Fresh off first Nobel, top physicist coming to SBU
By GREGORY ZELLER // A freshly minted Nobel Prize winner will grace Stony Brook University this spring with a special guest lecture. California Institute of Technology Professor Kip Thorne, who…
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At Vaya, second-generation success is in the bags
By GREGORY ZELLER // For entrepreneur Tianna Meilinger, it’s a family thing. The innovator carved her niche back in 2005, when she launched her first company – Vaya Bags, a…
Noting $21B in damage, Cuomo (kinda) blasts Trump
By GREGORY ZELLER // Is Andrew Cuomo running for president? The governor has been customarily coy about a potential 2020 White House bid, and with an increasingly sticky 2018 re-election…
It’s lights, cameras, innovation for IPS
By GREGORY ZELLER // Overture, curtains, lights: This is it for IPS – a bona fide Hollywood closeup – and, oh, what heights they’ll hit. And the best part is,…
Northwell adds orthopedic practice, surgical center
By GREGORY ZELLER // In a musculoskeletal coup for the Northwell Health system, Long Island’s largest private orthopedic practice has joined the region’s largest healthcare provider. The New Hyde Park-based…
State OKs Five Towns computer-graphics degrees
By GREGORY ZELLER // On a mission to replace “starving artists” with “valued artists,” digital innovator Paul Lipsky has reprogrammed the book on Interactive Computer Graphics. Like, literally: With the…
South Nassau wraps up first phase of $60M expansion
Marked by the opening of a new 10-bed annex, the first phase of South Nassau Communities Hospital’s $60 million Emergency Department expansion is complete. Featuring “semi-private treatment bays” with flat-screen…
Digital maps show Island is a clean-energy leader
A national nonpartisan business group has flipped the switch on an interactive “mapping resource” that tracks the spread of clean-energy technologies across New York State. Environmental Entrepreneurs, a Washington-based consortium…
LI manufacturer powers up Army battery production
By GREGORY ZELLER // A longtime Long Island manufacturer will step up production of “advanced military batteries” for the U.S. Army, in a big way. Commack-based energy solutions expert Bren-Tronics…
Leibowitz: Congratulations, RGGI, now hit the gas
By HEATHER LEIBOWITZ // Officials and stakeholders from nine northeastern states gathered this week in Baltimore to discuss a new plan to cut pollution from power plants by another 30 percent…
Kosciuszko Bridge has fallen down, fallen down
By GREGORY ZELLER // The old Kosciuszko Bridge got blowed up real good. The last standing sections of the 78-year-old Brooklyn-Queens span were imploded Sunday in the pyrotechnically spectacular penultimate…
Personal perspectives inform ‘Women in Manufacturing’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Some of Long Island’s most influential manufacturing leaders will come together Oct. 6 to discuss the role of women in engineering and technology-related fields – something…
NIH sees a need for speed in Traverse Biosciences
By GREGORY ZELLER // The National Institutes of Health has welcomed a rising Stony Brook biotech into its competitive Commercialization Accelerator Program. Traverse Biosciences, which is attempting to commercialize novel…
Cardiac experts up-tick Northwell heart-surgery team
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two noted surgeons have been added to Northwell Health’s heart-transplant team. The New Hyde Park-based health system announced this week that Brian Lima and Syed Hussain,…
Digital Donations eyes $5M (real) to back crypto ‘coin’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Melville tech developer pursuing distinct nonprofit and commercial verticals has launched a $5 million crowdfunding campaign to help create its own cryptocurrency. Digital Donations Inc….