Expansion at Stony Brook

Physics is growing at the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York. Stony Brook, some 25 miles from Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, is one of 58 branches in the New York State University system. Large state and federal support lias enabled the physics department to triple its staff and quadruple the number of graduate students in the past few years. New laboratories are being built for research in radioactivity, solid‐state physics, and nuclear structure, the last to include a 15‐MeV Van de Graaff.