Heather Lynch with Emperor penguins. Photo by Evan Grant
Stony Brook University Professor Heather J. Lynch, PhD, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the first Endowed Chair for Ecology and Evolution at the university’s Institute for Advanced Computation Science (IACS) has been awarded the 2024 Golden Goose Award for Unconventional Research that Yielded Unexpected and Impactful Discovery.
Caption: Heather Lynch with an Adélie penguin. Photo by Ron Naveen
Professor Lynch’s project, “From Poop to Protection: Satellite Discoveries Help Save Antarctic Penguins and Advance Wildlife Monitoring” which was funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, looks at a way “to track penguin populations via satellite imagery, leading to the discovery of 1.5 million previously undocumented Adélie penguins and a whole new way to track wildlife.“ Professor Lynch shares this award with former IACS postdoctoral fellow Christian Che-Castaldo, PhD and Mathew Schwaller, PhD. Lynch also serves as the inaugural director of Stony Brook’s Collaborative for the Earth.
The Golden Goose Award celebrates federally funded research that may at first seem obscure or unconventional but has led to major breakthroughs in science and honors the importance of basic research, which aims to investigate unknown phenomena and advance current knowledge. The awards are hosted annually by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
“This is a tremendous honor for Professor Lynch. The Golden Goose recognizes that scientific discovery may not always follow a conventional path. Innovation is a hallmark of Stony Brook research, and Professor Lynch’s extraordinary research and dedication to addressing climate change is a stellar example,” said Carl Lejuez, Provost and Executive Vice President
“I’m hugely honored to have our work recognized in this way, and I remain as excited about the potential of satellite imagery as I was when we started this more than a decade ago,” said Heather Lynch. “I think we’ve only just scratched the surface of its potential for research and conservation.”
Professor Lynch’s research focuses on distribution and abundance of Antarctic wildlife, particularly on the development of remote sensing approaches to monitoring Antarctica’s penguin populations. She works closely with Antarctic policymakers to make sure they have the best available science at hand when deliberating measures for the area’s protection, and her discovery (with co-awardee Mathew Schwaller) of a major population of penguins in the Danger Islands directly led to the creation of a new Antarctic Specially Protected Area. She holds a doctorate in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard University and earned a master’s degree in physics from Harvard University and a bachelor of arts degree in physics from Princeton University.
To see more about Professor Lynch and her collaborators’ Golden Goose award-winning research, go to YouTube.
The team celebrates their victory after Saturday's game. Photo courtesy of Stony Brook Athletics
Stony Brook football used a 287-yard output on the ground, including 158 yards and three touchdowns from Roland Dempster, to pick up a 22-3 win against Morgan State on Sept. 28 at LaValle Stadium. The Seawolves’ defense limited the Bears to three points, tallied nine tackles for loss and forced two turnovers in the victory.
Dempster averaged 6.3 yards per carry and tacked on 59 receiving yards. Johnny Martin III added 90 yards on the ground, averaging 6 yards per carry. As an offense, Stony Brook averaged 5.5 yards per tote.
Cal Redman reeled in four catches for 62 yards to pace Stony Brook’s receiving room. RJ Lamarre and Chance Knox reeled in a pair of catches as well. The Seawolves’ offense threw the ball just 20 times, carrying the ball 52 times and totaling 287 yards on the ground.
Tyson McCloud and AJ Roberts registered 10 and nine tackles, respectively, to lead the Stony Brook defense. Clarens Legagneur added three tackles, 1.0 tackle for loss, and a forced fumble and fumble recovery. Taylor Bolesta tallied three tackles, 2.0 TFL, and a sack in the win.
The Seawolves won the turnover battle in Saturday’s game, forcing two turnovers, with Stony Brook turning those takeaways into seven points. Stony Brook’s defense held up against Morgan State’s offense, allowing 259 total yards. The Seawolves kept Morgan State under 150 yards on both the ground and through the air, allowing 113 passing and 146 rushing yards.
“I was really proud of our defense today — they played outstanding. They played hard, ran the ball, made plays. I was proud of the effort of the guys, they deserve all the credit and all of our assistant coaches did a great job preparing our players,” said head coach Billy Cosh postgame.
