Stony Brook Pride
STONY BROOK IS RED HOT!
Whenever I'm psyched up thinking about transferring to Pharmacy schools, I always go to the school's homepages to check out their information, like how prestigious they are, what achievements do they have to boast of, how strong are their academics and so on. However, I've never ever looked through Stony Brook's homepage where they have designed to attract students. Well, I just looked through it as if I were a freshman in search of a university. And truth to be told, I have never expected to see Stony Brook held in such high esteem in the world of tertiary education. So, this is a post for me to boast of Stony Brook, even though most of the things it did I didn't know until I found out from the website, and most of the innovative activites, I will never have to opportunity to participate in.
EDUCATION
* Stony Brook University is just one of 40 public and private universities nationwide to be named a Best Buy by Fiske Guide to Colleges.
* The prestigious Times of London ranks Stony Brook University as one of the best universities in the world and one of the 50 best in North America.
* The Emerson String Quartet, one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, has joined the Department of Music as faculty and are Quartet-in-Residence.
* We are one of 16 Leadership Institutions named by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
* Our Graduate School was awarded the CGS/Peterson's Award for Innovation in promoting an Inclusive Graduate Community.
* Our School of Medicine was named one of the nation's top 50 primary care training programs by U.S. News and World Report.
* Our Marine Sciences Research Center was given top ranking in coastal oceanography, ranked eighth overall by the National Research Council for Ph.D. programs in oceanography.
* We are one of ten universities given a National Science Foundation recognition award for integrating research
RESEARCH
* Stony Brook faculty members have been responsible for more than 1,400 inventions and more than 400 patents. With 70 academic departments, Stony Brook is among the top 40 institutions funded by the National Science Foundation, and expenditures on Organized Research, from external and internal sponsors, have reached 210 million dollars.
* Total funds managed at Stony Brook last year exceeded $184 million, reflecting activity in some 1,200 projects involving hundreds of investigators and providing jobs for 1,800 individuals. For the last three years, Stony Brook has been responsible for 95% of the licensing revenues that have won SUNY its top 20 national ranking in technology transfer, according to the Association of University Technology Managers.
* Stony Brook is one of only 94 institutions in the country to be designated a "Very High Research University" by the Carnegie Foundation.
* The University co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory, joining such universities as Princeton, MIT, Cornell, University of California, and University of Chicago that run federal laboratories.
HEALTH CARE
* We provide Suffolk County’s only open heart surgical program, performing more than 800 open heart operations a year.
* The Stony Brook University Cancer Center conducts cutting-edge research into breast, prostate, and other cancers and provides advanced techniques in diagnosis and treatment.
* Women’s and Children’s Services include our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit—the regional center for high-risk pregnancies—as well as the Child Abuse Clinic and the Cody Center for Autism.
* Our Medical Center is the only hospital on Long Island providing kidney transplant services.
* Also on site are a new Ambulatory Surgery Center, the Long Island State Veterans Home, the Regional Perinatal Center, Level I trauma center, AIDS Center, Burn Center, Skin Bank, and the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Regional Center for Eastern New York State.
DISCOVERIES
* Identification and cataloging of 328 distant galaxies (pictured)
* Discovery of the link between smoking and emphysema
* Development of the drug ReoPro®, recommended for all cardiac angioplasties
* Invention of an ultrasound method to speed up healing of bone fractures
* Creation of the smallest electronic switch, using just one electron
* Discovery of the cause of Lyme disease
* Technologies for 3-D computer visualization
* Discovery of the golden bamboo lemur, Hapalemur aureus
* Discovery of the most primitive fossil bird, linking birds to dinosaurs
* Construction of the first nuclear magnetic resonance image of a living organism
FACULTY HONORS
Honors, Prizes, and Awards
* Nobel Prize in Economics
* Nobel Prize in Physics
* Nobel Prize in Medicine
* Pulitzer Prize
* Crafoord Prize
* Fields Medal in Mathematics
* National Medal of Science
* National Medal of Technology
* Benjamin Franklin Medal
* National Book Critics Circle Award
* Chevalier de l’Ordre National de Merit de la France
* Chevalier de l’Ordre National de Madagascar
* NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Fellowships and Academy Memberships
* 17 Members of the National Academy of Sciences
* 4 Members of the National Academy of Engineering
* 4 Fellows of the Royal Society
* 14 Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
* 2 Members of the Institute of Medicine
* 75 Guggenheim Fellows
* 58 Fulbright Fellows
* 39 Sloan Foundation Fellows
* 9 Rockefeller Foundation Fellows
Every university has to thank its own maker, its presidents, in molding it to become the established institution that it is now. That includes Stony Brook as well.
