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2013–2014 Annual Report to Donors Your Gifts to Stony Brook Are Invested In 2013–2014 ANNUAL REPORT TO DONORS YOUR GIFTS TO STONY BROOK ARE INVESTED IN 1 Challenging the brightest minds 2 Pursuing innovative research 3 Discovering new knowledge Your giving enables Stony Brook to enhance our dynamic environment for students and faculty, whose scholarly studies, creative pursuits, and research accomplishments are sources of pride for us all. As a public research institution, we place special emphasis on providing opportunities for deserving students and our incredible faculty. Thanks to 11,967 friends and alumni, we raised more than $65.7 million during this past fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, including $4.8 million for current-use student financial aid and close to $8.1 million for research. As you’ll read in this report, philanthropy is having an incredible, purposeful impact Our success at Stony Brook University across our campus. is a direct result of your generosity. Thanks to donors like you, smart but economically disadvantaged students are earning degrees in fields desperate for talent. Private dollars are invested in imaginative and innovative teaching that broadens students’ views of the world. And endowed faculty support critical research in areas such as cell behavior and innovative imaging technology to diagnose and treat disease. Donor support continues to be a signature component of Stony Brook’s student and faculty achievement. As we continue to grow and flourish, your sustained generosity will continue to factor into our quest for excellence in all we do. Thank you. Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD Richard L. Gelfond ‘76 President Chair, Board of Trustees Stony Brook University Stony Brook Foundation CHALLENGING THE BRIGHTEST Supporting Tomorrow’s Scientists and Technologists Underrepresented racial and MINDS ethnic groups comprise more than Two years ago, an anonymous Long Island businessperson established a scholarship to benefit a quarter of the U.S. population, students underrepresented in the STEM disciplines. yet they only account for 10% of Per the donor’s wishes, recipients are selected from a talented pool of Riverhead High School U.S. workers in science, technology, graduates, a Suffolk County community with an estimated per capita income of $26,254. engineering, and mathematics. In fiscal year 2014, an additional $1.4 million in immediate gifts and pledges from the same donor established an endowed scholarship fund, ensuring that more Riverhead High grads will receive the scholarship to attend Stony Brook University for generations to come. Creating Opportunities Across Campus Transformative gifts from two anonymous donors totaling $2.5 million were donated to Stony Brook’s College of Arts and Sciences. The gifts Riverhead STEM Scholars for ’13 & ’14 will allow the College to promote innovation, to recruit and retain talented students and faculty, and to further enrich the multitude of Majoring in: academic programs in the College. 97.7 Mechanical Engineering 1, Chemistry 2, Chemical and Molecular Engineering 1, High School Total: 15 students (46% are women) Applied Math & Statistics 1, Biochemistry 1, More than 47% of students are enrolled Average in Arts and Sciences majors. Psychology 1, Computer Science 1, Biology 4, Pre-Computer Engineering 1, Physics 1, Engineering 1 Cultivating International Leaders TOP 20 Arts & Sciences programs in the COUNTRY The Clinton Foundation, United Nations University, and the U.S. State Department are among the prestigious organizations employing Stony Brook students as interns, thanks to the Jewish Foundation #4 #4 #4 for the Education of Women (JFEW)-SUNY International Relations and Global Affairs Program. With $200,000 from the Nuclear Physics Geometry Clinical Parent Fund for Excellence, 144 students are attending Psychology With generous support from JFEW grants, each physics classes in a reimagined active learning year, the selection committee gives particular environment. The pilot program, modeled after 2014 US News & World Report Rankings attention to women who demonstrate both MIT’s Technology-Enabled Learning Environment, financial need and academic merit. Ten Stony Brook merges lecture, recitation, and hands-on juniors are introduced to the field of international laboratory learning. Physics professor Angela relations through attendance at monthly leadership Kelly already reports higher student attendance, development seminars and are then placed in retention and success when compared internships with global organizations in New York City. with traditional lecture-based physics classes. Fortifying a Diverse Workforce of Nurses Discovering New Insights in Behavioral Health For the seventh year in a row, a $100,000 A $254,000 gift from the estate of Drs. Robert and Olga Von Tauber encourages innovative research donation from the Robert Wood Johnson New Careers in Nursing Students by fourth-year residents and fellows in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. The Foundation to the School of Nursing provides endowment enables students to advance research in the field and present research findings at national scholarships for college graduates without 2007–2014 conferences. The gift also supplements a newly established research track for psychiatry residents. nursing degrees who are enrolled in the accelerated bachelor’s and master’s nursing programs at Stony Brook. 