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…
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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!
Stock deal, textile team-up top biotech’s big week
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s been a busy and happy week for Applied DNA Sciences. Just days after trumpeting a new and potentially lucrative research partnership with Texas-based Aloe vera-products…
With new patent, Syosset school stacks the holodeck
By GREGORY ZELLER // Real-world holograms are closer than you maybe thought – and a new, potentially lucrative U.S. patent might keep a Long Island college ahead of the holographic-entertainment…
As ransomware attacks multiply, SUNY steps up
By GREGORY ZELLER // With fresh ransomware attacks spreading chaos around the globe, Stony Brook University is stepping up its cybersecurity game. Leveraging $4.5 million in grants issued this week…
Admitting no guilt, Henry Schein settles antitrust suit
Henry Schein Inc. has bought its way out of a two-year-old antitrust lawsuit. The Melville-based global healthcare products and services distributor announced this week that it’s settled litigation brought by…