An Introduction to Stony Brook As Printed January 2005 an INTRODUCTION to STONY BROOK
As printed January 2005 An Introduction to Stony Brook As printed January 2005 AN INTRODUCTION TO STONY BROOK Stony Brook Soars: Our Surroundings students, faculty, and the general public. An Overview It is the first center of its kind in New Close to the historic village of Stony York State. Stony Brook is situated on a campus of Brook at the geographic midpoint of 1,100 acres, where world-renowned facul- Long Island, the University campus lies At the center of West Campus stands the ty have created a stimulating, highly about 60 miles east of Manhattan and 60 Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library, interactive environment for undergradu- miles west of Montauk Point, convenient which holds more than two million bound ate studies. With exceptional strength in both to New York City’s urban vitality volumes and some three million in micro- the sciences, mathematics, humanities, and cultural attractions and the tranquil format; around the library are the major fine arts, social sciences, engineering, and countryside and beautiful seashore of academic buildings for the Colleges of health professions, Stony Brook offers an eastern Suffolk County. It is only a short Arts and Sciences and Engineering and array of challenging, career-building pro- drive to some of New York State’s rich- Applied Sciences, the Van De Graaff grams. est farmland and fishing grounds, the nuclear accelerator, the Administration spectacular Atlantic beaches at Fire Building, Jacob K. Javits Lecture Established in 1957 as part of the State Island, the elegant resorts of the Center, Computer Science Building, University of New York system, Stony Hamptons, the craggy bluffs and natural Educational Communications Center, Brook has grown at a prodigious rate harbors along Long Island Sound, and Computing Center, the Stony Brook and is now recognized as one of the the picturesque village greens and gra- Union, Indoor Sports Complex, and nation’s finest public universities.
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