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Leaders tour SBU campus
SUNY chancellor touts scientific alliance with labs
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| | | SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, center, new SBU President Dr. Samuel Stanley, standing alongside the chancellor; BNL Director Sam Aronson, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory President Bruce Stillman, in rear. Photo by Lee Lutz (click for larger version) | |
July 08, 2009 | 03:14 PM
New State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, hosted by newer Stony Brook University President Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr., toured the SBU campus Monday and talked of the institution's future. Zimpher is in the midst of a statewide tour of all 64 SUNY campuses and Dr. Stanley is still acquainting himself with campus geography and introducing himself to staff and students.
Monday's tour began at the Center for Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology at the new research park west of Stony Brook Road. On a rigid schedule, the chancellor and president were briefed by staff in projects involving virtual colonoscopy, wireless robots, research into coordinating facial expressions and brain activity, and more. A press conference followed, notably attended by not only Zimpher and Dr. Stanley but also Brookhaven National Laboratory Director Sam Aronson and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory President Bruce Stillman, both of whom also took the CEWIT tour.
The SBU president noted the status and achievements of his faculty and students and stressed the process of "building on the alliance with Brookhaven Lab and Cold Spring Harbor."
Noting the occasion of her "one-month anniversary" on the job, Zimpher said she was pursuing a "global role for SUNY" and lauded the "remarkable, one-of-a-kind partnership" between SBU, BNL and CSHL.
"Team science" is how Aronson characterized the alliance, which he said is "very close to … a memorandum of understanding." A formal agreement between the three institutions remains to be ironed out, although Aronson noted the decades-long cooperation between BNL and the university.
The alliance "will make Long Island the center of interrelated sciences research," Stillman said. He described Cold Spring Harbor Lab as the oldest — founded in 1890 — and smallest of the trio, but added "over 8,000 scientists a year visit" his facility. Stillman said it is "important for graduate students to move between the three institutions."
Promoting the value of the alliance, Zimpher said it would "make clear how research will generate revenue." Dr. Stanley touted the "productive collisions" between the faculties and added, "Just talking together is generating science."
Zimpher responded to a question about recent legislation in Albany to grant more fiscal flexibility to SUNY's Buffalo campus, frequently called the other "flagship" SUNY institution. The chancellor said she agreed with the concept and would have supported extending that flexibility to Stony Brook, "had I been present at that moment." Zimpher said she supports a broader approach since proposed by state Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson); it would grant such authority to the six largest research and medical campuses in the SUNY system, including the Albany, Binghampton, Downstate and Upstate Medical campuses.
Monday afternoon, following lunch with students and Intel Science competition participants, Zimpher crossed Nicolls Road to tour the SBU Medical Center with Dr. Stanley and SBUMC CEO Dr. Steven Strongwater. Still keeping to the minute-to-minute schedule, the leaders of SUNY, SBU, BNL and CSHL retired behind closed doors in Dr. Strongwater's offices at 4 pm.
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