Cutting-edge tech enables Veterans Day stroke save
By GREGORY ZELLER // An 80-year-old U.S. Army veteran is alive, well and feeling “lucky” after quick thinking – and a bevy of innovative technologies – saved his life on…
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With funding wins, Island-born EV pioneer charges on
By GREGORY ZELLER // A transportation-tech disruptor spreading electric micro-shuttle services across the nation – including several stops on Long Island – has claimed a share of Albany’s $85 million Clean…
BOEM shares draft review as Empire Wind whips up
By GREGORY ZELLER // With a crucial public-comment period looming, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is spilling the beans on a major offshore-wind proposal for New York waters. The…
NIH backs SBU’s ‘pandemic preparedness’ research
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University is getting a running start on the next COVID-level crisis. A $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of…
Conservative SCOTUS’s next target: Affirmative Action
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Based on lengthy oral arguments in two recent high-profile cases, the U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to overturn decades-old precedents on Affirmative Action at public…
Northwell, Aegis break the ice with menopause startup
By GREGORY ZELLER // A $100 million regional collaboration committed to creating new healthcare startups is raising the bar on clinical menopause support. Northwell Holdings, New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health’s…
Farmingdale State emergency fund earns BFCU boost
By GREGORY ZELLER // Farmingdale State College students struggling with tuition payments – and other basic necessities, including food – just got a big boost from Bethpage Federal Credit Union….
New gifts boost New York Tech architects, by design
By GREGORY ZELLER // The defunct Institute of Design and Construction lives on – as does its long support of the New York Institute of Technology. The IDC Foundation, legacy…
Cyberthreats are complex – IT security must be, too
By DAVE COURBANOU // When it comes to assessing your IT infrastructure for vulnerabilities, the best approach is a multipronged one. A holistic approach to protecting an IT infrastructure assesses…
Will local issues outplay D.C. dysfunction? Stay tuned
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // The incredible (and, depending on your POV, incredibly concerning) proliferation of partisan politics has had wide-ranging cultural and political consequences – and the art of…
For Island preemies, a next-generation destination
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s most critically ill premature babies have a new state-of-the-art space to finish cooking. Northwell Health has cut the ribbon on a next-generation neonatal intensive…
In Riverhead Court, youth – and justice – are served
By GREGORY ZELLER // They’ve come to order in the Town of Riverhead, where the innovative Youth Court is back in session. Now in its 26th year, the Riverhead Youth…
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…
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…