stadium
Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium

The Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium is the main stadium for the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York, USA. Construction began in 2000 at a cost of approximately $22 million....
, which seats 8,136.

The East Campus is separated from the West Campus by Nicolls Road. It is home to the Stony Brook University Medical Center
Stony Brook University Hospital

Stony Brook University Medical Center is located in Stony Brook, New York. It is the only academic medical center on Long Island. It comprises Stony Brook University School of Medicine and Stony Brook University Hospital, which is the only tertiary care hospital and Level 1 trauma center in Suffolk County....
. The hospital is the largest in Suffolk County, and the attached Health Sciences Center (HSC) and Basic Science Tower (BST) houses numerous laboratories, the medical school, and numerous Allied Health programs. The Chapin Graduate Apartment Complex and the Long Island High Technology Incubator can also be found on the East Campus.

The South Campus is the smallest of the three and is separated from the West Campus by the Ashley Schiff Forest Preserve. It is home to the School of Dental Medicine, the Marine Sciences Research Center, and the Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities.

Campus dormitories

Campus dormitories are grouped into quads, with each quad consisting of three, four, or five separate dorms. Each quad and dorm has been named after someone who has made a significant contribution to their respective field in some way. However, in an effort to merge with the history of New York and Long Island, the person being recognized had to be either from New York/Long Island or have made their contribution to New York/Long Island. Each building (dormitory) is named after that specific person and referred to as a college. Below are the names of the colleges, followed by the name of the honored contributor.

H Quad - Like "G Quad" (now Mendelsohn Quad) originally intended to be a "placeholder" until a suitable name came along.
  • Benedict College – Ruth Benedict
    Ruth Benedict

    Ruth Benedict was an United States anthropologist.She was born in New York City, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1909. She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her Doctor of Philosophy and joining the faculty in 1923....
     – Anthropologist
  • Langmuir College – Irving Langmuir
    Irving Langmuir

    Irving Langmuir was an United States chemistry and physics. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N....
     – Chemist/Physicist
  • James College – Henry James
    Henry James

    Henry James, Order of Merit , son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States author....
     – Author

Mendelsohn Quad - Harold Mendelsohn - University Employee
  • Irving College – Washington Irving
    Washington Irving

    Washington Irving was an United States author, essays, biography and history of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmi...
     – Author
  • O’Neill College – Eugene O’Neill – Playwright
  • Ammann College – Othmar Ammann
    Othmar Ammann

    Othmar Hermann Ammann was a Swiss-born American structural engineer whose designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge....
     – Structural Engineer
  • Gray College – Asa Gray
    Asa Gray

    Asa Gray is considered the most important United States botany of the 19th century.He was instrumental in unifying the taxonomy knowledge of the plants of North America....
     – Botanist

Roth Quad - Philip Roth
Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth is an United States novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus , cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman....
 - Novelist
  • Hendrix College – Jimi Hendrix
    Jimi Hendrix

    James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
     - Musician
  • Gershwin College – George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
     – Composer
  • Whitman College – Walt Whitman
    Walt Whitman

    Walter Whitman was an United States Poetry of the United States, essayist, journalism, and humanism. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and literary realism, incorporating both views in his works....
     – Poet/Journalist
  • Cardozo College – Benjamin Cardozo – Lawyer/Jurist
  • Mount College – William Sidney Mount
    William Sidney Mount

    William Sidney Mount born in Setauket, New York was a renowned genre Painting and contemporary of the Hudson River School. Mount trained at the National Academy of Design in New York....
     - Painter

Tabler Quad - Pat Tabler
Pat Tabler

Patrick Sean "Pat" Tabler is an United States former Major League Baseball player and current color commentator for Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts on the Canadian sports television networks The Sports Network and Rogers Sportsnet....
 - New York Mets/New York Yankees Ballplayer
  • Toscanini College – Arturo Toscanini
    Arturo Toscanini

    Arturo Toscanini was an Italian people conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th Centuries, he was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory....
     – Conductor
  • Sanger College – Margaret Sanger
    Margaret Sanger

    Margaret Higgins Sanger was an United States birth control activist, an advocate of eugenics#Meanings and types of eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League ....
     – Birth Control Activist
  • Dreiser College – Theodore Dreiser
    Theodore Dreiser

    Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalism school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency ....
     – Author
  • Douglass College – Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass was an American Abolitionism, History of women's suffrage in the United States, editing, orator, author, statesman and Reform movement....
     – Abolitionist/Reformer
  • Hand College – Billings Learned Hand – United States Judge

Roosevelt Quad - Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D....
 - First Lady to Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , often referred to by his initials FDR, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....

