About Stony Brook University

The State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY at Stony Brook), more commonly known as Stony Brook University (SBU), is a public research university circles in Stony Brook, New York. It is one of four academe centers of the State University of New York system. Consisting of 213 buildings higher than 1,454 acres of estate in Suffolk County, it is the largest public university circles in the give access of New York by area.

The institution was founded 64 years ago in 1957 in Oyster Bay as State University College on Long Island, and moved to Stony Brook in 1962. In 2001, Stony Brook was elected to the Association of American Universities, a selective work of major research universities in North America. It is afterward a enthusiast of the larger Universities Research Association. It is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity.”

Stony Brook University, in partnership past Battelle, manages Brookhaven National Laboratory, a national laboratory of the United States Department of Energy. The academe acquired land for a Research & Development Park against its main campus in 2004, and has four event incubators across the region. The University’s impact on the Long Island economy amounts to US$7.23 billion in increased output, and research expenditures have surpassed the US$230 million mark annually. Stony Brook is the largest single-site employer upon Long Island; 26,814 students are enrolled at the University, which has more than 15,000 employees and exceeding 2,700 faculty.

Stony Brook has been affiliated later than five Fields Medalists, putting it in a tie for the seventh-most Fields Medalists accompanied by American universities.

Stony Brook’s intercollegiate athletic teams have competed in Division I of the NCAA since 1999 as the Seawolves. Stony Brook teams compete as members of the America East Conference, the Colonial Athletic Association, and the Missouri Valley Conference.

Stony Brook is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. Begun in the colonial period as an agricultural enclave, the hamlet experienced addition first as a resort town and next to its current come clean as one of Long Island’s major tourist towns and centers of education. Despite beast referred to as a village by residents and tourists alike, Stony Brook has never been legally incorporated by the state. The population was 13,740 at the 2010 census.

The CDP is next to the main campus of Stony Brook University, a major research middle within the State University of New York, and then The Stony Brook School, a private intellectual preparatory school. It is also house to the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages and the Stony Brook Village Center, a privately maintained commercial middle planned in the style of a normal New England village.