For SBU scientists, running starts on research funding
By GREGORY ZELLER // Throw another $700,000 onto the pile of generous – and smart, according to the ROI – investments made by Stony Brook University’s Office of the Vice…
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LIPA will modernize, slowly, with Time-of-Day Rates
By GREGORY ZELLER // A sliding scale of new Long Island Power Authority electricity rates will help customers save money – but don’t count on lower utility bills just yet….
Easy does it for marketing startup with pro pedigree
By GREGORY ZELLER // You can question its name creativity, but All In One Marketing’s professional pedigree is beyond reproach. Inviting users to “Automate Everything,” AllInOneMarketing.Com – brainchild of founder…
Poll reveals intriguing, disturbing weight loss ‘truths’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Weighty issues abound in the latest Mount Sinai South Nassau Truth In Medicine poll, which pounds home heavy physiological and psychological truths about weight loss. At…
As staffs dwindle, post-COVID nonprofits seek answers
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Long Island relies on community-based nonprofit organizations to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, heal the anxious, support the depressed and addicted and otherwise help our…
Research review spices up war against ovarian cancer
By GREGORY ZELLER // If you thought turmeric improved your curry, wait until you see what it does for ovarian cancer treatments. That’s the word out of the New York…
Spotting opioid overdoses before they happen, with AI
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook University computer professor with an AI algorithm that detects substance abuse through language has refocused the impressive prediction technology on opioids – with…
In Loveland, a leader who knew how to use his time
By TOM MARINER // It was a drop-the-phone moment. “Ron Loveland is gone?” A shock. A huge hole, not only in the lives of his wife, Vicky, or their four…
On the records: Northwell, Epic engage EHR upgrade
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health has announced a patient-data effort of Epic proportions. Epic Systems, precisely, Northwell’s new partner on a mission to implement a next-generation electronic health record…
Healthcare CEOs bring leadership to national gun fight
By TERRY LYNAM // Given the inability (or unwillingness) of our elected leaders to further strengthen the nation’s gun-safety laws, healthcare leaders from across the country are stepping up to…
Something for all tastes at FuzeHub food-bev forum
By GREGORY ZELLER // The future of New York State’s food and beverage industries spiced up FuzeHub’s latest manufacturing forum, held Thursday at Farmingdale State College. Growth of the Urban…
LI leaders board tech trailblazer’s school bus summit
By GREGORY ZELLER // A national school bus-safety sovereign has summoned a king’s court of Long Island leaders for the region’s first-ever School Bus Safety Summit. Virginia-based BusPatrol America, a…
Housing Compact: brave, overdue and a good start
By LAURA HARDING // Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposed New York Housing Compact represents a courageous first step in tackling the core challenge of housing on Long Island and across New…
Return to form (in various forms) at CEWIT hackathon
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology would like to kindly dispel the myth that hackers, programmers and other computer experts are antisocial. In…
Through the years, skies with innovative East/West
By TOM MARINER // You’re three-and-a-half miles up in the sky, carrying three-dozen soldiers in a Boeing CH-47 Chinook – the fastest helicopter in the U.S. fleet – at 200…