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.

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).

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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).

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

The Board of Trustees of the State University of New York Issued its recommendation for the establishment of a new state supported and operated college on Long Island in 1955. After two years of deliberation and planning, the State University Board of Regents announced the opening of the new college. First established on the idyllic grounds of Planting Fields, William Robertson Coe 's arboretum estate in Oyster Bay, the State University College on Long Island opened in 1957 to prepare students for careers as science and mathematics teachers. A permanent campus was later established in historic Stony Brook on a four-hundred-eighty acre site donated by philanthropist Ward Melville.

State University College on Long Island at Oyster Bay held its first class on September 16, 1957 then moved to current location in 1962. There are 144 first-year students and 14 faculty members. A pre-fabricated building is erected near the 65-room Tudor mansion. Together with a dormitory converted from horse stables, this makes up the temporary campus. The college is tuition-free.

148 students admitted in first class. On September 17, 1957, the first cohort of students were welcomed by Dean Olsen and were provided a tour of the Coe Estates. This was the former mansion of William Robertson Coe, a 480 acre tract of land donated by Ward Melville. One newspaper called it the "Nation's most beautiful campus." There was no tuition for all 148 students.

"Special circumstances" lead to firing of three faculty in 1960. "Toward the end of July, 1959 I received shocking news from Ralph Bowen: he and two other faculty members, Emanuel Chill and Martin Fleisher, had received letters from Dean Olsen notifying them that their appointments would not be renewed upon their expiration in the spring of 1960. Soon after that all of the divisional and department chairs received a memo from Olsen informing us of this action. The memo went on to say that it had been taken ' .because of special circumstances involved, and for reasons well known to all of you ,' and '....with painstaking concern for justice and the welfare of this College. I knew nothing of the special circumstances,' or of the 'well known' reasons requiring that they be fired. I knew only that the three named faculty members were bright, dedicated and articulate, that they cared deeply about educational issues, spoke up often during faculty meetings, and that all three had previously been faculty participants in Columbia s Contemporary Civilization program."

On February 24, 1965, the Stony Brook Foundation, Inc. was incorporated "to assist in advancing the welfare and development of the State University of New York at Stony Brook by accepting and encouraging gifts to this corporation and by using such gifts to advance such purposes in a manner consistent with the educational policies of the State University of New York." The Foundation by-laws state that a Board of Trustees shall "manage the property, affairs, business, and concerns of the Foundation."

Classes begin in September with 6000 students and 572 faculty members.

In the early hours of January 17, 1968, 198 policemen led by the Suffolk County Narcotics Squad coordinated a military style raid on the students of Stony Brook University including dormitories, off-campus apartments and private homes. Time magazine calls it "the largest crackdown so far on drug users at any university."

In 1968, with many critical issues including overcrodwing, drug raid etc. the SBU leadership led a three day inclusive planning process. From October 22 to 24, 1968, Stony Brook University led one of the most progressive and experimental approaches to student engagement on crticial issues in the face of campus unrest. External crises included abolishment of draft deferrments, assasination of Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy and violence at the Democratic National Convention. Internally, overcrowding of dorms, a recent drug raid, parking and housing issues and overall student protest. The event led to the creation many new efforts including Black Studies, a representative University Senate and special assignment for President John Toll leaving Dr. Pond to preside over the University during a period that according to Sidney Gelbar, "proved to be among the most critical and dangerous that the University had ever faced."

On March 19, 1969 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organizes a Library sit-in for students rights. Hundreds of students participate; twenty-one are arrested after refusing repeated requests by President Toll to leave the building. On May 15 of the same year, the University gatehouse is burned and a security car overturned as student unrest continues.

Classes begin in September with 12,000 students and 830 faculty members.

First formal evaluation of undergraduate programs at SBU as part of accrediation. The Middle States Association of College and Secondary Schools approached Stony Brook to conduct a new type of review where the university was responsible for a "self-study" focused on any aspect it considered to be important to the future of SBU. President Toll assigned the academic VP to organize and oversee the study that led to three ad hoc task groups. The report revealed erosion in student and faculty performance and identified "two Stony Brooks" one where students and faculty were satisfied with each other and the other where there was significant dissent. The review served as the institutions first baseline from which to measure progress and served as a model for other institutions such as Stanford.

In 1976, an experimental program called The Federated Learning Communities is launched. The Federated Learning Communities, an interdisciplinary approach to real world challenges is established with its founder, Professor Patrick Hill, as "master learner." The first unit is on World Hunger and has 24 students.

