Young-Gil Song, South Korean politician and fifth popularly elected Mayor of Incheon, will discuss “Incheon City: A Mayor’s Vision” at the Charles B. Wang Center, Lecture Hall 2, on Monday, May 14, from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. Song was born in Goheung, South Jeolla Province in 1963 and experienced the Gwangju Democratization Movement when [...]

The 30th Annual Undergraduate Recognition Awards ceremony was held in the Student Activities Center on Monday, April 23, 2012. Following a welcome and opening remarks by Vice President for Student Affairs Peter Baigent and Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, the Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence, Provost Awards for Academic Excellence and [...]

Democracy Acclaimed! Anglo-American Intellectuals and the French Revolution (1789-93) Jonathan Israel has written on Dutch and Spanish history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry. He was appointed Professor of Modern European History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in January 2001. He was previously Professor of Dutch [...]

Stony Brook University has been selected by The Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) as one of the nation’s most environmentally friendly or “green” colleges for the third year in a row in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition. Additionally, Stony Brook put forth a strong showing in [...]

On Thursday, May 3, and Friday, May 4, freelance mathematician Jeffrey Weeks will deliver three talks for the Della Pietra Lecture Series at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) at Stony Brook University. The capstone talk of this series, “The Shape of Space,” will be held on Thursday, May 3, at 7 pm [...]

Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities’ (URECA) Celebration is an annual event that showcases undergraduate research and is open to all Stony Brook undergraduates conducting faculty-mentored research and creative projects. As the only university-wide research symposium, this event provides a way for faculty and students to see what is going on in their own and other [...]

If the recipe for success is hard work, few can dispute that the Stony Brook Marching Band — with more than 50 performances per year — must be working very, very hard. And now, the world has taken notice. Recently, the Marching Band, led by its director John Leddy, was named College Sports Madness Band of [...]

Faculty, staff and students should submit their nominations for SUNY Honorary Degrees to be awarded in 2013. Please submit a one-page summary about the nominee, identifying the nominee by name, title, present position and/or profession. The remainder of the page should summarize the nominee’s most important achievements and the relevance of these achievements to Stony [...]

SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher honored 14 Stony Brook University students with the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence at an awards reception held earlier this month at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany. The Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence is the highest honor that SUNY bestows upon its students and is given [...]

Shariful Syed, a Stony Brook senior majoring in Asian American studies, won the Special Award B in the College Division of the Japan Center’s Seventh Annual Essay Competition sponsored by Canon USA. His special award-winning essay, “Self-discovery through Japanese Harmony” was very inspirational, conveying the significance of understanding the meaning of “harmony” and how it can [...]