The Statesman

Stony Brook student creates new tool to view class syllabi

Arralon Cyrus • September 11, 2024

After Stony Brook University took down a syllabus website where students could look up their syllabi and rate classes about a month ago, one senior took matters into his own hands and created the new...

Figure drawing club brings student artists together to build community and express creativity

Irene Yimmongkol • September 10, 2024

Juno Stuelke, a junior majoring in studio art, likes to draw art that is based on real life. After taking the school’s only life drawing class, ARS 350, he wanted to have more opportunities to draw...

New York Times President, International highlights importance of free press in sustaining democracy

Jenna Zaza, Managing Editor • May 31, 2024

“Neither a free press nor democracy can survive without the other,” said the President, International of The New York Times Company Stephen Dunbar-Johnson. “A free press is not a given. It is...

Mentorship network helps Asian-American students succeed at Stony Brook

Kevin Yu • May 9, 2024

Asian Americans have often been called the model minority; they have been stereotyped as intelligent, hardworking and successful. But for Julie Huang, an associate professor of marketing at Stony Brook...

Patrick Leahy: the Stony Brook campus “dog guy”

Mariam Guirgis, Assistant News Editor • April 29, 2024

Veteran Patrick Leahy has been labeled by students on campus as the “dog guy,” as he can be found around campus with a big American Akita named Kono.

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Dean Laura Lindenfeld nominated for Scripps Howard Fund Administrator of the Year award

Lillian Miller • March 31, 2024

Laura Lindenfeld, who serves as Dean of Stony Brook University's School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) and Executive Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, has been announced...

Leonard Steinbach, a man of purpose and many passions, dead at 71

Mariam Guirgis, Assistant News Editor • February 16, 2024

Shortly after graduating from Stony Brook University in 1974, Leonard Steinbach, who also went by “Lenny” and “Len,” threw a party on the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian walkway with his friends....

How the Israel-Palestine conflict is playing out at SBU: a deeper look

Sonya Gugliara and Mariam Guirgis • November 16, 2023

Major U.S. cities and college campuses are speaking out about the conflict taking place in Gaza and Israel, and Stony Brook University is no different.

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84 years making a marine: the life of Marty Doherty

Lori Saxena • October 24, 2023

In 1958, on the corner of 150th St. and Tinton Ave. in the South Bronx, there was a small grocery store called Krabina’s. Right next to it was a candy shop that featured a jukebox and a television....

Student’s views dubbed “extreme” by biology professor

Sonya Gugliara • September 20, 2022

As an ethical vegan and animal rights activist, Laura Streminsky told her TA that she does not feel comfortable dissecting any kind of animal. In response, Professor Marvin O’Neal challenged her core values.

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State of the University 2021: President McInnis talks challenges ahead for SBU

Steven Keehner and Sara Ruberg • October 10, 2021

President Maurie McInnis highlighted how SBU plans to handle concerns in the future, the school's benefits of being young and her first semester on campus with a more familiar number of students in an exclusive interview with The Statesman.

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Reduced residential population sees SBU crime drop

Sara Ruberg and Steven Keehner • October 10, 2021

Reported crime on Stony Brook’s campus decreased in nearly every category during 2020, according to the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report published on Oct. 1.

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