New life for lifelong learning
Keeping up with evolving work environments takes some doing, and Hofstra University wants to give regional professionals a hand – whether or not they sign up for the school’s continuing-education courses….
Education
The Debrief: Robert Harrison’s 2,000X laptop
As a chemist and a mathematician, Robert Harrison appreciates the vital role computers play in all modern sciences. As director of Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science and…
Squeezing an A into STEM
Education and workforce development come together Nov. 17 to explore the future world in which science and creativity happily co-exist. Popularly called STEAM, the movement aims to build well-rounded workers…
Pathways to technological success
Two Long Island businesses, an Island college and one of LI’s largest school districts are among the organizations winning “partnership awards” through the third round of the New York State…
Teq lands Labdisc distribution deal
Teq, the Huntington-based ed-tech juggernaut, has been named exclusive K-12 distributor in New York and New Jersey of Labdisc, a hand-sized “data logger” produced by Georgia’s Boxlight Corp. Packed with…
SBU team lands $1M for clean engine ignition
A Stony Brook University-led research team has received a $1 million Department of Energy grant to advance research on what’s called Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition, an emerging combustion technology that uses…
State launches mentor program for at-risk kids
The state is seeking mentors to help provide career and life guidance to children who are at risk of failing in school or in foster care across the state. The mentoring program…
The Debrief: Lawrence Weber, innovation psychotherapist
First and foremost a scientist, Lawrence Weber – who studied physical chemistry at Michigan State University and nucleic acids during a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT – takes an analytical approach…
Teaching to the truth: Nowadays, we’re all in sales
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s a big world getting smaller – one of several critical lessons in the modern marketing classroom. As social media and other online avenues regularly smudge…
Farmingdale lands $2.9M grant for at-risk students
Farmingdale State College has been awarded $2.9 million in federal funding to increase mentoring research programs for at-risk students at at its local caampus and schools in three other states. Farmingdale is…
Teq beefs up its teacher dev platform
A major upgrade to Teq’s online professional-development platform will put teachers face-to-face with tech experts via video conferencing, according to the Huntington Station education-technology producer. The firm’s new “Instructional Support…
The Debrief: Kevin Craig, Hofstra’s innovation man
Few people can legitimately claim to be innovating innovation itself. But when Kevin Craig agreed to lead Hofstra University’s new Center for Innovation, he insisted that private companies working with…
SBU lands $20M for energy, biotech centers
Two Empire State Development awards totaling $20 million will propel Stony Brook University into the future of biotech and energy efficiency. The first award, totaling $10 million over 10 years,…
Teq lands Audio Enhancement deal
Huntington classroom-technology producer Teq has landed another lucrative distribution deal, this time as the exclusive New York provider for Audio Enhancement’s award-winning line school-audio products. It’s the latest classroom coup…
SBU leads latest college ranking
Long Island certainly didn’t flunk out of U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings, though collectively, you’d have to give the Island a B grade at best. Those more…