Eddie Cross wants to avoid fall cleanup
By GREGORY ZELLER // Eddie Cross got the drop on his first-ever invention 15 years ago, when he took a tumble inside a local bank branch, slipping on a wet…
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For Digital Fly, winging it pays off
Digital Fly is apparently taking off. Since officially launching in September, the real-time social media monitoring and alert service – designed to safeguard school districts from threats big and small…
At Ms. Michelle’s, the chips are up
By GREGORY ZELLER // Michelle Gillette Kelly is living the American Dream. The gluten-free version, anyway. The baker and her products have gone through several permutations in recent years, from…
Reed Phillips is digging those good vibrations
By GREGORY ZELLER // Renewable energy is boundless and everywhere – the ocean, the cars zooming by on the highway, even the mom pushing a baby stroller through the park…
The Debrief: Robert Harrison’s 2,000X laptop
As a chemist and a mathematician, Robert Harrison appreciates the vital role computers play in all modern sciences. As director of Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science and…
North Shore-LIJ inks ENT partnership
The North Shore-LIJ Health System has formed a “first on Long Island” clinical affiliation with ENT and Allergy Associates, an LLP treating over 70,000 monthly patients across New York and…
Lesko, Brofman and cash prizes at Molloy pitch event
The popularity of the ABC’s Shark Tank has spawned a number of imitations, including flattery from LaunchPad, NYIT and Stony Brook University. The latest, organized by a Molloy student, will…
Varun Mehta’s voyage of self-Disqovery
By GREGORY ZELLER // When founder and CEO Varun Mehta incorporated app-maker Disqovery Inc. in 2013, even he wasn’t sure what, exactly, it would be. Then a student at Harvard…
Ruchi Shah creates a buzz
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s ingenuity, there’s determination and there’s rock-solid fundamental science. Then there’s Ruchi Shah. To say the Stony Brook University senior – hurtling toward a bachelor’s degree…
Clean water advocates are flush with ideas
Cutting the ribbon on a new shopping center used to be an elected official’s dream photo-op. Today, it’s unveiling a septic system install. That’s real progress on a couple of fronts….
North Shore shows off new logo
North Shore-LIJ unveiled the logo it will use next year as it becomes Northwell Health, with a first look going to the system’s 61,000 employees. “With our new name comes…
Fred Dunwoody has the write stuff
By GREGORY ZELLER // Fred Dunwoody’s decades in the sales divisions of major-league imaging firms like Canon, Minolta and Konica taught him the future wasn’t in the copiers they sold…
Technology, the toast of San Francisco
San Francisco voters took to the polls Tuesday for what was billed as a referendum on technology, specifically how techsters have ruined the city by driving up apartment prices, turning…
Bettr, above ground and rising
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s not an after-school project anymore. When we last left James Knaus and Ashish Pandhi in April, the enterprising Hofstra University students were working in Pandhi’s…
Paumanok scores big at Wine Advocate
Mark Squires, a former Philadelphia attorney turned full-time wine obsessive, is taking his new assignment on Wine Advocate’s Long Island watch seriously. Beginning in June, when he released some of…