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…
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Brookhaven completes first phase of cardiac unit
Phase 1 of Brookhaven Memorial Hospital’s $60 million, 60,000-square-foot cardiac-unit expansion is complete, and a gathering of politicos, patrons and patients joined hospital officials this week to mark the milestone….
Cablevision in deal for WGN America, last 2.8% of Newsday
Cablevision has inked a multi-year deal that will bring Tribune Media’s general entertainment cable network, WGN America, to its New York, New Jersey and Connecticut customers beginning in January. As part of the deal, Cablevision…
Gillibrand signs on to build-it-here bill
New federal legislation aims to keep high-pay, high-skill manufacturing jobs in the United States by brushing up a 50-year-old small-business law. Introduced by New Jersey Democrat Corey Booker and cosponsored…
In school security, a fly on the digital wall
By GREGORY ZELLER // If it’s going to happen, it very well might happen on the Internet first. That’s the thinking behind Digital Fly, a real-time social media monitoring and…
BNL’s Cleary headlines inventors’ event
Long Island inventors and entrepreneurs have a golden chance to learn how to partner with Brookhaven National Laboratory. The Suffolk County Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club’s Sept. 15 meeting is scheduled…
Lessons from life on the bottom rung
By GREGORY ZELLER // What I did with my summer vacation: If you’re an American teenager, there’s a good chance it wasn’t “earn a paycheck.” The percentage of U.S. teens…
The Debrief: Alexander Gann, Watson School of Biological Sciences
In terms of size, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s graduate school is a bit short of Ivy League. With seven new Fall 2015 admissions bumping the student body to 41, the…
DARPA, Homeland Security to headline NYIT cybersecurity conference
Distinguished speakers and critical intelligence issues will set the tone at the New York Institute of Technology’s sixth-annual cybersecurity conference. Intended to stimulate dialogue, share ideas and promote networking among…
Women driving the surge in U.S. innovation
By GREGORY ZELLER // Almost 15 percent of Americans are launching or running a startup, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor reports, the highest rate ever recorded in GEM’s 16 years of…
Cold Spring, SUNY Old Westbury land prostate cancer funding
Two awards for Long Island-based research organizations are part of a new prostate cancer research funding initiative announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. All told, 20 research institutions will share a…
Capping off 30 great years
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s a few things you should know about EGC 1985 IPA, the newest concoction of Riverhead’s Crooked Ladder Brewing Co. Leaning towards orange in color, the…
SBU names Sotiropoulos engineering dean
Stony Brook University has named a new dean of its innovative College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Fotis Sotiropoulos, director of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of…
Murray heading new RMF development group
Innovation is in integration at Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, which has combined its zoning, land use and environmental law practice groups into a single unit. The group, chaired by partner E….
A giant step on the road to precision medicine
By GREGORY ZELLER // This is your brain. This is your brain on antipsychotic medications. Any questions? Investigators at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, the R&D wing of the…