How We Began
The State University at Stony Brook was originally established in 1957 as a college for the preparation of secondary school teachers of mathematics and science; our first campus was located at Oyster Bay, Long Island, on the grounds of a former Gold Coast estate. In 1962 a new campus was built in Stony Brook, on land donated by local philanthropist Ward Melville. In the forty years since its founding, the University has grown tremendously, and is now recognized as one of the nation’s important centers of learning and scholarship—carrying out the mandate given by the State Board of Regents in 1960 to become a university that would “stand with the finest in the country.”

The State University at Stony Brook has become New York’s comprehensive university center for the downstate metropolitan region. Starting with 9 buildings on a 480-acre site, Stony Brook has expanded to encompass 123 buildings on nearly 1,200 acres. The faculty has grown from about 175 to 1,682, the student body from 1,000 to 18,628, and the annual budget from about $3 million to more than $600 million.

The Carnegie Foundation has identified Stony Brook as one of the nation’s 70 leading research institutions; a more recent study (The Rise of American Research Universities, by Hugh Davis Graham and Nancy Diamond, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) placed Stony Brook right after the University of California at Berkeley as one of the best public institutions of higher learning in the United States. Funding for Stony Brook’s research programs has grown faster than at almost any other university, making it the major research campus in SUNY–itself the largest public university system in the country. In addition to its leading position as a research center, Stony Brook offers excellent instructional programs in a broad spectrum of academic subjects. Internationally renowned faculty members teach courses from the undergraduate to the doctoral level to more than 18,000 students in more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The academic and cultural resources of the University and the surrounding community provide a superb environment for intellectual and personal growth.

Our Surroundings
Close by the historic village of Stony Brook at the geographic midpoint of Long Island, the University campus lies about 60 miles east of Manhattan and 60 miles west of Montauk Point, convenient both to New York City’s urban vitality and cultural attractions and the tranquil countryside and beautiful seashore of eastern Suffolk County. It is only a short drive to some of New York State’s richest farmland and fishing grounds, the spectacular Atlantic beaches at Fire Island, the elegant resorts of the Hamptons, the craggy bluffs and natural harbors along Long Island Sound, and the picturesque village greens and gracious old homes of the North Shore towns. The internationally recognized research facilities of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory are nearby. And a two-hour train ride will bring you to the heart of one of the most exciting cities in the world.

The Stony Brook Campus
Stony Brook’s bustling academic community is set among fields and woodlands. A nature preserve, bicycle paths, park benches, an apple orchard, and a duck pond are interspersed among the spacious plazas, modern laboratories, and classroom buildings, a performing arts center, and the rising walls of the new Asian American Cultural Center, being built with a $25 million gift from Charles B. Wang, founder and CEO of Computer Associates.

At the center of West Campus stands the Frank Melville, Jr. Library, which holds 2 million bound volumes and some 3 million in microformat; around the library are the major academic buildings for the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Van De Graaff nuclear accelerator, the Administration Building, Jacob K. Javits Lecture Center, Computer Science Building, Educational Communications Center, Computing Center, the Stony Brook Union, Indoor Sports Complex, and other service buildings. The Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences, located in the Earth and Space Sciences Building, displays dioramas of Long Island’s natural landscape and special temporary exhibits.

The Student Activities Center features a food court and dining hall, study and assembly areas and an auditorium. The center provides a focal point for the extracurricular activities that are such an important part of life on campus.

Stony Brook’s Staller Center for the Arts provides superb performings-arts facilities, where artists of international stature appear. The Staller Center also houses the departments of Theatre Arts, Music, and Art. A broad plaza (where outdoor concerts are held) connects the Melville Library, Stony Brook Union, and the Staller Center.

Encircling the academic buildings are six residential quadrangles, each with living space for about 1,000 students. The quads are made up of three to five coeducational “colleges,” or residence halls, each housing 200 to 400 students. About 60 percent of the undergraduate student body lives on campus. The quads are the basic social units for this on-campus population, providing residence halls, study and social space, and dining facilities. There is a 240-unit complex of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments near the Health Sciences Center, and a 220-bed apartment building on the southwest corner of campus.

Rising dramatically above the wooded East Campus is the architecturally striking Health Sciences Center, which provides academic and support areas for five professional schools and University Hospital, a 504-bed facility that admitted its first patients in 1980 and has since become a nationally significant teaching hospital. (A recent study ranked it as one of the top 15 teaching hospitals in the country.) Also on the East Campus is the Long Island High Technology Incubator, an important link to local business, which opened its doors to 20 start-up companies in biotechnology and other high-technology fields in October, 1992.

South of the academic cluster is the 26-acre Ashley Schiff Nature Preserve. Beyond these woods, and linked to the rest of campus by shuttle bus service, are 11 functionally adaptable single-story buildings housing the Marine Sciences Research Center and the School of Dental Medicine. Across Nicolls Road lies more student housing, and the 350-bed Long Island State Veterans’ Home, which was completed in the fall of 1991.

