Please Join Us November 6: Stony Brook University Investiture Ceremony
October 25, 2023
Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students:
On Monday, November 6, Stony Brook University will host a newly designed Investiture Ceremony to recognize our endowed faculty who represent academic and research excellence. This event also pays tribute to our extraordinary donors whose generosity supports these eminent scholars and enables Stony Brook to continually advance its rich, groundbreaking intellectual community.
I hope you will join us in this cross-discipline celebration of our faculty in recognition of their outstanding research and scholarship, including:
OLGA ARONIADIS, MD, MSC, FACG
Svetlana Koroleva Endowed Professor in Gastroenterology
KARENA CHAPMAN, PHD
Frank Fowler Endowed Chair in Materials Chemistry
THOMAS DIACOVO, MD
Knapp Chair in Pediatrics
EDEN FIGUEROA, PHD
Presidential Innovation Endowed Professor
THOMAS MANUEL, DMA
Department of Music Endowed Artist in Residence Fellow
KATHLEEN MCGARRY, PHD
Thomas Muench Endowed Distinguished Chair of Economics
LILIANNE MUJICA-PARODI, PHD
Baszucki Endowed Chair in Metabolic Neuroscience
ELLEN K. PIKITCH, PHD
Endowed Professor of Ocean Conservation Science
LOREDANA POLEZZI, PHD
Alfonse M. D’Amato Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies
LEONARDO RASTELLI, PHD
Renaissance Endowed Chair of Theoretical Physics
SANDHYA SUNDARESAN, PHD
Anandavalli & Dr. G. Swaminathan Endowed Research Professor in Tamil
STYLIANI-ANNA E. TSIRKA, PHD
Miriam and David Donoho Distinguished Professor
JAMES A. VOSSWINKEL, MD, FACS
Lillian and Leonard Schneider Endowed Chair in Trauma Surgery
WILLIAM A. WERTHEIM, MD, MBA
Endowed Chair in Graduate Medical Education
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2023
5:30 PM Ceremony | Charles B. Wang Center Theater
Reception Immediately Following
Please click here to RSVP by November 1.
We look forward to seeing you at this university-wide recognition of academic and research innovation.
Maurie McInnis
President