Stony Brook University, every mention

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• ▶ 35:27 David Rosenthal So he takes pretty much the only halfway decent paying job that he could get, which is to be the chair of the newly established or maybe reestablished math department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, which is the Long…
• ▶ 36:21 David Rosenthal I sort of thought MIT was the Berkeley of the East already, but Rockefeller is waging a campaign that he wants Stony Brook to become a math and sciences powerhouse, and Jim is the key.
• ▶ 37:06 David Rosenthal But the other part of it too is he's given such leeway and Stony Brook is so different from the politics of an MIT or a Harvard or a Princeton.
• ▶ 37:39 David Rosenthal And amazingly, it works.
• ▶ 39:14 David Rosenthal Remember, he's assembled this superstar team there at Stony Brook.
• ▶ 41:23 David Rosenthal Now Jim also has another advantage at this point in time, which is he's right down the street from Stony Brook, and he's just recruited all of these superstar mathematicians.
• ▶ 41:36 David Rosenthal Yes, and those folks are more loyal to Jim than they are to Stony Brook.
• ▶ 51:30 David Rosenthal Sandor was another Stony Brook alum that joined them.
• ▶ 52:54 David Rosenthal That's what he was doing at Stony Brook, and that's what he came into Renaissance to build.
• ▶ 1:12:54 David Rosenthal So once Jim takes control and moves everything back, he basically decides that he's going to turn Rentech into an even better, even more idealized version of IDA and the math department at Stony Brook.
• ▶ 1:13:33 David Rosenthal So, of course, he starts reading the Stony Brook department itself again, and this is when Henry Laufer joins full-time.
• ▶ 1:13:58 David Rosenthal I'm here at Stony Brook anyway.