Beginning in 2018, the College developed a roadmap to highlight emerging initiatives uncovered throughout its planning and strategic development. The collaborative shared vision is a Navigational Guide to 2030 with plans for education, research and mentorship based on constellations of strength within the College. This guide anticipates the challenges of the next decade and boldly charts the way forward to a convergent, innovative and sustainable future.

Three Grand Challenge Areas—Global Processes, Connections and Flows; the Digital Revolution and Beyond; and Scholarly Creativity and Explorations—are constellations of intellectual strength with impacts and synergies across the University that are inspiring future development of our research and education for the next decade.

In reponse to "toxic" power concentrations, a "democratic coup" occurs and transforms culture. In the early 1980s under the leadership of President Marburger, the faculty reshape the culture of University, which creates a lasting legacy adding to the collegial, egalitarian practices and spirit. The "bottom up" faculty support occurs at the same time as the president develops support services for academic departments, completes the University Hospital and HSC School, creates programs related to public services (i.e., engineering, business, high technology interfaces. etc.), an increase in sponsored research, stabilization of enrollment, increase in fund-raising initiatives and development of stronger concern for people across campus.

$2.25M in Funding Initiatives for Humanities, Under Represented Minorities

In a 2013 State of the University Address, President Stanley described the meteoric rise of Stony Brook University and transformation from a modest teachers college to a University that has global impact in the areas of education, research, healthcare, and economic opportunity. He spoke of Stony Brook's important role in educating economically disadvantaged students; that it ranks fourth among all AAU member institutions for the highest percentage of Pell grant eligible students; and how Stony Brook has the second lowest in-state tuition and fees among all AAU peers. He announces $2.25M in funding to further this work in the Humanities and to support recuitment of under-represented minorities.

The most experimental of the undergraduate programs, the Federated Learning Communities add more programs from 1982 to 1986. Although somewhat reduced in terms of level of support received in the late 1970s, the Federated Learning Communities introduced two new programs. The first was the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) program in 1986. In this program, based on a report from the Boyer Commission in 1998, which states: "students work with faculty researchers and artists on selected projects of shared interest, on projects they devise themselves, or on ongoing research projects from one of the academic departments, professional schools, or research centers." The second was the Honors College, in September 1989.

A distinguished professor of philosophy, Gelber was SBU s first provost, the first dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1968 to 1971, the second academic vice president from 1971 to 1981. He not only wrote Politics and Public Higher Education in New York State, a book on the history of Stony Brook University, but also paved the way for Stony Brook's initial accreditation by Middle States. James McKenna, former deputy to the academic vice president and provost and associate professor emeritus of the Department of Technology and Society, also called this distinguished man "the wisest, most intelligent, most committed, and most effective university administrator I have ever met."

Revamping of the foundational curriculum of two departments to three departmentally -owned courses with labs. In 1999, The Undergraduate Biology program has responsibility for delivery of introductory laboratory courses, which was a result of revamping of foundational curriculum from two departmentally shared, four credit introductory courses with labs (BIO 151 & BIO 152) to three departmentally owned courses with labs (BIO 201, BIO 202 and BIO 203).

In 1980, a survey by the Dean of Graduate School listed 23 publications of academic research jounrals that eminate from Stony Brook University. These include six that received some degree of university support: The American Naturalist; Art Criticism; Bulletin of Research in the Humanities; Gradiva; Quarterly Review of Biology; and, Soundings.

Economic downturn in 2007 changed higher education. Major increase in demand for STEM disciplines and corresponding decline in Arts and Humanities.

Fall 2001 enrollment is 997 biology and biochemistry majors, Fall 2008 numbers increase to 2,513 and Fall 2017 numbers of enrollment is 2,783 Biology and Biochemistry majors. Undergraduate Biology incorporated evidence based, student centered pedagogy into the curriculum. They promoted undergraduate research for academic credit from 107 students (5.4%) in spring 2010 to 240 stidents (11.7%) in Spring 2017. More than 30% of recent graduates have done research for credit.

Joint faculty hired with Brookhaven National Laboratory expanding chemistry Once SBU took over management of BNL, there was an increased interest in joint hires and collaboration. By 2010, we had seven faculty with BNL in chemistry. This allowed the expansion of physical chemistry and materials chemistry. Strategic partnership allowed for growth, but led to new challanges when BNL's priorities changed. BNl operated on a different time-scale than a university

The Laufer center for computational biology was founded in 2011 with an interdiciplinary team of faculty. Director Ken Dill hired from UCSF joint bet within both the chemistry and physics departments. The availability of soft money allows tremendous opportunities to do great stuff.

The best Chemistry faculty are bought out when the program becomes successful. Three top junior faculty hired in 1993 on one committed likeness. Sampson, Raleigh, and Grey developed Biological chemistry as a new strength to the Chemistry Department. In 1995, five top faculty left for other universities because of the lack of retention incentives.

Gerald Brown joined the SBU faculty in 1968 as a professor and became a distinguished professor emeritus of the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University. Brown was known for elucidating the effects of various nuclear constituents on nucleon interactions and nucleon structure. He won the Hans Bethe Prize, Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, and Max Planck Medal. He helped lead the development of the electron ion collider (EIC).