Up next, the team hosts nationally ranked Villanova on Oct. 5. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. at LaValle Stadium, streaming live on FloFootball. To purchase tickets, call 631-632-9653.
Bus transport will take visitors to all three sites and educators and artists will be on hand in the galleries. This event is free for all — no registration is required.
Participants can check in at either location. Let a staff member know you are there for the LIM x Zuccaire Gallery Afternoon of Art. A staff member will also direct you to the shuttle bus. To check in at the Long Island Museum, head directly to the Art Museum building. At the Zuccaire Gallery at the Staller Center, you can check in at the front desk of the gallery. The first bus will leave from the Zuccaire Gallery at 12:30 pm.
For more information, call 631-751-0066 (LIM) or 631-632-7240 (Zuccaire Gallery)
*Please note that the historic Hawkins-Mount house is not handicap accessible.
SUNY Distinguished Professor Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Photo by Sue Kwon
Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor Rowan Ricardo Phillips, from the College of Arts and Sciences Department of English, was recently recognized for his book, Silver, making the longlist for the National Book Award and for the Laurel Prize.
“Poetry is a grand eternal art, both timeless and timely. I’m heartened that Silver is a grain of salt in that great sea,” said Phillips. “Each book is a little something tossed into the water and shared with the world, so the fact that my work finds readers and that they respond well to it means the world to me.”
The National Book Award’s mission is to celebrate the best literature published in the United States, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in our culture. Finalists from the longlist will be announced on October 1, 2024. The Laurel Prize, funded by the UK Poet Laureate and run by the Poetry School, is awarded to the best collection of environmental or nature poetry published that year. The Laurel Prize shortlist will be announced October 7, 2024.
“To be longlisted for the National Book Award is a huge honor, and this is the second time Professor Phillips has earned that honor (previously in 2015 for his second book, Heaven). Silver is a tremendous accomplishment and a major addition to a brilliant poetic career. There really is no other voice in poetry quite like this,” said Benedict Robinson, professor and chair in the Department of English. “On the one hand this book emerges from centuries of poetic tradition, whose discoveries Phillips takes and makes his own; on the other hand it echoes with voices in the vernacular from contemporary New York and from his upbringing in the Bronx. The truly great talent, as T.S. Eliot wrote, takes up a tradition and, in doing so, transforms it. This poetry takes up and transforms multiple traditions and cultures, and from them makes something entirely new.”
In addition to being longlisted for the National Book Award and the Laurel Prize, Silver was recently reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. Phillips’ poem “The First and Final Poem Is the Sun” also was included in Best American Poetry 2024. To culminate his recent recognition, Stony Brook University’s Department of English will host a poetry reading and reception on November 14 at 5:00 p.m. at the Stony Brook University Poetry Center.
Phillips earned his doctorate in English Literature from Brown University in 2003. He is recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports writing, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a Whiting Award, and the GLCA New Writers Award. He has also been a finalist for the National Book Award for his poetry collection, Heaven, the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the NAACP Award for Outstanding Work in Poetry, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Ellen Pikitch at the United Nations when she spoke at the 9th International Day of Women and Girls in Science back in February. Photo from E. Pikitch
By Daniel Dunaief
Even as Covid threatened the health of people around the world, a group of 30 leading researchers from a wide range of fields and countries were exchanging ideas and actions to ensure the sustainability of ocean fisheries.
Starting in 2020, the researchers, including Stony Brook University’s Endowed Professor of Ocean Conservation Science Ellen Pikitch, spent considerable time developing operating principles to protect the oceans and specific actions that could do more than ensure the survival of any one particular species.
Earlier this week, the researchers, who come from fields ranging from biology and oceanography to social sciences and economics, published a paper titled “Rethinking sustainability of marine fisheries for a fast-changing planet” in the Nature Journal npj Ocean Sustainability, as well as a companion 11 golden rules for social-ecological fisheries.
The researchers, who were led by first author Callum Roberts, Professor of Marine Conservation at the University of Exeter, plan to share their framework with policy makers and government officials at a range of gatherings, starting with Brussel’s Ocean Week and including the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice.
