Stony Brook U. names new president

STONY BROOK Samuel L. Stanley Jr. will take over as president on July 1, following a unanimous vote by the State University of New York's board of trustees.

Stanley, who has been a director of the National Institutes of Health-funded Midwest Regional Center for Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, called his new appointment a "dream job."

Considered a flagship in the state university system, Stony Brook University encompasses 200 buildings on 1,600 acres on eastern Long Island. It has nearly 24,000 students and 2,100 faculty.


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