- Michael Kimmel
Michael Scott Kimmel (*1951) is an American sociologist. His focus is Men's studies. He teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in New York and is the editor of "Men and Masculinities". Kimmel is a spokesperson of NOMAS (The National Organization For Men Against Sexism). He pursues a pro-feminist approach.
- Shirley Strum Kenny
A literary scholar, teacher, and academic administrator, Shirley Strum Kenny is the first woman to serve as president of Stony Brook University, where her leadership since 1994 has resulted in major increases in student enrollment, campus improvements, and business and community linkages. Dr. Kenny holds bachelor's degrees in English and journalism from the University of Texas, a master's degree from the University of Minnesota, and a doctoral degree from the University of Chicago.
- Donald Kuspit
Donald Kuspit is an American art critic, poet, and professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. He was formerly the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (1991-1997). He received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association).
- Ward Melville
John Ward Melville (January 5, 1887 - June 5, 1977) was an American philanthropist, and businessman. John Ward Melville was born in Brooklyn in 1887, son of Frank Melville, Jr. Ward Melville attended college at Columbia University, where he was active in the school newspaper and the Philolexian Society, and he continued to be involved with the university after graduation. After college, Melville joined his father's shoe company in 1909 and married Dorothy Bigelow.
- Massimo Pigliucci
As professor of ecology and evolution, he does research and teaching at SUNY-Stony Brook when he is not pursuing his interests in philosophy of science at the same institution.
- Paul Lauterbur
Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. Born and raised in Sidney, Ohio, Lauterbur graduated from Sidney High School, where a new Chemistry, Physics, and Biology wing was dedicated in his honor.
- Chen Ning Yang
Zhen-Ning Franklin Yang (born 22 September, 1922) is a Chinese-born American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. In 1957, at the age of 35, he and Tsung-Dao Lee received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their theory that weak force interactions between elementary particles did not have parity (mirror-reflection) symmetry.
- James Glimm
James Gilbert Glimm is an American mathematical physicist, and Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1959; his advisor was Richard Kadison. He has been noted for contributions to C*-algebras, quantum field theory, partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, scientific computing, the modeling of petroleum reservoirs, and geometric models for structural biology.
- Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
- Bernard Greenhouse
Bernard Greenhouse (born 1916) is a well-known cellist and one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio. He started his professional studies with Felix Salmond at Juilliard when he was eighteen. After four years of study with Salmond, Greenhouse proceeded to move on to studies with Emanuel Feuermann, Diran Alexanian, Raya Garbousova and Pablo Casals. After finishing studies with Casals, Greenhouse went on to pursue a solo career for twelve years.
- Don Ihde
Don Ihde (born 1934) is a philosopher of science and technology, and a post-phenomenologist. In 1979 he wrote what is often identified as the first North American work on philosophy of technology, "Technics and Praxis". Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Ihde is the author of thirteen original books and the editor of many others.
- Richard Leigh
Richard Leigh (born 1943) is a novelist and short story writer born in New Jersey and currently living in England. Author with Michael Baigent and Henry Lincoln, of the best-seller "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" (1982) and its sequel "The Messianic Legacy". Leigh earned a BA from Tufts University, a Master's degree from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
- Dusa McDuff
Dusa McDuff (born Margaret Dusa Waddington in London on 18 October 1945) is an English mathematician whose first work was in the field of von Neumann algebras (notably, she proved the existence of infinitely many type <math>II_1</math> factors). She has more recently made fundamental and wide-ranging contributions to symplectic geometry, especially in connection with Gromov's pseudoholomorphic curves. She is a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
- Douglas J. Futuyma
Douglas Joel Futuyma (born 1942, New York City) is an American biologist. Futuyma graduated with a B.S. from Cornell University, and took his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the interaction between plant-eating insects and the plants themselves. He was Lawrence B. Slobodkin Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, …
- Louis Simpson
Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (born March 27, 1923 in the United States) is a Jamaican poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work "At The End Of The Open Road". His father was a lawyer of Scottish descent, and his mother Russian. At 17 he emigrated to the United States and began attending Columbia University. During World War II, from 1943 to 1945 he was a member of the 101st Airborne Division and would fight in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, …
- John Gagnon
Dr. John Gagnon of the State University of New York at Stony Brook is a sociologist and sexologist. Gagnon and William H. Simon developed the concept of sexual scripts, which posits that a person's sexual behavior and experience of that behavior is influenced by their subjective understanding of their own sexuality. Their work is largely based on symbolic interactionism.
