Struggling Melville maker eyes electronics
Park Electrochemical Corp.’s fiscal 2017 slump continued in the company’s second quarter, according to an earnings report issued this month. Reporting Oct. 5 on its FY2017 second quarter, which ended…
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Up, down, up at ‘transformative’ Comtech
Lower income but dramatically higher sales – both attributed to a key February acquisition – set a mixed fourth-quarter tone at Comtech Telecommunications Corp. The Melville-based maker of high-tech communications…
Forum: MWBEs soaring across New York State
More minority- and women-owned businesses have deals with New York State than ever before, state officials announced Thursday. The utilization rate for certified Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises participating in…
Yes, you can get good bagels in Canada (now)
A Bohemia bagel shop is going to Canada. Through a new partnership between Amtrak and Albany’s Taste NY promotional campaign, travelers to destinations across the Empire State and as far…
AERTC firm nabs superconductivity stipend
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Department of Energy grant will help a Stony Brook-based advanced-energy firm develop high-temperature superconductor technology that could alter the future of global power grids. The…
Report: New York trails in national R&D
A little more than half of all research and development in the country is occurring in five states – none of which is New York. That according to a new…
Northwell cuts ribbon on liver-disease center
Northwell Health has raised the curtain on a new Manhasset facility dedicated to diseases of the liver. The health system officially opened the Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases…
LIREDC 2016: Synthetic leather, wings and prayers
By GREGORY ZELLER // With a string of annual victories under its belt, the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council is shooting for the moon, once again. This week, the…
Brew ha-ha: Seriously silly inventor strikes again
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s always something brewing at Mary Putre’s house, sometimes literally. The relentless inventor – creative force behind Eyecatcher Gifts and much of its whacky inventory –…
Northwell, Stony Brook Med strike cardio deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // A state-of-the-art cardiac-care practice will lend three decades of expertise, more than a dozen heart specialists and a boatload of East End patients to Long Island’s…
IDA: Big forward step for Huntington Station plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency is a step closer to finalizing a tax-incentives package that would trigger a massive Huntington Station redevelopment effort. At its…
SBU hitting its STRIDE, with NSF’s help
With Big Data piling up at an almost incalculable rate, a seven-figure National Science Foundation grant will help prepare Stony Brook University’s next generation of scientists for complex decision-making scenarios….
Hofstra, NYIT join Start-Up NY family
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s the startup of something big at Hofstra University and the New York Institute of Technology’s Old Westbury campus, which have both been added to the…
Codagenix commences Zika vaccine testing
By GREGORY ZELLER // Farmingdale biotech Codagenix Inc. has commenced the first tests of its potential Zika virus vaccines in a living host. In a noteworthy display of speed sure to…
Drink it up: LI nitrate-buster earns NSF grant
By GREGORY ZELLER // The National Science Foundation is backing a Long Island innovator’s efforts to remove nitrates from wastewater – potentially, an enormous win for regional aquifers and surface…