Boo: Don’t be scared, dear readers – it’s Friday, and you’ve escaped the twisted mind-prison of another terrifying workweek.
The weekend is here – the weekend before Halloween, of course, but a few ghosts, ghouls and shaving cream-packing teenagers (do they still do that?) are no match for hardened professionals like you. Let’s wrap up the workweek and maybe take another look at that candy bowl … for, you know, accounting purposes.
Wall to wall: America was built on the backs of immigrant investment, labor and courage.
How to be great, again: It’s Oct. 28 out there, and everyone’s got a story to tell on National Immigrants Day, an annual celebration of the thing that always has – and always will – make America bigger, better and stronger.
Candy land: Meanwhile, back at the Halloween candy bowl, temptation runs high on National Chocolate Day, an annual cocoa commemoration puffing up every Oct. 28.
And speaking of Halloween delights (and frights), today is also the 25th annual Frankenstein Friday, which reanimates on the fourth Friday of every October (it’s allliiivvve!) to honor Mary Shelley’s original creation.
Veritas: Other original creations associated with this date include Harvard University, which was founded as Harvard College on Oct. 28, 1636.
Gin up: Master innovator Eli Whitney – who went to Yale, not Harvard – applied for a patent to protect his game-changing cotton gin on this date in 1793.
Statue of longevity: President Cleveland christened Lady Liberty on this date in 1886.
Harbor light: President Grover Cleveland – who’s buried at Princeton University, not Harvard – officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty 136 years ago today.
Arch rival: The landmark St. Louis Gateway Arch – designed by Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen, who studied at Yale, not Harvard – was completed on this date in 1965.
The Bard in spaaaaace: And Britain became the sixth nation to orbit a satellite on Oct. 27, 1971, when it launched the experimental satellite Prospero, named for the protagonist of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”
Shakespeare, who died 20 years before the school was founded, also did not attend Harvard.
No capes! American costume designer Edith Head (1897-1981) – who was nominated for 35 Academy Awards, won eight (more than any other woman) and inspired diminutive designer Edna Mode of “The Incredibles” fame – would be 125 years old today.
Mother load: Oscar-winner Roberts is also a producer, brand ambassador and busy philanthropist.
Also born on Oct. 28 were Dutch philosopher Erasmus (born Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, 1466-1536), ranked among the Renaissance’s greatest scholars; English writer, journalist and reviewer Evelyn Waugh (born Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, 1903-1966), his day’s preeminent satirist; American physician Jonas Salk (1914-1995), the all-time researcher who cracked the polio vaccine; American business magnate, software developer, investor, author and philanthropist William Henry “Bill” Gates III (born 1955), currently the world’s fifth-richest person; and American actress Julia Roberts (born 1967), more than just a pretty woman.
Micro-manager: And take a bow, Marcian Edward “Ted” Hoff Jr.! The American electrical engineer – Intel’s famous Employee No. 12, credited with conceiving and co-inventing the revolutionary computer microprocessor – turns 85 today.
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BUT FIRST, THIS
Chain letters: A well-calculated scientific study provides a first-ever analysis of the production-cost savings afforded by a globalized solar-energy supply chain.
“Quantifying the Cost Savings of Global Solar Photovoltaic Supply Chains,” published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, takes a deep fiscal dive into solar photovoltaics, the science of converting sunlight into electricity. Researchers from Stony Brook University, George Washington University and the University of California San Diego examined current price data, “historically installed capacities” and other solar module-deployment factors in Germany, China and the United States – the three largest solar markets – and determined that a globalized solar supply chain saved the countries a combined $67 billion between 2008 and 2020.
The paper’s three authors, including Assistant Professor Gang He of SBU’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, also found that “strong nationalistic policies” limiting the free flow of goods, talent and funding threaten to dramatically increase the costs of solar photovoltaic installations – a carbon-reduction cornerstone – over the next decade. “Nationalistic policies hurt every country and risk missing pressing climate targets,” He noted. “Our research shows international collaboration is key to address global climate change.”
Center stage: Trustee Roy Zuckerberg’s latest donations have centralized Northwell Health’s cancer resources.