- John Milnor
John Willard Milnor (b. February 20, 1931 in Orange, New Jersey) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, K-theory, and dynamical systems, and for his influential books, which are widely considered to be examples of fine mathematical writing. He won the Fields Medal in 1962. As of 2005, John Milnor is a distinguished professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His wife, Dusa McDuff, is also a professor at Stony Brook.
- Steve Levy
Steven ("Steve") Levy (born 1959) is the seventh County Executive of Suffolk County, New York, elected on November 4 2003. His father was Jewish, though he attended Catholic school. Steve Levy is a graduate of Sachem High School, State University of New York at Stony Brook (Magna Cum Laude) and St. John's University Law School. In 1985, at the age of 26, he was elected to the Suffolk County Legislature. In 2000, after serving 15 years in the County Legislature, …
- Robert J. Gaffney
Robert J. Gaffney is President of Dowling College. The Dowling College Board of Trustees appointed Robert J. Gaffney, former Suffolk County Executive, and most recently a partner in the law firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., the College’s fourth president. Mr. Gaffney took office on October 1 succeeding Dr. Albert E. Donor, who has served since 1999 and will remain with the College in the role of advisor.
- George C. Williams
Professor George Christopher Williams (b. May 12, 1926) is an American evolutionary biologist. Williams is a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. In his first book, "Adaptation and Natural Selection", he argued that adaptation was an "onerous" concept that should only be invoked when necessary, and, that, when it is necessary, …
- Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman is an American computer scientist. He provided fundamental research in the field of human–computer interaction. Shneiderman currently holds a post as professor for Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science; he received a B.S. in Mathematics/Physics from the City College of New York in 1968, …
- John S. Toll
John S. Toll is a physicist and well-known educational administrator. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Yale in 1944, after which he served in the Navy in World War II. He finished his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton in 1952. He then moved to the University of Maryland, where he became Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1953. During his tenure as Chair, he was responsible for a major increase in size and quality of the department.
- Michael Anderson
Michael Anderson is a Professor of Mathematics in State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a differential geometer working on geometrization of 3-manifolds, general relativity, Einstein metrics and AdS/CFT correspondence et cetera.
- William Chittick
William C. Chittick is a renowned scholar of Sufi thought and literature and Islamic philosophy. Born in Connecticut, he completed a Ph.D. in Persian literature at Tehran University in 1974. He then taught comparative religion in the humanities department at Tehran's Aryamehr Technical University and left Iran just before the revolution in 1979. He has also served as assistant editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, …
- Carlos Simmerling
Carlos Simmerling is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His primary field of interest is computational structural biology with a focus on methods of conformational sampling and protein structure prediction. He is also a member of the AMBER development team. Dr.
- Sachiko Murata
Sachiko Murata is a professor of religion and Asian studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She received her B.A. from Chiba University in Chiba, Japan, and later attended Iran's Tehran University where she was the first woman ever to study fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) at that school. She received her Ph.D. in Persian literature, but shortly before completing her Ph.D. in Islamic Jurisprudence, …
- Mark Aronoff
Mark Aronoff was born in Montreal, QC and is a well-known morphologist and a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His 1974 M.I.T. PhD thesis ("Word Formation in Generative Grammar", published 1976 as Linguistic Inquiry Monograph One by the MIT Press) earned him the nickname of "the father of modern morphology" and established his reputation as a cunning linguist. From 1995 to 2001 Mark Aronoff was the editor of "Language", …
- John L. Hennessy
John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc.
- Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib (born 1950, Istanbul) is a Turkish professor of political science and philosophy at Yale and director of the program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and a well-known contemporary philosopher. She previously taught in the departments of philosophy at Boston University, SUNY Stony Brook, and the New School for Social Research and the Department of Government at Harvard University.
- David Gelernter
David Hillel Gelernter (b. 1955) is a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system. Bill Joy attributes Linda as the inspiration for many elements of JavaSpaces and Jini.
- Patricia Wright
Patricia Wright, a conservationist and leading lemur expert, is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is a member of the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration. Wright, who received her B.S. from Hood College and her Ph.D. from the City University of New York, worked as a social worker in Brooklyn, New York before beginning her prodigious career as a primatologist in 1986.
- Erich Goode
Erich Goode is an American sociologist. Goode specializes in the sociology of deviance. He has written a number of books on the field of deviance in general, as well as on specific deviant topics. Erich Goode received a B.A. from Oberlin College (1960) and a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University (1966). He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Florida Atlantic University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, …
- Richard Clark
Richard A.F. Clark is a dermatologist and biomedical engineer currently at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York. Clark is the editor of "The Molecular and Cellular Biology of Wound Repair", and is a leading contributor to wound repair, dermatology, and angiogenesis research.
- Joe Nathan
Joseph Michael (Joe) Nathan (born November 22, 1974 in Houston, Texas) is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Minnesota Twins (since 2004). He bats and throws right handed. Nathan stands 6-4 and weights in at 220 lbs. He wears a size 14 shoe. Nathan was drafted as a shortstop by the San Francisco Giants in 1995 out of State University of New York at Stony Brook. After an unsuccessful year at the plate in rookie ball, …
- Lawrence Dutton
Lawrence Dutton (b. 9 May 1954) is an American violist, and is currently a member of the Emerson String Quartet. He earned a Bachelor and Master's degree from the Juilliard School of Music where he studied with Lillian Fuchs. He is currently on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and at the Manhattan School of Music. Lawrence was born in New York City, New York, and now resides in Bronxville, New York with his wife, violinist Elizabeth Dutton.
- Kristina Curry Rogers
Kristina A. Curry Rogers is a graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook in New York, and currently Curator of Paleontology at the Science Museum of Minnesota and Visiting Assistant Pofessor in Geology at Macalester College. Her work focuses on questions of dinosaur biology, bone histology, growth, and evolution, especially the Titanosauria, on which she wrote her doctoral dissertion.
- Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (born October 26, 1938) is a Dutch physicist. He is now at SUNY Stony Brook in the United States. Van Nieuwenhuizen is best-known for his discovery of supergravity with Professors Ferrara and Freedman. He is married to Marie de Crombrugghe, and they have three children, Adrienne, Olivia, and Patrick.
- Jorge Benach
Jorge Benach is a medical researcher at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stonybrook in New York state. Benach is the chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. Benach's main area of research is the tick borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi which is the causative agent of Lyme disease. Benach also has begun to investigate organisms that could be used as bioterrorism agents, specifically Francisella tularensis, the bacterial agent of tularemia.
- Robert White
Robert Winthrop White (1921-2002) was a highly-respected American sculptor and educator who lived for much of his life in St. James, Long Island, New York. He was a grandson of the architect Stanford White. Born in New York in 1921, Robert White attended the Portsmouth Priory School (now Portsmouth Abbey School) in Rhode Island, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
- Alia Sabur
Alia Sabur (born February 22 1989) is an American child prodigy. She is best known for being accepted into graduate school at the age of 14. She left public school in 4th grade, was admitted to State University of New York at Stony Brook at the age of 10, graduating summa cum laude at 14. She also received a black belt in Tae Kwon Do at the age of 9. After Stony Brook, Sabur attended Drexel University where she received her M.S. in 2006.