"To be a great national university, we must first be a great local university."
—Shirley Strum Kenny, President, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook is Local

• With a staff of approximately 13,500 employees, the University is the largest single-site employer on Long Island and has a $2.5 billion annual impact on the local and regional economy.
  
  
• Long Island High Tech Incubator "graduates" earned more than $100 million in corporate revenues last year. The Small Business Development Center has assisted nearly 17,000 clients and brought $254.7 million to the Long Island economic region.
  
  
• Stony Brook Southampton, a new campus focused on a highly interdisciplinary study of ecological sustainability, explores political, academic, social, and economic issues related to the environment. The new campus is on the property of the former Southampton College, which Stony Brook acquired from Long Island University last year. In addition to the academic programs on sustainability, Stony Brook Southampton includes a nationally renowned Writing Program, as well as a Center for Wine, Food, and Culture, which serves as an educational resource for the East End wine industry.
  
  
• With the Staller Center for the Arts, the Stony Brook Film Festival, and artists-in-residence the Emerson String Quartet, Stony Brook is a leading center for the performing arts.
  
  
• A new Research & Development Park is anchored by the $50 million Center for Excellence is Wireless and Information Technology, which is creating new technologies and new local businesses in the emerging wireless industry.
  
  
• Stony Brook professors have mentored 162 local high school Intel semifinalists over the last six years, making the University one of the largest incubators of Intel talent in the country.
  
  
• The Charles B. Wang Asian American Center is the region's leading resource for Asian American programs, activities, and cultural events.
  
  
• Stony Brook University Medical Center is composed of Suffolk County's only tertiary hospital, which treated over 420,000 patients in 2006, and Long Island's only School of Medicine. The Health Sciences Center is composed of the Schools of Dental Medicine, Nursing, Health Technology and Management, and Social Welfare.
  
  
• The Center for Science and Mathematics Education creates high quality educational opportunities for elementary, middle-school, and high school students.
  
  
• The Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities is the regional center for research, treatment, and education benefitting those with Autism Spectrum Disorders and developmental disabilities.
  

Stony Brook is National

• The University's research enterprise generates $160 million a year in external funding and is responsible for such discoveries as ReoPro, the leading drug used to reduce mortality in cardiac patients, and PerioStat, the most commonly used oral treatment of adult periodontal disease.
  
  
• Stony Brook co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory, joining Princeton, Cornell, the University of Chicago, Stanford, and the University of California-Berkely as the only major institutions involved in a research collaboration with a national lab.
  
  
• Stony Brook is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, an invitation-only organization of the top research institutions in the country.
  
  
• Stony Brook is ranked among the top 100 national universities by US News & World Report, and among the top 50 public national universities. Its doctoral programs are ranked 19th by Academic Analytics, which measures scholarly activity.
  
  
• LaValle Stadium and the Indoor Sports Complex are home to Stony Brook's NCAA Division 1 athletics program. The Seawolves field teams in 18 men's sports and women's sports and compete in the America East and Big South Conferences.
  
  
• The School of Journalism, the only public undergraduate journalism school in New York, established one of the nation's first courses in News Literacy, designed to educate students on how to evaluate the credibility of news from print, broadcast, and the web.
  
  
• Stony Brook annually ranks in the top 20 universities nationwide in revenue derived from the lincensing of technology developed on campus. In 2007, the figure was $10.2 million.
  
  
• Stony Brook established the nation's first Pediatric MS Center to diagnose and treat children with multiple sclerosis.
  
  
• The annual Writers Conference attracts such leading authors and poets as E.L. Doctorow, the late Frank McCourt, Billy Collins, and Amy Tan.
  
  
• Stony Brook surgeons have successfully performed some of the rarest procedures ever attempted, including the simultaneous re-attachment of a patient's hands.

Stony Brook is Global

• Stony Brook has been ranked in the top 2 per cent of all universities in the world by the London Times Higher Education Supplement. The Institute for Higher Education in Shanghai has placed Stony Brook among the top 200 universities worldwide.
  
  
• The Boyer Commission, chaired by Stony Brook President Shirley Strum Kenny, has had a worldwide impact on the integration of research opportunities into undergraduate education.
  
  
• Internationally-famous paleo-anthropologists Richard and Meave Leakey, members of the Stony Brook faculty, are leading the University's effort to establish the Turkana Basin Institute, a research facility in the fossil-rich area of northern Kenya, which has been the site of many of the world's most important excavations.
  
  
• The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded in 2003 to Paul Lauterbur for his pioneering development of MRI technology while a member of the Stony Brook faculty in the 1970s. In 2005, the Nobel Prize for Economics was shared by Robert Aumann, a Stony Brook economist, for his work in Game Theory.
  
  
• David Krause, a Professor in Anatomical Sciences, has led the construction of schools and health clinics in a remote region of Madagascar, where he conducts annual research expeditions. One school has been named "Sekoly Riambato" (Malagasy for "the Stony Brook School") and fund-raising efforts are administered by the Stony Brook Foundation.
  
  
• Stony Brook and Nanjing University in China are piloting a dual degree program. Students study two years at Nanjing and two years at Stony Brook and graduate with either a Bachelor of Engineering in Science Engineering or a Bachelor of Science in Biology.
  
  
• Stony Brook possesses one of the world's most powerful Supercomputers for non-classified research. "New York Blue" is capable of 102 trillion calculations per second at peak performance.
  
  
• Stony Brook researchers have made some of the most dramatic discoveries of dinosaur and other reptile fossils of the last 50 years. They also discovered the link between smoking and emphysema, found a new species of lemur, and identified the cause of Lyme disease.
  
  
• Stony Brook anthropologist Patricia Wright helped establish Ranofamana National Park to preserve forest land and wildlife species in Madagascar and has created a biodiversity training and research center there.
  
  
• Stony Brook has dual-degree or exchange agreements with 15 universities in South Korea.

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