  • Greeley College – Horace Greeley
    Horace Greeley

    Horace Greeley was an United States editor of a leading History of American newspapers, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party , a reformer, and a politician....
     – Newspaper Editor
  • Keller College – Helen Keller
    Helen Keller

    Helen Keller was an United States author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblindness person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....
     – Author/Activist
  • Wagner College – Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
    Robert F. Wagner, Jr.

    Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr., usually known as Robert F. Wagner, Jr. served three terms as the mayor of New York City, from 1954 through 1965....
     – New York City Mayor
  • Stimson College – Henry Stimson - Statesman

Kelly Quad - Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly is an United States painter and sculptor associated with Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the minimalism school. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques that emphasize the simplicity of form....
 - Painter
  • Baruch College – Bernard Baruch
    Bernard Baruch

    Bernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential advisor. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D....
     – Stock Broker/Statesman
  • Eisenhower College – Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight David ?Ike? Eisenhower was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a General of the Army in the United States Army....
     – U.S. President
  • Schick College – Béla Schick
    Béla Schick

    B?la Schick , was a Hungary-born United States pediatrician. He is the founder of the Schick test. Was born in Balatonbogl?r, Hungary, and brought up in Graz, Austria, where he attended medical school....
     - Pediatrician
  • Dewey College – Thomas E. Dewey – New York Governor
  • Hamilton College – Alexander Hamilton
    Alexander Hamilton

    Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Fathers of the United States, economist, and political philosopher. He led calls for the Philadelphia Convention, was one of America's first Constitutional lawyers, and cowrote the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional interpretation....
     – NY Representative on Declaration of Independence

  • A set of two graduate dorms (A & B), named the Schomburg Apartments, are named after Arturo Schomburg. Schomburg was a historian, writer, and activist, known as "The Father of Black History." He later moved to Harlem, New York in the late 19th century.
  • A second set of graduate apartments (A - L), named the Chapin Apartments, are named after Harry Chapin
    Harry Chapin

    Harry Forster Chapin was an American singer and songwriter known for folk rock songs such as "Taxi ," "W*O*L*D," and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle." Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger, with his work being widely recognized as a key player in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World H...
    . Chapin was an Academy Award winning singer and songwriter from Greenwich Village
    Greenwich Village

    Greenwich Village , often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the lower west side of southern Manhattan in New York City....
    , New York, who later died in a car accident on the Long Island Expressway near Jericho, NY. He was 38 years of age.
  • Also on campus are nine "West Apartments", named only by a letter. Currently, A through I are occupied by students. Plans and construction for a six story, six hundred bed residential complex between Kelly and Roosevelt Quads are underway as well, scheduled for the 2010-2011 school year.


Branch campuses


Manhattan


In 2002 the University established a presence in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 with the opening of Stony Brook Manhattan
Stony Brook Manhattan

Stony Brook Manhattan was established in 2002 as a branch campus of State University of New York at Stony Brook. It is located on the 2nd floor of 401 Park Avenue South....
. It is located on the 2nd floor of 401 Park Avenue South. The facility allows Stony Brook to offer professional and graduate courses targeted towards students in the city, as well as undergraduate courses during the summer and winter sessions. It is currently being expanded with another floor in an adjoining building.

Southampton


On March 24, 2006, the University completed the purchase of the 81 acre Southampton College
Southampton College

Stony Brook Southampton is a campus location of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, located in Southampton, New York between the Shinnecock Indian Reservation and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club....
 (on the east end of Long Island) property from Long Island University
Long Island University

Long Island University is a Private university, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher education in the State of New York in the United States....
 with the intent to develop it as a full college campus focusing on academic programs related to the environment and sustainability. Since then Stony Brook expanded its program originally started in the fall of 2005 when it started offering an undergraduate marine sciences program, with teaching and research facilities at the campus leased from Long Island University. An enrollment of about 2,000 students is expected within the next five years. Professor Martin Schoonen was appointed interim dean of Southampton campus on August 3, 2006.

Research and Development Campus


On November 3, 2005, the University announced that it had formally acquired of the adjacent Flowerfield property, originally owned by the Gyrodyne Company of America
Gyrodyne Company of America

Gyrodyne is also the name of a class of compound helicopter/autogyro.The Gyrodyne Company of America was founded in 1946 by Peter J. Papadakos , using the assets he bought from the bankrupt Bendix Helicopter Company that was developing a one-man synchronized co-axial rotor helicopter....
, through eminent domain
Eminent domain

Eminent domain , compulsory purchase , resumption/compulsory acquisition or expropriation in common law legal systems is the inherent power of the state to seize a citizen's Property, expropriation property, or seize a citizen's rights in property with due monetary compensation, but without the owner's consent....
, three years after the University had expressed its desire to acquire the property.

