SUNY Old Westbury, region mourn the Rev. Calvin Butts
By GREGORY ZELLER // Few Long Island social leaders have received as many accolades as Calvin O. Butts III, and few deserve to. The national human rights icon, pastor of…
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There’s no climate justice without inclusive innovation
By SHRUTI SHARMA // Whether ghosts are real may be an ongoing debate, but climate change is real and scarier than any ghost story this Halloween. There is ample evidence,…
Innovators circle the wagons as medical debt spirals
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS// Student debt is getting all the attention these days, but about four times as many Americans – 100 million, to be exact – are fending off medical…
Albany, DOE bet on the future in BNL’s Discovery Park
By GREGORY ZELLER // New discovery abounds at Brookhaven National Laboratory, figuratively and literally. The Upton-based U.S. Department of Energy lab has officially broken ground on Phase One of its…
Feinstein’s $6.7M award maps road to vagus riches
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has begun an ambitious mapping mission that may chart the course to the human race’s healthiest future. A $6.7 million…
New York Tech, GE ride the bench on Esports injuries
By GREGORY ZELLER // As more and more competitors take a seat, Long Island scientists are establishing the first set of body-composition benchmarks aiming to protect Esports athletes from injury….
Think globally: Italian, French partners electrify LI grid
By GREGORY ZELLER // From our Innovate Italy bureau comes an international energy infrastructure-development agreement with electrifying potential for Long Island. Terna USA – recently spun off of the Rome-based…
As kids’ psychological struggles mount, forces unite
By TERRY LYNAM // The mental health of America’s kids was a concern long before COVID-19 upended society, so no one should be surprised by a new government study showing…
Albany, Suffolk close land deal, opening wind tunnel
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the By Land and By Sea File comes an official transfer of property between New York State and Suffolk County, clearing the path for an…
With Leviton’s latest bright idea, UV is A-OK in the OR
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cornerstone Long Island innovator has seen the light: continuous ultraviolet disinfection that doesn’t sacrifice clear vision. Wave hello to WavePort, a patent-pending technology from Melville-based…
Mental block: Poll reveals Island mental health ‘crisis’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Social studies continue to paint bleak portraits of Long Island’s mental health landscape. Just one week after Stony Brook Medicine’s Long Island LGBTQ+ Community Health Needs…
ESD bolsters future workforce with $150M grant effort
By GREGORY ZELLER // A newly formed Empire State Development program will funnel $150 million into the education, training and credentialing of an in-demand statewide workforce. Albany’s main economic-development engine…
No Tito’s? Hey, no whining in the mecca of vino value
By GREGORY ZELLER // Nobody would confuse The Shoppes at East Wind with a modern mall, any more than they’d mistake the mothership East Wind destination banquet castle for a…
How to stop COVID, and maybe whatever comes next
By GREGORY ZELLER // The latest DNA-based advance by a progressive Long Island biotech goes where other biochemists have gone before – but also blazes a trail for new vaccination…
Under the rainbow: Darkness shades LGBTQ+ survey
By GREGORY ZELLER // Eye-opening facts about regional LBGTQ+ populations inform a comprehensive new health-needs survey by a cornerstone of Long Island healthcare. The 2021 Long Island LGBTQ+ Community Health…