Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University, formally the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook on Long Island, New York, and one of the two flagship institutions of the State University of New York system.石溪大学，正式名称为纽约州立大学石溪分校，是美国纽约长岛石溪的一所公立研究型大学，也是纽约州立大学系统的两所旗舰院校之一。

It opened in 1957 in Oyster Bay as the State University College on Long Island and moved to its present North Shore campus in 1962, and it is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity.该校于 1957 年在牡蛎湾以长岛州立大学学院之名开办，1962 年迁至如今的北岸校区，并被归类为研究活动极活跃的 R1 级博士型大学。

It is placed 468th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, sits in the 326-350 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, ranks 236th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and stands in the 151-200 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, with OpenAlex recording 142,289 works and 15,470,120 citations.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 468，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 326 至 350 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 236，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 151 至 200 区间；OpenAlex 统计其成果 142,289 项、累计被引 15,470,120 次。

History

• The institution opened in 1957 in Oyster Bay as the State University College on Long Island, envisaged as a college for the preparation of secondary school teachers, with an inaugural class of 148 students admitted tuition free on the William Robertson Coe estate.该校于 1957 年在牡蛎湾开办，时名长岛州立大学学院，定位为培养中学教师的院校，首届招收 148 名学生，在威廉·罗伯逊·科尔庄园内以免学费方式入学。

• Leonard K. Olson was appointed its first dean and was instrumental in recruiting faculty and in planning the later Stony Brook campus.伦纳德·K·奥尔森被任命为首任院长，在招聘教师与规划后来的石溪校区方面发挥了关键作用。

• In 1960 the Heald Report, commissioned by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, recommended a major new public university on Long Island that would stand with the finest in the country.1960 年，由州长纳尔逊·洛克菲勒委托编写的《希尔德报告》建议在长岛建设一所堪与全国最优秀院校比肩的大型公立大学。

• 1961 saw the first commencement with thirty degrees awarded and the appointment of the university's first president, John Francis Lee, who left later that year.1961 年举行首届毕业典礼，授予三十个学位，并任命该校首任校长约翰·弗朗西斯·李，他于同年晚些时候离任。

• Ward Melville, a philanthropist and businessman from the Three Village area, donated more than 480 acres of land to the state, and in 1962 the institution relocated to Stony Brook and was renamed the State University of New York at Stony Brook.来自三村地区的慈善家兼实业家沃德·梅尔维尔向州政府捐赠 480 多英亩土地；1962 年，该校迁至石溪，并更名为纽约州立大学石溪分校。

• The campus had 782 students in 1962, but enrolment increased more than tenfold by 1969, surpassing the 8,000 mark amid the heavy funding of public higher education in the Sputnik era.1962 年校区仅有 782 名学生；在「人造卫星时代」公立高等教育获得大量拨款的背景下，到 1969 年在校生增长逾十倍，突破 8,000 人。

• In 1963 the Muir Report outlined the need to expand the university system to prepare medical professionals and recommended a Health Sciences Center and academic hospital at Stony Brook.1963 年，《缪尔报告》指出应扩大大学系统以培养医疗专业人才，并建议在石溪设立健康科学中心与教学医院。

• In 1965 the State University appointed the physicist John S. Toll as the second president of Stony Brook.1965 年，纽约州立大学任命物理学家约翰·S·托尔为石溪第二任校长。

• In 1966 the university set the first timetables for the Health Sciences Center, residential housing was expanded to 3,000 places, and the Stony Brook Union opened in 1970.1966 年，该校订出健康科学中心的首批时间表，住宿容量扩至 3,000 个床位；石溪联合楼于 1970 年启用。

• In 1971 a massive expansion of the campus library, named in memory of Frank Melville Jr., was completed.1971 年，以弗兰克·梅尔维尔二世之名命名的校园图书馆完成大规模扩建。

• In January 1968 the Operation Stony Brook drug raid led to the arrest of twenty-nine students, and later that year the administration and students agreed a three-day moratorium to improve communication.1968 年 1 月，「石溪行动」缉毒突袭逮捕了二十九名学生；同年晚些时候，校方与学生达成为期三天的休整，以改善沟通。

