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…
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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,…
At SCCC, a $21M STEM center with a real future
By GREGORY ZELLER // Suffolk County Community College has officially opened its Renewable Energy STEM Center, with a host of scientific disciplines and innovative workforce-development initiatives in play. Dedicated to…
A half-billion-dollar boost, and that’s just for starters
By GREGORY ZELLER // There have not been many collegiate donations on this rarified level, and none – ever – for a public school. But public schools usually aren’t elite…
On a slow boat from Texas, LI’s energy future sets sail
By GREGORY ZELLER // A major milestone for Long Island’s offshore wind industry has put to sea – off the Texas coast. International offshore-wind development partners Ørsted A/S and Eversource Energy are…
SUNY scores as OWTI floats $4M in training grants
By GREGORY ZELLER // State awards for the development of an offshore-wind workforce are beginning to circulate around Long Island. The Offshore Wind Training Institute – an academic-government partnership focused…
With charity adds, ‘Crushies’ are the complete package
By GREGORY ZELLER // A born-on-Long Island global competition with a true “can-do” attitude has once again flexed some amazing art, mind-blowing marketing and fantastic fundraising. The 2023 Craft Beer…
Not quite a full house, but Nassau deals Sands in
By GREGORY ZELLER // Nassau lawmakers are all in – almost – on Las Vegas Sands. In granting the Nevada-based resort owner a 99-year lease to develop the 72-acre site…
Stay calm, PR pro — ChatGPT is new, but not nuanced
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // It’s only natural to worry about the consequences of new technology, especially in the communications business. If we went back a few millennia, we’d encounter…
Amidst nursing crisis, Albany OKs training simulations
By GREGORY ZELLER // Future nurses will become current nurses a little faster, thanks to new healthcare laws on New York’s books. Against the backdrop of a critical nationwide nursing…
Warehouse, senior living complex earn IDA approvals
By GREGORY ZELLER // A massive new Nassau warehouse and an eight-building Suffolk senior-rental complex highlight a busy month for Long Island’s countywide industrial development agencies. The Suffolk County Industrial…
With sharks circling off LI, Albany sends in the drones
By GREGORY ZELLER // Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water … well, it is, thanks to enhanced shark-monitoring activities along Long Island beaches….
Even with supernova stopwatch, age is a relative thing
By GREGORY ZELLER // After centuries of best guesses, science is closing in on an exact age for the known universe – and a research team featuring two Stony Brook…
Isolation innovations for an increasingly lonely planet
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // As the latest round of COVID-19 takes its final breaths, America has yet another epidemic on its hands. And according to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy,…