01. Campus-Wide Administrative Announcements(dept moves/closes, employee info)
University Senate and Arts & Sciences Senate – Call for Nominations (Faculty Only)
Faculty Nominations for the University Senate and A&S Senate are open. Please submit your interest and/or nominations through the link below by March 24, 2023. If you are nominating others please assure they are aware of it in advance. Thank you for your willingness to participate in this important part of our university community. (Please note that a separate call for nominations will be sent to professional staff.)
Call for Volunteers: May 2023 Commencement Ceremony
May Commencement is scheduled for Friday, May 19, 2023. The Office of Conferences & Special Events is seeking volunteers to assist with this ceremony.
Main Commencement: May 19, 2022 – 11:00 am
Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium
President McInnis will confer degrees and certificates at the Main Ceremony.
Please use the link below to volunteer.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaR_AHRqzBmYOFQFfiwweuJwLv3vCtK7fJ0ui9YEXqoSKOOg/viewform
Legislative Changes Impacting Procurement at Stony Brook
New procurement guidelines from the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) are now in effect. Non-contract purchases over $75,000 now require OSC review and approval, and a new OSC review and approval threshold of $200,00 is required for purchases off of the Office of General Services (OGS) contracts. OSC review has been expanded to 75 days. Please review the full set of regulations, FAQs, and how to minimize delays below.
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/procurement/_pdf/FAQ_ProcurementLegislativeChanges.pdf
02. Workshops/Training
Tuesday, March 28, 12 PM–Globally Mobile Students: Basics for Any Faculty and Staff Member
The Network of Advocates for Internationals Students (NAIS) is hosting a workshop on 3/28 at 12:00 PM in the Faculty Commons. We will be discussing Peggy Blumenthal and Rajika Bhandari’s book International Students and Global Mobility in Higher Education. Join us to learn together about the economic, social, and political forces driving trends in student mobility and to discuss how we can help steer the future of international education. Register early to receive a free copy of the book!
https://stonybrookuniversity.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8qyQQf9y9bzaCk6?jfefe=new
Endnote 20 Workshop
Creating the bibliography is often the most tedious part of writing a research paper. Using EndNote, a bibliographic management software program, this task just became much easier. In this workshop learn: how to create an EndNote Library, how to download results from a literature search into EndNote, and how to organize your EndNote Library and much more. Date: 3/21/23, Time: 3pm-4pm, Location: HSL Classroom 3-139.
https://library.stonybrook.edu/library-events/endnote-20-workshop-12/
APA Style Workshop (7th Edition)
Learn how to format a student paper, create in-text citations, and put together a perfect reference list in accordance with 7th edition style rules.
https://library.stonybrook.edu/library-events/apa-style-workshop-7th-edition-4/
Research Tips and Tools for your SBU 101 Project
This library workshop, which can be used as a PLAN event, is designed to help first-year students with their SBU 101 project. We will introduce students to SBU library resources, as well as cover searching and discovering information on the open web.
https://library.stonybrook.edu/library-events/research-tips-and-tools-for-your-sbu-101-project-3/
Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Podcasts Workshop
This online workshop will give you an overview of podcasts – including how to find them, how to make them, and how they might help you in your classes, your career, and your life.
https://library.stonybrook.edu/library-events/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-podcasts/
MLA Citation Workshop
Are you required to use MLA citation for your research paper assignment? This workshop will address why, when, and how to cite your sources in MLA format. Although this workshop is designed especially for those students taking WRT 101 and WRT 102, all are welcome!
https://library.stonybrook.edu/library-events/mla-citation-workshop-12/
Medical and Dental School Student Virtual Panel
Academic and Transfer Advising Services is hosting a virtual panel of current Stony Brook medical and dental students. Participants will have the chance to ask questions about the application process and tips to being a competitive applicants. Topics that will be discusses includes pre-health academics, gap year opportunities, and more. Date: 3/22/2023, Time: 6:30pm – 7:30 pm, Location: Zoom.