• By 1975 enrolment had reached 16,000, and the Health Sciences Center across Nicolls Road was completed in 1980.到 1975 年，在校生已达 16,000 人；横跨尼科尔斯路的健康科学中心于 1980 年建成。

• In 1981 John Marburger was inaugurated as the third president and continued the university's expansion.1981 年，约翰·马伯格就任第三任校长，继续推动大学扩张。

• In 1994 the university approved a decision to move its athletics to NCAA Division I by 1999 and followed with construction of the Stony Brook Arena and expansion of the Indoor Sports Complex.1994 年，该校决定在 1999 年前将校际体育升入美国大学生体育协会一级联盟，随后兴建石溪体育馆并扩建室内运动综合体。

• Under its fourth president, Shirley Strum Kenny, the administration carried out campus-wide landscaping, renovated every residence hall and increased research expenditure and private philanthropy.在第四任校长雪莉·斯特鲁姆·肯尼任内，校方实施全校景观改造、翻修每一栋学生宿舍，并提高科研支出与私人捐赠。

• In 1998 the university entered the top one hundred American research universities in the U.S. News & World Report, and it and the Battelle Memorial Institute were chosen by the Department of Energy as joint operators of Brookhaven National Laboratory.1998 年，该校跻身《美国新闻与世界报道》全美百强研究型大学；同年，它同巴特尔纪念研究所一起被美国能源部选为布鲁克黑文国家实验室的联合运营方。

• Enrolment reached the 20,000 mark in 2001 and the university was invited to join the Association of American Universities.2001 年，在校生达到 20,000 人，该校获邀加入美国大学协会。

• In 2002 the twenty-two million dollar Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium opened and the Charles B. Wang Center, funded by a fifty million dollar donation, was dedicated to Asian and American culture.2002 年，造价 2,200 万美元的肯尼斯·P·拉瓦勒体育场启用；由 5,000 万美元捐赠资助的查尔斯·B·王中心则以亚洲与美洲文化为主题落成。

• In 2003 the chemistry professor Paul Lauterbur received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research that was instrumental in the development of magnetic resonance imaging.2003 年，化学教授保罗·劳特伯因对磁共振成像发展起到关键作用的研究获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• In 2005 the university acquired the Flowerfield property adjacent to campus by eminent domain for a Research and Development Park, and in 2009 Samuel L. Stanley became the fifth president.2005 年，该校通过征用权取得校园毗邻的弗劳尔菲尔德地块，用于建设研发园区；2009 年，塞缪尔·L·斯坦利出任第五任校长。

• Hedge funder Jim Simons made landmark gifts to the university, including twenty-five million dollars in 2006, sixty million dollars for the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in 2008 and one hundred and fifty million dollars in 2011.对冲基金经理吉姆·西蒙斯向该校作出里程碑式捐赠，包括 2006 年的 2,500 万美元、2008 年为西蒙斯几何与物理中心捐赠的 6,000 万美元，以及 2011 年的 1.5 亿美元。

• On 5 January 2022 Governor Kathy Hochul designated Stony Brook and the University at Buffalo as the two flagship universities of the SUNY system, with a new one hundred million dollar engineering building.2022 年 1 月 5 日，州长凯西·霍楚尔将石溪与布法罗大学定为纽约州立大学系统的两所旗舰大学，并宣布新建一座造价 1 亿美元的工程大楼。

• In 2023 the university was chosen as the anchor institution for a seven hundred million dollar climate research hub on Governors Island, and received a five hundred million dollar unrestricted gift from the Simons Foundation.2023 年，该校被选为纽约市总督岛造价 7 亿美元气候研究枢纽的主办院校，并获西蒙斯基金会 5 亿美元的无限制捐赠。

• In February 2025 Andrea Goldsmith, formerly dean of engineering at Princeton, was named Stony Brook's seventh president, taking office on 1 August 2025.2025 年 2 月，曾任普林斯顿大学工程学院院长的安德烈娅·戈德史密斯被任命为石溪第七任校长，于 2025 年 8 月 1 日就任。

Academics

• Stony Brook offers more than 200 undergraduate programmes and more than 140 graduate and professional programmes across its schools and colleges.石溪大学通过其各学院开设 200 多个本科项目与 140 多个研究生及专业项目。