“We felt something like this was needed in order to reach these audiences effectively,” said Pikitch.
The extensive work, which included two series of workshops, outlines ways to regenerate the ocean’s health and to put people before profits.
The authors suggest that fisheries need to address their contributions to the climate crisis through activities that are polluting, such as dumping fishing gear or plastics in the ocean, carbon intensive or destructive, through the disturbance of sediment carbon stores.
The paper suggests that lost or discarded fishing gear often make up the largest category of plastic waste in the open sea. This gear is not only polluting, but leads to ghost fishing, in which fish die in abandoned or discarded nets.
The authors suggest that labelling fishing gear could encourage better stewardship of the ocean. They also argued that fisheries management has historically focused on economic output, without considering social value and effects.
“We take the view that marine life is a public asset, and its exploitation and management should work for the benefit of local communities and the public,” the authors wrote in their paper.
Pikitch described the work as an “urgent” call to action and added that the researchers will be “meeting with policy makers, retailers, fishery managers and others to discuss these results and how they can be implemented.”
The researchers engaged in this effort to find a way to compile a collection of best practices that could replace a hodgepodge of approaches that overlook important elements of sustainability and that threaten fish species as well as ocean habitats.
“Fisheries are in bad shape worldwide and are degrading rapidly with overexploitation and climate change,” Philippe Cury, Senior Emeritus Researcher at the Institute of Research for Development in Marseille, France, said in a statement. “Efficient and renewed fisheries management can really help to restore marine ecosystems and to reconcile exploitation and biodiversity.”
Pikitch anticipated that some might offer pushback to the suggestions. “If you don’t get pushback, you’re probably not saying something that is important enough,’ she said.
Ecosystem focus
Using research Pikitch led in 2004 from a paper in Science, the group constructed one of the 11 actions around developing a holistic approach to the ocean habitat.
Pikitch’s expertise is in ecosystem based fishery management.
“Fish interact with one another, feed on one another, compete with one another and share the same habitats,” Pikitch said. “For those reasons alone and more, we need to stop managing species one at a time.”
Some policies currently protect ecosystems, including the spatial and temporal management of the Canadian lobster fishery to protect whales and the no-take marine reserves to protect artisanal reef fisheries in the Caribbean.
Still, these approaches need to be applied in other contexts as well.
While some people believed that researchers didn’t know enough to create and implement holistic guidelines, Pikitch and her colleagues suggested that it’s not “necessary to know everything if we use the precautionary principle.”
Pikitch suggested that the Food and Drug Administration takes a similar approach to approving new medicines.
The FDA requires that researchers and pharmaceutical companies demonstrate that a drug is safe and effective before putting it on the market.
Fisheries are making some headway in this regard, but “much more is needed,” she said.
Subsidy problem
The authors highlighted how government subsidies are problematic.
“Many fisheries are highly carbon intensive, burning large quantities of fossil fuels often made cheaper by capacity-enhancing government subsidies,” the authors noted in the paper. “Among the worst performers in terms of fuel burned per tonne of landing gears are crustacean fisheries, fisheries that operate in distant waters, deploy heavy mobile gears like trawls, or target high value, low yield species like swordfish; most of them propped up by subsidies.”
When overfishing occurs, companies switch to catching less exploited species, even when they don’t have any data about new catches. The new species, however, soon become overfished, the authors argued.
In urging fisheries management to support and enhance the health, well-being and resilience of people and communities, the scientists add that abundant evidence of widespread human rights abuses occurs in fishing, including coercive practice, bonded, slave and child labor and unsafe, indecent and unsanitary living and working conditions.
“Abuses at sea continue and more needs to be done to stop this,” Pikitch explained.
Additionally, the authors hope to give a voice to the global south, which is “often ignored in many of these discussions about how to appropriately manage these fisheries,” she suggested.
A beginning
While the paper was published, Pikitch explained that she sees this as the beginning of change and improvement in creating sustainable fisheries policies. She anticipates that the collection of talented scientists will continue the work of protecting a critical resource for human and planetary survival.
“This group will continue to work together to try get this work implemented,” she said. “I’m enormously proud of the result.”
