About Stony Brook

Stony Brook University: Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island’s scenic North Shore. Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff. SBU is a comprehensive research-intensive university and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), which includes 34 public universities among its 62 members. SBU consists of 12 schools and colleges and a teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art health care in the Long Island region. SBU also administers and conducts joint research with Brookhaven National Laboratory, the only Department of Energy Laboratory in the Northeast, and shares doctoral programs with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a world-renowned molecular biology institute. Home to the Emerson String Quartet, the Jackson Pollock House in East Hampton, New York, the Humanities Institute and the Southampton Arts Program, and with endeavors extending to the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar, SBU maintains an international reputation that cuts across the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

Stony Brook Medicine: The best ideas in medicine start with the best people. At Stony Brook Medicine, our highest calling is to put the power of ideas to work in the lives of our patients. Stony Brook Medicine integrates and elevates all of our health-related initiatives: education, research and patient care. Stony Brook Medicine is Long Island’s premier academic medical center. With 603 beds, we serve as the region’s only tertiary care center and Level 1 Trauma Center and are home to the Stony Brook Heart Institute, Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook Neurosciences Institute and Stony Brook Digestive Disorders Institute. We also include Suffolk County’s only Level 4 Regional Perinatal Center, State Designated AIDS Center, State Designated Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, State Designated Burn Center, Christopher Pendergast ALS Center of Excellence and Kidney Transplant Center. It is home to the nation’s first pediatric multiple sclerosis center.

Long Island State Veterans Home: Located on the campus of Stony Brook University, the Long Island State Veterans Home is a 350-bed skilled nursing facility with a 40-bed adult day care program dedicated to the care of honorably discharged veterans of the United States Armed Forces, their spouses and Gold Star parents. Join an organization where people make a difference every day and where commitment, compassion, initiative and leadership are recognized and rewarded. We care about America’s heroes every day.

Tobacco free

Stony Brook has been tobacco-free since January 1, 2016. Tobacco products are strictly prohibited anywhere on campus, including parking lots and outdoor areas on site. View our policy and learn more at stonybrook.edu/tobaccofree.