Stony Brook University is committed to becoming more diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We strive to create a safe and welcoming learning and living environment for every
member of our campus. We are home to students, faculty, staff and campus educators
who hail from different places, identities, and experiences, so we are constantly
working to ensure that our University is receptive to and respectful of innovative
ideas, diverse backgrounds, perspectives, talents and abilities. We aspire to treat
all with dignity and respect as we embrace diversity, equity and inclusion from an
intersectional perspective that considers race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation,
age, religion, ability, socioeconomic status, veteran status and national origin.
The Center for Inclusive Education (CIE) is committed to advancing diversity in graduate
education, academia, and the scientific workforce. The CIE works to recruit, retain,
and graduate underrepresented minority and otherwise disadvantaged scholars, as well
as those scholars who advance the mission of increasing diversity of their respective
fields. To ensure the success of our scholars, we provide financial assistance, social
support, and advocacy.
The CIE is dedicated to increasing awareness of issues related to diversity at the
university level, collaborating with faculty and staff to enhance the diversity of
their respective departments, and at the national level, engaging in scholarly research
activities and program assessment, with the ultimate goal of contributing to greater
body of knowledge related to issues of inclusion and diversity. These efforts have
been recognized through several grants from the National Institutes of Health, the
National Science Foundation, and the State of New York. With over 500 alumni and 150
current scholars, the CIE remains dedicated to the mission of enhancing diversity
and inclusion of the academic world.
The W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship is a Graduate Fellowship Program for eligible
underrepresented students whose immediate academic plans include obtaining graduate
or professional degrees in a variety of disciplines at Stony Brook University. The
fellowship is one of the many programs coordinated by the Center for Inclusive Education
at Stony Brook University and is funded by the SUNY Office of Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion.
The Stony Brook University Initiative for Maximizing Student Development: Maximizing
Excellence in Research for Graduate Education (IMSD-MERGE) Program aims to increase
the number of underrepresented and disadvantaged students (URM) completing highly
productive biological and biomedical science degrees at Stony Brook University, and
prepare them for seamless advancement into successful research careers. IMSD-MERGE
has an undergraduate track (for students interested in pursuing a PhD degree) and
a graduate track (for students in a biological and biomedical doctoral program at
Stony Brook). IMSD-MERGE is one of the many programs coordinated by the Center for
Inclusive Education at Stony Brook University and is funded by the National Institutes
of Health (NIH).
AGEP-T is a National Science Foundation grant committed to increasing diversity in
the academy in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). AGEP-T is
focused on building strategic alliances of institutions and organizations to develop
programs that will increase the success of underrepresented minority students in STEM
through graduate education, postdoctoral training, and academic STEM career preparation.
The AGEP-T Program is committed to supporting our scholars by providing funding opportunities
for activities related to research excellence and professional development. A call
for applications will be issued bi-annually and priority deadlines established. Funding
applications received after the deadline will be reviewed and considered on a continual
basis, based on the funds availability.
FRAME Fellows are selected from among the nation’s most talented advanced graduate
doctoral students and postdoctoral scientists in the STEM fields. They represent
the highest levels of accomplishment and are dedicated to achieving academic careers
in which they will help to mentor and encourage future scholars.
