Simons Foundation Announces Historic $500M Gift to Stony Brook University Endowment

The Simons Foundation, a philanthropy working to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, today announced a historic $500 million endowment gift to Stony Brook University during a news conference at the foundation’s Manhattan headquarters. This monumental gift — the combined largesse of the Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International — is the largest unrestricted donation to an institution of higher education in U.S. history.

IDEA Fellows Join Stony Brook Faculty

Stony Brook University is welcoming a new cohort of early career faculty, hired through the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) Fellows initiative. The IDEA Fellows program is aimed at catalyzing the university’s commitment to inclusive, solutions-driven research at the intersection of key disciplines.

Department of English Faculty Receive National Humanities Fellowships

Two faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences Department of English have received significant national humanities fellowships. Associate Professor E.K. Tan was named one of 34 fellows for 2023-24 by the National Humanities Center. Professor and Chair Andrew Newman received a one-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). 

Four CEAS Faculty Earn NSF Early CAREER Awards

Four faculty from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) were recently awarded Early CAREER grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Xinwei Mao, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering; Shanshan Yao, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; along with Shubham Jain and Shuai Mu, assistant professors in the Department of Computer Science, have received a combined $2.1 million in grants for their research.