War drums beat again as Amazon targets Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // Attempts to locate Amazon’s ballyhooed “HQ2” second headquarters in Long Island City – on paper, an unparalleled boon for the entire region, particularly Nassau and Suffolk…
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CEBIP marks 10 years with refined skills, fresh blood
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s hard to say who’s been more successful – the clients of the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program, or CEBIP itself. Either way, Stony Brook University’s…
An inspiring flight of fancy, with innovation to spare
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s lots of innovation happening on Long Island right now: new solar-power roadmaps, prominent corporate mergers, generous research grants at major scientific institutions, big-time biomedical breakthroughs…
In NursePod, separate spaces for school COVID cases
By GREGORY ZELLER // A team of tough-minded architects is challenging school nurses to take it outside. No, it’s not a scientific rumble – it’s an innovation of coronaviral proportions,…
Always-thinking Islander takes Inventors Club national
By GREGORY ZELLER // An inventive thinker with a long track record of commercial success and creative coaching is expanding his mind once again (and maybe yours). Welcome to the…
Seawolves on Mars: SBU scientists fine tune ET search
By GREGORY ZELLER // As the cinema-quality visuals of the Mars 2020 mission fill your screens, some of the most important data beaming back from the Red Planet may escape…
At SWHS, an autism innovation with a pandemic pivot
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s innovation squared at Smithtown West High School, where a brilliant idea designed to address an important social issue has a team of big thinkers in…
LI biotech veterans attacking COVID from unique angle
By GREGORY ZELLER // The National Institutes of Health is backing an early-stage Kings Park biotech’s quest for non-antibiotic-based COVID-19 treatments. CMTx Biotech has non-antimicrobials in its sights and a…
In NYSERDA’s ‘Strategic Outlook,’ a sunny LI forecast
By GREGORY ZELLER // You have to say this about NYSERDA: They think big. The New York State Energy Research & Development Authority has unveiled a three-year “Strategic Outlook” combining…
Picture this: BIM plays big for New York Tech startup
By GREGORY ZELLER // A 2020 tech startup born in the fires of the pandemic is quickly making a name among regional architects – and is helping a new generation…
Hofstra plays past pandemic with new Innovation Prize
By GREGORY ZELLER // Hofstra University’s most ambitious business-acceleration effort has added a hefty prize for creative pandemic-related thinking. Along with partners Northwell Health, New York City-based media/tech firm Digital…
A Florida innovator makes a big move on Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // With Red Rover, you haul – they innovate. A new, better way for humans to relocate their lives has been the modus operandi of Florida-based Red…
After COVID hell, Mount Sinai staffers snag golden tix
By GREGORY ZELLER // Four Long Island heroes will join thousands of doctors, nurses and other front-line healthcare providers in Tampa for this Sunday’s Super Bowl LV. The National Football…
In med-tech alliance, a second Twin Cities shot for IPS
By GREGORY ZELLER // Award-winning product design firms from Long Island and Minnesota are synchronizing their efforts in the red-hot med-tech space. Hauppauge-based Intelligent Product Solutions and Coon Rapids-based Kablooe…
Adelphi, FSC grease the skids on key graduate degrees
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two Long Island higher-ed institutions are uniting to give collegians a running start on their graduate degrees. Farmingdale State College and Garden City-based Adelphi University have…