Finding the solutions of the future by studying our past
As the work at the Turkana Basin Institute attests, examining the interaction between human evolution and a changing planet helps us better understand our future. In addition to funding new faculty with expertise in ancient molecules, the expanded facilities at Turkana Basin Institute  will allow researchers to dive more deeply, year-round into the fossil record than ever before.

Protecting our coastal cities and shorelines

The effects of climate change combined with a decaying infrastructure pose critical threats to major cities and coastal environments alike. A new Coastal Zone Engineering and Management major will equip students to address these challenges by cross-training them in coastal and civil engineering, environmental economics and hydrology.

Creating smarter social and economic decisions using data driven models

Traditionally, economics has been based on abstract assumptions about how humans behave. But recent psychological experiments have shown us that individual human decision-making is much more subtle and complex than those assumptions allowed for.

A new Center for Behavioral Political Economy will probe new understandings into the subtle complexity of individual human-decision making, exploring opportunities for forming more effective social and economic policy.

Revealing biology’s medical molecular secrets

With new investment in biomolecular imaging, including newly upgraded high field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) facilities and world-class computational resources, Stony Brook can continue to explore new frontiers of drug design and other medical therapies.  

Reimagining what’s possible

Additional investment in Stony Brook’s Joint Photon Science Institute will offer unique possibilities to study the structure and properties of materials with the intent of solving an array of innovation puzzles, from designing better batteries to developing more effective drugs.

Finding smarter energy sources

New investments in our Smart Energy Technologies research will secure Stony Brook as a leader in discovering cleaner, more sustainable and more efficient forms of energy generation and transmission — advances which are key to our economic health and our national security.

Saving the lemurs and rain forests of Madagascar

For the past 50 years, Stony Brook faculty and students working in Madagascar have been working to preserve the environment, encourage economic development and improve overall quality of life in one of the world’s poorest countries.

By increasing investment in these initiatives, we not only help build a stronger infrastructure and further conservation efforts, but we can apply what we learn to other parts of the developing world.