Click below to register.
https://stonybrook.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrdOuvpzMsGd01qPPdOjtK1oE330_4vkEp
03. Fee-Based Workshops/Courses (CCE, Weight Watchers, etc…)
Think Spring! Check Out the School of Social Welfare Spring Continuing Education Workshops
The School of Social Welfare is committed to the kind of lifelong learning that expands your thinking, strengthens your practice, and helps to shape social work and related professions to meet the needs of the 21st century. NYS licensed social workers earn CEU’s. Program details and registration: https://socialwelfare.stonybrookmedicine.edu/continuing_education
04. New Academic Courses & Programs
Master of Science in Athletic Training
A Master of Science degree in Athletic Training is offered through the School of Health Professions. The admission application is now open; accepted students start courses in May 2023.
Information sessions are in person on Thursdays, April 6 & May 4 at 1:00, and remote on Tuesdays, March 21 & April 18 at 5:30. Email ATprogram@stonybrook.edu with the date/time you wish to attend (or to schedule a personalized meeting). This is a two-year, full-time 77 credit program; visit our website.
https://healthprofessions.stonybrookmedicine.edu/programs/at/graduate
05. Conferences/Seminars/Lectures
Grand Rounds- Narrative Medicine Theory and Practice: The Double Helix Model
The Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics will be offering a Grand Rounds by Liam Butchart, MD, MA titled “Narrative Medicine Theory and Practice: The Double Helix Model”. The Grand Rounds will be held via Zoom on Thursday, March 23, 2023 from 4:30pm- 6:00pm. Please see link for more details and to RSVP or e-mail bioethics@stonybrookmedicine.edu
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/bioethics/events/#2023
Memory in the Disciplines Presents Dr. Daria Khlevnyuk (University of Amsterdam) Digital Conspiratorial Memory of the USSR’s Dissolution
Memory in the Disciplines at Stony Brook Presents
Dr. Daria Khlevnyuk (University of Amsterdam)
“Digital Conspiratorial Memory of the USSR’s Dissolution: CIA, Zionists, and Other Suspects”
Wednesday March 29 1-2:20 pm Eastern Time
SBS Room N-403 and on zoom (
https://stonybrook.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvdeysrD8iGdFlZmPjRQGu0GIPQovXSOQN
https://you.stonybrook.edu/memory/
Grand Rounds- Exercise for the Embodied Ethic: kriya yoga for the development and sustenance of virtue
The Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics will be offering a Grand Rounds by Sarah Greco, MA, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP titled “Exercise for the Embodied Ethic: kriya yoga for the development and sustenance of virtue”. The Grand Rounds will be held via Zoom on Thursday, March 30, 2023 from 4:30pm- 6:00pm. Please see link for more details and to RSVP or e-mail bioethics@stonybrookmedicine.edu
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/bioethics/events/#2023
Neurobiology & Behavior Seminar
On Thursday, March 23, 2023 @ 12:00 noon, in the Life Sciences Bldg Room 038, the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior will be hosting a seminar entitled: “The Chicago Biomedical Consortium – Building Early Science Commercialization Services and Developing the Next generation of Bio-entrepreneurs”. Speaker is Dr. Michelle Burbea Hoffmann, Executive Director, The Chicago Biomedical Consortium
Faculty Host: Dr. Arianna Maffei
Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture 3/22/23: Cas Mudde, “The Far Right Today: The US in Comparative Perspective”
In this lecture, Cas Mudde discusses the key points of his recent book, The Far Right Today (Wiley, 2019), and puts the recent developments within US politics in a comparative perspective.
Featuring Cas Mudde, Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor, University of Georgia
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 4:00pm
Charles B. Wang Center Theater
Reception to follow.
RSVP here: https://bit.ly/CASRRSPoliSci
Policing Free Speech at Stony Brook: A Teach-In
How is free speech being “policed” on our campus? Why do free speech and academic freedom matter? Come learn more about the struggle to protect free speech and academic freedom at
Stony Brook. Join the discussion Thurs, Mar 23, at 4p in person (Humanities 1006) or on zoom (reg link included)
Panelists Include: Dr. Abena Asare, Dr. Nerissa Balce, Dr. Robert Chase, Dr. Josh Dubnau, Dr. Crystal Fleming, Dr. Jeff Heinz, Dr. Patrice Nganang, and Dr. Aurelie Vialette
https://stonybrook.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvdOmvqDMtHddWTr_z4gTy0eO1DmLWjoHo
Ecology & Evolution Seminar
Life Sci 038 or zoom, 2:30 pm, Wed, 03/22/2023, “An ecologist in the design studio: making ecologically functioning parks.” Dr. Steven Handel is a distinguished professor of Ecology and Evolution at Rutgers University. He is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and received the Theodore Sperry Award from the Society of Ecological Restoration, their highest research award, for his work on urban habitat creation. Host Dianna Padilla. Hybrid talk | Please register for the Zoom link.
