Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University (SBU), located in Stony Brook, New York, is one of the premier public universities in the United States with more than 21,000 students enrolled. It was founded in 1957 as the State University College on Long Island. The first campus was at the William Robertson Coe Planting Fields estate in Oyster Bay. Originally, SBU was a college for preparing secondary school teachers in mathematics and the sciences. The present campus (since 1962) is located on land donated by philanthropist Ward Melville. Stony Brook is part of the State University of New York and is one of its four university centers.

The campus, itself, is located at the geographic midpoint of Long Island, approximately 60 miles east of New York City and 60 miles west of Montauk.

Schools in Stony Brook include the College of Arts and Science, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Graduate School, the Harriman School of Management and Policy, the Health Sciences Center and the Marine Sciences Research Center. Libraries in the university contain nearly 2 million bound volumes and 4 million publications in microformat.

Several doctoral programs at the university are highly ranked nationwide. In recognition of strong integration of research and education, it received an award from the National Science Foundation of the United States. Stony Brook co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory making it one of the few universities that run federal laboratories. In 2002, Stony Brook was one of only two universities invited to join the elite Association of American Universities (AAU).

Stony Brook has various names including University at Stony Brook, Stony Brook University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

The sports teams are known as the Seawolves. They participate in the NCAA Division I and the America East Conference.

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