Stony Brook Students
Undergraduates at Stony Brook can choose from over 50 majors, offered through the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Health Sciences Center, Marine Sciences Research Center, and the W. Averell Harriman School for Management and Policy.

The University’s enrollment for 1998 was 18,628. Currently there are 12,260 undergraduate and 6,368 graduate students at Stony Brook; of these, approximately 14,158 are full-time. Many students are also enrolled part-time in late afternoon and evening courses offered by several departments and the School of Professional Development and Continuing Studies (formerly the School of Continuing Education).

The majority of Stony Brook’s undergraduates—95 percent—come from New York State; 56 percent of these are from Nassau and Suffolk counties and 33 percent from New York City. At any one time more than 100 Stony Brook students are studying abroad in approved exchange programs spread across the globe, in countries such as France, Poland, Italy, Bolivia, Jamaica, Spain, Germany, England, and Korea. International students representing some 75 countries are attending Stony Brook.

The overwhelming majority of first-time, full-time Stony Brook students are still in attendance after their first year. Many students who do not remain full-time return for continued study at a later date, while others go on to another college. Approximately 55 percent of each incoming freshman class graduates from Stony Brook; 36 percent in four years, and an additional 19 percent after their fourth year. The graduation rate exceeds the national rate of approximately 50 percent.

The University aims at the highest standards in all of its programs. Its record of placing graduates in the nation’s best graduate and professional schools shows that these standards are being maintained, and that an educational experience of high quality is available to the broad and diverse student body at Stony Brook.

Stony Brook Faculty
The vast majority of Stony Brook’s 1,682 faculty members hold doctoral degrees, and 90 percent or more are engaged in active research leading to publication, much of it supported by external grants and contracts. It was the productivity and high quality of our faculty that helped earn Stony Brook a ranking among the best public universities in the country. The faculty-student ratio is about one faculty member for every 18 students.

Eminent faculty members include numerous internationally recognized scholars. Many have earned high honors in their fields, such as Einstein Professor C.N. Yang, a Nobel laureate in Physics; John Milnor in Mathematics, winner of the prestigious Fields Medal; and MacArthur fellows John Fleagle, professor of Anatomical Sciences, Paul Adams, professor of Neurobiology and behavior, Patricia Wright, associate professor of Anthropology, and Daniel Monk, assistant professor of Art. Pulitzer-prize-winning poet Louis Simpson in English and Obie-winning poet, playwright, and activist Amiri Baraka in Africana Studies—these are only some of the best-known. Other eminent faculty members include: University Professor John H. Marburger in Physics and Electrical Engineering, former president of the University at Stony Brook; Distinguished Professors K. Daniel O’Leary in Psychology, Gerald E. Brown in Physics, James Glimm in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Benjamin Chu in Chemistry, Lorne Mendell in Neurobiology and Behavior, Robert Sokal in Ecology and Evolution, Edward Reich in Pharmacological Sciences, H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. in Mathematics, Janos Kirz in Physics, Iwao Ojima in Chemistry, Theodosios Pavlidis in Computer Science, Felix Rapaport in Surgery, and Louis Ripa in Children’s Dentistry; Distinguished Professors Emeriti Lewis Coser in Sociology, Jacob Bigeleisen in Chemistry, Seymour Cohen in Pharmacology, and Charles Rosen in Music; Distinguished Teaching Professors Norman Goodman in Sociology, Elof Carlson in Biological Sciences, Barbara Elling in Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanley Alexander in Dental Medicine, Judith Tanur in Sociology, Alan Tucker in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Jonathan F. Levy in Theatre Arts, and Shi Ming Hu in Social Sciences Interdisciplinary; Distinguished Teaching Professors Emeriti John Truxal in Technology and Society, Rose Zimbardo in Theatre Arts, and Homer Goldberg in English; Distinguished Service Professors Robert Cess in the Marine Sciences Research Center, Norman Goodman in Sociology, Lester Paldy in the Center for Scence, Mathematics, and Technology Education, Velio Marsocci in Electrical Engineering, Barry Coller in Medicine and Pathology, Robert Lieberman in Earth and Space Sciences, Peter Paul in Physics, Eli Seifman in Social Sciences Interdisciplinary; and Distinguished Service Professors Emeriti Sidney Gelber in Philosophy, Marvin Kuschner, former dean of the School of Medicine, and J.R. Schubel, former dean and director of the Marine Sciences Research Center.

Stony Brook’s distinguished faculty is also proud to include eleven members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, twelve members of the National Academy of Sciences, and three members of the National Academy of Engineering. More than 300 scholars from 40 countries pursue research here and teach at Stony Brook throughout the year.

