University Medal
The presentation of the University Medal or Stony Brook Medal is the highest form
of local recognition awarded by Stony Brook University, and it is reserved for individuals
who have had a significant and lasting impact on the university. It is “the highest
honor the campus can bestow” on people who have rendered outstanding service to the
university.
Recipients
1968: Norman Newhouse (Stony Brook Council)
1969: Robert Jordan (Dean, Graduate School, Stony Brook University)
1969: Igor Stravinsky (composer and musician)
1970: A. William Larson (Stony Brook Council)
1971: Karl Hartzell (Stony Brook University administrator)
1971: H. Bentley Glass (Stony Brook University administrator)
1971: George B. Collins (Stony Brook Council)
1971: William H. Murphy (Stony Brook Council)
1974: J. Kevin Murphy (Stony Brook Council)
1975: Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov (rector, Moscow State University)
1976: Leon Giuffreda (New York State Senator)
1977: Abba Eban (Israeli diplomat)
1977: Harvey Jennings (spouse of T. Alexander Pond's administrative assistant)
1978: Herb Weisinger (Stony Brook University Graduate School Dean)
1979: Samuel Easterbrook (Stony Brook Council)
1980: Jerald Newman (Stony Brook Council)
1981: Richard P. Schmidt (Acting President, Stony Brook University )
1982: T. Alexander Pond (Acting President, Stony Brook University)
1983: Jacob K. Javits (United States Senator)
1985: Sir Run Run Shaw (philanthropist and filmmaker)
1986: Homer A. Neal (Stony Brook University faculty and administrator)
1987: Robert Christian Anderson (Brookhaven National Laboratory assistant director,
Stony Brook Council)
1987: Kenneth P. LaValle (New York State Senator, Chair of Senate Higher Education
Committee)
1988: Marvin Kuschner (Stony Brook University faculty and administrator)
1989: Jerry R. Schubel (Stony Brook University faculty and administrator)
1989: Erwin Staller (philanthropist)
1990: Richard Cahn (State University of New York Regional Counsel)
1991: Sidney Gelber (Stony Brook University faculty and administrator)
1992: C.N. Yang (Stony Brook University faculty)
1993: Emile Adams (Stony Brook University administrator)
1994: John H. Marburger III (President, Stony Brook University)
1994: Carol G. Marburger (spouse)
1995: Frederic Salerno (Chair, State University of New York Board of Trustees)
1996: J. Howard Oakes (Stony Brook University faculty and administrator)
1998: George Pataki (Governor of New York)
2000: James D. Watson (scientist)
2001: Richard Nasti (philanthropist, Stony Brook Council)
2003: Dr. Michael A. Maffetone (Stony Brook University administrator) [awarded posthumously]
2004: Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino (Stony Brook University faculty and administrator)
2005: Milton Glaser (designer of a Stony Brook University logo)
2006: Joe Nathan (Major League Baseball player)
2020: Kenneth P. LaValle (New York State Senator)
2020: John J. Flanagan (Former New York Senator)
2021: Carol A. Gomes (Stony Brook Medicine)
2021: Margaret M. McGovern (Stony Brook Medicine)
2021: Lawrence M. Zacarese (Stony Brook University)
2022: Steven C. Englebright (New York State Assemblyman, faculty member and alumnus)