Feds OK $537M loan for NYC’s Farley train project
New York has been greenlighted for more than $500 million in federal loans to covert the Farley Post Office building in Manhattan into a modern transit hub, replacing the rabbit…
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Award-winning Re-Nuble lays waste to malnutrition
By GREGORY ZELLER // An outer-borough biotech with a Long Island lineage is racing to the head of the organic-fertilizer field. Re-Nuble Inc., founded by scientifically oriented business IT specialist Tinia…
PET project brings Applied DNA to India, and the world
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences wants to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics. After checking cotton, leather, European luxury cars, Department of…
Crikey! Northwell, Aussie counterparts come together
Some of Northwell Health’s best practices are heading down under. A unique exchange program between the New Hyde Park-based health system and Australia’s Epworth HealthCare system has brought a team of…
Three Island schools crack Money’s ‘Best’ ranks
Three Long Island institutions of higher learning are among the nation’s best bangs for your educational buck, according to a popular annual ranking. Applying 27 data points to 2,400 U.S. colleges…
LICA seeks healthcare heroes for next forum
Fresh from its successful June 9 Cybersecurity Capital Forum, the Long Island Capital Alliance has put out the call for its next inventors-meet-investors networker, this focused on one of Long…
At Alpha Wolf, a natural focus on revitalization
By GREGORY ZELLER // Consider it a beta version of Alpha Wolf. Responding adroitly (and not cheaply) to sales patterns and customer feedback, founder Michael Chalavoutis’ Carle Place-based beverage maker…
Knapp gift locks Feinstein bioelectronics on diabetes
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new research program will focus the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research’s considerable bioelectronic resources on a main antagonist of American health: diabetes. The research and…
Small step toward big future for Tiny Houses
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Tiny House File comes big things, with more than a dozen adult learners completing the first Eastern Suffolk BOCES carpentry class dedicated to the…
Westbury allies give Charlotte ‘workforce experience’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A professional alliance assembled at LaunchPad Westbury has joined with the Microsoft Corp. on an ambitious “workforce experience” program. Please do not call it an “internship.”…
Donors to minority students: Put that in your Pipeline
By GREGORY ZELLER // High-achieving high schoolers will enjoy another season of study at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, thanks to multiple donors. A legion of charitable groups has…
In case you’re not a spatial-relations geometry genius
By GREGORY ZELLER // And the Oscar goes to … you, small to medium-sized business owner, if Aenvision Inc. has its way. Oscar, the world’s first “smart office space calculator,”…
Report: Northwell among nation’s top STEM firms
New York State’s largest private employer is doing everything it can to make sure it keeps that title. Northwell Health has been designated a 2017-18 STEM Jobs Approved Employer by…
Clever cardiologists crack confounding case
A Mineola grandmother is alive – and doing well – thanks to an innovative cardiac procedure devised by clever Northwell Health physicians. On April 18, Dolores Martins became the first…
Grateful for a land so fair
Innovate Long Island wishes you a safe and happy Independence Day weekend … see you July 5!