For Equinor and Empire Wind, another key approval
By GREGORY ZELLER // An ambitious offshore wind farm in New York State waters has cleared another important federal hurdle. Empire Wind 1, an 810-megawatt wind farm rising 15 miles…
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Healthcare High: Straight to work (and the middle class)
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s “Fame” meets “ER” as Northwell Health prepares to open the region’s first-ever Healthcare High. The New Hyde Park-based healthcare system is uniting with Bloomberg Philanthropies…
Cybersecurity event plugs big steps for small business
By GREGORY ZELLER // With large-scale cyberattacks landing major blows around the world, small-scale Long Island businesses soaked up some no-nonsense lessons this week on how to cover their digital…
‘Green’ champion Farmingdale State rolls out new EVs
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s leading electric-vehicle champions has refueled its zero-emission mission by significantly expanding its EV fleet. Farmingdale State College has announced the addition of…
Experience, mindfulness fuel new mental-health efforts
By GREGORY ZELLER // With the New Year comes a series of new mental-health initiatives targeting some of Long Island’s most vulnerable populations – and those who support them. The…
Air, water woes enough to make poll respondents sick
By GREGORY ZELLER // Nearly half of Long Islanders think the local environment is unhealthy – and the farther west you go, the worse the numbers get. The latest Mount…
In Cell and Gene hub, LI’s best socioeconomic destiny
By GREGORY ZELLER // The cutting-edge Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Hub coming to Nassau County will do more than “radically alter the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases,”…
Regional institutions accept teacher-diversity mission
By GREGORY ZELLER // The SUNY Old Westbury School of Education has joined a unique national program working to bring diversity into the classroom. The Georgia-based Branch Alliance for Educator…
PhDs without borders in new engineering consortium
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new multi-college agreement will see New York Institute of Technology and Stony Brook University engineering students attending classes at top Northeast schools including Princeton, Columbia…
Fierce fire ignites new passion for Tesla Science Center
By GREGORY ZELLER // The devastating fire that tore through the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe isn’t the end for the last standing laboratory of famed inventor Nikola Tesla. That’s…
Construction begins on first South Fork Wind turbine
By GREGORY ZELLER // Marking an “awesome milestone” for the burgeoning U.S. offshore-wind industry – and a red-letter day for international partners Ørsted A/S and Eversource Energy – the first of 12 gigantic…
A decade later, ‘demonstrable success’ from the SCIDA
By GREGORY ZELLER // Ten years, 10 towns and one historic effort later, the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency has finalized a winning downtown-redevelopment strategy – and is sharing the…
Hofstra’s computer-science wishes granted by the NSF
By GREGORY ZELLER // The National Science Foundation is backing several ambitious Hofstra University professors on computer-science missions with wide-ranging implications. The foundation has awarded the university three grants totaling…
In this ‘Talent Pipeline,’ an innovative workforce plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // The long-term competitiveness of the greater Long Island workforce – and the Northeast’s largest industrial park – gets the royal treatment in a new study by…
Law, med students star in Hofstra’s unique mock trials
By GREGORY ZELLER // Teams of brilliant young doctors and lawyers bringing top medical and litigatory sciences to bear in heart-wrenching courtroom dramas … sounds like another hit for NBC….