Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley joined Long Island SUNY presidents W. Hubert Keen, Calvin O. Butts III and Shaun L. McKay in a Newsday op-ed endorsing Governor Andrew Cuomo’s ”Tax-Free NY initiative. “Tax-Free NY offers a plan as innovative and exciting as the ideas it is designed to turn into economic growth,” according [...]
SUNY leadership and all 64 campus presidents today issued an open letter in support of Tax-Free NY. The signed letter is available online. Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, is among the signatories. “As the leadership of SUNY’s 64 campuses, we enthusiastically support Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Tax-Free NY initiative. This innovative proposal [...]
In a June 3 meeting with college presidents and members of the Regional Economic Development Councils, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo outlined details of the Tax-Free NY initiative that would transform SUNY campuses into tax-free communities intended to attract start-ups, venture capital, new business, and investments from across the world. Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley [...]
An international team of researchers led by Stony Brook University’s Maureen O’Leary, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, reconstructed the common ancestor of placental mammals — a small, insect-eating animal — using Morphobank, a web application for collaborative evolutionary research. The [...]
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL) in Wuhan is offering Stony Brook University students the opportunity to study in China this summer on scholarship. ZUEL, a partner university of SBU’s Confucius Institute, is located in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province and one of the most ancient cities in China. Wuhan is a political, [...]
An article featured in the online news platform policymic includes Stony Brook University as one of four top universities in the country that are equally comparable to Ivy League schools. “Schools with high freshmen retention rates and high graduation rates often reflect a great support system within the school,” said the article’s author, Justin Douglas. “These are important [...]
Undergraduate Kristin Hayes, serving an internship at YAI, a home for developmentally disabled adults, as part of a cooperative education program at Stony Brook University, was the focus of a recent online report on changing job prospects for young people. American Public Media’s “Marketplace” web site followed Hayes, a biology major planning to become a [...]
This year’s Stars of Stony Brook Gala honors acclaimed actor, director and writer Alan Alda, who is also a visiting professor at Stony Brook University and founding board member of the University’s Center for Communicating Science. The Gala will be held on Wednesday, April 24, at Pier Sixty in New York City. In addition to [...]
The redesigned Stony Brook University custom license plate from the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles is available to motorists statewide. The SBU plate is available in both passenger and commercial class and can be ordered at any DMV office, by telephone at 1-518-402-4838 or online at http://dmv.ny.gov/col.htm.
The Stony Brook University School of Journalism has been named among the country’s 50 best journalism schools by College Media Matters, a web-based resource for news and commentary about college media. The site is sponsored by Associated Collegiate Press. The listing, compiled by Dan Reimold, Ph.D., a college journalism scholar, lays particular emphasis on academic programs [...]
