Your University: SBU Matches Largest-Ever Medical School Class

Match Day is an annual event in which medical school graduates learn where they will begin their residencies, and this year Stony Brook's School of Medicine reached a milestone with 120 fourth-year medical students – its largest-ever class – matching to those residency programs on March 16.

More than a third of the students matched to hospitals on Long Island, while 13 percent will begin residencies at clinical departments within the Stony Brook School of Medicine. Across the country, some 16,000 medical students opened their Match Day letters on March 16, an event coordinated by the National Resident Matching Program.

“Our medical students experienced a fabulous Match Day," said Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky, dean of the School of Medicine. "They are going into their residencies armed with the many skills and training they received at Stony Brook and with a tremendous enthusiasm for their chosen profession."

University Receives News Literacy Grant. As news literacy courses expand at Stony Brook University, the School of Journalism on Friday announced the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded a $289,000 grant to the Center for News Literacy. The grant will enable to university to create and deliver the digital materials that the expanded program calls for. Howard Schneider, Dean of the School of Journalism, called the grant the "rocket fuel" needed to teach students "to separate legitimate news and information from propaganda, spin and uninformed assertion masquerading as fact."

Journalists Convene at Stony Brook for Conference. The Press Club of Long Island sponsored the annual Society for Professional Journalists regional conference, held at Stony Brook University and dedicated to the memory of Long Island native Marie Colvin, the journalist killed in Syria in February. The conference featured a keynote address from Ellis Henican, who is a Newsday columnist, a Fox News analyst, radio host and New York Times best-selling author, as well as more than 50 speakers on various media topics. Following the conference, the PCLI donated leftover food to the Lighthouse Mission in Bellport.