The 1994 Middle States Reaccreditation Report observes that “Stony Brook has been strikingly successful in developing its research enterprise.” In 1995-96 Stony Brook faculty members attracted $98.9 million from the federal government, private foundations, and individuals to support research, the largest dollar amount in the SUNY system. Nearly 1,700 sponsored projects are actively being pursued, including scientific studies, training programs, public-service projects, educational activities, and library support. Among the hundreds of subjects currently under examination by faculty and students are cancer, arthritis, diabetes, lasers, semi-conductor chips, recombinant DNA, the mathematics of nonlinear systems, three-dimensional imaging systems, the psychology of political attitudes and behavior, the social history of American slavery, the interface between art and science, and urban problems and their solutions.

Academic Programs
The broad range and high quality of the programs at Stony Brook offer to undergraduates the opportunity to pursue both traditional and innovative courses of study. In their major areas, students delve deeply into one field, guided by nationally distinguished scholars. Major programs build on the Diversified Education Curriculum (D.E.C.), which stresses writing, quantitative literacy, and the serious examination of intellectual and societal issues. There are frequent opportunities for undergraduates to collaborate with faculty in research projects and creative activities.

The following degrees are offered at Stony Brook: Bachelor of Arts, B.A.; Bachelor of Engineering, B.E.; Bachelor of Science, B.S.; Master of Arts, M.A.; Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, M.A./L.S.; Master of Arts in Teaching, M.A.T.; Master of Fine Arts in Dra-maturgy or Studio Art, M.F.A.; Master of Music, M.M.; Master of Philosophy, M.Phil.; Master of Professional Studies, M.P.S.; Master of Science, M.S.; Master of Social Welfare, M.S.W.; Doctor of Dental Surgery, D.D.S.; Doctor of Medicine, M.D.; Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy, M.D./Ph.D.; Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D.; Doctor of Musical Arts, D.M.A.; and Doctor of Arts in Foreign Languages, D.A.

As part of the State University of New York, the University at Stony Brook is accredited by the Middle States Asso-ciation of Colleges and Schools. The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is accredited by the Accredi-tation Board for Engineering and Tech-nology, Inc. The Department of Chem-istry is accredited by the American Chemical Society.

The Schools and Colleges
The College of Arts and Sciences offers degree programs in fine arts and humanities, in biological and physical sciences, in mathematics, and in social and behavioral sciences. In addition to departmental majors, special interdisciplinary majors using the resources of two or more departments are offered, as well as programs leading to provisional certification in secondary education. The Diversified Education Curriculum ensures that, in addition to concentration in their chosen major, students build a firm base of academic skills while being exposed to diverse cultural traditions. Independent study and research are available and encouraged. Living/learning centers, where students share living and study space with like-minded peers, offer residence hall environments designed to enhance learning experiences, career development, and informal contact with faculty members through seminars and other activities.

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences offers a wide range of programs that provide students with opportunities to find work in industry or proceed to graduate study in a variety of fields. Three accredited major programs in engineering give the student latitude to plan a course of study within traditional engineering disciplines or in new interdisciplinary fields. The engineering degree programs place a strong emphasis on individual design and research projects in the junior and senior years, when students are encouraged to work closely with members of the faculty on projects of interest to them. Three programs in the applied science area emphasize applications of analytical and computing techniques to a wide variety of technical and societal problems as well as the design and operation of computer systems and environments.

The W. Averell Harriman School for Management and Policy provides comprehensive education and research for the business, public, and nonprofit sectors. Named for one of New York’s most distinguished public servants, the school trains students for careers primarily as managers. The school offers an undergraduate major and minor in business management and a graduate program in management in business, government, and the nonprofit sector. The admission requirements and curriculum for the major and minor are described on pages 234-236 of this bulletin. The graduate program’s curriculum and degree requirements are described in the Graduate Bulletin.

The Health Sciences Center includes five professional schools and a teaching hospital. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered in health technology and management, nursing, and social welfare. Many health sciences courses are open to upper-division students from the other academic areas. Graduate degrees are also offered in dentistry and medicine. Further details may be obtained from the Health Sciences Center Bulletin, available by writing or telephoning the Health Sciences Center Office of Student Services, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8400; (631) 444-2111.

The Marine Sciences Research Center (MSRC) is the center for re-search, graduate and undergraduate education, and public service in the marine sciences for the State University of New York system. The MSRC is considered to be one of the leading coastal oceanography institutions in the world. The Center is also the focus for the study of atmospheric scienes and meteorology at Stony Brook. The center hosts five institutes, including the Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres and the Waste Reduction and Management Institute. The Center offers an undergraduate degree program in meteorology/atmospheric and ocean sciences, as well as a minor in marine sciences. Upper- and lower-division undergraduate courses are taught through the MSRC. Research opportunities and graduate-level courses are also available to outstanding undergraduate students.

