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COMMENCEMENT 2026 • Department Convocation Schedule

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MONDAY, MAY 18

School of Health Professions

12:00 PM

Stony Brook Arena, Sports Complex

 

Public Health

12:30 PM

Student Activities Center, Sidney Gelber Auditorium

 

School of Professional Development

5:00 PM

Stony Brook Arena, Sports Complex

 

TUESDAY, MAY 19

Renaissance School of Medicine

12:00 PM

Stony Brook Arena, Sports Complex

 

School of Dental Medicine

3:00 PM

Staller Center, Main Stage

 

School of Social Welfare

5:00 PM

Stony Brook Arena, Sports Complex

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20

 School of Nursing

 8:00 AM

Stony Brook Arena, Sports Complex

 

Technological Systems Management / Technology & Society

8:30 AM 

Student Activities Center, Sidney Gelber Auditorium

 

Physiology and Biophysics

10:00 AM

Charles B. Wang Center, Theater

 

University Scholars

10:00 AM

Dallas Bauman Center for Leadership & Service

 

Psychology

12:00 PM

Stony Brook Arena, Sports Complex

 

Political Science & Globalization Studies, & International Relations

2:00 PM

Student Activities Center, Sidney Gelber Auditorium

 

Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

3:00 PM

Staller Center, Main Stage

 

Honors College

4:00 PM

Dallas Bauman Center for Leadership & Service

 

College of Business

4:00 PM

Stony Brook Arena, Sports Complex

 

 THURSDAY, MAY 21

Applied Sciences

8:00 AM

Stony Brook Arena, Sports Complex

 

Biomedical Engineering / Biomedical Informatics

8:00 AM 

Charles B. Wang Center, Theater

 

Mechanical Engineering

8:00 AM

Student Activities Center, Sidney Gelber Auditorium

 

WISE

8:30 AM

Stony Brook Union, Ballroom

 

Music

11:00 AM

Staller Center, Recital Hall

 

Biology & Biochemistry

12:00 PM

Stony Brook Arena, Sports Complex

 

Civil Engineering

12:00 PM

Charles B. Wang Center, Theater

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering

12:00 PM

Staller Center, Main Stage

 

Materials Science & Chemical Engineering

12:00 PM

Student Activities Center, Sidney Gelber Auditorium

 

Creative Writing

1:00 PM

Stony Brook Union, Ballroom

 

Multidisciplinary Studies

1:00 PM

Dallas Bauman Center for Leadership & Service

 

EOP / AIM

3:30 PM

Charles B. Wang Center, Theater

 

Doctoral Hooding & Graduation Ceremony

4:00 PM

Stony Brook Arena, Sports Complex

 

FRIDAY, MAY 22

Linguistics

8:00 AM

Stony Brook Union, Ballroom

 

School of Communication & Journalism

8:30 AM

Dallas Bauman Center for Leadership & Service

 

Languages and Cultural Studies

8:30 AM

Charles B. Wang Center, Theater

 

Chemistry

8:45 AM

Staller Center, Main Stage

 

Physics and Astronomy

9:00 AM

Student Activities Center, Sidney Gelber Auditorium 

 

History

9:00 AM

Student Activities Center, Ballroom A

 

Mathematics

9:00 AM

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Auditorium, Room 103

 

Women’s, Gender Sexuality Studies

9:00 AM

Charles B. Wang Center, Room 201

 

MAIN COMMENCEMENT

11:00 AM

Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium

 

Master of Arts in Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics

1:00 PM

Hilton Garden Inn, University Room BC

 

Asian & American Studies

1:30 PM

Student Activities Center, Ballroom A

 

Africana Studies

2:00 PM

Charles B. Wang Center, Room 301 

 

Hispanic Languages and Literature

2:00 PM

Charles B. Wang Center, Theater

 

Sociology

2:00 PM

Student Activities Center, Sidney Gelber Auditorium 

 

English

2:00 PM

Dallas Bauman Center for Leadership & Service

 

Philosophy

2:00 PM

Harriman Hall, Room 214

 

Geosciences

2:00 PM

Earth & Space Science Building

 

Economics

2:00 PM

Staller Center, Main Stage

 

Art & Art History

2:00 PM

Staller Center, Zuccaire Art Gallery

 

Anthropology & Human Evolutionary Biology

2:00 PM

Stony Brook Union, Ballroom

 

Health Sciences

2:30 PM

Stony Brook Arena, Sports Complex