• The university is composed of 12 schools and colleges, the largest by enrolment being the College of Arts and Sciences.该校由 12 个学院组成，按在校生规模最大的是文理学院。

• Its health science component, Stony Brook Medicine, includes the Renaissance School of Medicine and the Schools of Dental Medicine, Nursing, Health Professions, Pharmacy and Social Welfare.其健康科学体系「石溪医学」包括文艺复兴医学院，以及口腔医学、护理、健康专业、药学与药物科学、社会福利等学院。

• Stony Brook is classified as R1 for very high research activity and is a member of the Association of American Universities and the Universities Research Association.石溪大学被列为研究活动极活跃的 R1 级院校，是美国大学协会与大学研究协会成员。

• Together with the Battelle Memorial Institute the university co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory through Brookhaven Science Associates, a fifty-fifty partnership.该校与巴特尔纪念研究所通过五五对等的布鲁克黑文科学协会共同管理布鲁克黑文国家实验室。

• Research centres include the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Computational Science and the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics.其研究中心包括数学科学研究所、高等计算科学研究所与杨振宁理论物理研究所。

• The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics was established in 2008 with a sixty million dollar gift from Jim Simons, while the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology was set up in 2008.西蒙斯几何与物理中心于 2008 年由吉姆·西蒙斯捐赠 6,000 万美元设立；路易斯与比阿特丽斯·劳弗物理与定量生物学中心亦于 2008 年成立。

• The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences is the SUNY centre for marine and atmospheric research, teaching more than 300 students from 16 countries.海洋与大气科学学院是纽约州立大学系统海洋与大气研究的中心，在校学习的学生逾 300 人，来自 16 个国家。

• As of Fall 2026 the university enrolled more than 27,700 students, including more than 19,000 undergraduates and more than 8,100 graduate and professional students.截至 2026 年秋季，该校在校生逾 27,700 人，其中本科生逾 19,000 人，研究生与专业学生逾 8,100 人。

• The university employs over 15,000 people, including more than 2,850 faculty, and is the largest single-site employer on Long Island.该校员工逾 15,000 人，其中教师 2,850 余人，是长岛规模最大的单一地点雇主。

• For the 2025-2026 academic year undergraduate tuition and fees were 7,070 dollars for New York State residents and 31,050 dollars for out-of-state students, with average room and board of 19,044 dollars.2025 至 2026 学年，本科生学费与杂费为纽约州居民 7,070 美元、州外学生 31,050 美元，食宿平均费用为 19,044 美元。

• In 2025 the university received 55,879 applications and admitted 27,380 students, of whom 4,042 enrolled.2025 年，该校收到 55,879 份申请，录取 27,380 人，其中 4,042 人报到入学。

• Almost 98 per cent of tenured and tenure-track faculty hold doctoral or the highest degree in their field, and the university reports more than 2,900 inventions and over 900 United States patents.约 98% 的终身教职教师拥有本领域博士学位或最高学位；该校报告拥有 2,900 多项发明与 900 多项美国专利。

• Stony Brook is one of only two public universities in New York to have both a medical school and a dental school, the other being the University at Buffalo.石溪大学是纽约州仅有的两所同时设有医学院与口腔医学院的公立大学之一，另一所为布法罗大学。

• The financial endowment is managed by the Stony Brook Foundation, established in 1965 as a not-for-profit corporation under the New York State Education Law.其财务捐赠基金由石溪大学基金会管理，该基金会于 1965 年依纽约州教育法设立为非营利法人。

• The university's annual economic impact on the region is estimated at 4.65 billion dollars, and its College of Business earned AACSB International accreditation in 2021.该校对本地区的年度经济影响估计达 46.5 亿美元；其商学院于 2021 年获得国际商学院促进协会认证。

Campus

• The main campus occupies 1,039 acres on the North Shore of Long Island in the Town of Brookhaven, about 60 miles east of New York City.主校区占地 1,039 英亩，位于长岛北岸的布鲁克黑文镇，距纽约市以东约 60 英里。

• It comprises 213 buildings and is the largest public university campus by area in the state of New York, served by the Stony Brook station of the Long Island Rail Road.校区有 213 座建筑，是纽约州面积最大的公立大学校园，由长岛铁路石溪站提供服务。