Physics Professors Peter van Nieuwenhuizen and Daniel Z. Freedman (along with Sergio Fererra) co-discover supergravity extending Einstein's gravity work by adding supersymmetry critical to further development of string theory.

Stony Brook University received a $25M donation from the Simons Foundation to bolster groundbreaking interdisciplinary research and programming at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, announced President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D.

Mechatronics Lab receives $1.4M grant from Rockwell. In 2005, Stony Brook University receives a contribution of $1.4 million in new equipment for its Mechatronics Laboratory from Anorad Corporation, a division of Rockwell Automation. A dedication ceremony for the new equipment will take place.

Physics Professors Peter van Nieuwenhuizen and Daniel Z. Freedman (along with Sergio Fererra) co-discover supergravity extending Einstein's gravity work by adding supersymmetry critical to further development of string theory.

Massive enrollment leads to restructing of Undergraduate Biology lab courses. In 2007, the separation of introductory laboratory courses from Departmentally owned lectures in response to massive increases in enrollments. Lecturers in Undergraduate Biology are charged with development and delivery of two new introductory biology laboratory courses, BIO 204 and BIO 205.

The founding of the new center brings world class mathematicians and physicists to SBU such as Simon Donaldson & Kenji Fukaya. The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is housed in a building dedicated entirely to the Center, a building adjacent to and connected to the Mathematics Tower which houses the University s Mathematics Department and Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics. Each year the Center sponsors visiting programs with focused activities. These programs typically last for periods of time ranging from three months to a semester and are organized by committees drawn, at least partially, from outside the Center. There are one or two programs in operation at any given time. The Center has offices for up to 20 visiting members in these programs. In addition, and often as part of the programmatic activity, the Center also sponsors week-long workshops. These are on more narrowly focused topics and bring in an additional 25 to 30 participants.

Contraction of Neurobiology Department with Departure of Key Senior Faculty. In the early 2000s, the Neurobiology Department began to contract and lost four key senior faculty to other institutions. These developments posed a significant existential challenge that risked to compromise the department mission.

The Math Department becomes world center for geometry under the leadership of Jim Simons, who was the chairman of the Department. Earlier in his career, Simons was a cryptanalyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, N.J., and taught mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. In 1975, he received the American Mathematical Society s Veblen Prize in Geometry for work that involved a recasting of the subject of area minimizing multidimensional surfaces.

From 2015-2018 there was a resurgence of research activity and new faculty hires as part of the SUNY 2020 funding and private donations. New advances include the EIC, astroparticle research amd quantum physics. All new research are related to recent 2011-2017 Nobel Prozes in Physics. Significant drop in average faculty age.

In 1996, the Division of Life Sciences was eliminated with the creation of several life sciences departments at CAS. Incorporation of the Departments of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Neurobiology and Behavior into the College of Arts and Sciences and the creation of the program in Undergraduate Biology

In 2003, Nobel Prize Is awarded for MRI technology. The discovery was made at Stony Brook by Paul C. Lauterbur, Ph.D., whose research conducted revolutionized healthcare in the latter portion of the 20th century, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden.

With the hiring of C.N. Yang, a number of outstanding faculty were recruited, and the Department of Physics blossoms. In 1965, C.N. Yang moved to Stony Brook University, where he was named the Albert Einstein Professor of Physics and the first director of the newly founded Institute for Theoretical Physics. Today, this institute is known as the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, which continues to attract the best and brightest graduate students and faculty in the field. For example, Alexander Borissowitsch Zamolodchikov is a Russian physicist, known for his contributions to condensed matter physics, two-dimensional conformal field theory, and string theory, and is currently the C.N. Yang/Wei Deng Endowed Chair of Physics at Stony Brook University.

Six faculty hired in clusters that add new areas to Ecology and Evolution: Human Evolutionary Biology, CIDER Genomics, I-Stem. The core areas that were previously lost are still not replaced and courses have been lost from the curriculum.

In 1997, a group of faculty in the Neurobiology and Behavior Department clone the gene for NaV1.7. The cloning of this gene is one of many significant discoveries made in the first 20 years by faculty of the Neurobiology and Behavior Department. It is particularly significant because it advanced basic science and held important clinical consequences. Drugs have been developed to target the prioduct of these genes and late stage clinical trials are currently underway in 2018.

Math Department changes . Sullivan adds strength and visibility to all aspects of the math program

In 1988, the recruitment of Dr. William Lennarz led to three major changes in Biochemistry Department. Bill's Chair role led to the recruitment of 9 new junior faculty, the expansion of the biochemistry department to "Biochemistry and Cell Biology" department and the end of tghe Biochemistry PhD program and founding of the interdepartmental Molecular and Cell Biology PhD program. Bill is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.

The E&E department gets ranked nationally then loses faculty to other schools. NRC ranks E&E #10 out of 127 colleges and #5 in public universities. This created huge publicity for all top 10 schools. Other schools start to hire SBU faculty in order to catch up with SBU.

From 2001-2011 there was a major gap in the recruitment of new faculty for Biochemistry and Cell Biology Department. The recruitment gap came at the same time as a 300% increase in biology/biochemistry majors (2001-2015).

