Outside the labs, Stony Brook University has many Extracurricular Activities for Graduate Students to enjoy and participate in. For fun, our Pharmacology Graduate Students have an intramural softball team. In 2002, the PharmSox record was not as important as the good times! And the 2003 Pharm Animals reportedly won a few games between rainouts! Our senior students set up some seasonal events, i.e., a summer day trip to "Splish Splash" WaterPark or the ocean, a Fall Bowling Night, a Winter day Ski Trip, a Spring Day in New York City... there are many things to do on Long Island. Food Gatherings are an important resource for phamished pharm students! The Annual Welcome BBQ, the Annual Dinner that follows our Fall Symposium, and the Department Holiday Party are occasions that give our graduate students opportunities to network with the great scientific minds in our department and program.

Student meetings
On the third Wednesday of every month a pharmacology graduate student meeting is held to provide information and get everybody together. A meeting agenda is sent out before each meeting, so that if a student cannot make it to the meeting they can stay “in the loop.” Information about registering, parking, signing rosters, fellowship opportunites and other mundane but imperative topics for the day-to-day graduate student life is brought up for discussion. Students share information with each other. Our senior students tell us about their postdoc searches, what is working, what is not working. The Graduate Program Director, Administrator, our Student Senators, Angelo Guainaazzi and Christine Ardito, and Student Representative, Lisa Evans, all update everyone on news and events from the Faculty meetings, the Graduate Council, and the Graduate Students Organization. We also try to fit in a 20-min one-on-one meeting with a different member of our Pharm Training Faculty each month to learn more about them and their labs. In the summer months we invite visiting summer undergraduate research fellows to join in our meetings and see what graduate students really talk about!

Pharmacology Graduate Student Symposium
Invited Speakers