In 1982, the Chronicle of Higher Education publishes results of study which includes national rankings. While data were drawn from 1970s and included some "faulty assumptions and techniques," Stony Brook emerges as a major research university with disciplines in the top quartile of the country: physcis (11th); sociology (14th); geosciences (17th); mathematics (18th); computer sciences (19th); and, psychology (25th).

In 1991, Campus required to absorb $1.7 million mid-year budget cut and then another $3.8 million in November. Tuition increased by $500 per year. State imposes second payroll deferment plan. Elimination of holiday activities results in utility cost avoidance of $375,000. Student enrollment swells to all-time high of 17,700.

In 1992, Stony Brook University joins Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and North Shore Hospital in creating the Long Island Research Institute to facilitate technology transfers and faculty and student engagement with notable research institutions.

In 1998, Stony Brook places 12th among all US colleges and universities in royalties generated from inventions licensed to industry ($12 million). SB accounts for 98% of all SUNY-system licensing revenue. (In previous five years, SB recorded 319 invention disclosures, 142 patents issued, 161 licenses. 16 new companies were formed to commercialize SB-originated technologies; 14 are in New York State, and 12 on Long Island.

Marine Sciences Research Center (MSRC) receives $1 million from the New York State legislature. The funding is for a marine pathology laboratory to investigate marine diseases, particularly those affecting the Long Island lobster industry. Billy Joel donates proceeds of his Stony Brook concert to MSRC.

In 2001, Stony Brook becomes member of the Association of American Universities (AAU). As part of the management team of Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University joins a prestigious group of universities that have a role in running federal R&D labs. Stony Brook University is a driving force in the region’s economy, generating nearly 60,000 jobs and an annual economic impact of more than $4.6 billion.

The campus was established in 2002 as a branch facility of State University of New York at Stony Brook. It consolidated operations in 2011 to the 3rd floor of 387 Park Avenue South, with a classroom entrance around the corner at 101 East 27th Street. The 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2) site allowed Stony Brook to offer professional and graduate courses targeted towards students in the city; undergraduate courses were held primarily during the summer and winter sessions. Conferences and special events took place throughout the year. As of February 2017, the lease for the facility was terminated and classes are no longer offered.

In 2002, the Charles B. Wang Center holds its official opening and dedication. The 1,200 square foot building cost a total of $40M to build and is the largest single private gift that the SUNY system has ever received from a donor.

A relic of the 1960s campus building boom, the notorious Bridge to Nowhere was originally supposed to connect the Library with the Student Union. However, construction was never completed and for years, the raised walkway came to an abrupt and precipitous end. (Legend says contractors inverted the blueprint and built the structure the wrong way around.) Eventually, the Bridge was extended and rerouted across the Plaza, but it was rarely used.

Stony Brook and the National Park Service enter into a long-term partnership to expand the University's role in conducting and applying research to natural and cultural resource management issues at U.S. National Parks. SBU joins the North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (NAC-CESU), a collaboration of federal agencies and universities that provides research, technical assistance, and education to resource and environmental managers.

In 2004, the University Launches Center For Wine, Food And Culture. The Center features regional wineries, star chefs and special guests Kevin Zraly, Waldy Malouf. The Center is the first of its kind in New York State.

n 2006, the university acquired the former campus of Long Island University in Southampton, NY. Under the new ownership of Stony Brook University starting with a class of 200 in August 2007, the campus featured an innovative curriculum devoted to issues of sustainability and the environment. Southampton’s interdisciplinary academic programs focused on issues of ecological sustainability, with undergraduate majors in Environmental Studies, Marine Sciences, Marine Vertebrate Biology, Ecosystems and Human Impact, Environmental Design, Policy and Planning and Sustainability Studies. A minor in Business Management with a focus on environmental sustainability was also offered through Stony Brook University's College of Business, and a five-year Fast Track BA/BS-MBA program is also offered in partnership with the College of Business.

Stony Brook University announces that it will start a Winter Session program beginning in January, 2006.

