Stony Brook University

The State University of New York at Stony Brook (also known as the University of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook, SBU) is a research university granting sea and in space to the public concession located in Stony Brook, New York , in United States. It is part of the State University of New York System (SUNY).

The institution was founded in 1957 in Oyster Bay and College State University of Long Island. What would become the university moved to Stony Brook 1962.Since its inception in Stony Brook, the university has expanded to include over 200 large buildings with a combined area of ​​more than 11 million square feet across 1,454 acres of land.In 2001, SUNY Stony Brook was elected member of the Association of American universities, joining four private universities (Cornell, Columbia, New York University and Rochester) and a public university (SUNY Buffalo) elsewhere in their state. He is also a member of the Association of Research of the largest Universities for its president Samuel Stanley is a chairman.

The university has Stony Brook Medicine, co-directs the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2005 acquired land for a park research and development with its main campus, and has four business incubators throughout the region. The university has a regional economic impact of more than $ 4.6 billion annually which represents almost 4% of economic activity in expenses eastern Long Island and research that have passed the mark of $ 200 million annually.

Stony Brook is single employer in Long Island larger site. More than 24,500 students are enrolled at the university, which has more than 14,500 employees and more than 2,400 teachers.

Stony Brook has a number of athletic teams. The Stony Brook Seawolves are members of the Eastern Conference colonial America and the Athletic Association to compete in Division I NCAA level since 1994.

 History

 Origins in Oyster Bay

The State University of New York at Stony Brook was established in Oyster Bay in 1957 as the State College of Long Island (SUCOLI), by the governor and the state of New York. Established a decade after the creation of the system of public higher education in New York, the institution was conceived as a university for the preparation of secondary teachers ago almost.

Leonard K. Olson was appointed as the first dean of the institution and was instrumental in the recruitment of faculty and campus planning afternoon Stony Brook. SUCOLI opened with an inaugural class of 148 students, in the grounds of the William Robertson Coe Planting Fields roots. These first students were admitted free base tuition.

1961 was a year of firsts as thirty students were conferred degrees on the first start and the University was named its first president, John Francis Lee. Lee left the same year due to political and bureaucratic issues regarding the future of the University and the central administration in Albany. However, Lee met its primary task of remodeling the college of science and engineering at the Technical University of options limited to a large-scale university programs offering liberal arts way.

Place in Stony Brook

In 1960, Heald Report, commissioned by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, recommends a major new public university will be built in Long Island "to be with the best in the country," a report that ultimately shape the majority of the University growth in the coming years.

Ward Melville, a philanthropist and businessman in the area of ​​Three Village, in western Suffolk County donated more than 400 acres of land from the state for the development of a state university and in 1962 the institution moved to Stony Brook demand changes its name to the State University of New York at Stony Brook officially.

The campus had 782 students enrolled in 1962, and in 1969 the enrollment had increased more than ten times, surpassing the mark of 8000, driven by the large funding for public higher education in the Sputnik era. In 1963, only three years after the publication of the report Heald, the governor commissioned the "Education for Health Professionals" (Muir Report) report. The report highlights the need for expansion of the university system to prepare medical professionals for the future needs of the state.The report was particularly important for Stony Brook as recommended the creation of a Center for Health Sciences and the university hospital in the campus to serve the need of the fastest growing counties (Nassau and Suffolk) in New York at the time.

 Growth

In 1965, State University named John S. Toll a renowned physicist at the University of Maryland as the second president of Stony Brook.In 1966, the University initial schedule for development of the Center for Health Sciences is established, that would house health programs of the university and the hospital. Despite budgetary concerns and challenges of the University of Albany he unveiled a plan formalized in early 1968 and funds for hiring teachers were allocated. At the same time, residential housing was extended to 3000, the Union opened Stony Brook in 1970, and in 1971, the proposed massive expansion of the campus library was completed (named in memory of Frank Melville Jr., father of philanthropist Melville hall).


