Construction is set to begin on a new state-of-the-art Marine Sciences Center for the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), which will replace and expand the current waterfront marine sciences research and teaching facilities at Stony Brook’s Southampton campus. At a ceremony held in Southampton on June 8, Stony Brook President Samuel L. Stanley [...]

Roger Rosenblatt, Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University’s Southampton Arts campus, was interviewed by Jeffrey Brown on PBS Newshour on February 21. The topic of the interview was Rosenblatt’s latest book, Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief and Small Boats, published in January as a follow-up to his earlier book, Making [...]

Writers Speak Wednesdays, the popular series of readings and author talks sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing and Literature program at Stony Brook Southampton, returns for the spring semester on Wednesday, February 15, at 7 pm with a reading by Helen Schulman in the Radio Lounge at the Stony Brook Southampton campus. Schulman is [...]

The Young American Writers Project (YAWP), created and sponsored by Stony Brook Southampton’s MFA in Creative Writing and Literature, has announced that it will offer weeklong School Break Writing Workshops for teens during the winter and spring school breaks. The workshops will pair professional writers with middle and high school students for five-day retreats in [...]

On January 5—the day that Provost Dennis Assanis announced that Lawrence Martin would step aside as Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Provost in order to take on a full-time commitment as Director of the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) in Kenya—10 poetry students and four staff members from Stony Brook Southampton’s MFA in Creative [...]

Stony Brook Southampton will celebrate the holiday season with the annual Windmill Lighting on Friday, December 9, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. The Voices of Southampton High School will sing holiday classics as the exterior of the Windmill is lit. Guests are then invited to a reception in Chancellors Hall. Enjoy hot cocoa, holiday [...]

The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Fall 2011 Public Lecture Series continues on Friday, December 9, with Tara Rider Zeiss, a lecturer in Stony Brook’s Sustainability Studies Program. Zeiss will discuss “There She Blows: A Look at Long Island’s Whaling Heritage” at 7:30 pm in Chancellors Hall at Stony Brook Southampton. While Native Americans were [...]

Assistant Professor Michael G. Frisk, from Stony Brook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) kicks off the Fall Lecture Series on Friday, November 4, at Duke Lecture Hall in Chancellors Hall at Stony Brook Southampton at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Frisk will discuss “Movements and Residence of Winter [...]

Semester By the Sea, a new program at Stony Brook, could be the most memorable semester of your undergraduate career. The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SOMAS) offers students a semester of study at the beautiful Stony Brook Southampton campus. The program not only affords direct access to estuaries, bays, and the Atlantic Ocean, [...]

Plans are underway to introduce expanded programs in graduate creative arts and undergraduate marine sciences at the Stony Brook University Southampton campus in the fall of 2011. This expansion, which follows several productive Advisory Committee meetings and continuing discussions among University administration and faculty, also includes plans to offer an undergraduate residency program in creative [...]