Stony Brook University Employer Reviews

I learned a lot from this job. Supervisor was very helpful and I was always occupied with interesting projects.

I’m currently working as an assistant to the Vice President for Student Affairs at Stony Brook University. Over the past few months I have prepared speeches for the vice president, created presentations, created a strategic plan and guidelines regarding policies and procedures to start social media accounts for the Office of Student Affairs and Dean – more... of Students, and have begun to create web content for the creation of a first generation student website. I’m currently collaborating with all the student affairs departments to gather information regarding student learning outcomes and institutional assessment for Middle States Accreditation. As an assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs I have developed my interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and possess the ability to meet deadlines and stay organized in a busy office environment.
While acquiring my Masters degree I gained supervisor experience volunteering in the Campus Recreation Center, advising 30 students during winter orientation, and teaching and supervising an Advising 101 course for international students. During this time I learned about my students’ experiences, goals and interests, and helped them with any obstacles they faced throughout their college journey. – less

I was working as vice president of a students organization and I loved it.Great place to work and multi cutural place

Working for the Charles B Wang center at Stony Brook University was an excellent learning experience for me on multiple levels. A typical day consisted of providing customer service on a personal level to both students and building visitors and positively representing the facilities department. In this experience I learned the importance of creating – more... a good team to multitask during special events and in everyday work and additionally the in and outs of building maintenance on a commercial level. The most difficult portion of my job was ensuring each event was incident free being a public building that had visitors during these events. The most enjoyable part of this job was growing lasting relationships with the building staff and meeting a variety of different individuals with unique causes. – less

It was a graduate school position, so the pay was kept low and the hours were long. However, I learned a lot about physics and IT and I got the opportunity to live in Europe for 4.5 years while working on the ATLAS Detector of the Large Hadron Collider.
Management was pretty light-handed, since they were physics professors and fellow academics.
My co-workers – more... were fellow students, which results in changes all the time.

Note that the base salary for a graduate student is only ~$20,000. I received extra compensation due to my posting in Europe and the resulting cost of living increase. – less

The campus is diverse with so many people competing with each other. There is no guarantee that you will get a job right after graduation.

Typical postdoc job, i.e. intense research, lots of responsibilities, and very different from my graduate research area.
Learned lots of new things in this area of chemistry (lithium ion and sodium ion batteries, solid state NMR).

Good work experience.

Good team.

Worked with several diverse people.

Good training on the job, was able to perfect my work with computers and customers

The Physics Department is very large and there are lots of fields of research. It is a typical university environment: discussion lunches with colleagues, etc.

Located on Long Island, Stony Brook University (SBU) is somewhat isolated. But for research, SBU has strong relationship with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Brookhaven National Laboratory.

One of the best universities in the world available at an extremely reasonable cost, it is difficult to beat the quality of education you get at Stony Brook for the price it costs.

One of my favorite places to work. The staff was really cool, and the job allowed me to meet various department heads which was good school-wise. Pay was also above minimum wage and we got school vacation days off. Coworkers were awesome so was the management. I was able to get a couple other jobs from this job as well. Definitely worth being an orientation – more... leader. – less

I love my university. There are a lot of on-campus internships and job opportunities available.

great patients, terrible employees who show little concern for anyone other than themselves

I worked with one of my college teachers to design a curriculum based on the field of Eco-aesthetics. I worked for internship and independent research credit. I helped him in the classroom present lectures and assist students during projects and classwork. I learned how to organize lessons for class and how to deliver information efficiently.

SBU was a good experience where I met a lot of students who shared my level of dedication and hard work. Coursework was difficult but with dilligence it is easy to succeed there. They have several oppurtunities for internships and work experience.

be a volunteer to help student in Econ department.
hold variaty student activities

A typical day at work was learning besides graduate students towards their Ph.D. I helped research and build an antenna for RFID testing. Management was a bit tough since the professor was doing research on his own, so he wasn't around that often. Most of the contact was thru email, but it was very helpful having a few graduate students in the room – more... as well that were familiar with the software and equipment in the laboratory. The most enjoyable part was learning was learning equipment, gaining work experience and seeing the process of what graduate school is all about. – less

Superior are helpful and are concerned with students acheiveing success in academics.

The staff were all very helpfull and a pleasure to work with. I leaned many new manager task. The hardest part of the job with leaning the payroll system.