• In Fiscal Year 2006-07, SUNY ideas and discoveries generated 40 U.S. patents and $11.6 million in royalties. Biomedical advances by SUNY professors include the first implantable heart pacemaker, discovery of the causes of Lyme disease and the invention of Nicorette® gum for smoking withdrawal.

• For every state dollar received ($3.484 billion in total), SUNY generates $8 in total spending in New York State. The 2007-08 all-funds budget of $10,080.5 billion yields an estimated total economic impact of $27.5 billion in the state’s economy.

• The volume of research and other sponsored programs at SUNY has steadily increased over the last decade, reaching nearly $766 million in 2003. SUNY ranks 8th among U.S. patent-generating universities and ranks 14th among U.S. colleges and universities for royalties received o inventions licensed to industry.

• In the past decade, Stony Brook University has seen FDA approval for two drugs developed by its scientists. Both ReoPro®, used with heart patients, and Periostat®, used to treat periodontal disease, are widely used by the medical community.

• Among SUNY faculty are Nobel Laureates, Dirac and Fields Medal winners, National Medal of Science Laureates, and members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Also Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius Grants’ and Tony, Grammy and Emmy Awards winners.

• In 2006, SUNY sent more Fulbright scholars abroad than any other New York public or private institution.

Sources: The State University of New York and SUNY Fast Facts