In 2018, the Undergraduate Biology department led an effort to create an interdisciplinary undergraduate Biology BA degree. The BA degree includes all foundational requirements of the BIO BS (pre-health) requirements) but replaces upper division specialization in an area of biology with a minor in the liberal arts.

In 2001, consolidation of the teaching laboratories into the Biology Learning Laboratories. In 2001, the construction of the Centers for Molecular Medicine and consolidation of the teaching laboratories into the Biology Learning Laboratories wing of the new building.

Opportunities presented themselves with the start of the contract. Key opportunities were presented to align strategies and use world class facilities. Three joint faculty appointments relate to electrode ion colliders (EIC).

In 1968, a major facility was built for research in physics considered one of SBU's and SUNY's wisest investments. It enabled Stony Brook to attract execptional faculty and offer unique research opportunities in applied and theoretical physics.

Renewed commitment from the University to further grow and develop the Neurobiology & Behavior Department. Dr. Lorna Role was hired as a new chairperson after a national search. Under Dr. Role and thanks to the University commitment, the department was reinvogorated and further developed its excellence in research and education.

The Department was formed in 1979 in the Division of Biology now part of CAS. The founding Chair was Dr. David H. Cohen who came to SBU from the University of Virginia. Within a few years the department grew to about 15 faculty members. All were successful in establishing NIH-funded research groups, and building and equipping their laboratories was a major initiative during these early years. A Ph.D. graduate program was started and an undergraduate neuroscience track was established within the Biology major. In addition, the department took major responsibility for basic neuroscience teaching in the medical school, and was granted formal standing in the School of Medicine. The Department now includes faculty from both the College of Arts and Science and from the School of Medicine.

John Milnor moves to Stony Brook University and attracts global attention. In 1990, John Milnor, the most famous mathematician in the second half of the 20th Century, moves from the Institute of Advanced Study to Stony Brook. The move by John Milnor created the Institute for Math Sciences at Stony Brook and the University becomes a world center in dynamics.

In 1996, the Geosciences Department was created from Earth Space Sciences. At the same time, astronomy was linked with the physics department and atmospheric sciences went to SOMAS (School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences).

Higher turnover rate accompanied by a period of ten faculty loss within 10 years. Newly hired faculty on average work at SBU for only 2-3 years.

Ecology and Evolution Professor Robert Sokol creates new field of numerical taxonomy. In 1982, Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, Sokol breaks new ground in applying spatial autocorrelation analysis to humans - and became co-founder of new field of numerical taxonomy.

The Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook was founded in 1969 and was one of the first departments of its kind in the world. The department and graduate program has an international reputation in the fields of evolutionary biology and ecology. Particular areas of strength in the current graduate program include population genetics, conservation ecology, molecular evolution and phylogenetics, ecosystem ecology, evolutionary genomics, species interactions, invasion ecology, marine and freshwater ecology, and primate evolution and behavior.

In 1972, the Chemistry Department moved into its new 300,000 square foot "Graduate Chemistry" building. The building is now old, failing and holding back research and teaching.

In 1971, Chemistry Professor Paul Lauterbur developed the technology for the first magnetic resonance imaging system with the construction of the first muclear magnetic resonance image of a living organism.

In 1983, Professor Masayori Inouye in Biochemistry discovered antisense RNA which greatly influences how to target the effectiveness of drug treatments for many diseases. This represents a huge breathrough as dosages of drugs can be lowered for increased effectiveness.

In the early 1970's, the political science department contributed significantly to the development of the field of political psychology under the leadership of Professor Milton Lodge. The Political Science degree programs at Stony Brook University are an innovative set of programs that were developed in the early 1970's. Through research grants from the National Science Foundation, Milton Lodge has been engaged in the study of dual-process models of political beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. He is the author of five books, including Soviet Elite Attitudes Since Stalin (1969), Comparative Communist Political Leadership (1973), Magnitude Scaling of Social Psychological Judgments (1982), Political Judgment: Structure and Process (1995), and The Rationalizing Voter (2012). The department has built on this work and uses theory and research in psychology to better understand politics. Courses taught by full-time faculty focus on the psychology of public opinion, attitude change, persuasion, and political behavior. The program includes a successful, renowned PhD program in political psychology. The faculty members who teach in the program include internationally recognized scholars in the fields of political psychology, public opinion, and political behavior who have all published extensively on these topics. The program teaches advanced skills in political psychology, public opinion, political attitudes, and mobilization.

In response to suggested reforms from the "Three Days" event in 1968, an interdisciplinary major in social science was established. The major provided an umbrella structure for other non-departmental, interdisciplinary programs and served as an outlet for students experiencing difficulties in various social science departments. The Major was coordianted by Professor Joel Rosenthal of the History Department. By 1973, it expanded to include the following programs: Asian Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, Elementary Education, Environmental Studies, Ibero-American Studies. Each program had its own coordinator until 1977 until it moved under the direction of Eli Seifman of the Education and History Department. In less than 10 years, undergraduate programs offered a variety of options (40 different programs in 1973, 33 of which could lead to a baccalaureate degree).

