50 Facts About Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University, officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York.

In 2001, Stony Brook was elected to the Association of American Universities, a selective group of major research universities in North America.

State University of New York at Stony Brook was established in Oyster Bay in 1957, as the State University College on Long Island .

Ward Melville, a philanthropist and businessman from the Three Village area in western Suffolk County donated over 400 acres of land to the state for the development of a state university and in 1962 the institution relocated to Stony Brook and officially renamed as the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

The report was particularly important for Stony Brook as it recommended creation of a Health Science Center and academic hospital at the campus to serve the need of the fastest-growing counties in New York at the time.

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In January 1968, the infamous "Operation Stony Brook" drug raid resulted in the arrest of twenty nine students and in the fall of 1968, tension climaxed as the administration and students decided on a three-day moratorium to bring together the entire university with the goal of improving communication between the students, faculty, and administration.

In 1994, the university approved a decision to transition athletics to the Division I of the NCAA by 1999 and followed with the construction of the Stony Brook Arena and the expansion of the Indoor Sports Complex.

The Stony Brook University Arena underwent a $21 million overhaul, re-opening as the Island Federal Arena in 2014.

In January 2019, Stony Brook Medicine opened their $194 million cancer center to the public.

Main campus is in the historic north shore hamlet of Stony Brook near the geographic midpoint of Long Island, approximately 50 miles east of Manhattan and 62 miles west of Montauk.

Athletic facilities are in the northwest quadrant of west campus, which include the Stony Brook Sports Complex, Island Federal Credit Union Arena, Kenneth P LaValle Stadium, Joe Nathan Field, University Track, and University Field.

Stony Brook is using this property as a Research and Development Park, similar to other university-affiliated science parks around the country.

In 2019, Stony Brook University celebrated the opening of its astonishing new SMART Cluster in CEWIT, a dual use GPU Cluster for both machine learning and visualization.

In November 2019, Stony Brook Medicine opened a four-story, $73 million expansion to the Stony Brook Children's Hospital.

Stony Brook expanded its original program, started in the fall of 2005, when it offered an undergraduate marine sciences program, with teaching and research facilities at the campus leased from Long Island University.

In September 2011 Stony Brook Southampton began offering an undergraduate program called Semester by the Sea, where students attend undergraduate classes to study the Ocean or the Arts.

Stony Brook University has operations in Incheon, South Korea as part of the Incheon Global Campus .

Stony Brook University students are allowed to apply for an exchange program at SUNY Korea, while SUNY Korea students are required to take a year of classes at Stony Brook University.

Stony Brook University is governed by the State Stony Brook University of New York board of trustees, a body of eighteen members which regulate all the individual units of the SUNY system.

The president of Stony Brook is the principal executive officer of the university.

However, the Stony Brook University's endowment remains far below the average of its Association of American Universities peers.

USG at Stony Brook has a long history going back to the founding of the Student Polity Association in 1959.

Stony Brook was one of ten national universities awarded a National Science Foundation recognition award in 1998 for their integration of research and education.

Stony Brook is one of two public schools in New York to have a medical school and a dental school, the other being University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

University's health science and medical component, collectively referred to as Stony Brook Medicine, includes the Renaissance School of Medicine and the Schools of Dental Medicine, Nursing, Health Technology and Management, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Social Welfare, as well as the Hospital, major centers and institutes, programs, clinics and community-based healthcare settings, and the Long Island State Veterans Home.

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In 2021, there were more Asian American undergraduate students than White American students attending Stony Brook for the first time in the university's history.

In 2020, The Wall Street Journal ranked Stony Brook University tied with two others as the second-best public school in the Northeastern United States.

In 2015, Kiplinger's Personal Finance ranked Stony Brook 33rd best value among the country's public institutions for in-state students, and 26th for out-of-state students.

In 2012, The Wall Street Journal ranked Stony Brook 8th among public universities sending students to elite graduate programs.

College Factuals 2015 survey ranked Stony Brook University's Applied Mathematics program as 3rd best in the United States.

In July 2007 Stony Brook won a grant from the Department of Defense to devise ways to prevent terrorists from corrupting computers, and another from the Department of Homeland Security to design a system to detect radiation without triggering false alarms.

In 2016, Stony Brook University placed second at the Long Island regional round of the New York State Business Plan Competition.

New York Institute of Technology placed first with four teams qualifying for the state competition's final round, while Stony Brook University had three teams qualifying for the state competition's final round.

Stony Brook has a wide variety of student-run organizations on campus, which include sororities and fraternities, and a count of almost 300 recognized student clubs and organizations.

The Undergraduate Student Government at Stony Brook University is trusted with the responsibility of budgeting the undergraduate student activity fee which funds most student run organizations on campus.

Stony Brook has the greatest number of students who live on campus out of any public school in New York.

Once seen as a "suitcase school" of commuters, Stony Brook has undergone efforts to shed that negative label, creating a model that struggling schools such as Central Connecticut State University have tried to emulate.

Festival of Lights started in 2000 as an annual Stony Brook tradition that celebrates the numerous cultures and faiths which celebrate during the holiday season.

In 1998, Stony Brook began to hold Diversity Day during the same day as Strawberry Fest, planned and organized by the Office of Multicultural Affairs to highlight the diverse cultures which make up the university.

Stony Brook holds two annual concerts – Back to the Brook during the fall semester and Brookfest during the spring semester.

The inaugural Back to the Stony Brook University took place in 2012 and featured Reel Big Fish at the Staller Steps.

The historic Stony Brook concert series was revived in 2011 with Brookfest hosting headliners Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae.

Spirit of Stony Brook Marching Band was created in 2006 by Jerrold Stein, the Dean of Students at the time, and plays at athletic games and other events.

Stony Brook marching band first participated in the NYC Columbus Day Parade in 2011, as well as appeared in an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and a commercial for the New York Lottery.

In 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the Stony Brook marching band performed in the virtual halftime show for the College Football Playoff National Championship game between Alabama and Ohio State.

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In 1994, as Stony Brook prepared to become a Division I program, the team nickname was changed again, this time to its current day incarnation, the Seawolves.

Stony Brook joined the America East Conference in 2001 until leaving in 2022 and played women's tennis in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Stony Brook garnered national attention during their 2012 College World Series run.

Stony Brook has established itself as a dominant force in women's lacrosse.

In 2013, Stony Brook University launched its own bike share system to provide a sustainable transportation alternative for students .