Distinguished Alumni Awards

Reflecting the highest values embraced and promoted by both the Stony Brook University and the Stony Brook Alumni Association, the Distinguished Alumni Award recipients have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to the University, to knowledge and to the public's service. We could not be more proud as we recognize the exceptional accomplishments of Stony Brook Alumni.

- Alumni Association Board of Directors

25th Annual Distinguished Alumni Awards

Michael R. Anastasio MA. '73, PhD ' 76
Director
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dr. Anastasio earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from Stony Brook University. Since his graduation, he has become the Director of the two largest research laboratories in the US. He served as the Director of Lawrence Livermore National Labs from 2002 to 2006, and on June 1, 2006, Dr. Anastasio became the Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The Laboratory is a principal contributor to the Department of Energy's programs to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and to reduce the international dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction.

Wai Lam '82
Chief Technology Officer & Vice President of Engineering
FalconStor Software Corporation

Wai received a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in 1982 and is one of the founders of FalconStor which is ranked in Long Island's top 75 companies. He came to FalconStor from Computer Associates International, Inc. As Vice President and Architect at CA, he was responsible for the eTrust Internet security product strategy and design. Mr. Lam joined CA in 1996 with its acquisition of Cheyenne Software, Inc., where he was Director and Architect of the HSM product line. Wai as been intimately involved in forming the Asian American Alumni Network and has assisted in mentoring students. Mr. Lam also received a Master of Science degree from UCLA in 1984.


Willard S. Moore PhD '69
Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emeritus
University of South Carolina

Bill Moore was the very first recipient of a Ph.D. from the department of Earth & Space Sciences - now known as Geosciences. He is renowned throughout the field of Chemical Oceanography & Marine Geochemistry. His studies have stimulated major new research programs of river and groundwater runoff into the ocean. His contributions have helped lay the framework for our understanding of chemical cycling at the Earth's surface.

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Ph.D., BA '74
Professor of History
Arizona State University

Dr. Tirosh-Samuelson graduated from Stony Brook with a BA in Religious Studies. She continued her education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has specialized in the field of Jewish Intellectual history. She is the leading scholar of the relationship between science and religion and is among the first scholar to have introduced gendered perspectives to the study of Jewish Philosophy. She was a visiting scholar at Oxford College in 2006.