SUNY adds Old Westbury to statewide ACE expansion
By GREGORY ZELLER // Another Long Island college will be included in the next student cohort as the State University of New York expands its successful student-retention and degree-completion model….
Farmingdale State College
No. 976: Eyes have it, RAISE raises flags and beaches are stormed – with plenty of donuts, so control yourself
Parenthetically speaking: Well done, intrepid innovators! Another workweek completed (nearly), another weekend welcomed (almost). Just one more (busy) workday to work through before our (well-earned) two-day blow, and this…
As AI proliferates, Long Island carves out a sweet spot
By BRAD CARLSON // We can’t go long without seeing or hearing something about artificial intelligence these days. It burst onto the public scene with the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT…
No. 972: Breaking ground, carving cars, hitting the gas on wind and pitying the fool who doesn’t like tea (or T)!
Rain, rain go away: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we bundle up for a surprisingly raw late-Spring stretch here on Long Island – who ordered this cold and…
No. 968: On senior homes, junior electricians and a decade of innovation, brought to you by you
That’s so 2015: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and not just any Wednesday, but the last Wednesday – the last day, in fact – of April 2025. This is significant…
No. 967: Tariff troubles, boundless biz schools and penguins? Yes. Casinos? No (but check out the lingerie)
May on the way: Welcome to Friday, intrepid innovators, and not just any Friday but the last Friday of April 2025 – yes, by this time next week, it’ll…
Mentoring: Giving back (and helping yourself, too)
By MITCH MAIMAN // I’m a big proponent of giving back to the local economy – and one of the best ways to do that is through mentoring. My commitment…
No. 959: Preserving plastics, rewarding robots, affirming The Atlantic – and rub-a-dub in the hot tub!
Your future’s so bright…: Another Friday welcomed, another workweek (mostly) conquered, another well-earned weekend on the doorstep – with a sunny 70-degree Saturday on tap for Long Island! Well…
No. 937: Med-tech accords, next-gen gene therapies and a bittersweet end to 2025’s first five-day workweek
Finishing touch: Congratulations, intrepid innovators! You’ve completed the first full workweek of 2025 and, as a modest reward, earned yourselves a lovely weekend respite. Before we get to the…
No. 933: On cocoa, cones and Kofi Annon (plus the origins of life on Earth, and other tidbits)
Friggin’ superstitions: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and not just any Friday but Friday the 13th – the second (and last, obviously) of 2024. Hey, we’re not going to…
No. 927: On philanthropy, ABBA and weed-funded scholarships, with young geniuses in the spotlight
Cabinet concerns (no, no … the kitchen kind): Welcome to Friday, dear readers, as we bite our tongue on questionable Presidential Cabinet nominations (that only Gaetz us in trouble)…
At Metco, workforce efforts run deep below the surface
By TOM MARINER // “Metco has been here for 91 years?” This was my surprised retort to Ed Sottile and Nicole Hernandez of Oerlikon Metco, when I found them talking…
No. 922: The election from Hell, Halloween and other terrors, with candy corn (yikes!) and cabbage (eek!)
Fear itself: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as harrowing horrors, ghastly ghouls, brain-dead beasts and other morbid monstrosities terrorize townsfolk and curse the countryside. It’s also the night before…
Embracing the past, seizing the future at Enzo Biochem
By TOM MARINER // Farmingdale’s Enzo Biochem has been a prescient predictor of biotechnology advances for nearly five decades – forever innovating, protecting and delivering the “right” bio products at…
No. 911: On Italian icons, Hispanic collegians and Long Island manufacturers, with a full menu of tempting treats
Beginning of the end: Welcome to Friday, friends, and not just any Friday but the very last Friday of this Summer season. It’s Sept. 20 out there and, yes,…