Graduate Study at Stony Brook
The Graduate School offers advanced degree programs in many fields leading to the master’s and doctoral degrees. Stony Brook’s advanced graduate programs are internationally recognized, and consistently receive exceptionally high ratings from external evaluation agencies and scholarly studies. The graduate programs at Stony Brook are among the best in the nation. Stony Brook ranks in the top three of the nation’s public research universities, and is among the top 25 institutions funded by the National Science Foundation. Stony Brook was the first public university in New York State to be recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as a “Type I Research” university–the highest classification, and a distinction granted to fewer than two percent of all colleges and universities nationwide. External support for research has grown to an annual sum of more than $125 million, and according to a recent National Science Foundation study, our campus has one of the most rapidly growing research funding volumes of all universities in the country. Award-winning faculty of international stature, in close collaboration with graduate students, conduct their scholarly inquiry using state-of-the-art laboratories, extensive library facilities, and advanced computing equipment. Unique opportunities are available for students to participate in frontier research sponsored by federal agencies, private foundations, and industry. Students in the humanities, arts, and social sciences will also find exciting opportunities to work with scholars and artists who are world leaders in their respective areas.

Graduate study is offered in 40 different degree program areas as well as in the five schools of the Health Sci-ences Center and the School of Professional Development and Contin-uing Studies. For a full listing of graduate programs of study consult the 1998-2000 Graduate Bulletin, available from the Graduate School, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4433; (631) 632-7040, or on our web page at www.grad.sunysb.edu.

The School of Professional Development and Continuing Studies (SPD), formerly the School of Continuing Education offers several options for part-time graduate study. Degree programs include an interdisciplinary program, the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (M.A./L.S.), which is designed for persons seeking a broader postbaccalaureate education than is ordinarily found in programs that focus on a single discipline, and is especially attractive to teachers who may use this degree to satisfy the master’s degree requirement for permanent teacher certification. Also offered are the Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) for persons seeking provisional teacher certification in English, French, Italian, German, Russian, chemistry, earth science, physics, or social studies, and the Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) with a concentration in educational computing, human resource management, public affairs, software engineering, or waste management. In addition, SPD offers advanced graduate certificate programs in Long Island regional studies, waste management, environmental and occupational health and safety, coaching, school administration and supervision, and school district administration. Also available is the graduate special student (GSP) option, which provides an opportunity for graduate study to postbaccalaureates not yet enrolled in a degree program, or to students who do not intend to pursue a graduate degree. A broad selection of University courses is open to students under all of these options.

For an SPD Bulletin or additional information on the School of Professional Development and Continuing Studies, call or write the SPD Office, N-201 Ward Melville Social and Behavioral Sciences Building, University at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4310; telephone (631) 632-7050; fax (631) 632-9046; e-mail spd@sunysb.edu.

Admission to Graduate Programs
Applicants to the Graduate School must have a bachelor’s degree with a minimum overall grade point average of 2.75 and a grade point average of 3.0 in the major and related courses. Some programs establish additional requirements and deadlines for graduate admissions. Address any inquiries con-cern-ing graduate admission requirements to the specific program.

Financial Assistance
Financial assistance through the University may be available to graduate students in the form of teaching assistantships, fellowships, scholarships, loans, tuition scholarships, and work study programs. Most of these awards are available only to full-time, matriculated students.

Graduate Opportunity Tuition Scholarship Program
A scholarship equivalent to the cost of full tuition is available to former EOP, SEEK, or HEOP students who enroll in a registered State University of New York graduate or first professional degree program.

Graduate and Professional Tuition Scholarship Program for Economically Disadvantaged Students
This program provides a scholarship equivalent to partial or full tuition for students who qualify according to an analysis of household size, income, and family financial circumstances.

Tuition Scholarships
Scholarships are available to students who enroll in a registered SUNY graduate or first professional program. These scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis.

Assistantships
Assistantships provide the principal form of support for graduate students. Graduate students perform duties in three principal areas: teaching, re-search, and administration.

For the 1996-97 academic year the full assistantship carries a ten-month stipend of $9,572, which may be supplemented by other funds. Both state-funded TAs and GAs and externally funded assistantships are renewable at the discretion of the department, most for up to four years. Teaching and graduate assistants are affiliated with the Graduate Student Employees Union (GSEU).

Fellowships
Among the several fellowships Stony Brook awards for graduate study, the Graduate Council Fellow-ships and the W. Burghardt Turner Fellowships are the most prestigious. Graduate Council Fellowship awards result from Graduate School-wide competition. Funds permitting, these are five-year fellowships, subject to satisfactory academic progress. Gradu-ate Council Fellows usually qualify for full tuition scholarships.