Stony Brook intends to use this property as a Research and Development Campus, similar to other university-affiliated science parks
Science park

A science park or science and technology park is an area with a collection of buildings dedicated to scientific research on a business footing....
 around the country. The campus will ultimately house ten new buildings. The first building, the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology, was completed in October 2008. Construction for the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center commenced in the Summer of 2008 and is expected to be completed by 2009.

Athletics


The varsity sports teams were formerly known as the Patriots, but were renamed and are currently known as the Seawolves
Seawolf

Seawolf can refer to:* Seawolf , also known as the wolffish or the sea cat* Orca , sometimes called sea wolves* The sobriquet, loup des mers applied by the French to the British captain Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald...
. The basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 and volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
 teams play at the Sports Complex, while the football, soccer and lacrosse teams now play at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium
Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium

The Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium is the main stadium for the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York, USA. Construction began in 2000 at a cost of approximately $22 million....
. There are numerous other fields located in the northern portion of West Campus that are used by the baseball and softball teams, as well as track, tennis and other sports.

Stony Brook joined NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association

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 Division I
Division I

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 in 1999 and all varsity sports teams compete in the America East Conference
America East Conference

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 with the exception of football. The football team competed as a Division I-AA Independent
NCAA Division I-AA independent schools

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 in 2007, after leaving the Northeast Conference
Northeast Conference

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 at the end of the 2006 season. Stony Brook joined the Big South Conference
Big South Conference

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 as a football-only member in 2008.

Recent successes include the men's soccer team winning the 2005 America East Championship and reaching the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament, and the football team sharing the 2005 Northeast Conference Championship with Central Connecticut State University
Central Connecticut State University

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The athletics department produces a weekly television news show called The Sports Report, and is available as a podcast.

Rankings


In 2005 "Stony Brook was one of 33 universities in The Center's Top American Research Universities that ranked 26th through 50th nationally in at least one of the measures, and the University scored better in the category than such institutions as the University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts

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, Tufts University
Tufts University

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, the University of Tennessee, and Indiana University
Indiana University

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In August 2008 U.S. News & World Report
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 ranked SBU tied for 45th in the category of top public national universities and for 96th in the U.S. News rating of “best national universities, the only school in Long Island rate in the top 100. Previously in August 2007 U.S. News & World Report, for the sixth time, ranked SBU among the top 100 national universities in the United States
United States

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 and among the top 50 public national universities. The University was tied for 96th in the U.S. News rating of "best national universities," and tied for 45th in the category of "top public national universities." In January 2007 it was ranked 34th best value among the country’s public institutions for in-state students by Kiplinger's Personal Finance
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In 2008, Stony Brook was ranked as the 127th best university in the world, placing it in the top 1%—out of more than 8,300—by the London-based Times Higher Education Supplement.

Stony Brook University is cited eight times as being among the best in the nation in the current rankings of professional schools in US News & World Report’s 2009 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” Stony Brook’s Clinical Psychology program was ranked 9th tying Penn State and Duke University
Duke University

Duke University is a private university research university located in Durham, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodism and Religious Society of Friends in the present-day town of Trinity, North Carolina in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892....
 and ahead of such universities as Northwestern
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 and Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt

or the Vanderbilt familyVanderbilt is the name of:*Vanderbilt, California, a former US gold-mining town*Vanderbilt, Michigan, a US village...
. In addition, the Nuclear Physics program (categorized as a Physics specialty) ranked 4th, ahead of Yale
YALE

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, Columbia
Columbia University

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, and the California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech maintains a strong emphasis on the natural sciences and engineering....
. Stony Brook’s program in Geometry (categorized as a Mathematics specialty) was ranked No. 6, ahead of Columbia
Columbia University

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, the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania

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, the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

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, and Yale
YALE

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. The University’s Physics graduate program ranked 23rd tying with Penn State; the Mathematics program ranked 24th, tying Rutgers, University of California San Diego, and the University of Washington
University of Washington

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, ahead of Rice
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, Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State, Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology

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 and Indiana
Indiana

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. In addition, the Computer Science graduate program was ranked 31st tying with NYU, Rutgers, and Ohio State; the Biological Science program ranked 48th tying with Brandeis
Brandeis

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 and Rice
Rice

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; and, the Physician Assistant program ranked 11th ahead of Northeastern. In addition, the philosophy department is considered to be among the top programs in the United States for the study of continental philosophy, particularly in the area of phenomenology.