A major issue on college campuses is that American undergraduates report that they have difficulty understanding the non-native English speaking instructors who teach sections of their introductory courses. In 2015, NSF awarded $1M grant supports a study called Communication in the Global University: A Longitudinal Study of Language Adaptation at Multiple Timescales in Native- and Non-Native Speakers at Stony Brook University will address this issue. Researchers in the Psychology, Linguistics, and Asian & Asian-American Studies Departments in the College of Arts and Sciences look at communication between native English-speaking undergraduates and non-native English-speaking international PhD students newly arrived in the US, who serve as International Teaching Assistants (ITAs).

The Sociology Department has its roots in the consolidation of "network theory" and advanced modern social movement theory. At its peak, the Sociology Department had 29 FTEs. Lewis Coser was a major force in its development. Coser was the first sociologist to try to bring together structural functionalism and conflict theory; his work was focused on finding the functions of social conflict. Today, the department has 16 full-time faculty, 53 graduate students and about 560 undergraduate majors. The Departments provides graduate training in sociology that is informed by a global perspective. Whether a sociological question addresses individual-level processes, ideas, or organizations, there are often global influences and implications connected to that phenomenon. Students pursuing an advanced degree in sociology will have opportunities to focus on global sociology and to learn how sociological methods and theories can be applied to the study of global social, cultural, political, and economic processes. The sociology program grants the doctorate to three to six students per year. Most of these go on to university or college teaching positions or postdoctoral programs at other universities. A few enter government service, business, or applied research.

a biologist, was awarded $13,000 as the first grant in support of his research on parental behavior of pigeons. Joining the faculty in 1959, Dr. Sol Kramer was attracted to the campus because of the natural beauty and unlimited opportunity. He said, "faculty and students are setting their own standards and are not bound by rigid and ancient traditions." Dr. Fausto Ramirez, Professor of organic chemistry was the recipient of one of the largest research grants in the early years. The National Cancer institute provided $100,000 to investigate anticancer properties in in organic compounds of phosphorus.

In 1987, the current Center for Game Theory was developed. This grew out of the Institute for Decision Sciences which moved from applied Math to Economic Department in 1994. Since 1990, the Center for Game Theory organizes the Summer Festival in Game Theory, one of the biggest conferences in the field with NSF support since then. The Center is currently expanding to computational game theory.

With an emphasis on behavior, the Department of Psychology offers doctorate and training as one of the first in the country. Based in the behavioral tradition, the graduate program continues today and is well-known for its evidence-based clinical research and training. Ranked in 2017 as #4 Clinical Psychology Program by US News and World Report, the Clinical program contributes to the Krasner Center which provides affordable services to over 200 families per year.

Department changed to CAT. In 2011, Women's studies was transformed to include Gender studies and Cultural Studies into the same department by the suggestion of Dean Squires

Department faculty begin working more closely with colleagues across campus.The Department is not as isolated and forged strong partnerships with English, History, Political Science and Sociology Departments as well as the Center for Study of Social Justice. The fact that Barak Obama is US President contributes to the support for collaboration

Stony Brook becomes only University in SUNY System to provide a PhD in Women and Geneder Sexuality Studies

First PhD Cohort and five Grad students. The first PhD cohort and five grad students are under a merged department called the Cultural Analysis and Theory department (CAT).

Women's and Gender Studies recieved more space. The Bev Birns library and seminar were edndowed to the Women's and Gender Studies Department.

From the period of 1995-2011, the Womens Studies Program grows as an undergraduate program with a major and minor. The Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department prepares students to become future professionals, scholars, activists, and artists who engage critically with gender and sexuality issues in multicultural and transnational contexts. The departmental mission is 1) to familiarize students with the histories of feminist thought and social movements, 2) to teach them how to apply feminist, queer, and transgender theories in their writing and research, and 3) to train them in developing interdisciplinary problem-based methods applicable within and beyond scholarly settings.

In 1976, SBU joined a small number of universities and held the first class in Women's Studies (possibly in the department of Sociology). The Class led to more formal education and scholarship at the creation of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods in order to place women s lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social locations such as race, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, and disability.

From the late 1980s to the mid 1990's there was a huge contraction and loss of faculty in Sociology Department. Then Provost Rollin Richmond challenges Sociology Department reinvent itself. The Sociology Deopartment decides to take on the "Global Theme" and as such was one of the first to have a global focus. This focus on globalization yeilded seminal research and it formed the SBU Global Forum.

In 2009, the Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) Center opened. The SCAN Center is an imaging facility established by Dr. Turhan Canli (Psychology Department) with a major instrumentation grant from NSF and support from the Provost. Psychology and other departments use the Center for spatial and temporal resolution imaging of the structure and function of the brain.

In the late 1980's, the Psychology Department contributed to the development of the field of Health Psychology. The field of Health Psychology was a novel focus on the interface between psychology and medicine and contributes to excellence in Psychology Department and collaborations across CAS and the SBU Medical School.

In response to the "cognitive revolution" that swept psychology in the early 1980's, the department further developed cognitive experimental research. The Department of Psychology was founded in 1960 and is one of Stony Brook's largest and strongest departments, having awarded more than 800 Ph.D. degrees since its inception. Currently, the Department offers training in Integrative Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Social & Health Psychology. One of the great strengths, however, is the high degree of collaboration that transcends traditional academic boundaries and the numerous cross-cutting themes of study available as part of their graduate training.