The W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship, funded by the State University of New York Underrepresented Graduate Fellowship Program, provides stipend support and full tuition scholarships for African-American, American Indian, and Hispanic-American graduate students. Typically, twenty Turner Fellowships are available each academic year.

Incoming graduate students who are members of underrepresented groups may apply for Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowships, which are funded by the U.S. Department of Education. They provide a stipend and tuition scholarship, with possible renewal for a maximum of three additional years.

Special Centers and Institutes
The University is home to a myriad centers, laboratories, and institutes, many of them externally funded, which reflect the broad diversity of academic and research-oriented pursuits on campus. Many of these organizations are directed by Stony Brook faculty and staff. Students may benefit from these facilities by tapping them as resources for academic work. Among these organizations are the AIDS Education and Resource Center; Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center; Applied Behavioral Medicine Research Institute; Arms Control and Peace Studies Center; Bach Aria Festival and Institute; Cancer Center; Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Center, Center for the Analysis and Synthesis of Macromolecules; Center for Behavioral Neuroscience; Center for Biotechnology; Center for Corporate Continuing Education and Training; Center for Education on Substance Abuse; Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education; Center for Health Policy and Management; Center for Industrial Cooperation; Center for Italian Studies; Center for Regional Policy Studies; Center for Religious Studies; Center for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education; Center for Womyn’s Concerns; Educational Communications Center; Empire State College; and the Executive Management Center.

Other campus-based institutes and laboratories include the High Energy Physics Group, Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Neurobiology, Humanities Institute, Institute for Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute for Long Island Archaeology, Institute for Mathematical Modeling, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society, Institute for Mental Health Research, Institute for Pattern Recognition, Institute for Social Analysis, Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Arthritis and Related Diseases, Laboratory for Behavioral Research, Laboratory for Experimental Mechanics Research, Laboratory for Image Analysis, Laboratory for Personal Computers in Education, Laboratory for Political Research, Long Island High Technology Incubator, Long Island Leadership Institute, Long Island Library Resources Council, and the Long Island Regional Advisory Council on Higher Education.

Stony Brook also houses the Lyme Disease Center, Microscopy Imaging Center, New York Sea Grant Institute, Nuclear Theory Group, Occupational and Environmental Health Center, Research Group for Human Development and Educational Policy, Sleep Disorders Center, Small Business Development Center, Stony Brook Radiation Laboratory, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Regional Center for Eastern New York State, Suffolk Partnership Program, Taproot Workshops, Inc., Transplantation Society, and the Waste Management Institute. The University is a partner in Brookhaven Science Associates, which is now managing Brookhaven National Lab.

Academic Journals and Periodicals
Academic publications edited or published at the university include Abdominal Imaging; Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities; Art Criticism; Biological Psychiatry; Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing; Continental Philosophy; Developmental Review; Evolution; Evolutionary Anthropology; Forum Italicum; Gradiva; Heat Transfer—Japanese Research; Humanities Series in Contemporary Studies in Philosophy; Humanities Series in Philosophy and Literary Theory; Indiana Series in Philosophy of Technology; International Association of Philosophy and Literature; Journal of College Science Teaching; Journal of Educational Technology Systems; Journal of Histotechnology; Journal of Urban Analysis and Public Management; Long Island Historical Journal; Materials Science and Engineering; minnesota review; Philosopher’s Annual; The Physics Teacher; Previews of Heat and Mass Transfer; Quarterly Review of Biology; Romantic Movement Bibliography; Slavic and Eastern European Arts; Stony Brook Bulletin for Theory and Criticism; SUNY Series in Aesthetics; SUNY Series in Contemporary Studies in Philosophy; SUNY Series in Political Thought; Taproot; Thermal Spray Technology; Transplantation Proceedings; and Victorian Literature and Culture.

The Campus and the Community
Stony Brook is the only major research university on Long Island, one of the nation’s largest and most vital suburban regions, with a population larger than that of ten states. As the public university center for Nassau and Suffolk counties and the metropolitan New York region, Stony Brook serves the complex, growing Long Island economy through research into local problems; by participating in cooperative programs with governmental agencies at the federal, state, and local levels; and by responding to the region’s extraordinary demand for higher education opportunity. Excluding the state and county governments, the University is Long Island’s second largest employer, with 9,590 people on the campus payroll. It is the largest single-site employer in Suffolk County. The University generates an estimated billion dollars annually in direct and indirect economic impact on the region.

An important educational center for the Island, Stony Brook also provides a social and cultural focal point, making art, theatre, music, and film available to the local community. Several hundred concerts, lectures, films, theatre productions, art exhibits, and sports events on campus are open to the public each semester, many at no charge, and it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of persons annually attend these events or visit the campus to take advantage of other facilities and services. The University offers a specialized referral center for health care, multiple recreational opportunities, and a broad range of other services for individuals and groups in the public and private sectors. Regional business and civic leaders help guide the Stony Brook Foundation, Inc., the University’s independently incorporated development arm, and com-munity members with special interests in campus programs participate in the Friends of the Staller Center for the Arts and the University Hospital Auxiliary.