The Wall Street Journal ranked Stony Brook University (SUNY) #8 amongst public universities sending students to elite graduate programs. 15 elite schools, five each from medicine, law and business, to serve as our benchmark for profiling where the students came from. Opinions vary, of course, but our list reflects a consensus of grad-school deans we interviewed, top recruiters and published grad-school rankings (including the Journal's own MBA rankings). So for medicine, our schools were Columbia
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
; Harvard; Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins

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; the University of California, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco is one of the world's leading centers of health sciences research, patient care, and education. UCSF's medical, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, and graduate schools are among the top health science professional schools in the world....
; and Yale
YALE

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, while our MBA programs were Chicago
Chicago

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; Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College

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's Tuck School; Harvard; MIT's Sloan School; and Penn's Wharton School. In law, we looked at Chicago
Chicago

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; Columbia
Columbia University

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; Harvard; Michigan
Michigan

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; and Yale
YALE

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.

The University was also ranked among the top 152 universities in the world by the Institute for Higher Education in Shanghai. It was also ranked among the top 100 universities in North and Latin America, with the Institute grouping it in the category of number 58-77. Joining Stony Brook in that grouping were such institutions as Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and Virginia.

In 2001 it became a member of the Association of American Universities
Association of American Universities

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 (AAU), an invitation-only organization of the top 62 research universities in the U.S.

In 2007, the Princeton Review (not associated with Princeton University
Princeton University

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) #12 for Diverse Student Population, and is listed as one of the "Best Northeastern Colleges" and "America's Best Value College".

The fall 2008 America's Best Colleges
College and university rankings

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 ranked by Forbes.com placed Stony Brook at #332.

Names and logos

Throughout its first 50 years, Stony Brook has undergone a number of changes in its logo and on how it is named. In 1957, while it was still located in Oyster Bay, it was officially called the State University College of Long Island at Oyster Bay. A year after, it was changed to State University Center on Long Island at Oyster Bay.

When it moved to its present campus in Stony Brook in 1962, it became officially known as the State University of New York at Stony Brook, or SUNY-Stony Brook (SUNY-SB). Another form used in documents was University at Stony Brook (USB) as can be seen in one of the previous logos.

Today, the university is more popularly known and marketed as Stony Brook University, with the new logo designed by Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser

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Notable faculty and alumni

For greater information, see People associated with State University of New York at Stony Brook
List of State University of New York at Stony Brook people

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Faculty Awards & Honors
Nobel Prize in Economics
Nobel Prize in Economics

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Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics

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Nobel Prize in Medicine
Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize

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Crafoord Prize
Crafoord Prize

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Fields Medal
Fields Medal

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National Medal of Science
National Medal of Science

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National Medal of Technology
National Medal of Technology

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Benjamin Franklin Medal
Benjamin Franklin Medal

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National Book Critics Circle Award
National Book Critics Circle Award

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Grammy Award
Grammy Award

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Chevalier de l’Ordre National de Merit de la France
Chevalier de l’Ordre National de Madagascar
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
NASA Distinguished Service Medal

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Obie Award
Obie Award

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Award
Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists
Principe de Asturias Prize
Fellows of the Royal Society (4)
MacArthur Foundation Fellows (3)
Members of the National Academy of Engineering (3)
Members of the National Academy of Sciences (13)
Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (12)
Guggenheim Fellows (71)
Fulbright Fellows (54)
Sloan Foundation Fellows (41)
Rockefeller Foundation Fellows (11)
Institute of Medicine Members (3)

Notable research and discoveries at Stony Brook

There have been many notable research projects and important scientific discoveries at Stony Brook.

See also

  • The Stony Brook Press
    The Stony Brook Press

    The Stony Brook Press is a student-run news and feature publication at the State University of New York at Stony Brook published fortnightly....
  • Stony Brook Statesman
  • WUSB-FM
    WUSB (FM)

    WUSB is the State University of New York at Stony Brook's radio station. A non-commercial station located in Stony Brook, New York broadcasting on 90.1 MHz on the FM dial, the station is staffed by more than 150 volunteers who devote their time and energy for the love of music and free-form radio....
     — 90.1 FM, Stony Brook, NY
  • SBU TV
    SBU TV

    SBU TV, standing for Stony Brook University Television, is a student-run, student-operated closed-circuit television station at the State University of New York at Stony Brook....
     — Stony Brook University Television
  • Stony Brook Independent
    Stony Brook Independent

    The Stony Brook Independent, also colloquially referred to as the "Indie," is a collegiate news publication serving Stony Brook University and the surrounding community....
  • Sigma Beta
    Sigma Beta

    Sigma Beta is an honor society for students at the State University of New York at Stony Brook that is devoted to academic excellence and university service....


External links

  • - A general listing of student clubs at Stony Brook University