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Leave Your Mark on Legacy Way

It’s time for your memories and tributes to be included as part of our story! Today’s success is built upon those who have come before, and your personalized brick will pave the way for future Seawolves...

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Shannon Heffernan ’21 Gives Voice to the Voiceless

From a young age, Shannon Heffernan ’21 enjoyed volunteering and giving back to people in her community who were in need. At her high school, The Ursuline School in New Rochelle, NY, she created an event called Extra...

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Iconic Simons Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) celebrated its 10th anniversary November 9 in a daylong event that took place both online and at the Center’s iconic building on the Stony Brook campus. It was in...

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Giving Day 2020: Stony Brook Strong by the Thousands

The Stony Brook community surpassed our Giving Day goal by donating more than $300,000 to 90-plus initiatives across the University.

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Sara Hamideh Advocates for Equity in Disaster Recovery

The SoMAS professor is an expert on disaster resilience, and finds that Stony Brook provides her with many opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration.

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SBDC, Business Students Team Up to Help Local Firms Cope with Pandemic

By employing student research assistants from the College of Business and Center of Entrepreneurial Finance (CEF), the Stony Brook Small Business Development Center (SBDC) developed a small business recovery and...

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Stony Brook University Invests Endowed Chairs in Renaissance School of Medicine

The chairs, endowed by Huayi Zhang and Siuling Zhang, enable the University to recognize eminent scholars David Thanassi and Qingping Yao.

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Almstadtstrasse 43: Slide projection of former Hebrew bookstore, 1930, Berlin,1992, 33"X40" chromogenic photograph and on-location installation, Shimon Attie, courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

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Shimon Attie Named Inaugural Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor in Studio Art

The internationally renowned visual artist, whose work focuses on issues of identity and community, also has extensive experience teaching at a University level.

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Volunteer Ambulance Corps Marks a Half-Century of Community Service

For the all-student Stony Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corps (SBVAC), it began with a Volkswagen bus and a Cadillac. In 1970, frustrated by long response times from local ambulance corps, Stony Brook University students...

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Crowdfunding Campaign Launched to Keep Our Students Stony Brook Strong

Stony Brook University has launched a crowdfunding campaign to “Keep Our Students Stony Brook Strong” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. This spring, our generous campus community answered the call for support...

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Keep Students on Track

The Fall 2020 semester at Stony Brook is an experience unlike any other, because this is a time unlike any other. It’s a defining moment in campus history when we’re reimagining and reengineering how we study and work...

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Stony Brook Foundation Boosts Access to College for More Underserved Students

Thanks to a new infusion to the Black and Latino Alumni Network Scholarship Fund, the University can offer more underserved students access to a Stony Brook degree.

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Stony Brook University Honored by CASE for Fundraising Excellence

Award Highlights Stony Brook Advancement Department’s Sustained Growth and Innovation The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has recognized Stony Brook University’s “exemplary development program”...

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Student Groups Use Spring Break to Help Hospitals Get PPE

SBU's Alternative Spring Break Outreach partnered with fraternities Phi Delta Epsilon and Iota Nu Delta to raise money for hospitals in need of PPE.

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Pano Sourlis (left) and Vincent DeStefano (right) with donations from local school districts they delivered to the Wang Center for Stony Brook University Hospital's frontline workers.

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Graduating Seawolves Rally to Help Frontline Fighters

If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything it is that our students are amazingly resilient. In defiance of all the difficulties they have faced, the Class of 2020 has chosen to rise up and continue to make a...

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