Stony Brook is Awarded the Contract to Manage Brookhaven National Laboratory
In 1998, the U.S. Department of Energy selected as its new manager for the half-century-old institution a new partnership, Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA), formed by the University and Battelle Memorial Institute, one of the nation’s oldest private science and technology development organizations. BSA is the legal entity responsible for leading Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the 21st century. Site of research that led to 6 Nobel Prizes, Brookhaven National Laboratory is the nation’s [oldest non-specialized scientific research institution?]. The handful of universities across the country with such national responsibilities include University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, University of California/Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Stanford/Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, University of Tennessee/Argonne National Laboratory.As Brookhaven's closest university neighbor, Stony Brook is the single largest user of BNL facilities and these facilities and scientific staff are unique resources and essential partners for research programs ranging from the physical sciences to engineering to biomedicine. Stony Brook faculty play leadership roles for the Laboratory and dozens of graduate students conduct thesis research and otherwise participate annually onsite. A presence at Brookhaven enables Battelle to advance its founding purpose, "science in service to humanity," and enhance the research partnership between the Institute and the Laboratory in major programs ranging from global climate research to reactor safety.