As the 10th president in LIU history, Kimberly Cline heads a 90-year-old institution with Long Island and Brooklyn campuses, 20,000 students and over 500 distinct degree programs. Like her predecessors,…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island wasn’t on the list when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a new round of Pathways in Technology funding June 5, but Island educators and businesses…
By GREGORY ZELLER While cutting-edge laboratories, university-based startups and seven-figure investments monopolize Long Island’s innovation spotlight, invention can happen anywhere. Just ask students in the Science Research Program at Commack…
Hofstra University was awarded $2 million in state grants on Monday to expand its School of Engineering and Applied Science and create new laboratories and classrooms focusing on big data…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s LaunchPad ecosystem, one of several fronts in the war against the Island’s “brain drain,” is facing a recruiting crisis. Many businesses within the LaunchPad…
The heat is off at Adelphi University. But that’s OK, it’s summer. By the time the cold weather rolls around again next fall, the heat will be on again –…
Rajib Sanyal will take over as dean of Adelphi University’s Robert. B. Willumstad School of Business on July 1, succeeding Anthony Libertella, who’s retiring after 11 years in the dean’s…
The good times roll on at educational software firm Teq, which this week announced two new reseller partnerships. In April, the Huntington-based producer of innovative classroom technology and online professional…
As she assembles a summer course for Hofstra’s Precollegiate Career Discovery Institute — “21st Century Skills for Teens: Thriving in a Rapidly Changing, Hyper-Connected Global Economy” — Continuing Education chief…
The Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine graduated its first class on Monday, sending 30 pioneering students off to post-graduate residencies at North Shore, Duke University Medical Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital,…
Cold Spring Harbor Lab officials considered moving the facility off Long Island in 1948 due to transportation concerns and the fact that local life was not very “rich.” At the…
Farmingdale State College officially opened its three-story, $19.3 million business school expansion on Thursday, adding new classrooms — eight of them with tiered “collaborative” seating — and offices for 40…
Hofstra students Nick Calderon and Kevin McCroary won the $50,000 top prize in the annual CPXi VentureTech student business plan contest on Wednesday for The Lift Stick, a device that…
Farmingdale State College’s academic summer camps program kicks off May 23 with a series of weekend sessions on 3-D printing that runs through June 20. A variety of other classes…
It’s been three years since the Empire State STEM Learning Network launched the Long Island STEM Hub, an amalgam of industry and academia on a mission to educate LI’s next-generation…