In 2013, Cluster hire and center/lab were built. Redefined political Economy for us and aligned in strengths in methodology, game theory, and political psychology. College of business, provosts office, improved Dept, took some pressure off CAS budget.

Replacing departed faculty. 66% of the political psychology faculty retired, left the university, or moved to administration. The department was in danger of losing their trademark. Now the department has made some great hires and is flourishing again.

New faculty hires in computational linguistics. In this time frame, the Linguistics Department hired four new faculty members (3 Juniors and 1 Senior) in the area of computational linguistics. A new MA was launched in computational linguistics for the Fall 2018 semester plus a new track within the undergraduate major. These hires also add a new dimension to the training of our PhD students, and a new research specialization for the department. Computational linguistcs is collaborating with IACs whom we have a joint hire.

In 1991, a PhD in Lingustics was offered. Previously, the Departmentb offered a DA (Doctor of Arts) and a PhD through the department of Psychology. This degree established the Linguistics Department as a research based department focused on training the next generation of researchers.

In the mid 1970's the department of Linguistics were training students as teachers of english as a second language. A teacher certification program for TESOL was given to the Linguistics program in the mid 1970s. The department combined solid grounding in the study of linguistics and scientific study of language and english in particular. This development also provided students with a clear career path as teachers of ESOL. The department collaborated with all departments offering teacher certification programs and with (the now definct) PEP. A large percentage of local teachers (on Long Island) were educated and certified at SBU.

In 2006, there began a string of important hires in History Department. Always a strong research department, 2007 marks an inflection based on a string of brilliant Jr. faculty hires transforming the department. All have remained at SBU. It may have been influenced by collegial chemistry within the partment, graduate innovation, and tha national job market and economic collapse.

A move to "thematic" historical organization within the Grad. Program In responce to pressures of PhD opportunities and Grad school threats, committee designs the PhD curriculum that supercedes traditional geographic/temporal history fields for cross-cut themes.

Increases in offerings include summer/winter courses and development of on-line courses. Economics department os currently generating substantial revenue for CAS and allowing for new hires. Important generational change since 2013 with the retirement of non-research active faculty, hiring of young mid-career, very active faculty who are also willing to take on new leadership responsibilities. Hiring of senior facuklty from top institutions (Kellog, MIT).

In 2010, the Economics MA was established. The Economics MA is currently focused on economics but now expanding to other areas/programs such as: combined MA in economics/finance; accelerated BA-MA in economics; combined MA in economics/data science.

Robert J. Aumann, a long-time member of the faculty at Stony Brook University and now a Visiting Leading Professor, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics today for his work in game theory.

The number of Black Studies departments in the SUNY system and across the nation are declining. Faculty in the AFS department at Stonybrook have concerns at the administrative closing "smaller units" and those considered "area studies." Administrations insistence on joint hires compromises the department's authority and exherts to build and strengthen the program. . However, revising our curriculum and implementing new tracks leaves us optomistic.

Campus Administrators focus attention on the tragic assassination of MLK and increasing frustration of black students about their exclusion and lack of investment in a diverse curriculum. This time and events marked the establishment of the Africana Studies Department.

In 1971, the Music Department offers doctoral programs including a performance-oriented Doctor of Music Arts (DMA) degree. DMA students perform six recitals, including a research-oriented lecture recital. The Department of Music has grown into a remarkable musical institution, with a highly respected international reputation. Stony Brook is unique for a number of reasons: their distinguished faculty, the flexible and interdisciplinary graduate programs, a balanced student-to-faculty ratio, and the University s proximity to New York City. However, the true character of the department lies in its atmosphere: professional, collaborative, and innovative. The graduate students are treated as fellow professionals and are entrusted with a great deal of responsibility in the day-to-day operations of our department. Graduate students organize concerts, provide administrative and technical support, teach courses, and coach undergraduate lessons.

The Language Learning Research Center opened its doors in 1995 under the leadership of its founding Director, Mike Ledgerwood. The state-of-the art facility, one of the largest language centers in the country at the time, boasted computer rooms and two 60-seat, tech-equipped classrooms. Since its inception the LLRC has hosted seminars, guest lectures, and grant projects on the topics of language learning and teaching. Recent grants have included 3 rounds of StarTalk funding, a New York State Innovative Instructional Technology Grant and a Department of Education Undergraduate Studies and International Foreign Language Grant.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies hosted the 39th annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies, which convened 18 panels of Latin American scholars across two days on campus. It was the first time Stony Brook had been asked to serve as host to this regional association.

