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== Academics ==
The University is divided into
*College of Arts and Sciences
*College of Business
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*School of Social Welfare
*The Graduate School
Stony Brook was one of ten national universities awarded a [[National Science Foundation]] recognition award in 1998 for their integration of research and education. In 2001 it became a member of the [[Association of American Universities]] (AAU), an invitation-only organization of the top research universities in the U.S., currently having 62 members.<ref name="feisty" /> In the last three years two [[Nobel Prizes]] were awarded to professors for their work conducted at Stony Brook.<ref name="feisty" /> The University generates $160 million annually in external research funding and has an annual $4.65 billion economic impact on the region.<ref name="Southhamptonbuy">{{Cite news| url=http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/impact.shtml | title=The Impact of Stony Brook University on the Long Island Economy | publisher= Stony Brook University | date=Spring 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-07}}</ref> Stony Brook co-manages [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]] through Brookhaven Science Associates, a 50-50 partnership with [[Battelle Memorial Institute]].<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~vislab/projects/cluster/IBMAwardNews.pdf |format=PDF| title=IBM Awards $750,000 Gift to Stony Book | publisher= Stony Brook University | date=3 November 2005 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2007-07-01}}</ref> Stony Brook is also one of only two public schools in New York to have a medical school and a dental school, the other being [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|State University of New York at Buffalo]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}}
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