Commencement Speaker List


 Speaker, Address Title
Year

 Francis Bonner

1998

 Joan Shields

1999

 James DiLorenzo

2000

 William Schoen

2001

 John Piwinski

2002

 William Murray

2003

 Kenneth Aron

2004

 John Butera

2005

 Stuart Rosenblum, Treat Life as an Experiment

2006

 Jerome Ackerman, Reminiscences and Wanderings of a Stony Brook Chemist

2007

 David Walt, Chemistry: An Array of Possibilities

2008

 Robert Aslanian, Be Prepared!

2009

 Kenneth R. Leopold, Graduated. OMG. What Now?

2010

 Robert Kerber

2011

 Chi Wu, Stony Brook has prepared us to solve problems

2012

 Kevin Koch, Adventures in Chemistry, Busincess and Medicine

2013

 Ruth Heidelberger, All I Really Need to Know I Learned at Stony Brook

2014

 Lawrence Ziegler, A View of the 60's from the 60's

2015

 Scott Kuduk, An Alumnus’s View: Challenge and Change

2016

 Douglas Carsten, Am I That Person?

2017

 Michael Berman, Balancing Your Own Equation

2018

 Stephen Demarest, Preparing for Your Next Big Experiment

2019

 Christopher am Ende

2020

 Ingrid Yin

2021

 Ronald T. Garry, Tools I have Added to My Toolkit Along the Way

2022

 Chanjuan Pan, Adventures in Chemistry, Business and Finance

2023

 Albert Haim, Inorganic Chemistry and Me

2024

 Songnian Lin, Stony Brook Chemists, the blue sky is yours

2025

 Stephen Koch, Summer of 1969

2026