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Simons Foundation Announces Historic $500M Gift to Stony Brook University Endowment

The Simons Foundation announced a historic $500 million endowment gift to Stony Brook University, the largest unrestricted donation in U.S. higher education

June 1, 2023

7 min read

Advancement Diversity Featured Story STEM Stony Brook Matters University

Simons Foundation, SBU Partner to Improve Diversity in STEM Fields

Stony Brook University has announced a major new initiative funded by the Simons Foundation and its sister foundation, Simons Foundation International, that will vastly bolster and improve the pathway to STEM careers...

May 11, 2022

5 min read

“Stony Brook is still a young research institution with unlimited potential. With the proper investments of time and resources, we can seize that potential, grow our research enterprise and drive the future of Stony Brook.”

Advancement Advancement Annual Report Stony Brook Matters

Accelerating our Highest Ambitions

President Maurie McInnis helped navigate Stony Brook through a worldwide pandemic, with extraordinary challenges at every turn. Yet despite the tremendous obstacles the University faced, she also saw opportunities to...

December 10, 2021

4 min read

Professor Leonardo Rastelli is the Renaissance Chair in Theoretical Physics.

Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Research STEM

Leonardo Rastelli Receives Simons Investigator Award

Recently named inaugural holder of the Renaissance Chair in Theoretical Physics, Rastelli has earned a coveted 2020 Simons Investigator award, which supports outstanding scientists.

July 15, 2020

4 min read

Academics Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Research Stony Brook Matters

Professors Chen and Essig Named SBU’s First Simons Investigators

Xiuxiong Chen, Professor of Mathematics, and Rouven Essig, Associate Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University, have been named 2019 Simons Investigators, becoming the first faculty members at the University to...

July 18, 2019

4 min read

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Gala Honoring Dr. Marilyn Hawrys Simons Raises Record $28.2 Million

More than 800 guests gathered last evening at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in New York City to honor alumna and Simons Foundation President Marilyn Hawrys Simons ’74, PhD ’84, at the 20th Stars of Stony Brook Gala...

April 11, 2019

5 min read

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Simons Foundation Announces Historic $500M Gift to Stony Brook University Endowment

Simons Foundation, SBU Partner to Improve Diversity in STEM Fields

Accelerating our Highest Ambitions

Leonardo Rastelli Receives Simons Investigator Award

Professors Chen and Essig Named SBU’s First Simons Investigators

Gala Honoring Dr. Marilyn Hawrys Simons Raises Record $28.2 Million

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