Samuel L. Stanley

Samuel Leonard Stanley Jr. (born January 11, 1954) is an American educator, biomedical researcher and the president of Michigan State University. He formerly served as the president of Stony Brook University.[1][2][3] Stanley is married to Ellen Li, a practicing gastroenterologist and active researcher.

Samuel L. Stanley Jr.
President of Michigan State University
Assumed office
August 1, 2019
Preceded bySatish Udpa (acting)
5th President of Stony Brook University
In office
July 1, 2009 – July 31, 2019
Preceded byShirley Strum Kenny
Succeeded byMichael A. Bernstein (acting)
Maurie D. McInnis
Personal details
Born
Samuel Leonard Stanley Jr.

(1954-01-11)January 11, 1954
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Spouse(s)Ellen Li
Children4
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Harvard University
Washington University
Scientific career
FieldsBiological Sciences, Medicine, Pathogenesis, Genomics
Institutions

On May 12, 2009, Stanley was named the fifth president of Stony Brook University, a position he formally assumed on July 1, 2009, making him the first physician to serve as Stony Brook University’s president.[4] Stanley is one of the founding directors of the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research.[1][2] Stanley's tenure at Stony Brook was marked by controversial cuts to the university's humanities funding and the creation of a $35 million budget deficit.[5][6]

On May 28, 2019, Stanley was named president of Michigan State University,[7] officially assuming his position on August 1.[8]

Education and early career

Samuel L. Stanley Jr. attended Winston Churchill High School, a National Blue Ribbon School, located in Potomac, Maryland and graduated in 1972. He then attended The College of the University of Chicago where he graduated with honors in Biological Sciences in 1976 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in the same year.[1][2][3][9]

As an Albert Schweitzer fellow of Harvard Medical School, Stanley received his MD specializing in Internal Medicine in 1980.[1][10] He served as a medical intern at Massachusetts General Hospital between 1980 and 1981 and stayed to complete his residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.[1] He was appointed as an Associate member of the American College of Physicians.[1] During his time at Mass General, Stanley met colleague and future wife, Dr. Ellen Li, who was concurrently completing her residency in Internal Medicine.[11]

Between 1983 and 1984, Stanley was a Fellow fellowship (medicine) in infectious diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.[1][2][12][13] While there, he was a Pfizer Postdoctoral Fellow in microbiology and immunology.[1] He became a Professor in the Department of Medicine, and served in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Molecular Microbiology. Stanley also served as Director of the National Institutes of Health-funded Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research. In 2006, he was named vice-chancellor for research at Washington University.[9]

President of Stony Brook University

On May 12, 2009, Stanley was named the fifth president of Stony Brook University, a position he formally assumed on July 1, 2009, making him the first physician to serve as Stony Brook University's president.[14]

Stanley faced a $13 million budget deficit upon his arrival, which ballooned to $21 million by December 2009, leading Stanley to enact a hiring freeze.[15] In 2010, Stony Brook University was sued by students after Stanley illegally closed down programs at the Stony Brook Southampton campus; a settlement was reached mandating Stanley personally apologize to the students affected by his action.[16]

Under Stanley's tenure, Stony Brook University saw its largest donation in school history and the largest donation in State University of New York history when mathematician Jim Simons gifted $150 million to the school.[17] In 2012, Stanley and his wife announced the establishment of the Ellen Li and Samuel S. Stanley Jr. Endowed Scholarship in the Stony Brook University School of Medicine.[18]

In January 2015, Stanley began his term on the NCAA Division I Board of Directors.[19] On July 19, 2016, Stanley was appointed to the NCAA Board of Governors.[20] While serving on the NCAA Board of Governors, Stanley helped kill a bill proposing a comprehensive misconduct questionnaire for student-athletes accused of criminal, civil or juvenile offenses.[21]

During the 2014-15 school year, Stanley's salary of $690,040 was the 25th-highest amongst public university executives in the United States, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.[22] The report also discovered that from 2009 to 2012, Stanley was given an additional $250,000 from the Stony Brook Foundation which was not calculated in his compensation.[22]

With Stanley at the helm, Stony Brook's budget deficit grew to $35 million by 2017.[6] Rumors of cuts to humanities programs led to a large student protest on May 10, 2017, as well as blowback from faculty.[6][23] On June 22, 2017, Stanley officially suspended student admissions into its theater arts, comparative literature and cinema arts departments, and consolidated several language disciplines.[24] In December 2017, a group of 42 distinguished Stony Brook professors wrote a letter to State University of New York Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson with concerns that Stanley and his administration was "failing the institution".[25]

A 2019 report by The Atlantic claimed that Stanley and his administrators repeatedly intimidated journalists, including those from the university newspaper The Statesman, for writing articles that appeared to negatively portray Stanley.[26]

President of Michigan State University

Stanley was named president of Michigan State University on May 28, 2019 to succeed Lou Anna Simon, who resigned in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal, with his tenure officially beginning on August 1.[27] On August 29, 2019, two Michigan State students were charged with false terrorism threats after posting a plan to assassinate Stanley on the Michigan State subreddit.[28] On September 6, 2019, Stanley was the target of a bomb threat towards Michigan State's administration building.[29]

