SBU, East End duck farm get state grants
Stony Brook University is in line for a $1 million grant to help renovate and purchase equipment for its College of Engineering and Applied Sciences as part of $18 million…
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Cooling team lands $2.5M in DOE help
Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Lab researchers have landed a $2.5 million grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop ways to radically reduce the…
Triglia Technologies is lumbering into the future
By GREGORY ZELLER // Its focus – drying wood – isn’t sexy. Its fundraising – while promising – is so far nonexistent. Its patents are pending and its commercialization strategy…
14 LI communities win microgrid funding
Roughly $8.3 million in state awards were doled out today to support innovative “microgrid” projects across New York State – and for once, Long Island was in the thick of…
The Inventors: Elaine Schroeck and the Lawn Buddy
By GREGORY ZELLER // Elaine Schroeck doesn’t mind caring for her lawn. She’s just bothered by having to do it twice. Every. Single. Time. Like most do-it-yourself home gardeners, Schroeck…
Buffalo biz plan contest attracts thousands
New York’s 43North business plan contest received a record 3,000 qualified entries seeking a shot at big bucks, free incubator space and mentorship. The downside: You have to set up shop…
After 300 years of window opening, a way to finally tame steam heat
By GREGORY ZELLER // With a dose of modern engineering, a 300-year-old heating mechanism may prove to be one of the most energy-efficient of the 21st century. Stony Brook-based Bonded…
Live from Long Island: A cloud-based cure for Obamacare
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island hedge fund manager and a team of doctors are tackling the modern health-care provider’s big-data dilemma. Electronic record-keeping, compliance with the Health Insurance…
Long Island looks into the eyes of the sun
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York State is lapping the nation in solar-power growth – but Long Island may be hitting its head on solar’s technological ceiling. Gov. Andrew Cuomo…
A fresh take on getting energy from the sea
By GREGORY ZELLER // On its way to providing cheap, clean electricity for all mankind, Stony Brook startup Brimes Energy is making a quick detour to address another human inconvenience:…
The inventors: Sharone Piontkowski knows every woman’s arch enemy
By GREGORY ZELLER // If the shoe fits, Sharone and Shlomo Piontkowski may soon deliver a medical breakthrough of fashionable proportions. Sharone, a Port Jefferson native and New York City-based…
Berliner takes over Hofstra biz school
It’s a busy summer at Hofstra University, where a history-making provost is settling in and a longtime administrator is going full circle, with a business bent. Gail Simmons, the former…
Protect NY sets move to Farmingdale
By GREGORY ZELLER // The academic and professional think tank Protect New York is moving to Farmingdale State College, relocating from its birthplace inside the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of…
Because science makes lousy TV ads, perhaps?
By J.L. KOMINICKI Yay. We’re first at something. Low-paying jobs in the hospitality sector. OK, that’s not quite the message Gov. Andrew Cuomo was putting out ahead of the July…
NYIT gets nod for cybersecurity research
Nassau County has selected NYIT to run a cybersecurity research center in which new technologies would be developed to help safeguard critical national information and data. The center, which will…