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PREVIOUS GALA HONOREES

2023
Laurie Landeau, VMD, MBA
President and Director, Laurie Landeau Foundation LLC
President and Director, Ralph Landau Foundation
Vice Chair, Stony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees
Robert J. Maze, PhD
Vice President and Director, Laurie Landeau Foundation LLC
Vice President and Director, Ralph Landau Foundation
Chair, SoMAS
 
2022
John L. Hennessy ’75, ’77
President Emeritus and James F. and Mary Lynn Gibbons
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University 
HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco
Sovereign Prince of Monaco
President, Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
 
2020
Barry S. Coller, MD, Hon. 03
David Rockefeller Professor of Medicine, Physician in Chief,  
Vice President for Medical Affairs The Rockefeller University 
Bobbi Coller, PhD
Advisory Board Chairperson of the Stony Brook Foundation’s Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center

2019
Marilyn H. Simons '74, PhD '84, Hon. '08
President, Simons Foundation
 
2018
Dorothy Lichtenstein, Hon. '14
President
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
 
2017
Joseph R. Biden
Former Vice President
United States of America 
 
2016
Glenn Dubin '78, Hon. '12
Founder, Dubin & Co. LP
Eva Andersson-Dubin, MD
Founder, Dubin Breast Center,
Mount Sinai Medical Center 
Joe Nathan '97
Major League Baseball Pitcher
 
2015
Jane Fonda 
Actress
 
2014
Patricia C. Wright
Professor, Anthropology
Founder, Centre ValBio
 
2013
Alan Alda
Actor, Director, Writer
Visiting Professor
Stony Brook University
 
2012
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Ed Harris
Actor
  
 
2011
Julie Andrews
Actress
Emma Walton Hamilton
Author and Professor
Stony Brook Southampton
 
2010
C.N. Yang, PhD, Hon. '99
Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1957
Professor Emeritus

2009
Shirley Strum Kenny, PhD
President, Stony Brook University
 
2008
Nancy Rauch Douzinas, PhD
President, Rauch Foundation
 
2007
Richard Leakey, Hon. '98
Paleoanthropologist and Conservationist
 
2006
Erwin P. Staller, Hon. '01
CEO, Staller Associates Inc.
Cary F. Staller, Esq. 
President, Staller Associates Inc.
 
2005
James H. Simons, PhD, Hon. '92
Founder
Renaissance Technologies
 
2004
Henry B. Laufer, PhD
Chief Scientist
Renaissance Technologies
Marsha Zlatin Laufer, PhD
Speech-Language Pathologist (Ret.)
 
2003
Debra A. Cody
Matthew J. Cody
General Partner (Ret.)
Spear, Leeds & Kellogg
 
2002
Charles B. Wang
Co-Founder, CA Technologies Inc. 
Owner, New York Islanders
 
2001
Jerome L. Swartz, PhD
Founder, Symbol Technologies
 
2000
Richard L. Gelfond '76
Chair, Stony Brook Foundation
CEO, IMAX Corporation