Commencement Speaker List

Speaker, Address Title	Year
Francis Bonner	1998
Joan Shields	1999
James DiLorenzo	2000
William Schoen	2001
John Piwinski	2002
William Murray	2003
Kenneth Aron	2004
John Butera	2005
Stuart Rosenblum, Treat Life as an Experiment	2006
Jerome Ackerman, Reminiscences and Wanderings of a Stony Brook Chemist	2007
David Walt, Chemistry: An Array of Possibilities	2008
Robert Aslanian, Be Prepared!	2009
Kenneth R. Leopold, Graduated. OMG. What Now?	2010
Robert Kerber	2011
Chi Wu, Stony Brook has prepared us to solve problems	2012
Kevin Koch, Adventures in Chemistry, Busincess and Medicine	2013
Ruth Heidelberger, All I Really Need to Know I Learned at Stony Brook	2014
Lawrence Ziegler, A View of the 60's from the 60's	2015
Scott Kuduk, An Alumnus’s View: Challenge and Change	2016
Douglas Carsten, Am I That Person?	2017
Michael Berman, Balancing Your Own Equation	2018
Stephen Demarest, Preparing for Your Next Big Experiment	2019
Christopher am Ende	2020
Ingrid Yin	2021
Ronald T. Garry, Tools I have Added to My Toolkit Along the Way	2022
Chanjuan Pan, Adventures in Chemistry, Business and Finance	2023
Albert Haim, Inorganic Chemistry and Me	2024
Songnian Lin, Stony Brook Chemists, the blue sky is yours	2025