The team celebrates their victory after Sunday's game. Photo courtesy of Stony Brook Athletics
Stony Brook women’s soccer earned its fourth consecutive clean sheet and victory, topping Charleston 3-0 to begin CAA play on Sept. 22 at LaValle Stadium.
The Seawolves improved to 6-2-1 with their fourth straight victory. Stony Brook has outscored the opposition 13-0 during its winning streak, which began back on September 9. Stony Brook continued its dominance at LaValle Stadium, improving to 4-0 at home this season.
Stony Brook took a 1-0 lead when Gabby Daniels scored her second goal of the season in the 30th minute, assisted by Emanuelly Ferreira on a set piece from the far corner. The Seawolves dominated much of the possession in the early going, making good on the constant pressure by scoring the opening goal of the match.
The Seawolves quickly added to their lead when Ferreira and Leah Rifas combined on a goal. Rifas’ throw-in led Ferreira perfectly, who patiently waited to sneak one past Charleston’s keeper to tally the first goal of her collegiate career.
Stony Brook padded the lead early in the second half on Linn Beck’s strike in the 50th minute. Luciana Setteducate and Gabrielle Cote assisted on the goal.
Charleston upped its tempo and pressure offensively late in the contest, finishing with a 9-6 advantage in second-half shots. Despite the nine shots and five corners in the second half, Nicolette Pasquarella was up to the task. Pasquarella made four of her five total saves over the final 45 minutes of play to earn her sixth win of the season and lead Stony Brook to its fourth straight clean sheet victory.
“I’m very happy, it was a great performance by the team. I truly believe that Charleston is one of the best offensive teams in the CAA, obviously that stats say that too. I thought we did a good job trying to minimize their good chances,” head coach Tobias Bischof noted postgame. “But more importantly we did what we wanted to do, which was create chances and score some goals.”
The team returns to the road to continue conference play at Elon on Sept. 26. The Seawolves and the Phoenix meet at 7 p.m. with the contest streaming live on FloFC.
Stony Brook football never trailed en route to its third straight victory, taking down Campbell, 24-17, in the 2024 CAA opener on Sept. 21 in North Carolina.
The Seawolves used a huge, 227-yard showing on the ground, including 179 yards from Roland Dempster to go along with three rushing touchdowns. The Seawolves improved to 3-1 on the year and picked up their first win over a CAA foe since 2022.
Dempster led all Seawolves rushers with 179 yards and two touchdowns in the contest, averaging 5 yards per carry. Malachi Marshall finished with 157 yards through the air, completing passes to six different Seawolves’ receivers. The rookie quarterback added 24 yards on the ground.
Cole Bunicci, paced all of Stony Brook’s receivers in yardage, catching two passes for 35 yards. Dez Williams reeled in a team-leading four catches, totaling 27 yards. Jayden Cook and RJ Lamarre were efficient as well, finishing with more than 30 yards receiving.
The Seawolves won the turnover battle in Saturday’s game, forcing two turnovers while avoiding any giveaways. Stony Brook turned those takeaways into seven points. Jayson Allen and Nick Capazzola recovered fumbles and Kris Caine had 1.0 TFL and a sack in the win. Jordan Jackson secured a team-high five solo tackles, totaling six tackles. Shamoun Duncan-Niusulu and Anthony Ferrelli added five tackles while AJ Roberts and Chayce Chalmers racked up four apiece.
The Stony Brook offense did a good job extending drives, converting on 57.1 percent of third-down attempts and finishing 12-for-21. The Seawolves were also successful on their lone fourth down conversion attempt. The Seawolves took care of business in the red zone, scoring three times on three trips inside Campbell’s 20-yard line.
“First and foremost, I’m proud of our guys for getting a tough win on the road against a really good team in Campbell,” said head coach Billy Cosh said. “We ran the ball well and controlled the game by running the ball today, which was awesome. Our defense stepped up in critical moments; they had some lapses, but they finished and played hard.”
In the last 18 months, Stony Brook University has generated positive headlines for a host of wins, from receiving a record donation from the Simons Foundation to climbing academic rankings to winning the bidding for a climate solutions center on Governors Island.
