Savvy Hires, Northwell building autism ‘pipeline’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A startup recruiting firm with modernized methods for matching talent and opportunity has made significant headway on a potentially enormous – and socially conscious – vertical….
Education
Apprentices, TEDx Talk to highlight Adelphi thinkers
By GREGORY ZELLER // Young minds will shine in two upcoming Adelphi University events – one a regional stage for entrepreneurial thinkers, the other a national platform for society’s biggest…
NY certifies Teq’s online professional development
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York is turning to Teq to keep the state’s teachers up-to-speed on their professional development. The Huntington Station-based education-tech distributor has been selected by the New…
Wheeling, dealing toward LI’s energy future
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Selden-based supply-chain specialist and Eastern Suffolk BOCES are plowing innovative pathways toward good jobs in burgeoning alternative-energy fields. Dynamic Supplier Alignment is teaming with the…
SBU hitting its STRIDE, with NSF’s help
With Big Data piling up at an almost incalculable rate, a seven-figure National Science Foundation grant will help prepare Stony Brook University’s next generation of scientists for complex decision-making scenarios….
The Girl With the Forensic-Analysis Tattoo
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s “doctor,” not “girl,” thank you, and of her four tattoos – plus a fifth on the way – none is a dragon. But while Michelle Miranda…
Survey: No brain drain at Farmingdale State
Brain drain? Not at Farmingdale State College. The State University of New York school is trumpeting a recent survey of alumni that shows 90 percent of bachelor’s degree recipients are…
Hofstra’s new approach to mechatronic mastery
By GREGORY ZELLER // An innovative Hofstra University certificate program is speeding professional engineers toward the multidisciplinary systems expertise required by 21st century dynamics. By focusing on mechatronics – the…
Record grant for Suffolk Community College
That’s one for the books at Suffolk County Community College, where a U.S. Department of Labor job-training grant has set a new funding high-water mark. It’s actually 2,949,237 for the…
More LI funding through $2B Smart Schools effort
Three more Long Island school districts will receive funding for technology upgrades through Albany’s Smart Schools program. A total of roughly $2 million will be funneled to the East Moriches,…
Ex-Briarcliffe College prez gets technical at TCI
The Manhattan-based TCI College of Technology has tapped a longtime Long Island college administrator to be its new president. Bethpage resident George Santiago Jr. is TCI’s new president and CEO,…
Giving high school inventors the business
By GREGORY ZELLER // A sensor-filled table to assist the autistic, an innovative method to save subway stations from storm-surge flooding … no doubt about it, these students were thinking…
State Senate OKs workforce package
The New York State Senate has approved a comprehensive workforce-development package designed to train workers for in-demand, new-economy skills. Stemming from the Senate Task Force on Workforce Development, the legislation…
NYIT cybersecurity center gets fed cred
By GREGORY ZELLER // The New York Institute of Technology, which boasts campuses in New York City and Old Westbury and is developing a new Cyber Defense Research Facility in…
Connect the Dots launches $1M crowdfunding effort
By GREGORY ZELLER // There are lots of connections these days at We Connect the Dots, the Cold Spring Harbor nonprofit focused on educating the next generation of scientists, mathematicians…