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SBU Leads Campaign to Increase Low-Income Student Enrollment

SBU is committed to The American Talent Initiative’s Accelerating Opportunity campaign, which aims to increase the number of low-income students attending top-performing colleges.

July 1, 2021

2 min read

Main University News Highlights Stony Brook Matters University

Stony Brook Experts Discuss How SBU Built a Culture of Success, Eliminated Equity Gaps and Accelerated Social Mobility

The University is making important strides in advancing student success by leveraging its resources toward increasing graduation rates while focusing on academic excellence for all.

December 1, 2020

3 min read

Alumni Chapters & Groups News Highlights Stony Brook Matters University

Stony Brook Offers Path to American Dream, Marketwatch Says

Stony Brook University is showcased as a university that “helps low-income kids move into the middle class and beyond” in an op-ed published September 20 in Marketwatch. “There’s something special...

September 20, 2019

1 min read

Academics Advancement Entrepreneurship School of Communication and Journalism Stony Brook Matters

For Michael Loeb, New Professorship at Stony Brook University a Fitting Honor for Father’s Legacy

In the last years of his life, renowned financial journalist Marshall Loeb wasn’t shy about the future of the industry in which he built his career, especially with his son, serial entrepreneur Michael Loeb. “What he...

April 12, 2019

5 min read

Community Diversity Service Student Spotlight

Operation Prom Brings Formal Wear to Low-Income Teens

Members of Stony Brook University’s Student African American Sisterhood (SAAS) rolled up their sleeves to help low-income teens at the Operation Prom Wear Giveaway in Brooklyn on Saturday, March 30. From morning until...

April 8, 2019

3 min read

Awards and Honors Diversity Stony Brook Matters Sustainability University

Stony Brook’s Sustainable Impact Rated High in Times Higher Education Ranking

Stony Brook University comes in at No. 78 in the world in the new 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking, a global university ranking that aims to measure an institution’s impact on society based on its...

April 3, 2019

2 min read

Academics Awards and Honors News Highlights Research Student Spotlight

Stony Brook Uses Hands-On, Research-Focused Experiences to Drive Student Success

Pamela Best remembers feeling “intimidated” by the prospect of doing research when she began freshman classes at Stony Brook University in fall 2015. Yet within months, she was working at a nearby hospital, studying...

February 8, 2019

7 min read

Arts & Entertainment Diversity Faculty/Staff SB Southampton

An Interview with Stony Brook Poet Cornelius Eady

As a complement to our feature on Cornelius Eady, we present the complete interview below. Q: What does the current crop of African-American literary writers have in common with their forebears, such as Langston Hughes...

January 24, 2019

21 min read

Arts & Entertainment Diversity Faculty/Staff Featured Story Humanities SB Southampton

Poet Cornelius Eady Riffs on Poetry, Race and Pedagogy

When The New York Times recently created a stunning pantheon featuring 32 of the most important “Black Male Writers for Our Time,” the poet Cornelius Eady was among them. Eady, whose work has been called “joyous...

January 24, 2019

10 min read

Alumni Chapters & Groups Diversity Events Featured Story On Campus Stony Brook Matters

Stony Brook is Celebrating Black History Month 2019

The Black History Month Opening Program at Stony Brook University takes place on Wednesday, February 6. Various campus organizations will be hosting a range of educational, social and cultural programs that focus on the...

January 15, 2019

3 min read

Academics College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Diversity Featured Story Main University Stony Brook Matters

Building a Pathway for Diversity in STEM Education

Increasing diversity in engineering and technology is a key initiative at Stony Brook University. Fotis Sotiropoulos, Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, highlighted these efforts during his recent...

January 8, 2019

4 min read

Community Diversity Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight

Graduating Senior Makes Impact on Local Community Club with College Thursdays

Mackenzie Deng, a graduating senior receiving his degree in Business Management, developed and implemented College Thursdays, a post-secondary education and preparation program for the Boys and Girls Club of Bellport...

May 21, 2018

2 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences Community Diversity

Africana Studies Celebrates 50th Anniversary

The Department of Africana Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences recently celebrated its 50th anniversary as a program and 20th anniversary as a department, marking these milestones at a recent celebration...

May 8, 2018

4 min read

Main University News Highlights Social Sciences Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight University

University Selects Top 10 Stories of 2017

In 2017, Stony Brook University once again excelled in diversity, innovation, cutting-edge research and groundbreaking discoveries with real-world impact. A major study showed that SBU has become a nationwide leader in...

December 27, 2017

1 min read

Academics Diversity Main University Stony Brook Matters Student Spotlight University

Stony Brook Builds an Engine of Social Mobility

Without social mobility — the ability to rise from a low-income background to a financially secure future — the American Dream is at risk. In an era of growing income inequality, families have fewer opportunities to...

October 26, 2017

18 min read

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