With support of a diversity mini-grant, Latin American and Caribbean Studies mounted an exhibition of original photographs on loan from the Mexican government that examined various aspects of the bracero (Mexican migrant laborers) experience. The exhibition became the platform for a year-long series of talks, forums, and other events held in the LACS Gallery around the theme of immigration.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies submitted repeated winning applications for the Tinker Foundation Field Research Fellowship, a three-year external fellowship to support graduate-level (masters, doctorate) pre-dissertation field research to Latin America. This prestigious fellowship provides an average of $2,000 per awardee across disciplines in the Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Humanities. Applicants submit research proposals that are vetted by a faculty committee overseen by the LACS Director. In Fall 2019 LACS will reapply for a fourth cycle of the Tinker Fellowship.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies submitted repeated winning applications for the Tinker Foundation Field Research Fellowship, a three-year external fellowship to support graduate-level (masters, doctorate) pre-dissertation field research to Latin America. This prestigious fellowship provides an average of $2,000 per awardee across disciplines in the Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Humanities. Applicants submit research proposals that are vetted by a faculty committee overseen by the LACS Director. In Fall 2019 LACS will reapply for a fourth cycle of the Tinker Fellowship.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies submitted repeated winning applications for the Tinker Foundation Field Research Fellowship, a three-year external fellowship to support graduate-level (masters, doctorate) pre-dissertation field research to Latin America. This prestigious fellowship provides an average of $2,000 per awardee across disciplines in the Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Humanities. Applicants submit research proposals that are vetted by a faculty committee overseen by the LACS Director. In Fall 2019 LACS will reapply for a fourth cycle of the Tinker Fellowship.

In Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the A Sanchez Construction Corporation Scholarship for Undergraduate Academic Achievement was established. A $2,500 prize awarded annually in recognition of an undergraduate student attending Stony Brook University who has shown outstanding academic achievement, scholarly promise and service and leadership to the community. The prize is offered to Latino/Latina juniors and first semester seniors in the College of Arts and Sciences with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA. Applicants are vetted by a faculty committee established by the LACS Director.

For the past 18 years LACS has hosted an annual, spring graduate student conference that attracts students from research universities across the United States as well as from Latin America and Europe. In 2017, following the loss of SBU-Manhattan, Stony Brook LACS established an on-going collaboration with Columbia University to co-host this conference.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies introduced the Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities. This prestigious three-year grant brought a total of eight Latin American post-doctoral fellows to research and write on the theme of “Durable Inequalities in Latin America: Histories, Societies and Cultures.” The result of this research was published in the volume "Indelible Inequalities in Latin America: Insights from History, Politics, and Culture" (Duke University Press, 2011).

In 2015, Katy Siegel hired as Art Department's first endowed chair, the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art. Siegel, whose primary interests include the relation between postwar and contemporary art, and scholarship that accounts for both material and social being/making, has brought increased connections with New York City Galleries to SBU.

In 1987 the property was deeded to the Stony Brook Foundation, a private, non-profit affiliate of Stony Brook University. The Study Center is now open to students, researchers, and the general public by appointment. The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center was created under the terms of Lee Krasner Pollock's will. She instructed her executors to deed the property to a charitable institution. She envisioned it as a public museum and library, to show the setting in which she and Jackson created many of their works, and as a place for the study of modern American art, especially the eastern Long Island art community. In 1987 the property was deeded to the Stony Brook Foundation, a private, non-profit affiliate of Stony Brook University. In preparation for interpreting the house and studio as the artists' living and working environment, it was learned that a new surface had been applied to the studio floor in 1953, during a major renovation in which the building was winterized. The museum was opened to the public in June 1988.

The Cultural Studies department merged with Women's and Gender Studies.

Before the formal launch of the Asian and Asian American Studies Department, there was a range of area studies on China, Japan, Korea and India in different departmental programs. Established in 2002, the Department of Asian & Asian American Studies is one of the few departments in the U.S. that integrates the study and teaching of both Asian and Asian American studies. It offers an interdisciplinary curriculum that highlights the history of New York as the home of Asian immigrants since the 19th century and recognizes the importance of the Asia-Pacific in this present century. Using textual studies and discourse analysis as the primary analytic tools, they focus on the study of Asian and Asian American languages, cultures, and intellectual histories over time and in contact with other global cultures. Among the faculty are internationally-recognized scholars in linguistics, cultural studies, philosophy, and religious studies.

In 2000, the Art Department conferred the first PhD in the field of Art History. Graduate programs (MA & MFA) in Art started in the 1980s under the leadership of Melvin H. Pekarsky, Donald Kuspit and others. The PhD program started in 1996. The Art Department remains one of the only departments that includes art criticism.

In the mid 1980s, Don Ihde and others within the Department of Philosophy contribute to a new philosophical movement in the philosophy of technology. For the phenomenologist, the 'impact view' of technology as well as the constructivist view of the technology/society relationships is valid but not adequate. Don Idhe joined others such as Heidegger 1977, Borgmann 1985, Winograd and Flores 1987, etc., to combine traditional philosophical approaches with empirical study. This work contributed to the argument that the technology/society relationship draws upon the other for its ongoing sense or meaning. For the phenomenologist, society and technology co-constitute each other; they are each other's ongoing condition, or possibility for being what they are. For them, technology is not just the artifact, rather, the artifact already emerges from a prior 'technological' attitude towards the world.

From the 1980s into the 1990s, writing portfolios became a field standard for assessing student writing. Pat Belanoff and Peter Elbow first introduced portfolio assessment at SBU in 1983. They implemented the use of the portfolios in place of a writing exit exam. Belanoff explains: "Our initial portfolio use at Stony Brook grew from the need to meet objection raised by timed, self-contained assessment of writing, recognition that process pedagogy is undermined by such testing and a growing awareness of the contextuality of all language use." Their portfolio system was a pure experimentation and now is the standard for assessment of freshmen and sophmore writing courses around the country. This was a highly innovative approach to assessment that fundamentally changed the first year writing in CAS and also resulted in increase of faculty workload.

