Stony Brook University - Fifty Years, Fifty Facts

EUROPE'S GREAT SCHOOLS took a leisurely millennium or so to achieve their greatness. In America, justly famed universities earned that fame slowly, over two or three centuries. So imagine the tiny ripple in academia, 50 years ago, when a nondescript college was born in a sleepy Long Island village. Its name is Stony Brook. And oh, what those 50 swift years have wrought.

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