Presidents
1994–present: Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny, President
Shirley Strum KennyDr. Shirley Strum Kenny is the first woman and first humanist to serve as President of Stony Brook University. After a distinguished career as a literary scholar, teacher, and academic administrator, she came to Stony Brook as its fourth president in 1994. Since then, she has worked to strengthen the core academic and research operations of the University, fostered close links with business and industry, and established new working relationships with the Long Island community. Concerned about the state of undergraduate education at major research universities, Dr. Kenny headed a national initiative to address the issue. She launched and chaired the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University with funding from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Commission's report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities (1998), advocates a model of education that engages students with the resources unique to such institutions and leads them to conduct research themselves. Prior to her tenure at Stony Brook, Dr. Kenny was President of Queens College from 1985 to 1994. She has published five books and numerous articles in the field of Restoration and eighteenth-century British drama. Her two-volume scholarly edition of the dramatic works of George Farquhar was published by Oxford University Press.
1980–1994: Dr. John H. Marburger III, President
John MarburgerIn 1980, John H. Marburger III became the third president of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a position he held until 1994 when he became University Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the university. Marburger's presidency at Stony Brook coincided with the opening and growth of Stony Brook University Medical Center and the development of the biological sciences as a major strength of the university. During the 1980's federally sponsored scientific research at Stony Brook grew to exceed that of any other public university in the northeastern United States. From 1976 to 1980, Dr. Marburger served as dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California where he contributed to the rapidly growing field of nonlinear optics, a subject created by the invention of the laser in 1960. He had previously worked at the university as professor of physics and electrical engineering, as well as chair of the physics department. He earned a B.A. in physics from Princeton University (1962) and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University (1967). In 1998, he became director of the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and president of Brookhaven Science Associates. Since 2001, John H. Marburger III has served President George W. Bush as science advisor and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Sept. 1, 1965–Aug. 31, 1978: Dr. John S. Toll, President
John TollIn 1965, Dr. John S. Toll, a Princeton-trained physicist and former professor and chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland, became the second president of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. By the time he left, the school of 1,800 students had been built to one of 17,000 students and, in addition to arts and sciences and engineering, he added schools of public affairs, medicine, dentistry, nursing, allied health professions, basic health sciences, and social work. Dr. Toll recruited elite researchers and scholars, including Nobel Prize recipient Dr. C.N. Yang, to develop competitive academic departments. Dr. Yang was chosen as the University's director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1966. For his contributions to the University, Dr. Toll was listed among “100 Who Shaped the Century” by Newsday. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in physics with highest honors from Yale University in 1944 and serving in the Navy during World War II, Dr. Toll completed his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton, where he helped to establish Project Matterhorn, now known as the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. In 1953, he joined the University of Maryland faculty and served for thirteen years as chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Toll’s career in higher education has touched six decades, culminating in his presidency of Washington College, the first college chartered in the new nation, that he helped redefine as one of the great small liberal arts colleges in the country.
I have only listed the three most recent, and most impactful of the past presidents of Stony Brook. They truly have done a remarkable job in making Stony Brook RED HOT!
Why am I bragging about such stuff here? It's not even half of what the Ivy Leagues have achieved in their hundred years of history. This is what they call Stony Brook Pride, I would guess. It just makes me swell with pride when I can tell people that my university's researchers invented the MRI, my university's past president served as President Bush's science advisor and my university's....many more.
So, COME TO STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY!!!!! What more can you ask for in a tertiary education as excellent as this? Please spread the word around whenever you have the opportunity because Stony Brook is virtually unheard of back in Southeast Asia, where students have only aimed for Ivy League universities which most of them couldn't get in and thus gave up their dreams to study overseas. Stony Brook University can offer an education that matches the Ivies, and even exceeds them in some departments, at a much cheaper and affordable price. This is very true, I have a friend who told me that there are students from Columbia and NYU who have transferred to Stony Brook to do/continue their science degree, who ended up transferring back to their previous college because of the extreme rigor of our science classes. Man, I feel so proud when I heard that. So that explains why I keep doing badly for my biochemistry and mammalian physiology this semester. The RIGOR of the science classes just doesn't allow me to take too many tough classes at once! Anyway, back to the topic, COME TO STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY!!!!! Even if just for an exchange! It's going to worth your every penny(or your parents'), believe me.
Contact me for further details of school life and events, or if you just want to know more about student life.
School website: http://www.stonybrook.edu/
NOTE: All school information above was obtained at Stony Brook University website under the tab: About SB.