This year, those gains not only helped attract a larger applicant pool, but also led to a record high enrollment for first-year students in the university’s 67 year history. The total number of undergraduates is also at a record high of 18,263, exceeding the previous high of 18,010 in the fall of 2010.
The downstate flagship university received about 55,000 applications for first year students, with an acceptance rate of about 49%.
“Stony Brook has now become a premier destination for so many students” in the state, country and world, said Richard Beatty, Senior Associate Provost for Enrollment Management. The increasing applicants and the largest ever class size of 4,024 students reflects the “fruit of all the work the campus has been doing.”
Stony Brook ranked 58th in the 2025 US News and World Report rankings this week, up from 93 in 2022. Stony Brook was also ranked the top public university in New York.
Just over half of the first-year students, or 50.5%, are women, while 49.5% are men. These statistics don’t include people who chose not to disclose their gender.
The university didn’t change its admissions standards to accept this larger class.
“We had the same academic quality as in previous years,” said Beatty, as each student has had high quality experience inside and outside the classroom.
Additionally, for the class entering its second year this fall, Stony Brook had a 90% retention rate, which is also an all-time high. The university typically loses 11 or 12% of students from the first to the second year.
“We want the student [who matriculate at Stony Brook] to graduate with us and we want them to graduate in a timely manner,” said Beatty.
New hires
Recognizing the increased interest in attending Stony Brook from in and out of state, the university started hiring additional staff to provide students with the same level of education and university services.
The ratio of faculty to students “didn’t change that much” because of the university’s staffing efforts, Beatty said. “We are keeping the educational quality the same even though we have a larger [freshman] class.”
The enrollment of students who identify as Black and LatinX also increased, even as universities such as Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have experienced a decline in such enrollments.
The first-year class at Stony Brook includes 433 people who identify as black, which is an increase of 19% over the total from the previous year and represents about 10.7% of the incoming class.
LatinX, meanwhile, rose 28% to 633 this year from 496 in the previous year.
SBU Interim President Richard McCormick. File photo
“Stony Brook today exemplifies dramatically all the most important developments in modern American higher education – a growing and highly diverse student body, an expanding research enterprise, and research achievements that are contributing mightily to the economy and society,” Interim President Richard L. McCormick said in a statement.
While the number of foreign students increased over last year, the total number has still not recovered to its 2019 level, prior to the pandemic.
Stony Brook leads the SUNY system in the highest number of Educational Opportunity Program applications. The state-funded program provides financial support to New York students who have financial and academic barriers, helping them attend and graduate from a SUNY college.
Storm challenges
At the same time that the university welcomed its largest ever first year class, the campus and the area endured a sudden and violent storm that not only damaged the historic Stony Brook Grist Mill, but also made some dormitories uninhabitable.
“It was an unbelievable concerted effort throughout campus” to find places for students amid the clean up, said Beatty. “The housing team came up with solutions” that included housing some students in hotels.
Two of the residence halls, Ammann and Gray, are still undergoing repairs, although the university has found places for its students.
The university has 52 sophomores who are living at an off-campus hotel, where they are expected to remain through the semester. They should be able to return to campus in the spring.
Expanded food services
The Starbucks in SBU’s Melville Library. Courtesy facebook.com/SBUDining
Amid higher enrollment, Stony Brook expanded the hours for dining facilities this year, compared with last year.
Starbucks opened at the Melville Library with expanded hours. The foods trucks have a consistent schedule Monday through Friday and Stony Brook added a Nathan’s Famous truck to the food truck fleet.
The university launched new franchises and dining concepts this fall, such as Popeyes, Carvel and Iron Waffles.
Academically, Stony Brook has had a wide range of potential interests from its incoming students. Beyond the typical strengths in physics and math, the university also experienced a growth in the numbers of students applying for journalism, political science and economics.
“We ended up not being over enrolled in any of our programs,” Beatty said.
McCormick suggested the increased interest in the school reflects recent higher visibility.
“This historic enrollment of first-year students is a testament to Stony Brook University’s steadfast commitment to providing an exceptional educational experience and its rise in reputation as one of the nation’s most prominent public flagship research universities,” McCormick said in a statement.
