Established in 1957, the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY-SB) is one of America’s best public universities with a campus widely stretched throughout Long Island, which is only an hour’s drive from the heard of the world’s economy, Manhattan. With both beautiful scenery and convenient traffic access, SUNY-SB closely neighbors the famous Brookhaven National Laboratory. As of now the school consists of 1,900 professors and 23,000 students teaching and studying in 119 undergraduate, 102 graduate and 40 Ph.D. majors. Achieving high merits in research in fields of engineering, pharmacology and biotechnology, the school is renowned for its dynamic industrial/academic relations with businesses nationwide. Stony Brook is one of the top 70 research institutes selected by the Carnegie Foundation and was ranked 2nd place in 1997 for most research-oriented public universities. It is where Nobel Prize winner Prof. C. N. Yang, well-known for high authority in quantum physics, lectured for many years, and where the Korean nuclear physicist Benjamin Lee taught and eventually retired.