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The State University of New York at Stony Brook

Stony Brook University
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Former names
State University College on Long Island (1957–1962)
Type  • Public
 • Research university
 • Sea-grant
 • Space-grant
Established 1957
Endowment $254 million (2015)
President Samuel L. Stanley
Provost Dennis Assanis
Academic staff
2,471 (fall 2013)
Students 21,115 (West Campus)
3,847 East Campus
310 Southampton
25,272 Total
Undergraduates 16,831 (2015 Fall)
Postgraduates 8,441 (2015 Fall)
Location Stony Brook, New York, U.S.
40°54′51″N 73°06′58″W / 40.914224°N 73.11623°W / 40.914224; -73.11623Coordinates: 40°54′51″N 73°06′58″W / 40.914224°N 73.11623°W / 40.914224; -73.11623
Campus Suburban, 1,364 acres (5.5 km²)
Colors Red and Black
         
Athletics NCAA Division I FCS
America East
Sports 18 varsity teams
Nickname Seawolves
Mascot Wolfie the Seawolf
Affiliations State University of New York
AAU
URA
APLU
Website www.stonybrook.edu
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University rankings
National
ARWU 78-104
Forbes 249
U.S. News & World Report 96
Washington Monthly 88
Global
ARWU 201-301
QS 390
Times 201-250
U.S. News & World Report 131

The State University of New York at Stony Brook (also known as Stony Brook University or SUNY Stony Brook) is a public sea-grant and space-grant research university located in Stony Brook, New York in the United States. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.

The institution was founded in 1957 in Oyster Bay as State University College on Long Island, and would evolve into the present university after a move to Stony Brook in 1962. Since its establishment in Stony Brook, the university has expanded to include more than 200 major buildings with a combined area of more than 11 million gross square feet across 1,454 acres of land. In 2001, SUNY Stony Brook was elected to the Association of American Universities, joining four private universities (Cornell, Columbia, NYU, and Rochester) and one public university (SUNY Buffalo) elsewhere in its state. It is also a member of the larger Universities Research Association for which its president Samuel Stanley is a council president.

The university owns Stony Brook Medicine, co-manages the Brookhaven National Laboratory, in 2005 acquired land for a Research & Development Park adjacent to its main campus, and has four business incubators across the region. The university has a regional economic impact of over $4.6 billion annually accounting for nearly 4% of economic activity in eastern Long Island and research expenditures that have surpassed the $200 million mark annually.


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