Stony Brook University
Public university in Stony Brook
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| February 2025 | Princeton dean of engineering and applied science Andrea Goldsmith was named Stony Brook University's seventh president. |
| 2024 | Home games for the season are scheduled to be played at Stony Brook Arena in Stony Brook, New York. |
| 2024 | Geno Ford begins his sixth year as head coach of the Stony Brook Seawolves men's basketball team for the 2024-25 season. |
| 2024 | The team begins competing in the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) for the 2024-25 basketball season. |
| May 2024 | President McInnis stepped down to become president at Yale University, and former Rutgers president Richard L. McCormick was named interim president. |
| 2023 | Stony Brook University received 50,341 total applications, offering admission to 24,670 applicants (49% acceptance rate), with 3,569 students enrolling, representing a 14.5% yield rate. |
| 2023 | Completed the $38 million renovation of the Javits Lecture Center, modernizing the building's infrastructure and accessibility features. |
| June 1 2023 | The Simons Foundation announces a historic $500 million endowment gift, the largest unrestricted donation to an institution of higher education in U.S. history. |
| April 2023 | Selected as the anchor institution for a $700 million, 172-acre climate change research and education hub on Governors Island, set to open in 2028. |
| April 5 2023 | Sanger Hall was officially renamed to Dr. May Edward Chinn Hall, following controversy over Margaret Sanger's historical support of eugenics. |
| 2022 | Distinguished professor Dennis Sullivan earned the Abel Prize, the top honor in mathematics. |
| July 1 2022 | Stony Brook University departed from the America East Conference after 21 years, joining the Colonial Athletic Association. |
| January 5 2022 | New York Governor Kathy Hochul officially designated Stony Brook University as one of two flagship universities of the State University of New York system, accompanied by the dedication of a $100 million multidisciplinary engineering building. |
| January 1 2022 | Arthur H. Lee was appointed as the president of SUNY Korea. |
| 2021 | Stony Brook University established tuition rates for the 2021-22 academic year, with undergraduate tuition set at $7,070 for in-state students and $24,740 for out-of-state students. |
| 2021 | Began a comprehensive $38 million renovation to modernize the Javits Lecture Center, upgrading mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and ADA compliance systems. |
| 2020 | The Innovation and Discovery Center (IDC), a 68,000-square foot building designed to host start-up and incubator businesses under the Start-Up NY program, was scheduled to open in fall. |
| 2020 | West K, the eleventh building in the West Apartments complex, was opened. |
| 2020 | The SAC Market dining option was opened, expanding the center's food service facilities. |
| 2020 | The renovated Stony Brook Union reopens after a three-year, $63.4 million renovation, featuring a three-story, 170,000 square foot building with modernist and neoclassical architectural styles, now serving over 40 student and faculty organizations. |
| July 1 2020 | Maurie McInnis becomes the sixth president of Stony Brook University, taking office on this date. |
| March 26 2020 | Maurie McInnis was named the sixth president of Stony Brook, effective July 1, 2020. |
| 2019 | Stony Brook University opened the SMART Cluster in CEWIT, a dual-use GPU cluster for machine learning and visualization, and the first hardware-accelerated ray-tracing cluster for real-time cinematic quality rendering. |
| 2019 | Stony Brook Children's Hospital opened as a new four-story, 71,500-square foot facility, costing $73 million. It is the only children's hospital on Long Island with single-patient rooms and the only children's teaching hospital in the region. |
| 2019 | Court renovated to add Seawolves' logo and a silhouette of Long Island. Hosted the NBA G League Finals due to conflicts with the Long Island Nets' home arena. |
| August 1 2019 | President Samuel L. Stanley left Stony Brook to become president of Michigan State University. Provost Michael A. Bernstein was named interim president. |
| January 2019 | Stony Brook Medicine opened a $194 million cancer center to the public. |
| 2018 | The Medical and Research Translation (MART) building opened as an eight-story, 240,000-square foot facility for the Stony Brook University Cancer Center, costing $194 million. The building was funded through a $35 million NYSUNY 2020 Challenge grant, $50 million from Jim Simons, and $53 million from New York state senators Kenneth LaValle and John Flanagan. |
| 2018 | West J, the tenth building in the West Apartments complex, was opened. |
| 2018 | A new turf field was installed in the stadium, and it again hosted the NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship Final Four tournament. |
| 2017 | Barry Barish won the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| 2017 | The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) joined Stony Brook University in offering degree programs at SUNY Korea. |
| 2017 | The team competed in the America East Conference during the 2017-18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. |
| 2017 | Caroline McCombs began her fourth year as head coach of the Stony Brook Seawolves women's basketball team for the 2017-18 season. |
| 2017 | Toll Drive residential halls complex opens, adding 760 beds to campus housing and bringing the total on-campus housing inventory to 10,300, making Stony Brook University the largest campus housing provider for public schools in New York State. |
| 2017 | East Side Dining center opens with 10 mini-restaurants and 12 kitchens, enabling the closure of Stony Brook Union dining services for renovation. |
| 2017 | The University Pool re-opened after several years of renovations. |
| 2017 | Stadium underwent an expansion, adding 2,000 seats to the north end zone and installing new concessions and restroom facilities. |
| 2017 | The Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences program was eliminated from the Earth and Space Sciences Building after housing hundreds of geological specimens, preserved Long Island sea and wildlife, and Native American artifacts. |
| 2016 | Men's basketball team earned first NCAA tournament bid by defeating Vermont Catamounts 80-74 |
| 2016 | New dormitories Chavez Hall and Tubman Hall, along with a new East Side Dining hall, opened. |
| 2016 | A media wing was added to the SAC, becoming the central location for student media organizations after the old Union closed. |
| 2016 | The original Stony Brook Union building closes for a comprehensive renovation project. |
| 2015 | Renovations began on the University Pool at Stony Brook Indoor Sports Complex. |
| 2015 | The New Computer Science building was opened, featuring 70,000 square feet of space dedicated to research laboratories, faculty offices, and conference areas. The building cost $40.8 million and includes specialized research labs for Digital Media, Light Dome, Sound Booth, Virtual Reality, and Wireless Sensor technologies. |
| 2014 | Simon Donaldson received the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. |
| 2014 | New York state allocated $60 million towards the construction of the Innovation and Discovery Center (IDC) building in the Research and Development Park. |
| 2014 | Construction of the Toll Drive residential halls complex begins, involving two residence halls (Chavez Hall and Tubman Hall) and the East Side Dining facility. |
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