CEBIP marks 10 years with refined skills, fresh blood
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s hard to say who’s been more successful – the clients of the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program, or CEBIP itself. Either way, Stony Brook University’s…
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In NYSERDA’s ‘Strategic Outlook,’ a sunny LI forecast
By GREGORY ZELLER // You have to say this about NYSERDA: They think big. The New York State Energy Research & Development Authority has unveiled a three-year “Strategic Outlook” combining…
No. 562: Neurons, Paris and polka dots – and that time Apple took down Big Brother
Well, THAT was exciting: Not just another week, dear readers, but certainly one more workweek in the books, as we reach Friday and the precipice of a well-earned winter…
No. 561: Beginnings, endings and end-arounds – and dammit, Jim, I’m 101 today
Hold on to your potatoes: Welcome, dear reader, to Jan. 20, 2021. Today, of course, is the series finale of “The Apprentice President,” which promises to be as somber…
‘Harvestable energy’ fuels second CEBIP graduate
By GREGORY ZELLER // A waste-not biotech with a true sense of sustainability has become the second company to graduate from the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program, despite logistical challenges…
After rocky 2020, Island startups set to rock in 2021
By DAVID HAMILTON // What a challenging and tumultuous year! If you’d told the December 2019 me what was going to transpire, I’d have called you crazy – and suggested…
With Next Cryo, a startup that’s really cooling its jets
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Stony Brook University scientist who came in from the cold is getting some serious chills – and this time, he’s really got something to cryo…
No. 556: On missing links, adventurous socialites and phased inoculations – and partying with Jett and Joel
Winter wonderland: You had Friday on your mind, dear readers, and neither school closures, power outages nor blizzard-like conditions were going to stop you – and now here you…
No. 555: Pace pact, time travel and immunization, Island-style – plus, a big first finish for CEBIP
You asked for it: Admit it, dear readers – you griped about last winter’s lack of snow and the little tyke buried deep in your pragmatic soul is tingling…
In ThermoLift, SBU commercialization done right
By GREGORY ZELLER // The shining star of Stony Brook University’s commercialization ecosystem is all growed up – and ready to reshape the global heating-and-cooling landscape. As a client of…
Life lessons from my own big, fat international crisis
By SHRUTI SHARMA // Following my passion for science to the United States has been a life-defining moment for me. Leaving my parents and everything familiar behind – it’s one…
Team effort pushing Allied Microbiata toward pay dirt
By GREGORY ZELLER // Raymond Sambrotto is knee-deep in toxic waste in Delaware, and pretty happy about it. It’s been nearly three years since Sambrotto and co-founder Frana James launched…
At CEWIT tech conference, the future is in their hands
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University will flex its innovation muscle in March, bulking up its Technology Commercialization Conference with an entire campus worth of creativity. The university’s Office…
Now batting for Hoplite Power, an innovation veteran
By GREGORY ZELLER // A regional rookie with major-league aspirations – literally – has teamed up with a heavy-hitting innovation all-star to knock its next-gen “power hubs” out of the…
After successful seed, Qunnect set for ludicrous speed
By GREGORY ZELLER // Marking another quantum leap for cybersecure long-distance communications, a high-tech Stony Brook University spinoff has completed a key financing round. Qunnect LLC, a 2017 startup launched…