• June 1. Dr. John Shea from the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University will present “Neandertals, Competition, and the Origins of Modern Human Behavior in the Levant.”
• June 15. Dr. Massimo Pigliucci from Stony Brook University will present a lecture on “The Theory of Evolution.”
• July 13. Dr. Daniel Bogenhagen from the Department of Pharmacology at Stony Brook University will present “Mitochondria: From the Origins of Life to Human Disease and Aging.”
• July 27. Dr. Frank Mandriotta from the Science Club of Long Island will discuss “The Learning Behavior in Electric Fish
• August 10. Dr. Arthur Grollman from Stony Brook University’s Medical School will lecture on the“History of Medical Treatment, Herbal Supplements and the Placebo Effect.”
• August 24. Dr. Maureen O’Leary from the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University will lecture on the “Evolution of the Vertebrates from Fish to Mammals

Presented by David Goodman, Associate Professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science, and formerly, Chemistry Librarian, Biology Librarian, and Research Librarian, at Princeton University Library. Abstract: Academic librarians usually agree about a single aspect of journal articles in the sciences: there is one system which is not viable--the present system. There is less agreement about alternatives. There are many potential candidate systems but very little experience, especially about long-term viability and long term costs. Those committed to any of the alternatives can construct strong arguments, but in the absence of reliable theory or sufficient experiment, we are left with opinion--and prejudice. This talk shall summarize what I regard as the most plausible future prospects, with special attention to my recommendations for a research library, with particular emphasis on the goal of increasing resources available for new electronic initiatives in all fields

Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956 and raised in Virginia. He received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1978, his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1980, and his M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1982. His volumes of poetry include: Middle Earth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003), The Visible Man (1998), The Look of Things (1995), The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge (1989), and The Marble Queen (1986). Cole's awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin, the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1982 until 1988 he was executive director of The Academy of American Poets. Since then he has held many teaching positions and been the artist-in-residence at various institutions, including Brandeis, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities, and Reed College. Cole is currently poet-in-residence at Smith College.  more...

Potstickers. Chow Mein. Chop Suey. What do they mean to Americans? Chinese cuisine scholar Jacqueline Newman, historian Jack Tchen, Shirley Cheng of the Culinary Institute of America and Stony Brook's own William Arens enlighten us on the significance of producing, cooking, and creating a taste for Chinese cuisine in the history of the Chinese in America, as well as in contemporary American Society.   more...

"Black Studies in the 21st Century." A lecture by Dr. V.P. Franklin, editor, The Journal of African American History. Sponsors: Africana Studies Department, The Turner Fellowship, and the SB Library.   more...

Author of Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life focuses on the role of pets in Impressionist pictures and what this reveals about art, artists, and society of that era.He discusses works in which artists paint themselves or their friends in the company of their pets, including several paintings by Courbet (who was fond of dogs) and Manet (a notorious lover of cats), Degas, Renoir, Monet. more...

Faculty Reading / Book-signing. Features E. Bromet, author of Toxic Turmoil, J. Gurevitch, The Ecology of Plants, and L. Slobodkin, A Citizens Guide to Ecology.  more...

The Center for Italian Studies and the Libraries at Stony Brook University held a dedication ceremony in the Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library's Special Collections Department (2nd floor) on November 19, 2003, 4 p.m. to recognize the donation of archival material pertaining to the poet, John Ciardi by Ciardi biographer and scholar, Edward M. Cifelli. more...

Faculty Reading / Book-signing. Features E. Bromet, author of Toxic Turmoil, J. Gurevitch, The Ecology of Plants, and L. Slobodkin, A Citizens Guide to Ecology.   more...

The concert was organized by the Committee on Library Services with the support from the Wang Center and the Center for India Studies. Government Information Librarian, Jyoti Pandit and outstanding musicians from the Greater New York City area shared their lifelong involvement with Indian classical music.

Hosted by George Wallace, Suffolk County's Poet Laureate, featuring Stony Brook University poets: Ron Overton - Psychic Killed by Train, Hotel Me and Love on the Alexander Hamilton;
Clifford Swartz - Temptations, Wicked Women and Denials, Miracles and Prayers from the Nave; Dan Chiasson - The Afterlife of Objects; Rowan Phillips.  more...