Study: Healthcare pros less infected than general pop
By GREGORY ZELLER // Here’s a bright note for National Nurses Week, or any week that places dedicated healthcare providers in the crosshairs of a deadly global pandemic: The personal…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
No. 498: On crepes, mosques and tough love – and Long Island, home of the COVID-19 vaccine?
Schastlivaya pandemiya: Over the homebound hump we go, dear comrades, as we brave another week of the great 2020 pandemic – and, even scarier, another week locked up with…
No. 497: It’s May Day, but don’t panic – new month, same pandemic (plus BASIC lingo … and mmm, parfaits!)
Yes, you May: Welcome to Friday (we checked, it’s true) and a brand-new month in the surreal odyssey that is the Age of Coronavirus. It’s May 1 out there…
No. 495: Not the AI apocalypse we expected – plus whoops, coughs, space telescopes and past lives
Week effort: And you’re finishing strong, dear reader, as we complete five more homebound workdays under COVID-19’s temporary reign and begin another locked-down weekend of spring cleaning, masked market…
Tipping the leader meter, everyday heroes abound
By DAVID CHAUVIN // True leaders tend to reveal themselves in times of crisis. (Fraudulent leaders tend to be exposed as well – a story for another column, but see…
No. 491: On clean energy, Hispanic engineers and the autism advantage – plus, finding our religion
Needs work: Hello again, dear readers, and welcome to April 10, the umpteenth day of social distancing and the 101st day of a year in need of major improvement….
No. 490: Fine points, Maiman methods and homebound haircuts – plus, Albany tips the scales
Well bread: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers … and yes, it’s Wednesday out there, April 8 to be precise, as we muscle through this latest week of quasi-quarantines and…
Forward thinking lifts pandemic-ready Nixon Peabody
By GREGORY ZELLER // Like virtually every business in virtually every industry, law firms are scrambling in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some more than others, though – not every…
Feds eye stopgap hospitals at SBU, SUNY Old Westbury
By GREGORY ZELLER // The federal government will construct four emergency hospitals across Downstate New York, including two on Long Island, in response to the coronavirus crisis. The Stony Brook…
Island firm speeds coronavirus vaccines toward tests
By GREGORY ZELLER // Just weeks after announcing an expanded international collaboration targeting the menacing novel coronavirus, Applied DNA Sciences is preparing to mass-produce four potential vaccines. Leveraging the Stony…
Island interests blast gun violence, with both barrels
By GREGORY ZELLER // As deadly shootings rage across the nation, a common theme is ricocheting more frequently around Long Island socioeconomics: protection from gun violence. Several Island-based institutions and…
No. 474: On molecular diagnostics, robo-busts and T Rex – and happy birthday to the author of your youth
Back stretch: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and the clubhouse turn of our latest socioeconomic sprint. It’s Feb. 12 out there, replete with offbeat observations: choose from National Lost…
No. 473: Featuring Laura Ingalls, Flash Gordon, well-seasoned scallops and our first Innovators of the Year
Never ceases to amaze: Don’t know how you do it, dear reader, but here you are again – another workweek winding down and another hard-earned weekend coming up. Well…
Island schools to run $20M institute for wind-farmers
By GREGORY ZELLER // The winds of workforce development are blowing again through Long Island’s leading academic institutions, two of which will anchor a new state-sanctioned project targeting the offshore…
No. 466: On leveraged labs and impressive investments – plus Kevin Law, the Fonz and Charo
That happened fast: Wait … what? January is half-over already? Strange but true, dear readers, as we reach Jan. 15, the approximate midpoint of the month and undeniable hump…