Big man on campus: A “transformative” gift from an old friend has helped Northwell Health create Long Island’s first cancer hospital.
The health system held a ribbon-cutting this month welcoming the R.J. Zuckerberg Cancer Hospital and the R.J. Zuckerberg Cancer Center, based at New Hyde Park’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center and a state-of-the-art outpatient facility directly across Lakeville Road. The cancer campus, made possible by an undisclosed gift from longtime Northwell Trustee Roy Zuckerberg, is now home base of the Northwell Health Cancer Institute, which aims to integrate Northwell’s wide-ranging cancer resources.
Claiming 164 of Long Island Jewish’s 583 beds, the Zuckerberg Cancer Hospital houses specialists in breast, pancreatic, lung and other frontline cancers, plus four-to-six flexible theaters for open or robotic surgeries; the Zuckerberg Cancer Center boasts a similar roster of experts and technologies, all geared toward outpatient treatment. “We are extraordinarily grateful to Roy for his visionary gift in helping to create a cancer campus,” said Northwell Health President/CEO Michael Dowling, adding the Zuckerberg facilities “unify LIJ’s superb surgical cancer care with our cutting-edge outpatient oncology programs.”
TOP OF THE SITE
Welcome to Upton: Brookhaven National Laboratory’s ambitious Discovery Park begins with the $61.8 million Science and User Support Center, now under construction.
The road to vagus: A $6.7 million NIH grant will help Feinstein Institutes researchers create an unprecedented anatomical map of the all-important vagus nerve.
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ICYMI
New York Tech targets Esports injuries; international energy-infrastructure deal targets Long Island.
BEST OF THE WEST (AND SOMETIMES NORTH/SOUTH)
Innovate LI’s inbox overrunneth with inspirational innovations from all North American corners. This week’s brightest out-of-towners:
From California: Los Angeles-based art advancer Wonderspaces partners with Arizona State University on monthly virtual-reality film series.
From California: New York City-based electric-vehicle energizer Ideanomics starts up triple-capacity electric-tractor assembly line in Windsor, Calif.
From California: Sunnyvale-based enterprise solutions spinoff Google Cloud renews deal to continue innovating Major League Baseball media platforms.
ON THE MOVE
Robert Herr
+ Robert Herr has joined St. Joseph’s University in Patchogue as an associate vice president for enrollment management. He was vice president of enrollment management at Paul Smith’s College.
+ Thomas Catinella has joined Uniondale-based Forchelli Deegan Terrana as an associate in the Construction Practice Group. He was an associate at Morici & Morici LLP.
+ Gregory May, an adjunct professor in the History/Political Science Department at Molloy University, has joined Melville-based Island Harvest Food Bank as government relations liaison. He is a former Nassau County commissioner of consumer affairs.
+ Melville-based Tenenbaum Law has hired three recent college graduates as marketing coordinators:
- Alex Messina, Manhattan College School of Business
- Sebastian Parente, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Binghamton
- Jolie Blecker, the Ohio State University School of Communication
+ Ashley Burlage has joined Huntington-based Orthopaedic Associates of Manhasset as a hand and upper extremity surgeon. She was a hand and upper extremity surgeon at Northwell Health in Huntington.
+ Kimberly Johnson has joined Smithtown-based Lieb at Law as an associate attorney in the Discrimination and Employment Litigation Practice Group. She was principal attorney at Kimberly A. Johnson in Copiague.
+ The Long Island Association has elected three new Board of Directors members:
- Brian Herrington, vice president of external affairs at Scott’s Miracle Gro
- Chris Rosa, president and CEO of The Viscardi Center
- Sarah Veitch, market executive with JPMorgan Chase & Co.
+ John Mucci has been promoted to chief operating officer at Ronkonkoma-based SUNation Energy. He previously served as general manager of commercial solar.
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BELOW THE FOLD (All Hallows’ Eve Weekend Edition)
Enough to make you sick: Exploring the sexy side of a devastating global pandemic.
Sweet sensations: What to do with all that leftover candy.
Freaking out: Great ideas for jazzing up your Halloween party.
Oh, the horror: Adult costumes that aim for sexy – and miss badly.
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