What looks good? With Foodfaves, the future
By GREGORY ZELLER // Sydney Epstein wasn’t hungry for entrepreneurial success. She was just hungry. After graduating from Emerson College, the future business owner took a job as a TV…
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Rolling Motion rolls out next-gen traction drive
By GREGORY ZELLER // Everywhere he goes, John Pawloski causes friction. And that’s a good thing, especially for Rolling Motion Industries, Pawloski’s North Babylon-based 2016 startup. Rolling Motion is the…
At Impish Lee, things take a natural course
By GREGORY ZELLER // Impish Lee has found a way to go even au naturel-er. The Sea Cliff-based customized-lingerie manufacturer has innovated its trillions-strong-and-yet-barely-there product line once again, this time…
Albany rings bell for Restore NY, round five
Hempstead will host an informational meeting for Long Island municipalities craving a slice of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s latest competitive-funding pie. With $80 million up for grabs in Round 5 of…
Nothing to fear, unless you’re a radiological terrorist
By GREGORY ZELLER // Pay no attention to that imposing fleet of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard and New York State Naval Militia vessels massing off the East End. Governor…
Old friends, new funds have ThermoLift thinking ahead
By GREGORY ZELLER // A shining star of Stony Brook University’s commercialization and innovation ecosystems is renewing ties with an old friend – and leveraging some fresh international funding –…
Neurons, STEM studies part of Keck Foundation gifts
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Los Angeles foundation on a medical-science mission has doubled down on Stony Brook University. The W.M. Keck Foundation – established in 1954 by its namesake,…
Three BNL researchers score ‘early career’ DOE grants
Three Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists will receive “significant research funding” through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program. The eight-year-old competitive-application program, a function of the DOE’s Office…
ALZ: Genetic variants can run, but they can’t hide
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research is targeting genetic risk factors behind Alzheimer’s disease, the first of many steps toward new potential treatments. Feinstein Institute assistant professor Yun Freudenberg-Hua has…
Thinking big, about the subconscious of coding
By GREGORY ZELLER // In an age ruled by digital interfaces and computerized systems, Noreen Kazi and Nisha Bhalla may have cracked the code. Neither is, by education or inherent…
Study: Babylon IDA tax cuts spurred $600M in activity
Take a bow, Babylon Industrial Development Agency: You leveraged just $6 million in tax incentives into nearly 100 times that in economic activity, and created some 10,000 new jobs, in…
New LIMA flights rekindle LIMBA’s hopes
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island MacArthur Airport is spreading its wings, and a longtime regional quality-of-life watchdog wants to make sure the airport’s climb doesn’t stall. Long Island Metro…
LI vineyards sparkle in NY wine awards
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island can claim bragging rights to New York State’s 2017 Winery of the Year. At least, half of them. Southold’s Sparkling Pointe Vineyards has earned…
So, Brian Fried had this idea…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Perhaps Brian Fried should launch the re-inventors club. Boasting many notches on his toolbelt – several inventions, a few commercial scores and a pair of how-to…
NYIT: ‘Lethal interactions’ could stop tough cancers
New York Institute of Technology researchers may have found a way to stop cancerous tumors from spreading through the central nervous system. And for some patients suffering from the worst…