Despite the growth of fast-paced, campus infrastructure often he struggled to keep pace: Overcrowding, expansion, landscaping, lighting, and security were continuing problems in the University which led to many protests and growing tension between students and administration. In January 1968 the infamous drug raid "Operation Stony Brook" resulted in the arrest of twenty-nine students and in the fall of 1968, the tension reached its climax as the administration and the students decided on a suspension of three days to gather all college with improved target communication between students, teachers and administration. Despite the efforts of the "three days" in school improvement, February 1973 tragedy struck when a freshman fell to his death in one of the many manholes steam pipe exposed in the College.

The 1970s witnessed the growth of the University and its transformation as a major research institution SUNY system with strong graduate programs and scientific advances, including the development of MRI. But the University was significantly delayed in higher education, giving priority to higher education and research on graduate studies and student life. In 1975, enrollment had reached 16,000 and cross Nicolls Road expansion, with the construction of the Center for Health Sciences, which was completed in 1980.

In 1981 John Marburger was inaugurated as the third president of the University and to continue the expansion of the institution. In late 1980 the government affirmed the need to improve other areas of the institution including university education, students and residential life, intercollegiate athletics and. The University adopted a decision to make the transition from athletics NCAA Division I and continued the construction of the Stony Brook Arena and expansion of indoor sports complex.

Recent developments 

The 1990 Stony Brook claimed success in building a research university with a strong college education. Under the leadership of its fourth president, Shirley Strum Kenny, the administration sought to show the value of the institution. Kenny was responsible for the entire campus improvement projects including landscaping large-scale renovations of each residence, the continued growth of athletic programs, improving the lives of students, increasing research spending, a branding campaign / marketing, and increasing ties with the university private philanthropy.

In 1998, the University broke into the top 100 American research universities in the US News & World Report and its relatively affordable tuition placed among the best values ​​among universities in the nation. That same year, the University and the Battelle Memorial Institute were chosen by the Department of Energy operators and Brookhaven National Laboratories sets join a select group of universities, national laboratories operating throughout the country. Enrollment reached the mark of 20,000 in 2001, and efforts to improve the administration climaxed with the invitation to the highly selective Association of American Universities, an organization of sixty-two universities across North America has committed a strong system of research and education, becoming the third public university in the northeast to receive such an invitation (Buffalo and Rutgers admitted in 1989).

2002 saw the opening of the $ 22 million Kenneth P. Lavalle Stadium, and the opening of the Charles B. Wang Center mass dedicated to Asian and American culture funded by a grant of $ 50 million Charles B. Wang, in the time of the largest private donation to a SUNY institution. In 2003, chemistry professor Paul Lauterbur received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research and discovery Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, which played a decisive role in the development of NMR imaging (MRI), while in Stony Brook. In 2005, the University campus purchased the adjacent property by eminent domain Flowerfield, such as land for development of a Research and Development Park. Plans for a law school were in talks, but shortly after scrapping.

In 2009, Shirley Strum Kenny President resigned and in May 2009 Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr. was announced as the fifth president of Stony Brook. The 2000s late (decade) saw the University receive historical philanthropic donations with Jim Simons make multiple multimillion donations: including: $ 25 million donation to the Foundation of Stony Brook in 2006, a donation of $ 60 million development Simons Center for geometry and Physics in 2008 and a landmark $ 150 million donation to the University in 2011. Other major donations were provided by students Joe Nathan, Stuart Goldstein, Glenn Dubin and for the renewal of the sports facilities. In 2010 Stanley announced Project 50 Forward, a comprehensive plan for the development of the University in the next fifty years with a focus on "operational excellence, academic greatness, and building for the future."

