Long Island University

Education July 23, 2018

LI schools snag $12.6M in state facilities funds

By GREGORY ZELLER // Seven-figure stipends are flowing to private colleges and universities across Long Island as part of a hefty package of state grants supporting statewide campus-infrastructure projects. All told, Albany has announced more than $67.1 million in grants for capital projects at 39 institutions of higher learning through the latest round of the state’s Higher Education Facilities Capital Matching Grant Program. Each of the awards was greenlighted by the HECap Board, which provides…

Newsletters December 6, 2017

No. 263: Siemens smarties, lucrative leads, hanging with Chad and singing the socioeconomic blues

Welcome to Dec. 6: A red-letter date in history known best for the ratification of the slavery-abolishing 13th Amendment (1865) and the first recording of a human voice (Thomas Edison’s rendition of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” 1877). Happy birthday: Joyce Kilmer, Ira Gershwin, Agnes “Endora” Moorehead, Dave Brubeck, Wally “Mr. Peepers” Cox, Otto Graham, Larry Bowa, JoBeth Williams, Charles Bronson, Craig “Craigslist” Newmark, Will Shriner, Steven Wright, Judd Apatow and Zeller, yes, Innovate’s Zeller,…

Startups September 20, 2017

‘Dormant’ biotech wakes on Alzheimer’s fast track

By GREGORY ZELLER // A pre-clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company is being fast-tracked toward a potential Alzheimer’s treatment, after taking a decidedly slow road. Stony Brook-based Avanti Biosciences Inc. actually launched in 2009, but was “dormant for a few years,” according to founder Gian Luca Araldi, “kind of an empty shell.” It was only in the last two years, when “I had some ideas I wanted to develop on my own,” that Araldi – a former senior…

News December 21, 2016

Israel to lead LIU global institute, and write on

If you had “[Insert Distinguished Vocation Here]-in-Residence at a Long Island college” on your Steve Israel After-Congress Bingo card, fill it in. Long Island University announced Tuesday that the longtime U.S. representative will join LIU as chairman of the new LIU Institute for Global Issues and a Distinguished Writer in Residence on Jan. 4, immediately following his retirement from Congress. Israel, who rose to become a chief messaging and campaign strategist for House democrats, announced…

Economic Development October 28, 2016

Start-Up NY adds 39, including two LI companies

By GREGORY ZELLER // Thirty-nine early-stage companies, including two on Long Island, have been welcomed into the Start-Up NY program. The companies will either launch in or relocate to “tax-free zones” at or near New York colleges and universities – an ambitious program designed to let entrepreneurs hold onto working capital while simultaneously fostering innovation hubs and bolstering regional economies. The Long Island region will be bolstered by the creation of 26 new jobs, according…