Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability partnership formed between the Research Foundation of State University of New York (SUNY) on behalf of SUNY-Stony Brook and Battelle Memorial Institute, operates and manages the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. SUNY-Stony Brook is Brookhaven’s closest university neighbor and largest academic user of its facilities.