Patient FSC earns $75M computer-science award
By GREGORY ZELLER // A state-of-the-art computer center will open at Farmingdale State College by 2025 – almost a full decade after the SUNY school began lobbying for such a…
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Cutting-edge tech enables Veterans Day stroke save
By GREGORY ZELLER // An 80-year-old U.S. Army veteran is alive, well and feeling “lucky” after quick thinking – and a bevy of innovative technologies – saved his life on…
BOEM shares draft review as Empire Wind whips up
By GREGORY ZELLER // With a crucial public-comment period looming, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is spilling the beans on a major offshore-wind proposal for New York waters. The…
Northwell, Aegis break the ice with menopause startup
By GREGORY ZELLER // A $100 million regional collaboration committed to creating new healthcare startups is raising the bar on clinical menopause support. Northwell Holdings, New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health’s…
For Island preemies, a next-generation destination
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s most critically ill premature babies have a new state-of-the-art space to finish cooking. Northwell Health has cut the ribbon on a next-generation neonatal intensive…
In Riverhead Court, youth – and justice – are served
By GREGORY ZELLER // They’ve come to order in the Town of Riverhead, where the innovative Youth Court is back in session. Now in its 26th year, the Riverhead Youth…
Albany, DOE bet on the future in BNL’s Discovery Park
By GREGORY ZELLER // New discovery abounds at Brookhaven National Laboratory, figuratively and literally. The Upton-based U.S. Department of Energy lab has officially broken ground on Phase One of its…
Albany, Suffolk close land deal, opening wind tunnel
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the By Land and By Sea File comes an official transfer of property between New York State and Suffolk County, clearing the path for an…
Mental block: Poll reveals Island mental health ‘crisis’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Social studies continue to paint bleak portraits of Long Island’s mental health landscape. Just one week after Stony Brook Medicine’s Long Island LGBTQ+ Community Health Needs…
ESD bolsters future workforce with $150M grant effort
By GREGORY ZELLER // A newly formed Empire State Development program will funnel $150 million into the education, training and credentialing of an in-demand statewide workforce. Albany’s main economic-development engine…
How to stop COVID, and maybe whatever comes next
By GREGORY ZELLER // The latest DNA-based advance by a progressive Long Island biotech goes where other biochemists have gone before – but also blazes a trail for new vaccination…
Medical assistant partnership puts the ‘earn’ in ‘learn’
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York State’s largest healthcare provider and the state’s busiest community college are teaming up to address increasing healthcare needs. It’s no surprise that demand for…
Night of a thousand ideas at first-ever BrandSlam
BrandSlam is in the books! Our free “marketing improv” event, held Oct. 6 at LaunchPad Huntington, was exactly what we’d hoped: fun, instructive, another worthy addition to Innovate Long…
Hops to it: Fourth-annual Crushies greets early birds
By GREGORY ZELLER // Organizers have tapped the keg on the latest installment of the beer-battered king of Long Island marketing-award programs. The fourth Craft Beer Marketing Awards – an…
Feinstein turns over new LIIF with $10M state bump
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cornerstone of regional innovation is the first organization supported by the ambitious Long Island Investment Fund. The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research will receive a…