Technology, Research, and Industry
The University is an active partner with business on Long Island, a principal regional resource for high-technology research collaboration, the development needs of a highly skilled work force, and a source of technical support for public-policy challenges. The campus houses several active and innovative centers that work with local business. The Long Island High-Technology Incubator provides a protected setting for 20 start-up technology companies. The Center for Advanced Technology in Medical Biotechnology, a founding member of the New York Biotechnology Association, manages a $2-million-per-year publicly and privately funded program promoting commercially viable biotechnology re-search, University-industry collaboration, and technology transfer. It has helped its partner companies create 1,400 jobs in this booming field. The Long Island Research Institute (LIRI) works to develop new technologies and attract research programs to the area. The Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR) is a state-funded project that matches the resources of the colleges of engineering at Stony Brook and three other State University campuses to research and development initiatives in the industrial sector. The region’s extraordinary profusion of coastal environments is a living laboratory for the Marine Sciences Research Center, one of the world’s leading centers for coastal oceanography. Senior public and private sector managers are trained by the Harriman School for Management and Policy, while the Center for Corporate Continuing Educa-tion and Training serves all segments of business and industry with noncredit instruction. Recently, the Center for Regional Policy Studies completed the wide-ranging Long Island Strategic Economic Development Plan, which provides recommendations for a sound regional economy through the year 2010.

Education
Stony Brook plays an important role in local education as well. Liberty Partnerships is a program that sends undergraduate and graduate tutors and interns into the field to help at-risk students remain in junior and senior high school and go on to college. The Teacher Opportunity Corps recruits and trains Stony Brook students from underrepresented groups to become teachers in areas with the greatest need. The Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP), sponsored by the New York State Education Department, provides academic enrichment, counseling, and tutoring for underrepresented minorities and low-income secondary school students interested in scientific, technical, and health-related careers.

The Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education plays an important role on Long Island by coordinating, supporting, strengthening, and developing undergraduate (pre-service) and graduate (in-service) teacher certification and teacher education programs, educational research and development programs, and school-University partnership programs. The center has had a significant positive impact on the region, and is widely recognized as a symbol of the State University at Stony Brook’s commitment to teacher education, educational research, and development.

In addition to the University’s many degree programs, there are broad opportunities for credit-bearing and noncredit instruction for individuals pursuing specific, limited objectives or seeking personal enrichment.

Health Care
The University Hospital and Medical Center serves the health care needs of Long Island residents and trains dentists, physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health professionals such as physician assistants, physical therapists, and medical technologists. The hospital, which opened in 1980, is the only tertiary-care center in Suffolk County, and serves as a regional center for advanced patient care, education, research, and community service.

University Hospital offers the most sophisticated instrumentation and computerized physiological monitoring systems available. Medical and surgical services include a full array of highly specialized diagnostic and treatment techniques. The hospital consists of 504 beds with eight intensive care units dedicated to anesthesia, burn, cardiovascular, coronary, pediatric, medical, surgical, and transplant patients. A fully equipped neonatal intensive care unit provides the only tertiary-care services for premature and newborn infants in Suffolk County. Obstetrical services also include antepartum care and a perinatal education program.

University Hospital serves many regional roles. The Emergency Medicine Department operates as the designated level-one trauma center for the county. The hospital has designations as a perinatal center, a regional transplant center, a cardiac diagnostic center, a comprehensive center for total cancer care, a sleep disorders laboratory, and a Lyme disease center. It further serves as the region's burn center and directs the state-designated AIDS center. It also offers adult and pediatric surgery and orthopaedic services, including a comprehensive pain and rehabilitation program.

Among the services provided are cardiac catheterization, angioplasty, and electrophysiological studies, complete renal services, endoscopy, hematology studies, detailed analysis of allergic and immune disorders, and diagnostic and interventional radiology. Advanced services such as lithotripsy, laser surgery, ophthalmic laser treatment, and nuclear medicine are provided. Multidisciplinary teams care for adults and children with chronic conditions such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, and the physical and psychosocial effects of headache and pain. A full array of psychiatric services for children and adults is available. Psychiatric emergency care is provided 24 hours a day.

University Hospital’s clinical laboratories offer extensive services to patients. They include diagnostic radiology imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, stereotactic core breast biopsy, special procedures, interventional radiology, and nuclear medicine. In addition, University Hospital provides clinical neurophysiology monitoring and testing, endoscopy and gastroenterological services, pulmonary function studies, renal care, respiratory care, vascular diagnostic services, and the full range of physical and occupational therapies.

