It was 1982 when David Acker ’81 confronted a tangle of wires and circuits in the back of a gigantic Stony Brook University computer. A graduate student in psychology, Acker was studying the electrical properties of...
Leo Tolstoy apparently had little use for those who study the past. “Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them,” he once wrote. The works of many Stony Brook University...
The idea of growing organs for transplantation may sound like futuristic sci-fi, but Sandeep Mallipattu, MD, and his colleagues in the Renaissance School of Medicine are already on the case. Mallipattu’s lab in the...
Stony Brook students have embraced the entrepreneurial spirit, starting and growing their businesses while still in school. Here are a few current students and recent grads whose businesses are continuing to flourish...
Ethan Doutney could be Indiana Jones’ doppelganger. On a chilly autumn day, the 6-foot-2-inch Doutney wears a wide-brimmed hat with a neck flap and neoprene waders. Climbing over the side of his mud-lined, no-frills 24...
Matthew Whelan, vice president for University enrollment strategy and relationship development, spoke to us about his commitment to student success and SBU’s mission to attract top students from around the world. WHAT...
Leveraging its location in the heart of Suffolk County, SBU’s School of Dental Medicine is on a mission to bring oral healthcare to underserved families in the region and across the globe. The School reaches out to...
Interim President Bernstein calls the University a major driver of economic development and vitality here on the Island. “All of our efforts contribute to our regional impact, which I’m excited to say now totals $7.23...
1960s DIANE SCILLIA, PHD ’67 retired from teaching at Kent State University after 33 years. CHARLES SOLOMON, ESQ ’68 retired from the Manhattan State Supreme Court after 32 years. ROBERT DECOSTANZO ’69, ’73 authored The...
Building a Twitter bot? Yes, please. How about drawing a Sierpinski triangle using the programming language Python? Intrigued by how humans and technology are guided by each other, Jackie Yeh, a first-year student...
When the Stony Brook Union opened on February 1, 1970, it was the first spot on campus students could truly call their own, the start of the “evolvement of a real community,” according to The Statesman. The Union...
CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER NAMED Judith Clarke brings impressive credentials and experience to the role Underscoring Stony Brook University’s ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, Judith Brown Clarke, an award...
When Danielle Meyers stepped onto the Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium stage before a crowd of 10,000 to deliver the student speech at Stony Brook University’s May 2016 Commencement Ceremony, it was the culmination of four...
Nina Maung-Gaona thrives on helping others navigate unfamiliar terrain. In fact, she has made a decades-long career out of doing that. In the Office of the Vice President for Research, where she has worked for a little...
1960s JAY ROSENBERG ’67 and WAQIDI FALICOFF ’69 reconnected 50 years after producing music together as students and completed a recording of their song “Heaven Release Her,” which is being considered for the 2017...
America’s economic pre-eminence is built on a history of scientific and technological breakthroughs, and the key role of higher education in driving innovation is indisputable. The discoveries that make us great rest in...
Treading in the footsteps of Andrea Bocelli, Stony Brook’s Ju Hyeon Han made history this past spring, becoming the first blind singer to be cast in a leading role in an American conservatory or University opera...
Two prominent leaders in their respective fields — Jonathan Oringer and Michael J. Fox — accepted honorary degrees and provided encouragement to 6,991 students at the University’s 57th Commencement ceremony, held May...