• The campus is divided into West Campus and East Campus by Nicolls Road, with the Ashley Schiff Forest Preserve separating the South Campus from the West Campus.校园被尼科尔斯路分为西校区与东校区，阿什利·希夫森林保护区将南校区与西校区隔开。

• The West Campus centres on the Academic Mall, running from the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics to the Administration Building and lined by the Student Activities Center, the Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library and the Staller Center for the Arts.西校区以学术林荫道为中心，自西蒙斯几何与物理中心延伸至行政大楼，两侧分布着学生活动中心、弗兰克·梅尔维尔二世纪念图书馆与斯塔勒艺术中心。

• The South Campus houses the School of Dental Medicine, the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and the Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities.南校区设有口腔医学院、海洋与大气科学学院以及科迪自闭症与发育障碍中心。

• The East Campus holds Stony Brook University Hospital, completed in 1980 and Suffolk County's only tertiary hospital and Level 1 trauma centre, together with the Health Sciences Center.东校区设有 1980 年建成的石溪大学医院与健康科学中心，前者是萨福克县唯一的三级医院与一级创伤中心。

• The Research and Development Park on Stony Brook Road began with the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology in 2008, home to the immersive gigapixel facility known as the Reality Deck.位于石溪路的研发园区以 2008 年启用的无线与信息技术卓越中心为起点，内设名为「现实甲板」的沉浸式十亿像素设施。

• In March 2006 the university bought the Southampton College property on the east end of Long Island to develop programmes in environment and sustainability.2006 年 3 月，该校购得长岛东端的南安普顿学院校产，以发展环境与可持续发展相关项目。

• Stony Brook also offers degree programmes abroad through SUNY Korea at the Incheon Global Campus, which began academic programmes in March 2012.石溪大学还通过仁川全球校园的纽约州立大学韩国校区在海外开设学位项目，该校区于 2012 年 3 月开始授课。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Stony Brook University is placed 468th.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，石溪大学位列第 468。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands in the 326-350 band, and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is placed 236th.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 326 至 350 区间；在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 236。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities the university stands in the 151-200 band.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 151 至 200 区间。

• In the U.S. News & World Report 2027 Best Colleges the university was ranked 58th among national universities, 24th among public universities and first among public universities in New York State.在《美国新闻与世界报道》2027 年最佳大学排名中，该校在全美综合大学中位列第 58，在公立大学中位列第 24，并在纽约州公立大学中位列第一。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 142,289 research works attracting 15,470,120 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 142,289 项研究成果，累计被引 15,470,120 次。

• Two Nobel Prizes were awarded between 2005 and 2007 to professors for work conducted at Stony Brook, and the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Paul Lauterbur.2005 年至 2007 年间，有两位教授因在石溪完成的工作获颁诺贝尔奖；2003 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖则授予保罗·劳特伯。

• The university is a member of the Association of American Universities and co-manages Brookhaven National Laboratory, placing it among the universities that operate national laboratories.该校是美国大学协会成员，并共同管理布鲁克黑文国家实验室，跻身运营国家实验室的大学之列。

• Stony Brook has an annual economic impact on the region of 4.65 billion dollars and is ranked the top public university in New York State.石溪大学对本地区的年度经济影响达 46.5 亿美元，并被评为纽约州公立大学之首。

• In graduate subject rankings, its clinical psychology and nuclear physics programmes have been ranked third nationally, and its mathematics programme was placed 13th worldwide by the 2017 Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.在研究生学科排名中，其临床心理学与核物理项目曾位列全美第三；其数学项目在 2017 年上海软科世界一流学科排名中位居全球第 13。

Student life

• Stony Brook has no formal university motto, but its official branding uses the slogan Dare to Dream Big.石溪大学没有正式校训，其官方品牌则使用「敢做大梦」这一口号。

• The university has 32 residence halls and 30 apartment-style buildings, home to 10,364 students of whom 9,898 are undergraduates, and 73 per cent of first-year students live on campus.该校有 32 栋学生宿舍与 30 栋公寓式建筑，共住 10,364 名学生，其中本科生 9,898 人；73% 的一年级学生住校。

• There are almost 300 recognised student clubs and organisations on campus, funded in part through the undergraduate student activity fee administered by the Undergraduate Student Government.校园内有近 300 个获认可的学生社团与组织，其经费部分来自由本科生学生会管理的学生活动费。

