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2 unusual facts about Stony Brook


Bruce Norris

Bruce Norris died at age 61 on January 1, 1986 at Stony Brook University hospital in Stony Brook, Long Island, New York.

Meconema thalassinum

It is native to Europe, but was introduced to the United States, becoming established first in the west of Long Island and having since extended its range there to Rhode Island and Scarsdale, Stony Brook, and Ithaca, New York .


Jeremy Boissevain

Boissevain graduated for his PhD in 1962 at the London School of Economics and has subsequently taught at the Universities of Montreal, Sussex, Malta, New York (Stony Brook), Massachusetts (Amherst), Columbia University and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

Jonathan Pool

Pool worked at the universities of Chicago, New York (Stony Brook), Washington (Seattle), Stanford as well as in Mannheim, Paderborn, and Bielefeld in Germany.

Joseph Reboli

Joseph Reboli (September 25, 1945 – June 4, 2004) was an American painter based in Stony Brook, New York, known primarily for his oil paintings of local landscapes and subjects from the Three Village area and the East End of Long Island.

Norumbega

In the late 19th century, Eben Norton Horsford linked the name and legend of Norumbega to sites in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area, and built the Norumbega Tower at the confluence of Stony Brook and the Charles River in Weston, Massachusetts, where he believed Fort Norumbega was located (see the Horsford article for more on his claims).

Washington Oak

But as they approached the top of the hill, Mawhood's men caught sight of General Mercer's forces massing on the other side of the Stony Brook.


see also

2011–12 Big East Conference men's basketball season


§§ – does not factor two neutral games played, vs. Illinois State, in the 2011 Cancún Challenge, and vs. Stony Brook, in the 2011 Holiday Festival, which do not have attendance figures on record.

2011–12 Stony Brook Seawolves men's basketball team

In October 2011, Stony Brook announced a new partnership with New York cable provider Cablevision to broadcast 8 Men's basketball games and 3 Women's basketball games through the Optimum Network in the Long Island area.

Alia Sabur

On 19 February 2008, at 18 years of age (3 days before her 19th birthday), she was appointed to the position of International Professor as Research Liaison with Stony Brook University by the Dept. of Advanced Technology Fusion at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea.

Eldad Tarmu

Eldad studied at Tel Aviv University in Israel, holds a masters degree in Afro-Latin music from California State University Los Angeles and a master of arts degree in Classical Composition from Stony Brook University, New York.

Gaebelein

Frank E. Gaebelein (1899 - 1983), founder of The Stony Brook School and editor of the Expositor’s Bible Commentary.

John S. Toll

While he was there, SUNY@Stony Brook, one of four SUNY centers created by then-governor Nelson Rockefeller (briefly Vice President of the United States under Gerald Ford), and, until recently, the only four allowed to call themselves "universities", grew to more than 17,000 students from a handful who started their academic careers before the campus was even finished, at the now-defunct State University of New York on Long Island (SUCOLI).

Robin Lingle

Lingle transferred from Olney High School to The Stony Brook School, graduated from The Stony Brook School, where he became the first athlete to win two championship cross-country meets on the same day, the Ivy Preparatory School League and the Eastern Scholastics States Championships.

In December 1966, Lingle married Margaret "Marky" Williams, completed his master's degree in electrical engineering, and passed up the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program in order to return to The Stony Brook School as a science and Bible teacher and track coach.

Ruth B. Bottigheimer

In addition to her current position at Stony Brook University, Bottigheimer has also taught at Hollins College, the University of Innsbruck, Göttingen University, Princeton University, the University of California, and others.

Silent mutation

Steffen Mueller at the Stony Brook University designed a live virus vaccine for polio in which the pathogen was engineered to have synonymous codons replace naturally-occurring ones in the genome.

Woodsville

Woodsville Brook, a tributary of Stony Brook in Mercer County, New Jersey