In the course of a year, University Hospital cares for more than 25,000 inpatients and treats more than 43,600 people in its Emergency Department. Close to 2,500 babies are born here each year, and more than 475,000 patients visit the medical center for physician care and ambulatory diagnostic and treatment services. In addition, the hospital dental service meets the needs of about 6,000 patients a year who have particularly complex dental problems.

Consistent with the hospital’s community service mission, Stony Brook plays a key role in providing medical care to underserved communities and is a leading provider of both hospital- and community-based cancer screening programs. The medical center recently established a health care teleservices department that provides a variety of health-related informational services to the community using a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute computer database. Specially trained oncology nurses answer questions about cancer. Staff nurses assist patients with information about other health concerns. Nurses serve as advocates for callers and help streamline their access to the medical center.

Each year about 400 volunteers contribute more than 50,000 hours of service. Every semester 100 to 120 undergraduate students serve as volunteers in the hospital, where they gain valuable experience while exploring careers in health care.

As an academic medical center, University Hospital at Stony Brook is an integral part of the Health Sciences Center of the State University of New York and is the principal clinical resource for the educational and research programs of the Schools of Dental Medicine, Health Technology and Management, Medicine, Nursing, and Social Welfare. University Hospital provides training for 484 residents and fellows in 45 approved specialty programs (including subspecialties) and the general practice/dental medicine program. Each clinical service of University Hospital is headed by a chief who is also the chair of the related department in the School of Medicine.

The medical center has a strong commitment to research. Investigators pursue clinical research, new diagnostic methods and patient therapies, as well as basic research into the causes and mechanisms of disease at the cellular and molecular levels. Recently, the medical center was designated as one of 24 centers nationwide to conduct the Women's Health Initiative. Under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health, this research initiative includes a series of clinical studies seeking to estimate the influence of environmental, genetic, and lifestyle factors on health and disease in women.

The Health Sciences Center operates the Long Island State Veterans Home, which is a 350-bed skilled nursing facility situated on the University campus. The home provides state-of-the-art, long-term and intermediate-level care to veterans of the United States Armed Forces. The home offers a broad range of services and features two 25-bed special care units, one for veterans with Alzheimer’s disease and the second for those with respiratory disease. In addition, the home’s services include medical-model adult day care that provides a full range of medical, allied health, and social services for veterans living in the community.

Campus Activities
Cultural Activities on Campus
A wide variety of lectures, seminars, concerts, exhibits, theatrical performances, movies, and sporting events are scheduled regularly during the academic year. Campus Life Time is a 90-minute period on Wednesdays from 12:40 to 2:10 p.m. when no classes are scheduled, allowing students, faculty, and staff opportunities to participate in campus programs, convocations, meetings, and student club/organization activities.

Some recent well-known speakers at Stony Brook have included educator Henry Louis Gates, authors Maxine Hong Kingston, Louise Erdrich, and Umberto Eco, scientist-writer Paul R. Ehrlich, paleontologist Robert Bakker, human rights leader Julian Bond, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, actress Phyllis Frelich, professor of law Lani Guinier, National Science Foun-da-tion Director Walter Massey, and His Holiness Tenzen Gyatso, the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet.

Art galleries in the Staller Center for the Arts, in Melville Library, and in the Stony Brook Union offer regularly changing exhibitions of works by on- and off-campus artists. The Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences, located in the Earth and Space Sciences Building, houses a continuous showing of dioramas depicting natural Long Island scenes as well as special temporary exhibits.

Generally, five films are shown weekly on campus, including vintage and current productions; admission is usually free for students. The campus enjoys an average of one classical music concert every day, including student recitals and performances by faculty and visiting artists.

Stony Brook’s Staller Center for the Arts, which opened in 1978, is a fully equipped facility for education in music, theatre, and fine arts, and is recognized as the most important performing arts center in Suffolk County. It includes the 1,100-seat Main Theatre, the 400-seat Recital Hall, three experimental theatres, and a 4,700-square-foot art gallery. These facilities are used jointly by the professional artists, musicians, dancers, and theatre groups who are part of the subscription series offered each year at the Staller Center, and by the art, music, and theatre students at Stony Brook.

The Staller Center for the Arts schedules more than 50 major events during the year. More than 200 recitals and concerts are given with no admission charge. Highlights of past seasons include performances by the Martha Graham Dance Company, MOMIX, the Vienna Choir Boys, Rita Moreno, Midori, the Tchaikovsky Chamber Orchestra, and the Peking Acrobats, as well as performances by the Stony Brook Concert Band, Chamber Symphony and Symphony Orchestras, Chamber Chorus, Gospel Choir, and University Chorus, and productions by the Department of Theatre Arts University Theatre.

Besides the free concerts, special student discounts are available for events at the Staller Center, and an arrangement has been made for students to purchase tickets for Main Theatre events that are not sold out. “Student rush” tickets are $6.50 and go on sale 15 minutes before curtain time. The Staller Center for the Arts provides a place where the campus community—undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff—can mingle with the hundreds of residents who come from a broad area around the University to enjoy and applaud a growing list of exciting events.

