By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University will head up a heavy-hitting roster of major players looking to supercharge the nation’s quantum-computing abilities. The State University of New York flagship…
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…
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Ask 10 people if marijuana is addictive and you’ll get 10 different answers. Perhaps that’s why recent news of an experimental pill to effectively treat marijuana…
Running warm: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we cross into the second half of a busy autumnal workweek – crisp air, heated political debate, red-hot innovation, all that…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Good news for Long Island’s impressive biotech-research corridor: New York State has opened a new Biodefense Commercialization Fund designed to speed promising life-science research to market….
Vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic is winding down, but COVID-19 continues to reshape the world around us. And myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and…
By TOM MARINER // Lasers are everywhere: medicine, communications, pointers, Hollywood ray guns. “LASER,” of course, is an acronym for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation,” coined by Gordon…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Still planning an in-person grand finale for October, one of Hofstra University’s most popular entrepreneurship efforts has transitioned – smoothly, if temporarily – to a virtual…
Place your bets: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as Long Island eagerly anticipates its Phase 1 reopening (not just yet) and we patiently muscle through another WFH workweek (marking,…
Almost there: Another work-from-home workweek ends, another stuck-at-home weekend begins – welcome to May 15, dear readers, exactly two-thirds through The Spring That Time Forgot. Of course, it’s a…
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…
By GREGORY ZELLER // In-demand coding skills may prove to be just the ticket for three dozen under-employed college graduates, thanks to a socially minded nonprofit and a leading regional…
By GREGORY ZELLER // A civic-minded entrepreneur, a leading Long Island educator and a longtime champion of social-equality causes have been honored by the region’s most progressive civil rights group….
By GREGORY ZELLER // Add another rising Pace University faculty member to the roster at Adelphi University, which has plucked a Pace professor for the second time in a week….
Finishing what you started: Another busy workweek ends, dear readers, and another warm weekend dawns. It’s Friday, June 7, out there, and you’ve completed yet another hard-run marathon of…