https://forms.gle/G8RAjCaR4JEkWQYbA
Shutterstock CS Distinguished Lecture Series, 3/24/23 @ 2:30 PM – Robert Tarjan, Princeton
Please join us on Friday, March 24 at 2:30p as the Department of Computer Science welcomes Robert Tarjan from Princeton University as part of the Shutterstock Distinguished Lecture Series. Tarjan, who will present ‘Self-adjusting Data Structures’, has invented many of the most efficient known data structures and graph algorithms. He has held academic positions at Cornell, Berkeley, Stanford, and NYU, and industrial research positions at Bell Labs, HP, & Microsoft.
https://www.cs.stonybrook.edu
OPEN HOUSE – Asian and Asian American Studies
OPEN HOUSE! Asian and Asian American Studies – Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 1:00-2:15 pm in HUM 1003. Meet our faculty to learn about our major and minor programs, and your peers to hear about their experience with us! We hope you can join us!
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/asianamerican/_fliers/OpenHouse%20Spring%202023%20flyer.pdf
April 20 – Reporters on the Front Line: War, Conflict and Post-Traumatic Stress
This year’s annual Marie Colvin Distinguished Lecture, “Journalists on the Frontline: War, Conflict and Post-Traumatic Stress,” will bring together experts and reporters to talk about how to equip journalists with the tools they need to thrive in a confrontational world. The lecture is sponsored by the SoCJ’s Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting, the Renaissance School of Medicine psychiatry department and the College of Arts and Sciences psychology department.
Biochemistry and Cell Biology Seminar, Friday, March 24, 2023
Please join us for a seminar entitled “Regulation of inflammation by the RUNX1, a mammalian homologue of Runt” with Nancy Speck, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania. It will be held Friday, March 24th at 12 Noon in Life Sciences Building Room 038.
Host: Peter Gergen
(Refreshments will be served 1/2 hour prior to seminar start.)
Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Virtual Grand Rounds
Tues., March 21, 2023, 11 – 12 pm. “Psychosocial Foundations & Biological Processes Underlying Human Thriving”, with guest speaker, Dr. Joan Luby, Washington Univ. SOM.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://stonybrook.zoom.us/j/92742133718?pwd=NDIyWGQ4dDV2cVFDQ2RoNEZQVmlsQT09
Meeting ID: 927 4213 3718
Passcode: 841848
Grand Rounds- Autism in Dance
The Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics will be offering a Grand Rounds by Allison Dammann and Ashna Raiker titled “Autism in Dance”. The Grand Rounds will be held via Zoom on Thursday, April 13, 2023 from 5:00pm- 6:00pm. Please see link for more details and to RSVP or e-mail bioethics@stonybrookmedicine.edu
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/bioethics/events/#2023
SUNY Business Schools DEI Zoom Seminar March 24
The CoB is collaborating with other SUNY Business Schools on a DEI Zoom Seminar, taking place on 3/24 at 10 am. This seminar will feature SBU’s Amy Milligan, CoB Assistant Dean for Curriculum, Accreditation & Student Services. Amy serves on both the SUNY Business Deans and CoB DEI Committees. Also participating is Mackensdy Dormeus, a senior studying Business Management. He is part of EOP/AIM, Business Honors, and on the e-boards for Beta Alpha Psi and and the Real Estate Club. Register below.
https://sunycpd.eventsair.com/busdean23
Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series
Please join us MONDAY, March 27th, 2023 for a seminar entitled “Nutritional regulation tissue regeneration, immunity and cancer” with Semir Beyaz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cancer Center Member, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
https://www.cshl.edu/research/faculty-staff/semir-beyaz/
Confini: A Masterclass
March 21, 2023 from 6:15pm-8:15pm at the Center for Italian Studies, Melville Library E4340
Art Director and Thespian, Valentina Rizzi, along with authors Antonella Veracchi and Michela Tonelli, offers a workshop for teachers that focuses on the reading of “Confini.” CTLE credit from Stony Brook University is available ($25 cash fee due at event).