• The oldest campus newspaper is The Statesman, founded in 1957 in Oyster Bay, and the campus radio station WUSB serves much of Long Island.历史最久的校报《政治家报》于 1957 年创办于牡蛎湾；校园电台 WUSB 为长岛大部分地区播出节目。

• The Roth Pond Regatta, held since 1989, challenges teams to cross the pond in boats built from cardboard and tape before they sink.自 1989 年起举办的罗斯池塘帆船赛，参赛队须用纸板与胶带制成的船只，在沉没前划到对岸。

• Strawberry Fest has been held on the first Wednesday of May since 1993, and the Homecoming celebration known as Wolfstock draws record crowds of more than 12,000.草莓节自 1993 年以来每年五月的第一个星期三举行；名为「狼群节」的返校庆典曾吸引逾 12,000 人的破纪录人潮。

• Academic activity pauses weekly on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:30 pm during Campus Life Time, established in February 1991, when no classes are scheduled.每周三下午 1:00 至 2:30，学术活动暂停，进入 1991 年 2 月设立的「校园生活时间」，此时不排课。

• The Spirit of Stony Brook marching band was created in 2006 and grew to over 200 members, and the annual Seawolves Showcase, first held in 2010, highlights performing arts groups.「石溪之魂」行进乐队创建于 2006 年，规模增至 200 多人；2010 年首次举办的「海狼风采秀」则集中展示表演艺术团体。

Notable people

• Chen-Ning Yang, who shared the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics, taught at Stony Brook from 1965 to 1999 and founded its Institute for Theoretical Physics, renamed for him in 1999.共同获得 1957 年诺贝尔物理学奖的杨振宁于 1965 年至 1999 年在石溪任教，并创办该校理论物理研究所，该所于 1999 年以他命名。

• Paul Lauterbur, a chemistry professor, won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research at Stony Brook that underpinned magnetic resonance imaging.化学教授保罗·劳特伯因在石溪开展、为磁共振成像奠定基础的研究，于 2003 年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• John Milnor, a Fields Medal winner, served as a professor of mathematics at Stony Brook and helped establish its Institute for Mathematical Sciences.菲尔兹奖得主约翰·米尔诺曾任石溪数学教授，并协助创建该校数学科学研究所。

• Dennis Sullivan, a distinguished professor, won the 2022 Abel Prize, regarded as the top honour in mathematics.杰出教授丹尼斯·沙利文于 2022 年获得被视为数学界最高荣誉的阿贝尔奖。

• Jim Simons, the mathematician and founder of Renaissance Technologies, donated hundreds of millions of dollars to Stony Brook through the Simons Foundation.数学家和文艺复兴科技公司创始人吉姆·西蒙斯通过西蒙斯基金会向石溪大学捐赠了数以亿计美元。

• Richard Leakey, the Kenyan paleoanthropologist and conservationist, was a professor at Stony Brook, which co-founded the Turkana Basin Institute with the Leakey family.肯尼亚古人类学家与环保人士理查德·利基曾任石溪教授，该校与利基家族共同创办了图尔卡纳盆地研究所。

• John L. Hennessy, a 1975 graduate, later served as president of Stanford University and received the Turing Award.1975 届毕业生约翰·L·轩尼诗后来出任斯坦福大学校长，并获得图灵奖。

• Shing-Tung Yau, the Chinese-American mathematician and Fields Medal winner, taught at Stony Brook between 1972 and 1973.华裔美国数学家、菲尔兹奖得主丘成桐于 1972 年至 1973 年间在石溪任教。

• Bei Dao, the Chinese poet born Zhao Zhenkai, taught at Stony Brook between 2002 and 2005, and Charles B. Wang, founder of Computer Associates, funded the Asian and American culture centre.本名赵振开的中国诗人北岛于 2002 年至 2005 年间在石溪任教；计算机同仁公司创始人王嘉廉则资助了该校的亚洲与美洲文化中心。

• Joe Nathan, a six-time Major League Baseball All-Star relief pitcher, is a Stony Brook graduate who funded the baseball field named for him.六次入选美国职业棒球大联盟全明星的后援投手乔·内森是石溪校友，并出资捐建了以他命名的棒球场。