Moynihan Hall job links big wins for red-hot TiniFiber
By GREGORY ZELLER // An East Farmingdale startup that dares to dream small has added another high-wiring act to its already-impressive list. With miles (and miles and miles) of its…
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Seeing is remembering (or, you light up my neurons)
By GREGORY ZELLER // Straight from the fusiform gyrus (bridging the bases of the temporal and occipital lobes) comes the human brain’s innate ability to recognize faces, a fairly mysterious…
‘Harvestable energy’ fuels second CEBIP graduate
By GREGORY ZELLER // A waste-not biotech with a true sense of sustainability has become the second company to graduate from the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program, despite logistical challenges…
State launches Offshore Wind Training Institute, again
By GREGORY ZELLER // Representing the largest public investment by any state in offshore wind workforce development, New York’s Offshore Wind Training Institute is now afloat. Seriously. The State University…
Startup is a little misty, and very serious, about COVID
By GREGORY ZELLER // A common antiseptic applied to scrapes and burns swirls inside a new, food-safe disinfecting spray that, according to one Long Island startup, is virtually 100 percent…
Busy pharma manufacturer to expand, again, in Suffolk
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency incentives package will spark the $15 million renovation of a vacant Hauppauge property. The IDA has issued preliminary approval of…
With Next Cryo, a startup that’s really cooling its jets
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Stony Brook University scientist who came in from the cold is getting some serious chills – and this time, he’s really got something to cryo…
LIMHOF clips art with the galas of Christmas past
By GREGORY ZELLER // If you’re not too busy New Year’s Eve, maybe you’d like to hang out with Billy Joel, LL Cool J and Joan Jett. Your seat is…
In ThermoLift, SBU commercialization done right
By GREGORY ZELLER // The shining star of Stony Brook University’s commercialization ecosystem is all growed up – and ready to reshape the global heating-and-cooling landscape. As a client of…
Pulitzer in hand, Adelphi composer earns Grammy nod
By GREGORY ZELLER // They may have to build a bigger trophy case at Adelphi University, where a University Professor (itself a prestigious honor) with a Pulitzer Prize to his…
Data, diversity drive new Hofstra University president
By GREGORY ZELLER // An ambitious and effective academic leader with a major-league résumé and a long history of diversity-centered initiatives will take Hofstra University’s reins this summer. The university’s…
Decades-long construction drought ends at St. Joe’s
By GREGORY ZELLER // Anticipating a time when students will once again be able to mix and mingle, St. Joseph’s College has announced plans for a new centerpiece student center….
Applied DNA shoots, scores on multiple COVID fronts
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s been a big week for one of Long Island’s boldest biotechs. Applied DNA Sciences, a Stony Brook-based leader in polymerase chain reaction-based DNA manufacturing, has…
World’s fastest? SBU computer ain’t crying wolf
By GREGORY ZELLER // The home of the Seawolves is running with a whole new pack, with the arrival of a new supercomputer that paces the world’s fastest. Dubbed “Ookami”…
Veteran contractor warns water watchers to plan now
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new “space race” is taking place right underneath Long Island’s feet. So says Michael Beyer, president of Islandia-based Bancker Construction Corp., who believes aging infrastructure…