Student Organizations and Activities
Student Polity, the undergraduate student government organization, and its related groups, particularly the Student Activities Board, sponsor many campus activities. In recent years, popular student-sponsored concerts have featured Fishbone, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Patra, KRS, Ani Difranco, Phish, and Jimmy Cliff.

Student Polity presently funds more than 100 student interest clubs and organizations, which in many cases complement students’ academic work. Varied student interests are represented by groups as diverse as the Pre-Med Society, Stony Brook at Law, Cycling Club, Committee on Cinematic Arts (COCA), the Holography Club, Returning Student Network, the Chess Masters, the Science Fiction Forum, and the Young Parents Are Students Too Support Network, to name just a few.

The student newspaper, Statesman, is published twice weekly during the academic year with a circulation of 10,000 on campus and in the local community. Other student publications include the Stony Brook Press, a student weekly; Blackworld, a newspaper focusing primarily on news of interest to the black community on campus; and Stony Brook Shelanu, a newspaper published by the B’nai Brith Hillel Foundation.

The International Student Organi-zation meets student interests in various cultural traditions, as do other groups, including the Asian Students’ Alliance, Club India, African Student Union, Latin American Student Organization, and Caribbean Students Organization.

Athletics
Stony Brook currently offers 20 intercollegiate varsity sports, 11 for men and 9 for women, competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC), the New York State Women’s Collegiate Athletic Association (NYSWCAA), and the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association (NISRA), along with local conferences for various sports.

In July 1993, Stony Brook initiated a process of complying with Division II regulations that would ultimately take its entire athletic program to the NCAA Division I level. That five year effort will come to fruition during the Fall 1999 semester when all of Stony Brook’s Athletic teams are officially elevated to Division I status.

Stony Brook teams have enjoyed success in recent seasons with NCAA tournament appearances by the men’s and women’s basketball and women’s volleyball teams, and by members of the men’s and women’s track and cross-country teams and the men’s and women’s swimming teams. In recent years, for instance, the women’s volleyball team has captured a New York State championship and advanced to the NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Championships five times. In 1992, the volleyball team captured the Eastern Regional title in the NCAA playoffs and finished third in the nation. The men’s basketball and baseball teams have each appeared in two ECAC playoffs, with the baseball team capturing the title in 1992.

Religious Centers on Campus
The Interfaith Center is the representative organization for chaplains and campus ministry who are officially selected representatives of religious denominations and have a major concern for and a working relationship with the University. Members cooperate with administration, faculty, students, and staff in programs that contribute to the human quality of the University and to the integrity of its academic purpose. Worship services are held and opportunities are provided to learn about and appreciate diverse religious traditions. Students should also be aware of Section 224-a of the New York State Education law as it pertains to exceptions from classes and coursework on religious holidays. See the Academic Policies and Regulations chapter, page 70, for more information regarding this law.

Baptist Campus Ministries is an organization of the Southern Baptist Convention. The campus office is in 166 Humanities. B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation is the umbrella organization that serves the needs and concerns of Jewish students on campus, offering cultural, educational, religious, and social programs, as well as overseeing the kosher meal plan. Check with the Hillel Office, 165 Humanities, for the schedule and location of weekly and high holiday services. The Catholic Campus Ministry offers liturgies, retreats, the sacraments, and opportunities for Christian living and service, as well as full social and educational programs. Its office is in 158 Hu-manities. The Islamic Society of North America, 153 Humanities, addresses the social needs and spiritual development of Muslim students. The Protestant Campus Ministry, 160 Humanities, provides the opportunity to worship, social gatherings, study, counseling, and retreats. It also provides transportation to local churches. The Unitarian Universalist Campus Ministry is sponsored by the Long Island Area Council of U.U. Societies.

Offices of the Interfaith Center are in rooms 153-167 of the Humanities Building. Students are invited to visit, ask questions, and participate.

Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
The State University of New York at Stony Brook does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, color, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or status as a disabled or Vietnam-era veteran in its education programs or employment. Also, the State of New York prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Discrimination is unlawful. If you are a student or an employee of the University at Stony Brook and you consider yourself to be the victim of illegal discrimination, you may file a grievance in writing with the Affirmative Action Office within 45 calendar days of the alleged discriminatory act. If you choose to file a complaint within the University, you do not lose your right to file with an outside enforcement agency such as the State Division of Human Rights or Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Any questions concerning this policy or allegations of noncompliance should be directed to:

Director of Affirmative Action
Administration Building 294
University at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-0251
Telephone: (631) 632-6280

Assistant ADA Coordinator
Disabled Student Services
133 Humanities Building
University at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5328
(631) 632-6748/9, V/TDD