10 Asian Training a New Generation of Foreign Correspondents Stony Brook School of Nursing is one 12 African American of only seven in the country that have The Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting was established by the received all 7 years of scholarship School of Journalism to honor the legacy of Colvin, a Long Island native and 16 Hispanic acclaimed war correspondent killed in 2012 while reporting for The Sunday funding from the Robert Wood London Times in Syria. Johnson Foundation. 1 Native American This past year, a reader motivated by Colvin’s posthumously published book, On the Front Line, donated $200,000 through the Colvin Foundation, The “New Careers in Nursing Program” grant is established by Marie’s family, to the Center at Stony Brook. funding scholarships designed to help address 14 White the nationwide nursing shortage and In addition, friends and relatives of Emmy Award-winning CBS News increase the diversity of nursing professionals Producer Michael Rosenbaum, including his siblings Judy Witt and David to meet the needs of underrepresented Rosenbaum, established a memorial scholarship in Rosenbaum’s name to populations. 2 Other support the Marie Colvin Center’s “Journalism Without Walls” program, which takes undergraduates and graduate students overseas to report, write, and produce print and multimedia journalism. 99% 100% from NY State placed in jobs upon graduation Exploring New Frontiers in Computer Science To help recruit and retain the most talented graduate students in the Department of Computer Science, John L. Hennessy PhD `77, computer science graduate of Stony Brook and now longtime president of Equipping Dental Students to Serve the Underserved Stanford University, established the Hennessy Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund. On a mission to improve the oral health and Dental mission director and Stony Brook In 2012, Hennessy was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honor, well-being of disadvantaged families on Long professor David Krause, PhD, estimates that its highest recognition “for pioneering the RISC processor architecture and for leadership in computer Island, Henry Schein, Inc., made a $1 million the program has treated 8,000 patients and engineering and higher education.” gift of laboratory equipment, dental supplies, performed more than 30,000 procedures. computer software, and other gifts in kind to The gift from Hennessy comes as construction of Stony Brook’s new computer science building will Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine and its Thanks to the continued generosity of the Jim open in Spring 2015. The $40 million, 70,000-square-foot, LEED-certified facility offers students and Dental Care Center. and Robin Herrnstein Foundation, last summer faculty an array of specialized labs, particularly digital media, light dome, sound booth, virtual reality another team of third-year Stony Brook dental and wireless sensor labs. (stonybrook.edu/csbuilding) The Dental Care Center has become a safety net students provided vital dental care to more for 14,000 Long Island pediatric and geriatric than 1,000 impoverished Malagasy in remote patients, those with systemic conditions that villages, in addition to educating children and In the most recent National Research Council survey of doctoral are affected by their oral health and numerous their families on oral health and hygiene and programs in Computer Science, Stony Brook University ranked underserved groups. gathering useful data for research projects. #11 out of the 126 programs in the nation in combined research Since 2005, Stony Brook’s dental outreach productivity, student support, and outcomes. extends as far as the island nation of Madagascar, where there are just two dentists for every 100,000 people. TO PURSUE INNOVATIVE RESEARCH This year, Ramin Parsey, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of PET Research, was appointed the inaugural holder of the Della Pietra Chair of Biomedical Imaging. Stephen Della Pietra and Pamela Hurst-Della Pietra, along with his brother Vincent Della Pietra and Barbara Amonson, created the Della “ Dr. Parsey’s expertise Pietra Family Chair of Biomedical Imaging in 2013
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