Isle of Harris, Scotland, 2012 Virtually midway by way of my undergraduate knowledge, I switched majors. Though I began my training on a pre-med monitor, I promptly felt a potent pull toward art history. That decision was lifetime-modifying in fact, I doubt I would be in this article right now, as president of Stony Brook, without having it.   Venice, 2013 I usually attribute this transformation to the profundity and the serendipity of a multidisciplinary undergraduate expertise: the discovery of a new enthusiasm by way of exploration. On the lookout back again, I feel the signs were being often there that artwork and history would inevitably be my life’s operate. My…