A 3 day conference held in Albany in April 2009 to celebrate SUNNY's 60th anniversary - Led to Launch of SUNY 2020. This conference held to commemorate SUNY's 60th anniversary. It had 20 sessions and two keynotes and included presentations from two former Chancellors. Some content delivered at the conference was later collected into a book in 2010: "SUNY at 60: The Promise of the State University of New York"

On December 14, 2011, Dr. Stanley announced a transformational $150 million gift to the University from Jim and Marilyn Simons and the Simons Foundation. The Simons gift was the largest gift ever to Stony Brook University and to public higher education in the State of New York. It is among the top 10 gifts to any public college or university in America. In keeping with Dr. Stanley's vision for the University's future, the Simons gift will fund three major priorities: (1) research excellence in the School of Medicine, (2) faculty hires through new endowed professorships, and (3) recruitment of top-level graduate and undergraduate students.

Stony Brook University conducts interdisciplinary faculty cluster hiring initiative, part of Stony Brook's NY SUNY 2020 plan to add more than 250 faculty over five years (2012-2017). Of the 36 proposals received in response to the first round of this initiative, five clusters were selected for funding, which will result in the hiring of 25 new faculty each in the areas of Behavioral Political Economy; Biomolecular Imaging; Coastal Zone Management and Engineering; Photon Science at the Joint Stony Brook-Brookhaven National Laboratory Photon Science Institute (JPSI); and Smart Energy Technology.

Simons Foundation enabled Stony Brook University to establish a world-class Institute for Advanced Computational Science. The core mission of the Institute is to advance the science of computing and its applications to solving complex problems in the physical sciences, the life sciences, medicine, sociology, industry and finance. In this endeavor, the Institute will cooperate closely with the new Computational Science Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory, which specializes in large-scale data analysis.

On November 21, 2015 Stony Brook University launched the public phase of a seven-year, $600 million comprehensive campaign. The capital campaign, led by the Stony Brook Foundation, is the largest in the history of the State University of New York. More than 30,000 individuals have already donated a total of $426 million and the Foundation expects to raise the remaining $176 million by July 2018.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awards funding for the newly formed Stony Brook University Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS). A $1.4 million Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant was awarded to SBU to acquire an additional high-performance computer system that will further build the University's computational capacity and big data analyses in research and education initiatives encompassing all fields. Total funding for the computer cluster will reach $2 million, based on $600,000 in matching grants from internal University sources and the Empire State Development's NYSTAR program ($300,000). IACS is a $20-million supported 6,000 square-foot facility with the mission to make sustained advances in the science of computation and its applications to complex problems in many fields.

SBU announces budget shortfall in 2017 of $1.5 million, while state approves a $8 billion allocation to SUNY schools in April.

According to US New and World Report, Stony Brook University's ranking in the 2018 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities is 97. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 17,026 located on 1,454 acres. Its in-state tuition and fees are $9,257 (2017-18); out-of-state tuition and fees are $26,297 (2017-18).

In May 2018, Stony Brook University was been identified by Forbes as one of the top large companies at which to be an employee in America. Stony Brook is one of only 25 educational organizations to make the list and was #16 of all colleges and universities. It was the only Long Island university or college named and one of two Long Island companies selected.

Dr. John Francis Lee. Dr. Lee was the first President of College in 1961. His mandate from SUNY was to convert the Long Island Center from a science and engineering college to a full-scale university, complete with liberal arts and sciences programs and a graduate school. Although these edicts were fulfilled, Dr. Lee left this post amidst political controversy in November 1961. SUNY President Dr. Thomas H. Hamilton was subsequently appointed as Acting Administrative Head of the University.

One year appointment. Karl D. Hartzell served a one-year appointment at Stony Brook as Acting Chief Administrative Officer and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

In 1965, John S. Toll, a Princeton-trained physicist and former professor and chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland, became the second president of Stony Brook University. By the time he left, the school of 1,800 students had been built to one of 17,000 students and, in addition to arts and sciences and engineering, he added schools of public affairs, medicine, dentistry, nursing, allied health professions, basic health sciences, and social work. Toll recruited elite researchers and scholars, including Nobel Prize recipient CN Yang, to develop competitive academic departments. For his contributions to the University, Toll was listed among 100 Who Shaped the Century by Newsday.

Richard Schmidt, served as interim President of SBU 1978-1980.