2012 saw the adoption of the state law that allows university centers to rationalize tuition increases for the next five years and the inclusion of a challenge capital grant for each university, a landmark bill that provides greater autonomy of schools known as SUNY Stony Brook campus was completed 2020-awaited recreation center and hotel on campus. The renovation of the old chemistry and its conversion into a classroom building by Flad Architects, the design team, and Leslie E. Robertson Associates, structural engineers. The construction of a new building of Computer Science $ 40.8 million are underway, while reviewing the Stony Brook Arena $ 21 million was completed in October 2014. Future projects is the construction of an update complex next to the Wang Center, residential Stony Brook Union and the building and translational medical Research $ 194 million. In 2013 Stony Brook received its best ranking ever in the category of National University US News & World Report ranked the 82nd best university, and 34 the best public university education product.


 Campus

Main Campus

The main campus is located in the historic hamlet north coast of Stony Brook near the geographic midpoint of Long Island, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Manhattan and 67 miles (108 kilometers) west of Montauk. It bounded to the north by the New York State Route 25A (North Country Road) campus is divided into "West Campus" and "East Campus" through County Road 97 (Nicolls Road). Ashley Forest Preserve Schiff separates from West Campus South Campus. The Long Island Railroad serves the community with the Stony Brook Station located in the north end of campus.

West

The west campus is the center of academic life of the university. Contains most of the accommodation facilities for academics, sports and undergraduate students at the same time be the original site of the university.


The modern campus is centered on the academic center, which spans more than a quarter mile Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at the west end of the administration building at the east end. The academic center includes the activity of the Student Center, Frank Jr. Memorial Library Melville, Staller Center for the Arts, Humanities, Psychology A and B, Harriman Hall, Frey Hall (formerly known as Old Chemistry), Earth and Space Science, Mathematics, and physical facilities. The short distances from the mall are home patio Engineering Engineering, light, heavy engineering, and facilities Computing Center. The life sciences complex, Javits Center Lecture, the Social Behavioral Sciences, Computer Science, and facilities of the Student Union are also on the west campus. Among the latest additions to the school is the center of Simons for geometry and physics, the new Walter J. Hawrys Campus Recreation Center, the Hilton Garden Inn, Frey Hall, and a new building of Computer Science. The Staller Center containing the largest cinema screen in Suffolk County Long Island Film Festival has Stony Brook.

Sports facilities are located in the northwest quadrant of the west campus, including the sports complex Stony Brook, Stony Brook University Arena, home of Kenneth P. Lavalle, Joe Nathan Field, University Track and Field University.

South

South Campus is half a mile south of the academic center and separated from West Campus for Ashley Schiff Forest Preserve. It is home to the School of Dental Medicine, Faculty of Marine Sciences and Atmospheric Administration (SOMA), the Cody Center for Autism and Development, and the headquarters of the university police.

 Research and Development


Located in Stony Brook Road, one mile from the center of the room is the Park Research and Development. On November 3, 2005, the University announced that it had formally acquired 246 acres (1.00 km2) of the adjacent property Flowerfield, originally owned by the St. James Gyrodyne, through eminent domain, three years after the University had expressed I desire to acquire the property.

Stony Brook is using this property as a Research and Development Park, similar to other science parks affiliated with universities around the country. The campus will ultimately accommodate ten new buildings. The first building, the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology, was completed in October 2008. The construction of the Center for Research and Advanced Technology of Energy, designed by Flad architects, started in summer 2008 and is open from spring 2010.

 Middle

East Campus is separated from the main campus of Nicolls Road (County Road 97). It is home to the Stony Brook University Hospital and the Center for Health Sciences. Stony Brook University Hospital, completed in 1980, is the only tertiary hospital Suffolk County and Level 1 Trauma Center, and the single-largest Suffolk also to any Nassau County academic medical center in the county. [28] The hospital is the largest in the county of Suffolk and accompanying Health Sciences Center (HSC) and the tower of Basic Sciences (BST) houses numerous laboratories, School of Medicine, nursing school, and numerous programs allied health.

