SUNY adds Old Westbury to statewide ACE expansion
By GREGORY ZELLER // Another Long Island college will be included in the next student cohort as the State University of New York expands its successful student-retention and degree-completion model….
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‘Bioprinting’ breakthrough could reset biotech research
By GREGORY ZELLER // Researchers have taken a big step forward in “bioprinting” – the science of fabricating living biological structures. Creating fully functional replacements for malfunctioning organs or missing…
Orbic’s IDA deal opens new front in U.S.-China trade war
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency has waded into the U.S. trade war with China. The IDA has approved a 20-year tax-abatement plan that will trigger…
App that predicts falls rises in national competition
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the species that crafted “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” comes an app that might be better described as “I’m about to fall –…
New look, momentum fortify Hofstra’s ambitious mission
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s less a rebranding than a re-logo-ing, but however you define it, Hofstra University has a brand-new look. Over the course of two events – the…
Farewell, Sands Long Island casino, we hardly knew ye
By GREGORY ZELLER // Las Vegas Sands will not be developing a glitzy casino resort on Long Island – but the Island is not out of the brick-and-mortar casino business…
Poll: Drinkers heed ex-surgeon general’s alcohol advice
By GREGORY ZELLER // Another round? Maybe not, according to the latest Mount Sinai South Nassau Truth in Medicine Poll. Released this week, the poll reports that a majority of…
Triple transplant ranks Northwell among surgical elite
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s first-ever triple transplant surgery is in the books. Surgeons at the Northwell Health Transplant Institute have performed a successful three-organ transplant on 47-year-old Queens resident Sergio…
Creativity, compassion shine in latest Venture Challenge
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s great collegiate-level innovation competitions staged its Spring 2025 installment last week – and, as usual, it did not disappoint. Now in its…
In ‘baby pictures,’ an earliest-yet view of the universe
By GREGORY ZELLER // Researchers have looked back in time – way back – to produce pictures of our vast universe in its infancy. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope, a cosmological…
Beacon Wind is alive, but is it well? That’s less clear
By GREGORY ZELLER // Reports of the death of the offshore Beacon Wind project have been somewhat exaggerated. While the 2.5-giggawatt offshore-wind duplex has withdrawn its interconnection application with New…
Unique challenges, precision skill mark ZonoSlam 2
By GREGORY ZELLER // The ultimate ultrasound competition returned to Long Island Feb. 22, with dozens of future physicians gathering at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at…
Goldsmith standard: SBU raises bar with new president
By GREGORY ZELLER // An accomplished academician and private-sector scientific star will become Stony Brook University’s next president. The State University of New York Board of Trustees voted unanimously Wednesday…
WePower: What happened in Vegas won’t stay in Vegas
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island energy enterprise left this month’s CES 2025 with a new sense of power. Energy-harvesting 2019 startup WePower Technologies, which is looking to upgrade…
Cohen Children’s breaks new gene-therapy ground, again
By GREGORY ZELLER // Another next-generation genetic therapy for sickle cell disease has debuted at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. Just months after it became the first hospital in New York…