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About Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University, officially called State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, which is an unincorporated community (a hamlet), in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, in the US state of New York, with a population estimated at a number of nearly 13 800 inhabitants, during the 2000 census.

Stony Brook University was founded in 1957, first starting as the State University College on Long Island, having only 140 students, originally being a college for preparing secondary school teachers in mathematics and the sciences. Its campus has been located in Stony Brooks, since 1962, the land being donated by philanthropist Ward Melville. It is the only university, among the 4 SUNY University Centers, that was founded after the SUNY system was established.

Today, Stony Brook University is part of the State University of New York system, and it has an enrollment of more than 22 000 students, operating 2 SUNY-wide research centers: the Marine Sciences Research Center and the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, being academically organized into numerous schools and colleges, among which there are: the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Health Technology and Management, School of Medicine and School of Professional Development, through which it offers its students various educational programs in numerous fields of study.

The university’s athletic teams are known as the Stony Brook Seawolves, formerly known as the Patriots, who compete in NCAA Division I, since 1999, in the America East Conference, in all varsity sports, except football, in which they compete in the Big South Conference, since they left the Northeast Conference at the end of the 2006 season. Their most recent successes include notable achievements in men’s soccer, in which they won the 2005 America East Championship and reached the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament, including in football, in which they shared the 2005 Northeast Conference Championship with Central Connecticut State University.

Among the most resonant names, on the list of notable alumni, there are: Scott G. Abbey - Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of UBS AG, Michael R. Anastasio - Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Russell T. Lewis - CEO and President of the New York Times Company, Jon Oringer - founder/CEO of Shutterstock, Susan R. Wessler - molecular biologist and geneticist, and Alia Sabur – world’s youngest college professor (age 18), B.S. at age 14, among others.