28. Shirley Strum Kenny
2007 Power List
The first woman president Stony Brook University has ever known, Kenny has taken Long Island’s nationally ranked university to yet another level—the university has become one of the country’s premier research institutions, according to U.S. News and World Report, with top ratings in its physics, mathematics and biological sciences programs. She has turned Stony Brook into a world renowned university and she deserves to be honored.