Whenever I'm psyched up thinking about transferring to Pharmacy schools, I always go to the school's homepages to check out their information, like how prestigious they are, what achievements do they have to boast of, how strong are their academics and so on. However, I've never ever looked through Stony Brook's homepage where they have designed to attract students. Well, I just looked through it as if I were a freshman in search of a university. And truth to be told, I have never expected to see Stony Brook held in such high esteem in the world of tertiary education. So, this is a post for me to boast of Stony Brook, even though most of the things it did I didn't know until I found out from the website, and most of the innovative activites, I will never have to opportunity to participate in.
EDUCATION
* Stony Brook University is just one of 40 public and private universities nationwide to be named a Best Buy by Fiske Guide to Colleges.
* The prestigious Times of London ranks Stony Brook University as one of the best universities in the world and one of the 50 best in North America.
* The Emerson String Quartet, one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, has joined the Department of Music as faculty and are Quartet-in-Residence.
* We are one of 16 Leadership Institutions named by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
* Our Graduate School was awarded the CGS/Peterson's Award for Innovation in promoting an Inclusive Graduate Community.
* Our School of Medicine was named one of the nation's top 50 primary care training programs by U.S. News and World Report.
* Our Marine Sciences Research Center was given top ranking in coastal oceanography, ranked eighth overall by the National Research Council for Ph.D. programs in oceanography.
* We are one of ten universities given a National Science Foundation recognition award for integrating research
RESEARCH
* Stony Brook faculty members have been responsible for more than 1,400 inventions and more than 400 patents. With 70 academic departments, Stony Brook is among the top 40 institutions funded by the National Science Foundation, and expenditures on Organized Research, from external and internal sponsors, have reached 210 million dollars.
* Total funds managed at Stony Brook last year exceeded $184 million, reflecting activity in some 1,200 projects involving hundreds of investigators and providing jobs for 1,800 individuals. For the last three years, Stony Brook has been responsible for 95% of the licensing revenues that have won SUNY its top 20 national ranking in technology transfer, according to the Association of University Technology Managers.
* Stony Brook is one of only 94 institutions in the country to be designated a "Very High Research University" by the Carnegie Foundation.
* The University co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory, joining such universities as Princeton, MIT, Cornell, University of California, and University of Chicago that run federal laboratories.
HEALTH CARE
* We provide Suffolk County’s only open heart surgical program, performing more than 800 open heart operations a year.
* The Stony Brook University Cancer Center conducts cutting-edge research into breast, prostate, and other cancers and provides advanced techniques in diagnosis and treatment.
* Women’s and Children’s Services include our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit—the regional center for high-risk pregnancies—as well as the Child Abuse Clinic and the Cody Center for Autism.
* Our Medical Center is the only hospital on Long Island providing kidney transplant services.
* Also on site are a new Ambulatory Surgery Center, the Long Island State Veterans Home, the Regional Perinatal Center, Level I trauma center, AIDS Center, Burn Center, Skin Bank, and the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Regional Center for Eastern New York State.
DISCOVERIES
* Identification and cataloging of 328 distant galaxies (pictured)
* Discovery of the link between smoking and emphysema
* Development of the drug ReoPro®, recommended for all cardiac angioplasties
* Invention of an ultrasound method to speed up healing of bone fractures
* Creation of the smallest electronic switch, using just one electron
* Discovery of the cause of Lyme disease
* Technologies for 3-D computer visualization
* Discovery of the golden bamboo lemur, Hapalemur aureus
* Discovery of the most primitive fossil bird, linking birds to dinosaurs
* Construction of the first nuclear magnetic resonance image of a living organism
FACULTY HONORS
Honors, Prizes, and Awards
* Nobel Prize in Economics
* Nobel Prize in Physics
* Nobel Prize in Medicine
* Pulitzer Prize
* Crafoord Prize
* Fields Medal in Mathematics
* National Medal of Science
* National Medal of Technology
* Benjamin Franklin Medal
* National Book Critics Circle Award
* Chevalier de l’Ordre National de Merit de la France
* Chevalier de l’Ordre National de Madagascar
* NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Fellowships and Academy Memberships
* 17 Members of the National Academy of Sciences
* 4 Members of the National Academy of Engineering
* 4 Fellows of the Royal Society
* 14 Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
* 2 Members of the Institute of Medicine
* 75 Guggenheim Fellows
* 58 Fulbright Fellows
* 39 Sloan Foundation Fellows
* 9 Rockefeller Foundation Fellows
Every university has to thank its own maker, its presidents, in molding it to become the established institution that it is now. That includes Stony Brook as well.
