With new degrees, LI colleges staying ahead of the curve
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island colleges and universities are keeping students – and themselves – ahead of the socioeconomic curve with a new slate of innovative degree programs. The…
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PhDs without borders in new engineering consortium
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new multi-college agreement will see New York Institute of Technology and Stony Brook University engineering students attending classes at top Northeast schools including Princeton, Columbia…
No. 789: Hypertension, segregation, smallpox, crappy porn … fortunately, innovation has the answers
This blows: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as the days grow longer, brighter and warmer – and seasonal allergy victims grow frantic, including an increasing number of adult-onset sufferers….
New York Tech co-ops open doors for IT undergrads
By GREGORY ZELLER // The New York Institute of Technology will create new professional onramps for computer science students with help from an old friend of Long Island innovation. Peter…
For these NASA patents, ETIC is just their prototype
By GREGORY ZELLER // Some of the New York Institute of Technology’s brightest minds and boldest scientific thinkers are soaring through a new agreement with NASA. The National Aeronautics and…
NSF puts New York Tech on the Edge of Tomorrow
By GREGORY ZELLER // The New York Institute of Technology is living on the edge. Forget the Aerosmith jokes – this is serious business concerning “edge computing,” a distributed-computing paradigm…
Island institutions compute new joint-admissions deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // The big joint-admissions wheel keeps on turning, with two more Long Island institutions joining forces to speed collegians toward higher degrees. This time, the wheel stops…
At NYIT, a science lab also working on the workforce
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York Institute of Technology’s brightest will multiply their minds in the university’s new Biomedical Sciences and Bioengineering Laboratory, where biology times engineering equals 21st century…
Island ‘hub’ scores as New York Tech adds second PhD
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s another doctorate in the house at the New York Institute of Technology, which has announced its first-ever computer science PhD program. Starting in the Fall…
Albany backs NYIT’s next-gen bioengineering lab
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new bioengineering laboratory is coming to the New York Institute of Technology’s Old Westbury campus, thanks to a hefty state award. The Empire State Development…