Access-Ability Awards honor top deafblind tech efforts
By GREGORY ZELLER // Apps that make cereal boxes talk, provide nonvisual Internet access and improve pedestrian travel for the deafblind are among the savvy tech honored in Helen Keller…
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Dream house: Dolls, imagination fuel unique ‘play café’
By GREGORY ZELLER // An innovative Rockville Centre play and party space is making dreams come true, starting with the owner’s. Representing an entirely new retail species on Long Island…
Competitive gaming, at full STEAM, in Westbury
By GREGORY ZELLER // A one-of-a-kind mall with creativity in its foundation has added another innovative tenant, where science, mathematics and engineering are all fun and games. Snapology, an educational-support…
Long Island’s first Engineer of the Year is an HVAC ace
By GREGORY ZELLER // A region long known for amazing feats of scientific engineering finally has its first-ever Engineer of the Year. The Long Island Chapter of the American Society…
LIA leaders still set a high bar, almost a century later
By TOM MARINER // Since its 1926 inception, the Long Island Association has played a pivotal role in shaping Long Island’s economic, social and political landscapes – and leadership has…
An FSC first gives college an air of distinction
By GREGORY ZELLER // Farmingdale State College has its first-ever Distinguished Professor. Department of History, Politics and Geography Professor Robert Saunders has been awarded the prestigious rank by the State…
Northwell, Aegis Caire enough to pick the very best
By GREGORY ZELLER // The former chief executive of the Mayo Clinic will head Northwell Health and Aegis Ventures’ latest innovative enterprise. Northwell Holdings, the New Hyde Park-based health system’s…
Workforce development? A walk in the industrial park
By GREGORY ZELLER // A specialized task force will assist workforce development at the Northeast’s largest industrial park. The HIA-LI, one of Long Island’s most muscular business-advocacy organizations, has launched…
Bucking up, steering ahead at innovative Drone Rodeo
By GREGORY ZELLER // Lose the lassos and cancel the clowns – the rodeo came to town last weekend, and no bull, you had to look up to see it….
As fatalities rise, stiffer DWI laws are just the ticket
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // It’s time to adopt new laws that address the plague of drunk driving on Long Island roads. Almost every day, there are impaired-driving reports, DWI…
Dad/daughter duo books some quality time (with you)
By GREGORY ZELLER // Art imitates life in a new children’s book about family togetherness – written by a Hofstra University professor and his 13-year-old daughter. “If Time Fell From…
Looking on the bright side after Canadian smoke-out
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Department of Shared Experiences comes this week’s eerie and unhealthy Canadian wildfire smokestorm, engulfing Long Island and much of the Northeast region. More akin…
HPC upgrade set to enhance SBU supercomputing
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two giants of modern computing will help Stony Brook University improve its already-impressive digital game. The university is set to begin deployment of a new High-Performance…
For Hofstra/Northwell nursing, a seamless switch
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies has bid farewell to its founding dean and welcomed a rising star. Registered Nurse Kathleen Gallo,…
Still finding our way in the remote-work world
By DAVID PENNETTA // You might want to rethink your steadfast refusal to return to an office environment. The pandemic’s work-from-home phenomenon caused seismic shifts across mentalities, processes and technologies,…