Also located on the east side of campus are the Chapin apartments providing accommodation for graduate students. The Long Island High Technology Incubator, one of four business incubators University, is a few steps north of the hospital. Directly south of the Hospital you are the Center Stony Brook Cancer and Ambulatory Surgery Center. Children's Hospital Stony Brook can also be found on the Campus East. In late 2013 Stony Brook announced the construction of the building and Translational Medical Research $ 194 million, which is in the East Campus. The Long Island State Veterans Home serve the community of veterans Long Island you are in this part of the campus.

 Manhattan Campus

Main article: Stony Brook Manhattan
In 2002, the University established its presence in Manhattan with the opening of Stony Brook Manhattan. The original site is located at 401 Park Avenue South; a recent operation opened in late 2008 in the adjacent building on the third floor of 387 Park Avenue South. University consolidates its operations in 2011 to only the 3rd floor of 387 Park Avenue South, with a classroom entrance around the corner at 101 East 27th Street. The site of 18,000 square feet (1,700 m2) allows Stony Brook to offer vocational training courses and graduate students led in the city of New York; degree courses are held mainly during the summer and winter sessions. Conferences and special events are held throughout the year.

Southampton Campus

On March 24, 2006, the University has completed the purchase of 81 acres (330,000 m2) Southampton College (in the east end of Long Island) owned by the University of Long Island with the intention of developing it as a complete campus focusing in academic programs related to the environment and sustainability. [29] Stony Brook extended its original program, started in the fall of 2005, when he offered a program of marine science degree with teaching facilities and research on the campus of Long Island University leased. an enrollment of about 2,000 students over the next five years is expected. Professor Martin Schoonen was named interim dean of the campus of Southampton on August 3, 2006, and conservationist Mary Pearl was named dean and vice president in March 2009.

On 7 April 2010, the University had suspended residential programs and sustainability programs transferred to the main campus. The change was driven by severe state budget cuts. Despite the Marine Sciences and writing graduate programs are still in session in Southampton, students were relocated to the main campus. As a result of the suspension of residential programs, all catering and retail operations were suspended by the Association of Students of the Faculty. The old radio station LIU and National Public Radio affiliate no longer operate on campus.

In September 2011 Stony Brook Southampton started offering a degree program called Semester at Sea, where students attend classes grade to study the ocean or in the arts. Students studying the ocean are immersed in that are enhanced with proximity to the water, with a fleet of research vessels and graduate research projects that are ongoing marine issues. Students studying Arts engaged in film studies and creative writing that interract with Master of Fine Arts students most notable filmmakers and authors who are part of the cultural heritage of the Hamptons. Both programs offer a series of public lectures that connect scientists and writers of great prestige with the community.

From 2015, the Stony Brook Southampton campus has grown and even thrived. The programs have been added and the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York approved a long-awaited partnership agreement between Southampton and University Hospitals Stony Brook which ultimately will result in a new Southampton Hospital on the campus of Shinnecock Hills, a measure that is likely to bring most of these reasons have seen activity.

South Korea

In May 2009, the board of directors of SUNY granted Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr., authority to carry out measures to negotiating an association between the campus of Stony Brook and the government of South Korea. Stony Brook would join other universities in a UniverCity complex, which could involve other schools like North Carolina State University, George Mason, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins and the University of Boston. The campus would be a comprehensive university with intentions to offer a diverse learning environment and at the same time as the South Korean economy is stimulated.

In July 2011, President Samuel Stanley Jr., announced that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of South Korea has approved the creation of SUNY Korea as part of Songdo International Business District in Incheon. It was expected that the campus academic programs to start in March 2012 with an enrollment of 200.

Art on Campus

Stony Brook University has three gallery spaces on campus. As was the desire of the donor Paul W. Zuccaire, the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, formerly known as the Art Gallery of the University, is dedicated to promoting and supporting the arts and professional exhibitions are held, as well as annual and graduate grade student work. Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery is located in the Staller Center for the Arts.

Also on campus it is the Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the Center Art Gallery, which features works by Latino and Latin American artists and local artists who fall into that category. SAC Art Gallery is a center for projects interactive and participatory art. Students, faculty, staff and students can participate directly in projects taking place in this gallery.