Biomedical research

Stanley was a biomedical researcher.[3] His research interest in immunity from infections led him to publish several articles about the characterization of key proteins and pathways involved in amebic, bacterial and viral infections, blood-borne pathogen risks in hemophilia therapy, and the identification of new strain- specific clones.[1][30] Better defense against infection was a key focus of his research.[9]

In 2008, he worked to create the Midwest Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, with a $37 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.[9] The center was established with goals of improving biodefense, in reaction to the post September 11 bioterrorism threats and anthrax attacks.[31] He has also served on the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, the NIH Blue Ribbon Panel on the New England Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, the NIH National Advisory Allergy & Infectious Diseases Council and committees led by the United States Department of Commerce.[1]

Stanley is also the recipient of awards, including the Burrough’s Welcome Scholar Award in Molecular Parasitology and the Distinguished Service Teaching Award from Washington University.[9] Stanley is currently the owner of 3 patents.[1] He also serves as an ambassador for the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research and has received an honorary doctorate degree in Science from Konkuk University in South Korea.[2]

Patents

US Patent 5,130,147: Entamoeba histolytica Immunogenic protein and cDNA clone. Significance: patent of the SREHP cDNA clone; recombinant SREHP is a major vaccine candidate for amebiasis, and a reagent utilized in prototype diagnostic tests. Inventor: Samuel S. Stanley Jr., and Ellen Li. Assignee: Washington University, St. Louis.

US Patent 5,275,935: Amebic glycoconjugate and monoclonal antibody. Significance: patent of the amebic glycoconjugate, a major surface antigen of amebae and a monoclonal antibody, CC 8.6 which recognizes this antigen. Possible uses in diagnostic kits. Inventor: Samuel S. Stanley, Jr., and Ellen Li. Assignee: Washington University, St. Louis.

US Patent 5,807,000: Method of screening anti-amebic compounds. Significance: Describes the use of mutant E. coli strains complemented with amebic antigens to screen compounds for anti-amebic activity. Inventor: Samuel S. Stanley, Jr. Assignee: Washington University, St. Louis.

References
  1. http://www.stonybrook.edu/pres/cv.html=all About the President: Curriculum Vitae.
  2. http://www.stonybrook.edu/pres/bio.html= all Stony Brook University: Office of the President: Biography
  3. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=129279542&privcapId=6184496&previousCapId=6184496&previousTitle=State%20University%20of%20New%20York%20at%20Stony%20Brook=all Company Overview of State University of New York at Stony Brook- People.
  4. http://www.americaeast.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=14000&ATCLID=3737095=all Samuel Stanley Selected New President at Stony Brook University
  5. "SBU president to take helm at Michigan State". Newsday. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  6. "President Stanley's plan to address $35 million deficit draws ire of faculty". The Statesman. September 14, 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  7. "MSU names medical doctor, current Stony Brook University president as new president". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  8. "President-designee Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D. | Presidential Search | Michigan State University". msu.edu. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  9. http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/6557.aspx=all Vice-Chancellor of Research at Washington University
  10. http://hms.harvard.edu/alumni-search?LastName=stanley&FirstName=samuel&GradYear=1980&id=DC0eXHkBaUdudBxhNUR6KDsNMB8jEAJjVSYAcyh-GwF1ZQAb= all HMS- Alumni
  11. http://www.stonybrookphysicians.com/doctor/LI_MD_ELLEN_2884.asp= all Stony Brook Physicians- Ellen LI, M.D., PhD
  12. http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-samuel-stanley-xmtsj/education=all Dr. Samuel Stanley- Education
  13. http://www.stonybrook.edu/pres/lady.html=all About the President: First Lady
  14. "Stanley named president of SUNY Stony Brook | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis". The Source. May 6, 2009.
  15. "Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr.: Stony Brook University's Post-Recession President". The Statesman. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  16. "SBU prez to apologize for campus closure". Newsday. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  17. Pérez-Peña, Richard (December 13, 2011). "Stony Brook University to Get $150 Million Gift". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  18. "President Stanley, Dr. Li Pledge to Equal Class of 2019 Senior Class Legacy Gifts |". SBU News. November 13, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  19. "President Stanley Appointed to NCAA Division I Board of Directors |". SBU News. January 15, 2015. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  20. "President Stanley Appointed to Highest Governance Body in NCAA |". SBU News. July 19, 2016. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  21. "NCAA looks the other way as college athletes punished for sex offenses play on". www.usatoday.com. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  22. Kilgallen, Michaela (July 20, 2016). "Stanley among highest paid public university presidents". The Statesman. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  23. "SBU students protest potential liberal arts cuts". Newsday. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  24. "SBU: Admissions suspended to close $1.5M gap". Newsday. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  25. Liebson, Rebecca (December 4, 2017). "42 distinguished professors voice concerns about SBU administration". The Statesman. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  26. Willis, Adam (August 23, 2019). "Bureaucrats Put the Squeeze on College Newspapers". The Atlantic. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  27. Jesse, David. "MSU names medical doctor, current Stony Brook University president as new president". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  28. "MSU student charged with false terror threat to go to trial". The State News. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  29. Berg, Kara. "All-clear given after MSU administration building evacuated due to bomb threat". Lansing State Journal. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  30. https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/12788669_Samuel_Stanley=all ResearchGate Profile: Samuel S. Stanley
  31. http://mrce.wustl.edu/index.php?page=about=all About the MRCE
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