The State University of New York schools have seen an increase overall in the number of applicants.
Stony Brook’s admissions process, which remains test optional for standardized tests like the SAT and the ACT, has become considerably more holistic.
The admissions committee looks beyond the grade point average or whatever test scores candidates submit, while weighing the student achievement in the context of the options available at their high schools.
The larger class size amid a greater interest in the school also has positive implications for the local economy and for the community.
More students shop at stores and restaurants and also contribute to extracurricular activities such as theatrical performances and to community service projects.
These students, who come from all over the world, add to the diversity of the area, start new clubs and present the findings of their own research while attending college, Beatty added.
As for future applications and class sizes, school officials anticipate greater numbers of interested students in the coming years.
“We expect applications to continue to rise,” said Beatty.
Caption: Pictured (left to right): Amol Pophali, Jinwon Choi, Michal Luchowski, Taejin Kim, Mohammed Sifat, Krishnakumari Pamula, Leah Landron and Hyeonji Park. Photo from Dr. Taejin Kim
The United States Chapter of the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) has selected Stony Brook University Professor Taejin Kim of the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences as the recipient of the 2024 James M. Lee Memorial Award.
The James M. Lee Memorial Award honors the founding and first president of the KIChE U.S. Chapter by recognizing Korean and Korean-American scientists and engineers who have demonstrated exceptional leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge in the field of chemical engineering.
“We are immensely proud of Professor Taejin Kim for being selected as the recipient of the 2024 James M. Lee Memorial Award by the United States Chapter of the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE),” said Dilip Gersappe, Chair of the Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Department. “This award is a testament to Professor Kim’s exceptional leadership and groundbreaking contributions in the field of chemical engineering. His work on heterogeneous catalysis in environmental and energy fields not only advances scientific knowledge but also has significant real-world applications.”
Kim, who also serves as the graduate program director for the department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, studies the fundamentals and applications of heterogeneous catalysis in environmental and energy fields. His research group has explored the structure-activity relationship of catalysts through catalyst synthesis, characterization and catalytic performance evaluation.
The KIChE-US Chapter was founded in 2002 to promote constructive and mutually beneficial interactions among Korean Chemical Engineers in the U.S. and to facilitate international collaboration between engineers in the U.S. and Korea. The KlChE is a scientific, engineering, and professional organization dedicated to the advancement of the theory and application of chemical engineering technology.
Kim joined Stony Brook University in 2013, has been an active member of the KIChE U.S. Chapter and received the KIChE Service Recognition Award in 2023.
He will receive the award and present his research during the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting in October.
Caption: Christopher Berger, AVP for Procurement. Photo by John Griffin/SBU
Stony Brook University recently announced that Christopher Berger, MBA, has been appointed as Associate Vice President for Procurement. He reports to Vice President for Finance Lyle Gomes.
Christopher Berger brings over 25 years of procurement leadership experience serving local and national organizations, most recently as Chief Procurement Officer for Suffolk County. There, he established a centralized, comprehensive procurement framework for the county. He has also held roles as Chief Procurement Officer at Hearst Media, Global Head of Procurement, Travel, Expense, Vendor Risk and Contracts at Bloomberg, LLP and as Chief Procurement Officer at CA Technologies.
“After completing an extensive search, Chris emerged from a highly competitive pool of candidates as a seasoned, innovative and collaborative procurement leader.” said Lyle Gomes, Vice President for Finance. “Chris has a demonstrated track record of excellence in numerous procurement practices including centralizing procurement functions, implementing cutting-edge technologies and optimizing processes to deliver exceptional service. He has also served as an advocate and champion for cultivating collaborative supplier relationships and using digital infrastructures to enhance operational efficiencies.”
As Associate Vice President for Procurement, Berger will be responsible for the management of all procurement activities, including strategic sourcing, procure-to-pay processes, and utilization of technology systems. In his role, he will craft and implement procurement operations to enhance efficiency and accuracy. Additionally, he will oversee the operations of purchasing, receiving, paying, mail, and property control, with a focus on delivering exceptional customer service to the campus community.
Berger earned his BA in Math & Science and a Master in Business Administration from Dowling College.
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