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Education October 3, 2018

SUNY Old Westbury dean earns ACS fellowship

By GREGORY ZELLER // A SUNY Old Westbury dean has joined the ranks of a select group of national scientists. Barbara Hillery, dean of the college’s School of Arts and Sciences, has been chosen for inclusion in the 2018 American Chemical Society Fellows Program. Now in its 10th year, the ACS Fellows Program recognizes existing ACS members for “outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession and the ACS,” according to a statement issued…

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Education July 17, 2018

LI duo takes top spot in Spellman clean-tech contest

By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island team has taken top honors in a global clean-tech competition for forward-thinking high schoolers. Featuring teams from across the United States and as far afield as Peru, Ireland, Australia and Singapore, the 2018 Spellman HV Electronics Clean Tech Competition was designed to promote STEM concepts (for science, technology, engineering and mathematics) while challenging participants to tackle real-world environmental challenges. The seventh-annual international brain-a-thon, sponsored by Hauppauge-based Spellman High…

Education June 21, 2018

Anid’s big promotion marks huge forward step for NYIT

By GREGORY ZELLER // Nearly a decade of successful leadership at one of NYIT’s most innovative schools has earned Nada Anid a major promotion. New York Institute of Technology President Hank Foley announced Thursday that Anid, dean of NYIT’s School of Engineering and Computing Sciences since 2009, has been promoted to vice president and will head up NYIT’s new Office of Strategic Communications and External Affairs. The promotion is effective immediately, with Anid continuing to…

Education May 17, 2018

NYIT Academy offers future grads a running start

By GREGORY ZELLER // With the collegiate world focused this week on the Class of 2018, the New York Institute of Technology is taking a broader view – and opening its doors to pre-collegians interested in tomorrow’s tech. The NYIT Academy, a smorgasbord of career-oriented summer programs combining academic instruction and hands-on field experience, is coming to NYIT’s Old Westbury and Manhattan campuses. Open to students ages 15 to 20, the academy promises an “immersive…

Education May 16, 2018

Another two months won’t stop FSC’s Adult Learners

If at first the brutal winter won’t let you succeed, try, try again. That’s the rallying cry at Farmingdale State College, which has rescheduled its Adult-Learner College Fair, a community program designed as a “how-to boot camp” for students of a certain age, after Old Man Winter whited-out the college’s first attempt. Noting that “nearly half of those enrolled in undergraduate higher education today” are “non-traditional” adult learners – including adults returning to complete or…

Education May 9, 2018

With $2M gift, NYIT redesigns architectural programs

By GREGORY ZELLER // A sizeable grant from the IDC Foundation, the “legacy” organization spun out of the defunct Institute of Design and Construction, will support new architecture programs at the New York Institute of Technology – and tie them into a wide range of other academic disciplines. An award “exceeding $2 million” will help develop the “culture of making” at NYIT’s Manhattan-based School of Architecture and Design by “enabling faculty and students to explore…

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,…