ExcelAire has a new sky king. Former NetJets President Robert Molsbergen has been named president of the MacArthur Airport-based charter-jet manager, a subsidiary of worldwide aviation-services provider Hawthorne Global Aviation…
By GREGORY ZELLER // The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is funding a five-year mission that has Stony Brook University geologists exploring strange, new worlds – and gearing up for…
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s 30,000 square feet bigger and renovations have cost about $60 million to date, but the Bohlsen Family Emergency Department at Southside Hospital isn’t done growing…
By GREGORY ZELLER // When Morey Mayeri told Innovate LI he was “ready to do it immediately,” he wasn’t kidding. Speaking Aug. 17 about a possible intra-Hauppauge relocation for premium…
Medford-based Chembio Diagnostics has won a $13.2 million federal contract to further develop its rapid test for the Zika virus, the company announced Thursday. Almost $6 million of the money –…
The National Science Foundation is backing a Long Island academic-private partnership looking to turn functional magnetic-resonance imaging technologies into new weapons against brain disease. Farmingdale-based ALA Scientific Instruments and Dr….
Long Island’s unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in July, down 0.6 percentage points from a year ago, the state Labor Department reported Tuesday. Nassau County’s rate decreased by 0.6 percentage…
A new helipad at Bay Shore’s Southside Hospital is adding some lift to Northwell Health’s regional emergency services. Already counted among the American Hospital Association’s “Most Wired” IT-savvy hospitals, Southside…
Three blighted Long Island areas are among a dozen new statewide Brownfield Opportunity Areas announced this week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. As BOAs, the 12 sites – including properties in…
By GREGORY ZELLER // With just under 1 percent of the Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies, Long Island is still solidifying its new-economy reputation – but for innovation’s sake, those 40…
By MICHAEL SAHN// A recent front page article in The Wall Street Journal entitled “Localities Opt for Less Debt over New Infrastructure” reports that local governments are not borrowing to…
Two cutting-edge Feinstein Institute for Medical Research projects have been selected for an elite National Institutes of Health funding program. Kevin Tracey, the institute’s president and CEO, and Ping Wang,…
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new era for an old Long Island sector? Some serious people are at least trying it on. Innovative manufacturer Royal Apparel, a 2007 fashion firm…
They don’t come with capes or cowls, they’re not powered by an indestructible “arc reactor” and they can’t shrink surgeons to ant-size, but new super-suits are making heroic impressions on…
By GREGORY ZELLER // It seems everyone wants a piece of TRB-N0224. Already being tested as a potential treatment for lung injuries and for periodontal disease in dogs and cats,…