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The Statesman is the official student newspaper of Stony Brook University.Founded in 1957 as The Sucolian, it is the longest-running student publication of the university and a print edition was published every Monday of the academic year until 2021.
Researcher and director of Manufacturing Science and engineering, Argonne National Laboratory: Ph.D., Computational and Materials Chemistry Sumathi Rao: Professor of Physics at Harish-Chandra Research Institute: PhD Physics 1983 Robert J. Frey: Research Professor at Stony Brook University, former MD of Renaissance Technologies
Stony Brook's financial endowment is managed by the Stony Brook Foundation. The foundation was established in 1965 as a not-for-profit corporation under the New York State Education Law, [ 22 ] chartered to collect and manage gifts from private and non-state resources to supplement the funding of the university and managed by a voluntary board ...
The Jacob K. Javits Lecture Center also known as Javits Center or Javits for short is the main lecture center at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York. It is located in west campus south of the main Academic Mall. It houses many of the lecture halls in campus and most of the general first-year courses are lectured here.
He was a professor at Stony Brook University (8 years), University of California at Irvine (26 years), University of Florida (3 years) and Hebrew University (2 years). He has held visiting appointments at MIT, MSRI, University of Michigan, University of Florida, Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University.
The Engineering Quad is the site of Stony Brook's engineering laboratories, classrooms and lecture halls. In 1993, a Korean sculpture was dedicated at the center of the quad. [ 54 ] The buildings on the perimeter of the Engineering Quad are Engineering, Light Engineering, Heavy Engineering and the Computing Center.
James H. Simons was the chair of the mathematics department at Stony Brook from 1968 to 1976. After deciding to leave academia, he then went on to make billions with his investment firm Renaissance Technologies. On February 27, 2008 he announced a donation totaling $60 million (including a $25 million gift two years prior) to the mathematics ...
The Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library is the main library at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. It is named for the father of philanthropist Ward Melville, who donated 400 acres of land and money to establish Stony Brook University in 1957. It originally opened in July 1963 and has massively expanded since its original construction.