At Hofstra Law, innovation becomes Exhibit A
By GREGORY ZELLER // A $1 million alumnus gift has spearheaded a new Institute for Legal Technology & Innovation at Hofstra University. The Hempstead-based university’s Maurice A. Deane School of…
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No. 980: Ice cream floats, eagles soar and refugees arrive – while Southampton gets it write, once again
Forward march: Well done, intrepid innovators! Despite everything going on in the topsy-turvy world – wars, tariffs, a new COVID variant, brutal losing streaks by the Mets and Yankees…
Ambitious oyster-seeding plan scores in Manhasset Bay
By GREGORY ZELLER // A comprehensive volunteer effort to restore regional oyster populations is paying dividends in Manhasset Bay. Backed by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Long…
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. 722: A fall kickoff with Farrah Gray, football and some fine boxed wine – and an important JFK arrival
Are you ready for some football? Welcome to Friday, friends, as we finish the first workweek of September and hunker down for a decidedly autumnal weekend – complete with…
Always-thinking Islander takes Inventors Club national
By GREGORY ZELLER // An inventive thinker with a long track record of commercial success and creative coaching is expanding his mind once again (and maybe yours). Welcome to the…
With ambitious agenda, Cuomo goes even harder left
By GREGORY ZELLER // Online sports betting, legalized marijuana and a “fight” against the federal government for overdue COVID-19 compensation – against what figures to be a relatively friendly Congress…
Ambitious agenda, new partnership gas up the IGIT
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new cross-continental collaboration is just one of the innovative energy efforts revving things up inside the Institute for Gas Innovation and Technology. Stony Brook University’s…
No. 405: On Farmingdale State’s new feeder, Stony Brook’s super switch and Adelphi’s major minor upgrade
Cold open: Beware the Ides of March, dear reader – oh, wait, it’s the Ides of May. It only feels like March. But it’s actually May 15 out there,…
Island student entrepreneurs shine in NY Biz Plan finals
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island may be a state-designated biotech corridor, but its student entrepreneurs have some pretty bright ideas regarding the environment, too. That according to the 2019…
No. 395: On Watson, women in energy and Ming the nonagenarian (and beating Alzheimer’s at its own game)
Picking up speed: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as another busy workweek blurs on by. It’s already April 10 out there, and while it’s not yet an official federal…
Par excellence: The niche deserve their own COEs, too
By PHIL RUGILE // It’s a mouthful, but stay with me: The New York State Division of Science, Technology & Innovation (thankfully simplified to NYSTAR) is housed within NYS’s Empire…
For the Boyz From New York, style is an attitude
By GREGORY ZELLER // “Streetwear” may be rooted in the California surf culture, but the hoodies and hats in the Boyz From New York catalogue represent a decidedly different state…
Facing ‘reckless’ Trump, the Empire State strikes back
By GREGORY ZELLER // Despite President Donald Trump’s best efforts, the entirety of the trillion-dollar clean-energy industry won’t be leaving America for more forward-thinking lands – not if Gov. Andrew…