State University of New York at Stony Brook

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Stony Brook
University
Established 1957
Type Public
President Shirley Strum Kenny
Provost Robert McGrath
Faculty 1,902
Students 22,011
Undergraduates 14,287
Location Stony Brook, NY, USA
Campus Suburban, 1,364 acres (5.5 km²)
Athletics 18 sports teams
Colors Red
Mascot Seawolf
Website www.stonybrook.edu

Stony Brook University (SBU), also known as the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB), is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York (on the north side of Long Island, about 65 miles east of Manhattan, New York). Stony Brook is the second highest ranked of the four university centers in the State University of New York 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.

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The university was founded in 1957 as the State University College on Long Island with about 100 students enrolled.[1] The first temporary campus was at the William Robertson Coe Planting Fields estate in Oyster Bay.[1] Originally, Stony Brook was a college for preparing secondary school teachers in mathematics and the sciences.[1] Since 1962, the campus has been located on land donated by philanthropist Ward Melville.[1] The original donation consisted of over 400 acres (1.6 km²), but the campus has since grown to about three times that size.[1]

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. More buildings were erected on campus, and academic programs and enrollment grew.

During the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, Stony Brook was a hotbed of activism—so much so that it was given the nickname "Berkeley of the East." It was also sometimes nicknamed "Stoner Brook" for a supposed reputation of heavy drug use among the students[citation needed]. The school is also notable for its numerous conflicts with the government of New York State, often over budgetary considerations. One of the better known controversies centers on the University Hospital that now dominates the campus's skyline and how its construction [reportedly] nearly bankrupted the state.[citation needed]

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 has completed construction of a massive Asian-American Center that was funded largely by a donation from Charles Wang. The university also constructed a stadium as well as new apartments for undergraduates. Renovations were recently completed on the original Humanities building, and new apartments continue to be built.

Due to its long history as a concert venue it was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame 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 $100 million.

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 Medicine
  • School of Nursing
  • School of Professional Development
  • School of Social Welfare

Stony Brook is also one of only ten national universities awarded a 1998 National Science Foundation recognition award for integrating research and education. In 2001 it became a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an invitation-only organization of the top 62 research universities in the U.S. The University generates $160 million annually in external research funding and has an annual $2.5 billion economic impact on the region.[citation needed]

Stony Brook co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory through Brookhaven Science Associates, a 50-50 partnership with Battelle Memorial Institute. [1]

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. The only three private schools in New York to have both a medical school and a dental school are University of Rochester (see: University of Rochester Medical Center), New York University (see: New York University College of Dentistry), and Columbia University (see: Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery).

  • Marine Sciences Resarch Center (MSRC)

The Marine Sciences Research Center 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 main campus is located at the geographic midpoint of Long Island, approximately 60 miles east of New York City and 60 miles west of Montauk. 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, 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 sits adjacent to the library and contains the largest movie screen in Long Island's Suffolk County. The Stony Brook Sports Complex 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, 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. The hospital is the largest in Suffolk County, and the attached HSC houses numerous laboratories as well as a medical school. 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 and the Marine Sciences Research Center.

On November 3, 2005, the University announced that it had formally acquired 246 acres of the adjacent Flowerfield property, originally owned by the Gyrodyne Company of America, through eminent domain, three years after the University had expressed its desire to acquire the property. Stony Brook intends to use the property as a research and development campus with the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology, expected to be completed in 2008, as the first anchor research facility.

In 2002 the University established a presence in Manhattan with the opening of "Stony Brook Manhattan." It consists of a small number of classrooms and facilities located on East 28th Street between Park Avenue South and Lexington Avenue.

In the fall of 2005, the University began offering an undergraduate marine sciences program, with teaching and research facilities at the campus of Southampton College, leased from Long Island University, on the east end of Long Island. On March 24, 2006, the University announced a final agreement for the purchase of the 81-acre Southampton College property from Long Island University with the intent to develop it as a full college campus focusing on academic programs related to the environment and sustainability. 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.

The varsity sports teams were formerly known as the Patriots, but were renamed and are currently known as the Seawolves. The basketball and volleyball teams play at the Sports Complex, while the football, soccer and lacrosse teams now play at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium. 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 Division I in 1999 and all varsity sports teams compete in the America East Conference with the exception of football. The football team will compete as a Division I-AA Independent in 2007, after leaving the Northeast Conference at the end of the 2006 season. Stony Brook will join the Big South Conference as an associate football 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.

Stony Brook is the second highest ranked University Center in the 64-school SUNY system. SBU has been ranked among the top 100 national universities in the United States and among the top 50 public national universities in the country in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey, which utilizes several measures of academic excellence, assigning weights decided upon by the magazine editors, to reach an overall ranking. In 2007 it was ranked 34th best value among the country’s public institutions for in-state students.[2]

The University tied for 97th in the U.S. News rating of national universities, which the magazine defines as universities that "offer a wide range of undergraduate majors as well as master's and doctoral degrees; many strongly emphasize research."[citation needed] Stony Brook was tied for 45th in the category of top public national universities.[3] Stony Brook's engineering program was tied for 67th for universities whose highest degree offered is a doctorate; the university was one of only 36 cited by the US News for the integration of research into undergraduate education. Stony Brook also ranked 24th in least debt among national universities. In the recent US News and World Report, Stony Brook Computer Science graduate program has been ranked 34th, tied with Ohio State University, University of California–Santa Barbara, University of Chicago , University of Colorado–Boulder , and the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.

The University is cited nine times as being among the best in the nation in the current rankings of professional schools in US News & World Report’s 2007 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” The annual rankings by the publication focus on programs in Business, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine, and reflect data from surveys of more than 1,200 programs and over 9,600 academicians and professionals conducted recently.

In the last year, Stony Brook has been ranked as the 136th best university in the world—out of more than 8,300—by the London-based Times Higher Education Supplement.[4]

The University was also ranked among the top 152 universities in the world by the Institute for Higher Education in Shanghai. In addition, Stony Brook was 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.

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

There have been many notable research projects and important scientific discoveries at Stony Brook.[5]

Years Research/discovery
1969 Dated Moon rocks and estimated the age of the Moon[2]
Created a new ultrasound method that speeds up the healing of bone fractures
Discovered the link between emphysema and smoking
Developed the drug that is recommended for all cardiac angioplasties (ReoPro)
1974 Created the first MRI image of a living organism[3]
Discovered the Golden Bamboo Lemur
Identified and cataloged 328 distant galaxies
Using a single electron, created the smallest electric switch in the world
1982 Found the cause of Lyme Disease[4]
Invented the bar code
Invented Virtual colonoscopy
1998 FDA Approved ReoPro® and Periostat®, SUNY's First Two Drugs[5]
1998 Discovered the fossil that linked birds to dinosaurs[6]
2002 Synthesized the first virus, in vitro, Polio[7]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Stony Brook At A Glance", Stony Brook University, 2007. Retrieved on March 1, 2007.
  2. ^ "Stony Brook University Again Named One Of Nation's Best Values By Kiplinger's", Stony Brook University, Jan 9, 2007. Retrieved on March 1, 2007.
  3. ^ "SUNY Campuses Top Kiplinger's "Best Value" List for 2007", SUNY, January 08, 2007. Retrieved on March 1, 2007.
  4. ^ "What Others Say About SUNY", SUNY, 2007. Retrieved on March 1, 2007.
  5. ^ "Stony Brook Research: Research Milestones", Stony Brook University, 2007. Retrieved on March 1, 2007.

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