The State University of New York at Stony Brook, known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, in the U.S. state of New York, on the North Shore of Long Island, about 50 miles (80 km) east of Manhattan.[4] Founded in 1957 and located at its present site since 1962, Stony Brook University is one of the four university centers and is considered a flagship institution of the State University of New York.[5][6] The main campus is home to more than 24,500 students,[7] and 138,560 alumni.[8] The University is organized by schools and colleges, including the Medical, Dental, Nursing, and Graduate School, and several branch campuses including Stony Brook Manhattan, whose operations were consolidated in 2010,[9] and Stony Brook Southampton, whose operations were reduced to the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and the MFA Program in Writing and Literature also in 2010.[10][11] Stony Brook is one! of 61 leading research universities in the U.S and joined the American Association of Universities (AAU) in 2001 . Stony Brook University Medical Center, completed in 1980, is Suffolk County's only tertiary hospital and Level 1 Trauma Center, and the only academic medical center in Suffolk County—larger also than any in Nassau County.[12] The University also co-manages Brookhaven National Labs under a contract under the authority of the U.S. Department of Energy. Contents 1 History 2 Academics 2.1 Research 2.1.1 Notable research and discoveries 2.2 Admissions 3 Campuses 3.1 Main Campus: Stony Brook 3.2 Manhattan Campus 3.3 Southampton Campus 3.4 Korea 4 Student Life 4.1 Events 4.2 Marching Band 5 Athletics 6 Rankings 7 Notable faculty and alumni 8 References 9 External links [edit] History Previous version of the Stony Brook University logo designed by Milton Glaser The university was founded in 1957 as the State University College on Long Island with about! 140 students.[13][14] The first temporary campus was at the W! illiam Robertson Coe Planting Fields estate in Oyster Bay.[13] Originally, Stony Brook was a college for preparing secondary school teachers in mathematics and the sciences.[13] Since 1962, the campus has been located in Stony Brook on land donated by philanthropist Ward Melville.[13] The original donation consisted of more than 400 acres (1.6 km²), but the campus has since grown to about three times that size.[13] Among the four SUNY University Centers, Stony Brook is the only one that was founded after the 1948 establishment of the SUNY system. The Stony Brook campus was initially concentrated around what was called G-Quad (now Mendelsohn Quad), and almost all offices were located there. Classes took place in the Humanities building, and some classes were still offered at Oyster Bay. With rapid growth during the 1960s and 1970s under university president John S. Toll, more buildings were erected on campus, and academic programs and enrollment grew. Stony Brook has u! ndergone a number of changes in its logo and naming. In 1957, while it was still located in Oyster Bay, it was officially called the State University College of Long Island at Oyster Bay. A year after, it was changed to State University Center on Long Island at Oyster Bay. When it moved to its present campus in Stony Brook in 1962, it became officially known as the State University of New York at Stony Brook, or SUNY-Stony Brook (SUNY-SB). Another form used in documents was University at Stony Brook (USB), as can be seen in one of the previous logos. Today, the university is known and marketed as Stony Brook University. 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. On October 22, 2002 [15] the school completed construction of a massive Charles B. Wang Asian American Center that was funded, in part, by a $52 million donation from Charles Wang! .[16] The university constructed Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium for $22 mil! lion in 2002.[16] Recently[when?] new apartments have been added for undergraduates. Renovations were recently[when?] completed on the original Humanities building and existing undergraduate residence halls. New residence halls continue to be built, such as a new hall just completed according to green-building specifications. Recently[when?], a donation of $60 million was made by retired math professor Dr. James Simons for the construction of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. Due to its long history as a concert venue, the university was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on October 15, 2006. In 2011, the American Chemical Society designated Stony Brook's Chemistry Department a National Historic Landmark for its development of the MRI under the supervision of Paul Lauterbur.[17] Although Stony Brook is a state institution, private philanthropy helps support the development of the university. Stony Brook's endowment, managed by the Stony Brook Foundat! ion, amounted to more than $95 million in fiscal year 2008/2009; the Foundation manages assets in excess of $235.5 million.[18] [edit] Academics Stony Brook was one of ten national universities awarded a National Science Foundation recognition award in 1998 for their integration of research and education. In 2001 it became a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an invitation-only organization of the top research universities in the U.S., currently having 62 members.[16] In the last three years two Nobel Prizes were awarded to professors for their work conducted at Stony Brook.[16] The University has an annual $4.65 billion economic impact on the region.[19] Stony Brook co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory through Brookhaven Science Associates, a 50-50 partnership with Battelle Memorial Institute.[20] Stony Brook is also one of two public schools in New York to have a medical school and a dental school, the other being State University of New York a! t Buffalo.[21] Current Schools and Colleges of Stony Brook University A! rts and Sciences Business Engineering and Applied Sciences Dental Medicine Health Technology and Management Journalism Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Medicine Nursing Professional Development Social Welfare Graduate School [edit] Research The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) is the SUNY center for marine and atmospheric research, education, and public service. More than 300 graduate and undergraduate students from 16 different nations currently work and study at SoMAS. The School'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 Marine Sciences Research Center, the original institute for marine studies, was incorporated into the new School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SOMAS) on June 15, 2007. Also, the ! University co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory, joining an elite group of universities – including the University of California, University of Chicago, Cornell, MIT, and Princeton University – that run federal laboratories. In the Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering area, some of the research centers of Stony Brook University are the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics among others. In the biomedical sciences, Stony Brook houses the Center for Biotechnology and the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, among many others. In March 2008, the University received $60 million endowment from James Simons to establish the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology was established by a generous gift in 2008 from Dr. Henry Laufer. In July 2007 Stony Brook won a grant from the Department of Defense to devise ways to prevent ter! rorists from corrupting computers, and another from the Department of H! omeland Security to design a system to detect radiation without triggering false alarms.[22] The New York Center for Computational Sciences (NYCCS),[23] formed in 2007, is a joint venture of Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Its centerpiece is an 18 rack Blue Gene /L and 2 rack Blue Gene/P massively parallel supercomputer based on the IBM system-on-chip technology, also known as New York Blue Gene supercomputer. In the June 2008 Top 500 supercomputer rankings New York Blue Gene/L was ranked 17th, and Blue Gene/P was ranked 75th.[24] The total peak performance for both Blue Gene/L and Blue Gene/P consists 103.22 teraflops (trillion floating-point calculations per second).[25] [edit] Notable research and discoveries There have been many notable research projects and important scientific discoveries at Stony Brook.[26] Years Research/discovery 1969 Dated Moon rocks and estimated the age of the Moon [2] Created a new ultrasound method that speeds the he! aling of bone fractures Discovered the link between emphysema and smoking Developed the drug that is recommended for all cardiac angioplasties (abciximab) 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 1976 Formulation of supergravity 1982 Found the cause of Lyme disease[4] Invented virtual colonoscopy 1998 FDA approved abciximab and Periostat (doxycycline), SUNY's first two drugs [5] 1998 Discovered important fossil linking birds to dinosaurs [6] 2002 Synthesized the first virus, in vitro, polio[7] 2007 Demonstrated that Homo erectus may not have evolved from Homo habilis[8] 2008 Remains of Beelzebufo, or devil frog, largest frog
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