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/italian_studies/news-events/calendar.php
The Ovum Government: A Way to Preserve National Sovereignty and Limit Governments from Waging Wars of Aggression
March 23, 2023, 4:30pm at the Center for Italian Studies, Melville Library E4340
The Center for Italian Studies celebrates the launch of our own Dr. Vito De Simone’s latest book. Join us for a conversation with the author, hosted by Dr. Gallya Lahav of the Department of Political Science, on the United States’ strategies to preserve democracy while partaking in global and overseas affairs.
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/italian_studies/news-events/calendar.php
Porpora
March 29, 2023 from 5:30-7:30pm at the Center for Italian Studies, Melville Library E4340
Documentary screening followed by Q&A with Porpora Marcasciano, in conversation with Prof. Liz Montegary, Chair of the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The biographic film directed by Roberto Cannavò seeks to engage viewers to learn the hardships Porpora Marcasciano, an Italian sociologist, writer, and LGBTQ+ activist, faced while leading a social change for feminist and gender rights.
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/italian_studies/news-events/calendar.php
06. Research (Studies, Testing, etc…)
Stony Brook University is now an ORCiD member institution!
In collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Department of Information Technology, University Libraries, and our researchers, Stony Brook University is pleased to announce that it is now an ORCiD member institution. The University Libraries have created this research guide to familiarize the SBU community with ORCiD. Please contact Mona Ramonetti and Jessica Koos for additional information. Informational sessions and workshops coming soon.
https://guides.library.stonybrook.edu/ORCID
Stony Brook University Joins the Dryad Digital Repository
In collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Department of Information Technology, and SBU’s researchers, Stony Brook University Libraries is pleased to announce that the university is now a member of the Dryad Digital Repository. For additional information, please contact Dataservices@stonybrook.edu,Mona Ramonetti (West Campus), or Jessica Koos (East Campus). Look for informational sessions and workshops in the upcoming weeks!
07. Charitable/Fundraisers (Habitat, Blood drives, Cats, etc…)
Swing into Spring Basket and 50/50 Raffle for Stony Brook Child Care
Stony Brook Child Care is holding its Swing into Spring Basket Raffle and Split the Pot 50/50 Raffle. Tickets for the basket raffle are $5 each. Tickets for the 50/50 raffle are $10 each. The Drawing will be on April 20th. Follow the link to buy tickets to support quality child care for the SBU Community.
https://www.stonybrook.edu/childcare/fundraising-donations.shtml
https://www.stonybrook.edu/childcare/fundraising-donations.shtml
08. Culture And Entertainment (Sports, Movies, Events, etc…)
An Afternoon at the Zuccaire Gallery and Long Island Museum with FREE BUS SHUTTLE SERVICE
An Afternoon at the Zuccaire Gallery and Long Island Museum with FREE BUS SHUTTLE SERVICE
Friday, March 24, 2023
12:00-5:00 pm
Spend the afternoon at two of Stony Brook’s most beloved institutions! Visit Stony Brook University’s Zuccaire Gallery, before heading down the road to the Long Island Museum. Free admission and free transportation will be provided between both locations. Learn more: https://calendar.stonybrook.edu/site/zuccaire/event/an-afternoon-at-the-zuccaire-gallery-and-long-island
Students with Children PLAYDATE: Featuring ‘Sing 2’
The Office of Student Life is pleased to present ‘Students with Children: PLAYDATE’ on Saturday, April 1st from 10-12pm in the Union Ballroom, for all Seawolves with children to meet up and socialize. Activities include: movie showing: Sing 2, coloring pages & crayons, snacks for kids (allergen friendly), and coffee bar/ snacks for adults! RSVP via SBEngaged let us know you’re interested!