Presidents
1994–present: Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny, President
Shirley Strum KennyDr. Shirley Strum Kenny is the first woman and first humanist to serve as President of Stony Brook University. After a distinguished career as a literary scholar, teacher, and academic administrator, she came to Stony Brook as its fourth president in 1994. Since then, she has worked to strengthen the core academic and research operations of the University, fostered close links with business and industry, and established new working relationships with the Long Island community. Concerned about the state of undergraduate education at major research universities, Dr. Kenny headed a national initiative to address the issue. She launched and chaired the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University with funding from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Commission's report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities (1998), advocates a model of education that engages students with the resources unique to such institutions and leads them to conduct research themselves. Prior to her tenure at Stony Brook, Dr. Kenny was President of Queens College from 1985 to 1994. She has published five books and numerous articles in the field of Restoration and eighteenth-century British drama. Her two-volume scholarly edition of the dramatic works of George Farquhar was published by Oxford University Press.
1980–1994: Dr. John H. Marburger III, President
John MarburgerIn 1980, John H. Marburger III became the third president of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a position he held until 1994 when he became University Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the university. Marburger's presidency at Stony Brook coincided with the opening and growth of Stony Brook University Medical Center and the development of the biological sciences as a major strength of the university. During the 1980's federally sponsored scientific research at Stony Brook grew to exceed that of any other public university in the northeastern United States. From 1976 to 1980, Dr. Marburger served as dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California where he contributed to the rapidly growing field of nonlinear optics, a subject created by the invention of the laser in 1960. He had previously worked at the university as professor of physics and electrical engineering, as well as chair of the physics department. He earned a B.A. in physics from Princeton University (1962) and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University (1967). In 1998, he became director of the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and president of Brookhaven Science Associates. Since 2001, John H. Marburger III has served President George W. Bush as science advisor and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Sept. 1, 1965–Aug. 31, 1978: Dr. John S. Toll, President
John TollIn 1965, Dr. John S. Toll, a Princeton-trained physicist and former professor and chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland, became the second president of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. By the time he left, the school of 1,800 students had been built to one of 17,000 students and, in addition to arts and sciences and engineering, he added schools of public affairs, medicine, dentistry, nursing, allied health professions, basic health sciences, and social work. Dr. Toll recruited elite researchers and scholars, including Nobel Prize recipient Dr. C.N. Yang, to develop competitive academic departments. Dr. Yang was chosen as the University's director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1966. For his contributions to the University, Dr. Toll was listed among “100 Who Shaped the Century” by Newsday. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in physics with highest honors from Yale University in 1944 and serving in the Navy during World War II, Dr. Toll completed his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton, where he helped to establish Project Matterhorn, now known as the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. In 1953, he joined the University of Maryland faculty and served for thirteen years as chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Toll’s career in higher education has touched six decades, culminating in his presidency of Washington College, the first college chartered in the new nation, that he helped redefine as one of the great small liberal arts colleges in the country.
I have only listed the three most recent, and most impactful of the past presidents of Stony Brook. They truly have done a remarkable job in making Stony Brook RED HOT!
Why am I bragging about such stuff here? It's not even half of what the Ivy Leagues have achieved in their hundred years of history. This is what they call Stony Brook Pride, I would guess. It just makes me swell with pride when I can tell people that my university's researchers invented the MRI, my university's past president served as President Bush's science advisor and my university's....many more.
So, COME TO STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY!!!!! What more can you ask for in a tertiary education as excellent as this? Please spread the word around whenever you have the opportunity because Stony Brook is virtually unheard of back in Southeast Asia, where students have only aimed for Ivy League universities which most of them couldn't get in and thus gave up their dreams to study overseas. Stony Brook University can offer an education that matches the Ivies, and even exceeds them in some departments, at a much cheaper and affordable price. This is very true, I have a friend who told me that there are students from Columbia and NYU who have transferred to Stony Brook to do/continue their science degree, who ended up transferring back to their previous college because of the extreme rigor of our science classes. Man, I feel so proud when I heard that. So that explains why I keep doing badly for my biochemistry and mammalian physiology this semester. The RIGOR of the science classes just doesn't allow me to take too many tough classes at once! Anyway, back to the topic, COME TO STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY!!!!! Even if just for an exchange! It's going to worth your every penny(or your parents'), believe me.
Contact me for further details of school life and events, or if you just want to know more about student life.
School website: http://www.stonybrook.edu/
NOTE: All school information above was obtained at Stony Brook University website under the tab: About SB.
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