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The lighting of the Southampton Campus' 300-year-old Windmill — a literary landmark. As Kristen Nyitray said in this article she authored,"Landmark status was granted to the windmill based on playwright Tennessee Williams having lived there during the summer of 1957 while he was writing his experimental play, The Day on Which a Man Dies, in response to the death of his friend Jackson Pollock the summer before."

University Police Officer lending his hand print to create a time-lapse video featuring students and staff placing painted hand prints to form the word PEACE. Our University Police Department has been continuously re-accredited since 2010 and this year was no different — reaching, at minimum, 111 of the DCJS'  standards... bravo!

Dr. Michael Frohman, Distinguished Professor and Chair,  Pharmacological Sciences, recently co-led a team of scientists from around the world in connecting a gene mutation to congenital heart disease. PLD1 Gene is Causal to Congenital Heart Disease

Ellen Driscoll, Student Support Team — the first full time Substance Abuse Counselor at Stony Brook University, trains the new Red Watch Band Members, a two-hour course that provides students with the knowledge, awareness, and skills to prevent toxic drinking deaths.

Curtis Charles, MBA, Assistant Director of Campus Residences Information Systems is pictured here with a graduating student at LaValle Stadium 2019 Commencement.

Dr. Bonita London, an Associate Professor, Social and Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, is also the Director of the Social Processes of Identity, Coping & Engagement (SPICE) Research Lab,  leading research in social/personality and educational psychology on identity, achievement and institutional culture.

David Ecker, MSTM, Director of iCREATE, models a 3D Plastic face mask in response to the COVID-19 personal protective equipment shortage — touching at the very "freedom to innovate" core of what the iCREATE Lab is all about.  Stony Brook Ingenuity Takes on Coronavirus.

Dr. Mark Aronoff, Distinguished Professor in Linguistics, Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The Linguistic Society of America, and Past President of the Linguistic Society. Dr. Aronoff and an international team have spent the last two decades studying a newly-created sign language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language. 

Dr. Matthew Lerner, Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology, Director of the Social Competence and Treatment Lab, which focuses on helping those with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Dr. Lerner is also Research Director of the Stony Brook Autism Initiative and Co-Director of the Stony Brook LEND Center, both of which facilitate collaboration and training among researchers, clinicians, families, self-advocates, and other stakeholders in improving the lives of those with ASD.

For some years, Dr. Aronoff and Dr. Lerner have been working together on a framework for investigating autistic communication in the light of what we know about deafness and sign language.

Students displaying their Stony Book Red seawolves winter swag with a snowy campus background! 

Judith Burke-Berhannan, M. Ed., Dean of Admissions. Under the direction of Judith Burke -Berhannan,  Stony Brook University obtains well recognized success in reaching low-income students years before they are ready to apply —  a bridge for social mobility.