In 1974, professor of philosophy Justus Buchler published "The Main of Light: On the Concept of Poetry," which was considered a breakthrough. In it, he describes three modes (doing, making and saying), which, in his terminology are the active, exhibitive and assertive modes. The active mode is applicable to politics, advertising and affecting change. The assertive mode concerns matters of truth and falsity and hence is pertinent to science. The exhibitive mode is most proper to the arts, where the producer strives to embody his insight. Integration across these modes, he contends, is essential for understanding.

SBU English Professor Peter Elbow and others launch a movement in composition and rhetoric that will come to be called expressionsim. Peter Elbow is perhaps best known as the author of "Writing Without Teachers" (1973) and "Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process" (1981), books intended primarily for lay readers, but transformed the way writing was taught from grade schools through University levels. He didn't invent freewriting as a writing technique, but developed and expanded the uses of freewriting (expressionism) and got the word out widely to teachers and writers alike. Teachers and theorists also appreciated his other techniques, such as how to use peer response groups, as well as how to use the believing game to help readers better understand and empathize with the author of a text instead of leaping immediately to criticism of the text. In this period, he established his larger theme: the democratization of writing.

In 1971, the Department of Philosophy gives birth to a new approach to graduate philosophy education. The Department of Philosophy pioneered a program that featured three "wings" or traditions of philosophy: analytic, pragmatic, and continental. This work fostered excellent placement of graduate students and had a strong interdisciplinary dimension. Today, the department grants BA, MA, and PhD degrees to a broad range of students with diverse and varied interests. Committed to a pluralist treatment of philosophical issues, the Department encourages interdisciplinary study as well as more traditional approaches to philosophy. Convinced that a knowledge of the history of philosophy is essential to the philosophical enterprise, the Department offers intensive courses in ancient, medieval, and modern thought. Other courses address specific philosophical problems in ethics, political theory, epistemology, aesthetics, environmental philosophy, feminism, critical race theory, and philosophy of technology.

The Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature was formed in 1970. In 1972, the last wave of the post war hispanic diaspora with some faculty arriving at Stony Brook including Vincente Llorens, Pedro Lastra (Chilean poet & scholar), and Clara Lida (Argentine historian). Lorens wrote about the exiles and liberals emigrations in the nineteenth century, matter in which their studies are still fundamental: Liberals and Romantics (1954), Memoirs of emigration (1975), Social Aspects of Spanish Literature (1974) and posthumously, The Spanish Romanticism (1980). The history of the Spanish culture would be, then, a series of "discontinuities" or fractures that he wanted and knew how to study with the documentary rigor and the expository clarity that always characterized him.

Comparative Literature emerges from the Department of English. The early 1970s mark the formation of the Comparative Literature major, which eventually led to formation of the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. The work focuses on the study of literature across national, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries, focusing on the global movement of people, ideas and cultures and stressing the ability to read literature in a language other than English. Today, students have the opportunity to examine literature's relation to more recent forms of communication, such as cinema, digital media, and new media, and to cultural and intellectual phenomena including colonialism, postcolonialism, diaspora, migration, urbanization, feminism, and queer studies.

In 1988, Professor Allan Kaprow of the Department of Art was recognized nationally for his creation of the "Happening," which was a distinctive 1960s performance art form.

Under the direction of Dr. Isaac Nemiroff, the Department of Music was founded and held its first concert.

Phase 1 of the Fine Arts Center opens and includes classrooms, offices, rehearsal halls, a foundry, studios and an art gallery. The Staller Center for the Arts is the main arts building at SBU. Originally called the Fine Arts Center, it was renamed after a $2 million donation by the Staller family, including former Old Field Mayor Cary F. Staller, who owned commercial real estate on Long Island. Located on the main campus, it consists of two main divisions. One section houses the music and art departments, while the other consists of the theatre, media, and dance departments.

From 2010 to 2018, the Art Department received major national grants and fellowships. Institutions providing funding includes National Endowment of the Humanities, Fullbright, Warhol Foundation, Getty Foundation, ACLS and Soros Foundations. Art faculty have received grants ranging from $9,000 to $1M.

In 2002, the AAAS was created as a new multi-disciplinary department. The new AAAS multi-disciplinary department both enriches and redefines language and cultural studies in CAS.

In 1996, the merging of the departments of French and Italian with the German and Slavic languages gives rise to ELLC. ELLC fosters research and teaching in modern and classical European languages, literatures, and cultures at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in native languages and in translation. The Department offers programs in Classical Civilization, European Studies, French, German, Italian, Italian American, Medieval Studies, and Russian Studies and prepares students for professional training, graduate study, and for a global market in which knowledge of other languages and cultures is increasingly essential.

In 2000, Harvard University's president questions the legitimacy of Black Studies and loses top scholars such as Cornel R. West. Black intellectuals express frustration with the question of the validity of Black Studies.

In 2002, one of the most visible hires in a string of appointments of world-class faculty was the addition of the Emerson String Quartet. Of the last 14 appointments in the Department of Music, including performers, composers, ethnomusicologists, historians, and theorist, every one was a first choice.

