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…
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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…
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…
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…