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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 C. N. Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics (YITP) is a research center at Stony Brook University.In 1965, it was the vision of then University President J.S. Toll and Physics Department chair T.A. Pond to create an institute for theoretical physics and invite the famous physicist Chen Ning Yang from Institute for Advanced Study to serve as its director with the Albert Einstein ...
The State University of New York at Stony Brook was established in Oyster Bay in 1957, as the State University College on Long Island (SUCOLI). Established almost a decade after the creation of New York's public higher education system, the institution was envisioned as a college for the preparation of secondary school teachers.
Stony Brook University was founded in 1957 as the State University College of Long Island and was located in Oyster Bay, New York, before moving to Stony Brook in 1962. Businessman and philanthropist Ward Melville donated 482 acres of land to the Three Village area for a college campus that he envisioned as "Old World" and "pastoral".
Stony Brook University has an undergraduate population of around 15,000 students. [1] To create a sense of community, the Undergraduate Colleges of Stony Brook University were developed. These Undergraduate Colleges (or UGCs) function as smaller communities within the larger university and are themed to provide an academic aspect to each ...
The Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, United States, was established in 1969. The department completed the NSF-funded Reality Deck project, a 1.5 billion pixel immersive display which is the largest resolution immersive display ever built.
The Stony Brook University Research and Development Park is a research and development park located in Stony Brook, New York owned by Stony Brook University, which acquired the land through eminent domain in 2005. The park is located a mile from the center of campus along Stony Brook Road on an area spanning over 240 acres in size.
Marine Sciences Research Center is a research center at Stony Brook University. The center studies coastal oceanographic processes and atmospheric sciences. In 1997 the center was awarded grants of $7.1 million, including more than $1.9 million from the National Science Foundation alone. [1]