In 1980, John H. Marburger III became the third president of Stony Brook University. Marburger held the position until 1994 when he became University Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering. Marburger's presidency coincided with the opening of University Medical Center and the development of the biological sciences as a major strength of the university. During the 1980s, federally sponsored scientific research at Stony Brook grew to exceed that of any other public university in the Northeast. In 1998, he became director of Brookhaven National Laboratory and president of Brookhaven Science Associates. He also served President George W. Bush as science advisor and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Shirley Strum Kenny was the first woman and humanist to serve as President of Stony Brook University. After a distinguished career as a literary scholar, teacher, and academic administrator, she came to Stony Brook as its fourth president in 1994. She strengthened the core academic and research operations of the University, fostered close links with business and industry, and established new working relationships with the Long Island community. Kenny launched and chaired the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University with funding from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Prior to her tenure at Stony Brook, Kenny was President of Queens College from 1985 to 1994.

On July 1, 2009, Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, became the fifth president of Stony Brook University, taking the helm of one of the nation's most prestigious research institutions. One of just 62 members of the invitation-only Association of American Universities, Stony Brook is recognized for its innovative programs, groundbreaking discoveries and integration of research with undergraduate education.

State University of New York trustees appointed Provost Michael Bernstein as Stony Brook University's interim president. Bernstein came to Stony Brook in October 2016 as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. He previously served at Tulane University in New Orleans as the John Christie Barr professor of history and economics and provost and chief academic officer from 2007 through 2016.

His teaching and research interests focus on the economic and political history of the United States, macroeconomic theory, industrial organization economics, and the history of economic theory.

The University of the State of New York (USNY) was established in 1784 to oversee the operation of Columbia University. Columbia University was founded before the revolutionary war as King's College by royal charter. After independence it was reopened as Columbia and USNY was established to play an oversight role. This is the earliest establishment of state oversight of higher ed in the US.

In 1913, New York State implements an aid program to give money to students which could be used at any public or private institution - differing from the approach taken by other states where state schools had already been established. This aid program gave support to students that could be used at any public or private institution - differing from the approach taken by other states where state schools had already been established.

1. Instead of creating a public university in response to the Morrill Act, New York establishes Cornell in 1865 as a private university and designates it the state's land grant university. Ezra Cornell, a member of the State Legislature, chaired the Senate Committee on Agriculture. He proposed giving $500,000 to found a university that would bear his name. In recognition of growing sentiment to support students that could not afford tuition, the legislation stipulated that Cornell would "admit free of tuition one student from each Assembly District each year."

The commission issued a report in 1948 which was the foundation on which the justification for establishing SUNY at the legislative level was built. This report was the foundation on which the justification for establishing SUNY at the legislative level was built.

Governor Thomas E. Dewey established SUNY in 1948. The SUNY system was established after WWI in response to the need to meet demand for post-secondary education from former GIs as an alternative to providing state aid to the many private colleges in New York. Prior to the establishment of SUNY, New York was the only state without a state university. Resistance to the establishment of a state university was strong and the original mandate for the university was that it would only supplement the existing private universities already in present in the state. One of the stated goals of establishing SUNY was to ban discrimination in college admissions - a problem that was recognized to exist at the private institutions

A bequeath by William Robertson Coe leaves "Planting Fields" to State of New York for its University system. William Robertson Coe (June 8, 1869 March 15, 1955) was an insurance, railroad and business executive, and an important philanthropist for the academic discipline of American Studies. Planting Fields, the Coe's estate in Upper Brookville, New York, was built around 1911 on the famous Gold Coast of Long Island. Coe Hall, the manor house, was designed by the firm of Walker and Gillette and built between 1918 and 1921. The Coes' interest in rare species of trees and plant collections made the estate a botanical marvel.[1] The 409-acre (1.66 km2) estate was deeded to the State of New York in 1949. Today, operated by a foundation, Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park is a popular attraction. The historic gates, built in 1712 in Sussex, England (which Coe had imported), have been used as a setting for numerous films.

The legislation that created SUNY prevented funds being spent on it for one year. So even though it was created in 1948, it couldn't begin operating until 1949.. this delay was part of the effort to kill the idea by people opposed to it, including those who preferred to address demand by providing aid to the many private colleges in the state and to avoid competing with them.

Ward Melville and his wife Dorothy Melville donated more than 600 acres to the State of new York. A scale model of the new campus to be built in Stony brook was on display in the capital building in Albany. On April 8, 1960, Governor Rockefeller, Ward Melville, and Frank C. Moore, Chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees, turned the first spades of dirt at the formal groundbreaking ceremonies in Stony Brook. The new campus was designated a university center on June 6, 1960 and subsequently renamed the State University of New York, Long Island Center.

