A Community of Scholars
As a Turner Fellow, you receive more than financial aid. Through interaction with other fellows, faculty, students, and staff, you also benefit from the support of the entire campus community. Here are some of the ways Turner Fellows become part of the Stony Brook family.

The Turner Fellowship Welcome Dinner
The Turner Fellowship Welcome Dinner is an annual Stony Brook University event held at the beginning of the fall semester to welcome new, returning, and alumni fellows and their families for another academic year. The University President, Provost, Graduate School Dean, College Deans, students, faculty, and staff attend this event. This is a special evening for Turner Fellows and their families to interact with one another and with senior administrators, faculty, and staff. The evening features a keynote lecture delivered by a leading figure in higher education and a special presentation of music and cultural events.

Mentoring and Social Programs
The Turner Fellowship Program provides continuous mentoring for its fellows in the following principal ways. First, the faculty and staff members associated with the Turner Fellowship are readily available to assist fellows with academic and relevant non-academic issues that will enhance their success as graduate and professional students at Stony Brook University. Second, it encourages advanced fellows to mentor new fellows. Advanced fellows share their academic and social experience with fellows who recently enrolled in the program.

Turner Fellows meet regularly for social gathering and informal seminars. These gatherings allow fellows to engage in relevant discussion on topics relating to their academic training and to interact freely in a familiar social environment.

Turner Fellows are encouraged to voluntarily participate in a mentoring program for undergraduate students in the Turner/AIM Mentors Program (TAMP) in collaboration with the Educational Opportunity Program and Advancement on Individual Merit (EOP/AIM). TAMP is a structured mentoring program in which Turner Fellows mentor EOP/AIM juniors and seniors, who in turn mentor EOP/AIM freshmen and sophomores. The Turner Fellowship Mentoring programs are an extensive chain of initiatives which have increased the scope and depth of graduate to undergraduate mentoring activities and include the mentoring of incoming graduate students by experienced students and the mentoring of postdoctoral students by faculty.

Question and Answer Sessions
At our Question and Answer sessions, Turner Fellows who are close to defending their dissertations give a brief presentation of their research to their colleagues. The presentation is followed by a “Q & A” session in which they share research projects with their fellow Turners.

The Turner Social gatherings and the Question and Answer sessions provide Turner Fellows across disciplines with an opportunity to meet one another, to step outside their immediate academic departments, and to share their experience as young scholars with common goals, concerns, and aspirations. These events allow for development of a sense of common purpose, friendship, solidarity, and camaraderie that is critical to the mission of the Turner Fellowship.

Newsletter
An annual Turner Fellowship Newsletter provides essential information about the academic achievements of Turner Fellows. Turner Fellows are informed of new rules and regulations governing the Fellowship, completion of major academic degrees, recipients of prestigious national and international fellowship awards, grants, and recognitions. Turner Fellows are also informed about important social, intellectual, and academic events and activities that are central to the mission of the Turner Fellowship Program.