Long Island

More than 100 students, faculty and parents gathered at Stony Brook University’s Southampton campus last Thursday to hear local legislators announce a plan to save the school, which university officials recently announced would be closed to undergraduate students beginning next fall.

"To mourn the passing of our beloved SUNY system, will you please join us in a funeral procession to the Administration Building?" said Kevin Young, a Stony Brook graduate student. With that, he and a group of 30 students staged their mock ceremony and marched onto the office of President Samuel L. Stanley.

Tuesday evening Stony Brook Southampton students discovered that their campus would be closing. After a 12-mile walk down 25 A protesting the closure over 200 SBS students sat outside of the administration building on main campus from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. while cries of "S.O.S., SBS" were heard across campus.

As a prelude to its grand opening Wednesday, the new Whole Foods Market in Lake Grove Commons pre-opened their store Monday to help support the Long Island Cares food bank and gave customers a taste of what was to come.

It was only a few months ago when the last wave of H1N1 swept across the globe. But the "swine flu" has now disappeared from newspapers, broadcast news programs and public service announcements. Are we in the clear, or have we just reached the eye of the storm?

Stony Brook University announced that all classes for Friday, February 26 are canceled due to the "ongoing adverse weather conditions." The winter weather advisory issued by the National Weather Service yesterday remains in effect until 6 A.M. Saturday.

Hours ahead of an impending snow storm that could bring accumulations upwards of a foot, Stony Brook University canceled classes for Wednesday, Feb. 10. The National Weather Service issued a Blizzard Warning for most of the tri-state area from 10 p.m. on Tuesday until Thursday morning.

While Beatles fans of all ages scoop scrambled eggs and French toast onto dinner plates, Strawberry Fields takes the stage for a weekly performance at B.B. King’s Bar and Grill. Mop-top wigs, phony English accents and an all-you-can-eat buffet brunch accompany the set, which spans the Beatles' entire career.

Brookhaven Laboratories Joanna Fowler has been awarded the National Medal of Science for her research on different diseases effecting the brain, like addiction. She will recieve the award later this week at the White House.

This afternoon Dr. Samuel L. Stanley was officially named the next president of Stony Brook University. The announcement came at a press conference after a unanimous vote by the SUNY Board of Trustees, which took place earlier today.

For the first time in its 28-year history, Long Island’s science fiction convention, I-CON, was not at Stony Brook University, and it will remain off-campus for at least another year. Patrons expressed mixed feelings about the change in a panel at this year’s convention.

Hundreds of Long Island’s young and hopeful artists gathered in the Student Activity Center auditorium on Thursday for the awards ceremony of the Long Island College Art Competition (LICA).

Students gathered together Wednesday to voice their opposition to a proposed $17 million cut to next year's school budget. Students waved signs calling for no more cuts, and chanted ditties like "We're not an ATM!" throughout the more than an hour-long protest.

Special Collections and University Archives at Stony Brook University recently acquired a letter written by George Washington to his Setauket-based spy ring during the Revolutionary War. Kristen Nyitray, head of Special Collections, placed the winning bid of $48,000 for the letter.

The SUNY senior system administration is working on a deal with the state government that will ensure money generated from special revenue funds – which will be frozen under a recent state-mandated expenditure cap – will not be tapped by the state at the end of 2008-09 fiscal year, a Stony Brook University official said today.