SUNY awarded one quarter of the faculty research grants in 1958. Dean Olsen's recruitment efforts doubled the faculty size. Faculty agreed to required 128 credit hours in order to be granted a bachelor of science degree in physics, biology and chemistry

SUNY extends College's mandate in 1959 to include degree programs in fields of chemistry, math etc. While tuition remained free for students seeking careers in education, an enrollment fee of $375 for New York residents and $455 for out of state residents was instituted.

The Heald report was released in 1960 and featured a study of NY State's higher education programs. The preparation of the Stony Brook campus began in 1959, when SUNY embarked on a $150 million building program on 480 acres of woodlands in Stony Brook. The construction coincided with issuance of the 1960 Heald Report, a study of New York State's higher education programs commissioned by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. This report recommended that a major new university center be established on Long Island to "stand with the finest in the country."

The Muir Report of 1963 recommended to Governor Rockefeller and the SUNY Board of Regents the establishment of a new medical center on Long Island. The new medical complex would include "schools of medicine, dentistry and other health professions on the State University campus at Stony Brook, Long Island by 1970. The University's administrators began planning for a comprehensive Health Sciences Center on Stony Brook's East Campus. The towers the Health Sciences Center were completed in three stages between 1976-1980 at a cost of approximately $300 million. Today, the complex is comprised of the Schools of Dental Medicine, Health Technology and Management, Medicine, Nursing, Social Welfare and the Long Island State Veterans Home.

Following the passage of the Taylor Act (1967) that gave public employees the right to bargain collectively, the State University Federation of Teachers (SUFT) sought the right to bargain for faculty at Stony Brook in 1969. By the end of 1970, faculty at all SUNY campuses were part of a single collective bargaining unit. Employee and Labor Relations has a primary role in advising supervisors on matters of contract interpretation and application for State employees and employee relations policy for Research Foundation employees which recognizes the rights and responsibilities of labor and management. Today, State employees at the University are represented by CSEA, GSEU, PEF, UUP, NYSCOPBA and NYSPBA. The collective bargaining agreements with these unions can be found on the Governor's Office of Employee Relations website. Copies of the agreements are also available in our offices which are located on the West Campus (Administration Building, Room 291A) and East Campus (HSC Level 3, Room 040). Research Foundation-funded graduate students are represented by the Stony Brook Reseach Assistants Union.

At the scale of SUNY, a Commission reviewed doctoral programs. Even while others were cut, SBU survived with no cuts. President John Toll felt that the reason why there were no cuts to the doctoral programs at SBU was because, according to Sidney Gelber "the role of effective department chairs. He regarded them as ultimately responsible for the quality of their programs and faculty in their units." Many of the departments were gaining national and international academic distinction.

Facing budget crisis, the State of New York/SUNY decided to retrench faculty which resulted in $48 million of reduction of educational services in New York. Retrenchment was favored because it would offer a more permanent soultion to a budget crisis. By August of 1977, 2,220 people had been removed from the SUNY payroll and 246 were faculty. At SBU, 60 were affected, 21 retrenched including one tenured faculty.

In 1989 an ongoing process to plan for the future was created called SUNY 2000 its goals were to create a vision for SUNY as it entered the 21st century and develop concrete plans. In 1989 an ongoing process to plan for the future was created called SUNY 2000 its goals were to create a vision for SUNY as it entered the 21st century and develop concrete plans. This process resulted in the publication of a report in 1991 called"SUNY 2000"

SUNY provides funding to increase minority enrollment in STEM disciplines. The State University of New York Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) led by Stony Brook University, with the University at Albany, Binghamton University, and the University of Buffalo as partners, receives a five-year, $5.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation for an initiative to increase participation at the graduate level of underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

Plan released to to elevate SUNY as a catalyst for regional economic development and affordable education. The program provides incentive for capital development on SUNY campuses and within surrounding communities, while also establishing Maintenance of Effort provisions and a rational tuition program that allows schools, parents and students to anticipate expenses. Dr. Stanley's advocacy of the NY SUNY 2020 legislation, which provides critically needed funding for the State University of New York, has marked the early years of his presidency. He also initiated Project 50 Forward, a University-wide effort dedicated to operational excellence, academic greatness, and building for the University's future. Under Dr. Stanley, Seawolves teams have played under a national spotlight for the first time, winning the Big South football title and earning a berth in the 2011 FSB tournament.