Over a period of six years, the PWR has five different directors and is moved in and out of the English Department several times. There was high turmoil from 1999-2005; the PWR stablized with the hire of Gene Hammond as director and eventually, three tenured/tenure track faculty.

From the 1990s to 2000s, the Hispanic Languages and Literature Department played a pioneering role in connecting disciplines across campus. During this period, the HLL Department linked visual arts and culture as well as Woman's and Gender Studies into curriculum and research. This broadened faculty research and the diversity of dissertations. The impact nationally and internationally on the field of HLL placed the Department at the center of interdisciplinary conversations in humanities and social sciences at SBU. This work led to a more collaborative role in founding and leading the College's Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center.

The Poetry Center is established at the Center for Contemporary Arts and Letters, headed by a Pulitzer Prize winner, Professor Louis Simpson of the Department of English.

In 1996, Charles Wang, president of Computer Associates donates $25 million to SBU for construction of an Asian American Studies Center. Governor George Pataki and Senator Alfonse D Amato attend ceremonies celebrating the event.

The Stony Brook Film Festival, produced by Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University, presents a program of new, independent films. Features and short films from the U.S. and around the world are screened over a ten day period.

In 2008, the Philosophy Deparment lost 1/3 of their faculty. This loss created significant challenges for interdisciplinary connections across CAS and for the graduate andf undergraduate programs.

In 2006, the creation of the Kade Fellowship Program in which philosophy students study in Germany. This is an annual opportunity for students to study in Germany and brings in $30k annually. Each year, up to three students who are nearing completion of their dissertation proposals are selected to participate in the Transatlantic Collegium of Philosophy. Collegium scholars are supported by fellowships generously provided by the Max Kade Foundation of New York. Kade Fellows of the Transatlantic Collegium spend one year doing dissertation research and attending relevant advanced seminars at a German university. Kade Fellows work on their dissertations under the co-directorship of faculty from both Stony Brook and one of the German partner universities.

New MA program in the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook started in 2003. The new program was founded by the SBU President and attracted new Students across CAS.

2015 was the re-start of the masters and doctoral programs in ethnomusicology. The re-start was after a hiatus of several years and brought interdisciplinary collaboration and outreach into the scholarly and interdisciplinary pursuits of the Music Department.

In 1994, the Music Department created a Community Music program that has expanded to now provide music education for students and adults. The Program includes education for students ages 3 to 18, as well as the initiation of an adult chamber music program, a percussion ensemble, and most recently, jazz education and a Music for Autism series. With the thousands of community members who attend the department's more than 300 events per year, and education going on the pre-college and post-college levels, the Department becomes a full-service institution for the study of and exposure to a wide range of musical styles.

Since opening in 1978, Staller Center for the Arts has presented an ever-expanding schedule of live music, dance, theatre, and fine art exhibitions in its five theaters and 5,000 square foot University Art Gallery. In 1994, the Center introduced 35mm film presentations in the Main Stage Theater, complete with Long Island's largest screen and a Dolby sound system. The Fall and Spring Semester Film Series brings campus and community the best in art, foreign and popular films. The Main Stage theater seats approximately 1,050; the Recital Hall seats 380; and the three "black box" theaters have a seating capacity from 75 to 225.

A response to the USAs Latino/Latina culture and population. In 2011, the latino cluster project and the proposal with Public Health was led by the Hispanic Languages and Literature department. In 2015, the cultural and social map of latino Long Island was created.

In 2014, new French and Italian faculty members were added to dynamize the department with Francophones and post colonial areas of expertise.

In 2003, ELLC Department creates programs in pedagogy for teachers to learn how to teach foreign languages. SBU provides most High School language teachers on Long Island.

In 1998, The Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) was launched when the Dean at that time separated Writing from English. Today, the PWR offers foundational courses in first-year writing that meet the University's "Write Effectively in English" general education requirement. These courses prepare students for the academic writing and research required in advanced courses across SBU.

In the mid 1990s, two faculty members in the English Department develop a curriculum for Cultural Studies. The pioneering work of curriculum development for Cultural Studies is later developed into a certificate program in Cultural Studies and Cinema. The courses and degree programs are housed in Comparative Literature.

In 1972 and again in 1979, two SBU faculty received the National Book Award. The first was awarded to Professor Charles Rosen for "The Classical Style;" the second was awarded to Professor Thomas Flanagan for "The Year of the French."

Symposium on India Studies breaks new ground. The first Stony Brook University Symposium on India Studies is held in 2002 and features presentations, specially intended for the general audience, by the Center's faculty and visiting scholars on India's history, religions, arts, languages, literature, environment, security, foreign policy, and the life, culture, and education of Indians in America.

In 2001, CSCL received formal approval (SED) for a PhD in Cultural Studies and the creation of a 2nd track to the PhD in Comparative Literature.

Jan Kott, a Polish political activist, spent 1969 to 1983 teaching at Stony Brook University and created a Comparative Studies Program. The Department later developed into the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (CSCL).

From 2012 to present the Department ranks in the 96th percentile out of 154 units (SRI-AA). External funding roughly $2M from both US and international sources. New Masters of Arts, new BA in Asian Language as well as teacher education. Cross departmental and interdisciplinary engagement.