Skip Navigation
Showcasing exceptional Stony Brook faculty
Search
Lectures and Talks
Showcasing exceptional Stony Brook faculty
Bringing guest speakers to campus
Join the conversation
We host or support three types of talks:
Provost's Lecture Series
Showcases SUNY Distinguished Academy faculty
Two faculty members are included in each lecture every semester.
Patricia Coyle and Joseph Mitchell
Tuesday, February 10, 2025 | 3:30 pm
Charles B. Wang Center Theater
More information coming soon
Patricia Coyle
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Neurology
More information coming soon
Joseph Mitchell
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
More information coming soon
Past Provost's Lectures
Becoming Human: Our Seven-Million-Year Journey
Lawrence Martin, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Anthropology
Recent Discoveries Enlighten the Mysteries of Madagascar: Earlier Human Arrival, the Lost Rainforest and Ranomafana Hippos
Pat Wright, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Anthropology
Universe according to Neutrinos, Nobel Prizes, Breakthroughs and Future
Chang Kee Jung, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Physics
Good Vibes: Developing an Exercise Surrogate as a Non-Invasive Means of Extending Healthspan
Clinton Rubin, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Director, Center for Biotechnology
Provost's Spotlight Talks
Feature outstanding SBU faculty recently recognized for contributions to their field and eminent visitors
Sept. 25: Why Poetry?
Fe
aturing Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Presidential Professor and Distinguished Professor of English
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of seven acclaimed books of poetry, prose, and translation. His forthcoming nonfiction book, I Just Want Them to Remember Me: Black Baseball in America, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Twice longlisted for the National Book Award, he has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award, and an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the Presidential Professor and Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University, the poetry editor of The New Republic, and editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets.
Members of the campus community are invited to nominate individuals to be featured in Spotlight Talks. Nominations are evaluated by a committee of experts.
If you have an idea for who should give a Spotlight Talk, email us at faculty_affairs@stonybrook.edu.
Past Spotlight Talks
The Stories we Encode: AI, Love, and the Future of Algorithmic Care
Stephanie Dinkins, PhD
Kusama Endowed Chair in Art
Why Poetry?
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Presidential Professor and Distinguished Professor of English
Provost-Sponsored Talks
Hosted by academic units, the Provost's Office offers up to $1,000 to offset costs of bringing guests to speak at SBU
Me
mbers of the campus community are invited to submit nominations for sponsored talks.
Nominations are evaluated by a committee of experts.
Nomination deadlines:
Fall speakers: June 1
Spring speakers: December 1
Funds may only be used to support speaker honoraria, no more than one lecture dinner or reception with the speaker, and/or the speaker-related costs of travel, lodging and meals.
Recent Provost-Sponsored Talks
Inducement of Behavior via Soft Policies
Tamer Başar
Swanlund endowed chair emeritus and CAS professor emeritus of electrical and computer
engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana
Evolution across Mutagenic Landscapes: Adventures at Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Other Hot Places
Timothy Mousseau
Professor, Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina
What's at Stake in the 2024 Election?
Ryan Vander Wielen, Professor, Political Science
Gallya Lahav, PhD
Professor, Political Science
Leonie Huddy, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Political Science
Chair, Department of Political Science
Rueben Kline, PhD
Associate Professor, Political Science
Stanley Feldman, PhD
John S. Toll Professor, Political Science
A Year after October 7: Historical Backdrop, Future Prospects
Hussein Ibish
Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington
David Myers
University of California, Los Angeles