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Education August 16, 2018

SBU snags $25M grant for new engineering facility

By GREGORY ZELLER // Engineers, start your education. New York State on Thursday announced a major funding initiative that will help bring a cutting-edge engineering facility to the Stony Brook University campus. Albany will funnel $25 million to SBU, allowing the university to dive headlong into the initial planning and development phases of what Stony Brook is trumpeting as a $100 million, 100,000-square-foot mecca of engineering education. The university’s engineering programs already have a strong…

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Education April 25, 2018

Top CSTEP honors for SUNY Old Westbury trio

By GREGORY ZELLER // Several young minds from SUNY Old Westbury have earned top honors in a New York State competition designed to promote academic excellence among full-time, economically disadvantaged STEM students. During the 26th annual CSTEP Statewide Student Conference, titled “Journeys Beyond Excellence” and held earlier this month in upstate Bolton Landing, roughly 700 Collegiate Science Technology Entry Program-enrolled student researchers from 52 New York colleges and universities shared their work in the science,…

Education March 21, 2018

SBU rounds out the curriculum for some bio majors

Stony Brook University now offers a biology degree for students not necessarily enamored with gross anatomy. The university this week announced a new Bachelor of Arts in Biology program that delivers a more basic bio degree – that is, a bachelor’s degree with a wider selection of College of Arts and Sciences minors, but less focus on actual biology. Calling its traditional Bachelor of Science in Biology program – which it still offers – more…

Education March 15, 2018

Adelphi alum endows $1M to ‘Faculty Leadership’ effort

By GREGORY ZELLER // A $1 million endowment from a former student will help Adelphi University faculty members become the academic leaders of tomorrow. The Garden City-based university announced this week that 1995 graduate Lionel Viret, president of French bioscience company Stago, has “pledged $1 million to transform the lives of future leaders at Adelphi.” More specifically, Viret has gifted a cool mil to the university’s Faculty Leadership Fellows initiative, which has been rechristened the…

Education March 6, 2018

SBU races ahead of the curve with three-year MD

By GREGORY ZELLER // A new medical-training curriculum will allow Stony Brook Medicine students to complete their MDs a year faster. The SBU School of Medicine has introduced a peppier alternative course load that lets students earn their medical degrees in three years instead of the traditional four – the first sped-up MD program on Long Island and just the second in New York State, according to the SUNY medical school. Stony Brook Medicine’s three-year…

Education February 27, 2018

Adelphi orchestrates new provost, baton included

By GREGORY ZELLER // Adelphi University has plucked its next provost from the orchestra pit. The Garden City university has named Steve Everett, currently dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Architecture, Design and the Arts, as executive vice president and chief academic officer. His appointment as Adelphi provost is slated to begin before July 1. An accomplished composer, conductor and professor of music, Everett succeeds Sam Grogg, a former dean of…

Education February 22, 2018

Fellow in the fold, Hofstra entrepreneurs look west

By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Bring the Mountain to Mohammed File comes the Hofstra University Center for Entrepreneurship, which is bringing a little Silicon Valley to Hempstead. And vice-versa, with a class of Frank G. Zarb School of Business students slated to jet west later this semester for a pilgrimage to the famed California tech mecca. But first, the center is generating a little Silicon Valley vibe at home with the naming of its…