Please Join Us October 25: Stony Brook University Investiture Ceremony
October 3, 2024
Dear Stony Brook Community:
On Friday, October 25, as part of Homecoming Weekend, Stony Brook University will host its annual Investiture Ceremony to recognize our endowed faculty who represent academic and research excellence. This program 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. The event will include a keynote address by Esther Takeuchi, William and Jane Knapp Endowed Chair in Energy and the Environment, SUNY Distinguished Professor.
I hope you will join us in this interdisciplinary celebration of our faculty in recognition of their outstanding research and scholarship, including:
IVET BAHAR, PHD
Louis and Beatrice Laufer Endowed Director and Chair in Physical and Quantitative
Biology
MICHAEL BENDER, PHD
John L. Hennessy Endowed Professor in Computer Science
LINA CARLINI, PHD
Laufer Family Endowed Professor of Physical and Quantitative Biology
MANISHA DESAI, PHD
Empowerment Charitable Trust (ECT) Endowed Professor in Global Citizenship
KEN A. DILL, PHD
Laufer Family Endowed Chair of Physical and Quantitative Biology
STEPHANIE DINKINS, MFA
Yayoi Kusama Endowed Professor of Art
PETAR DJURIC, PHD
Savitri Devi Bangaru Term Professor in Artificial Intelligence
CHRISTOPHER J. GOBLER, PHD
Endowed Chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation
KENNETH GOW, MD
Knapp Swezey Endowed Chair in Pediatric Surgery
CARLOS SIMMERLING, PHD
Marsha Laufer Endowed Professor of Physical and Quantitative Biology
STHANESHWAR TIMALSINA, PHD
Nirmal K. and Augustina Mattoo Endowed Chair in Classical Indic Humanities
Please click here to RSVP by October 18.
We look forward to seeing you at this university-wide recognition of academic and research innovation. Thank you for all you do for Stony Brook.
Richard L. McCormick
Interim President