Leveling cancer prevention during LGBTQ+ Pride Month
By ANNALEA TRASK // June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer face numerous health disparities in comparison to those who identify…
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LI biotech gears up to help shoot down forced labor
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new federal law governing Chinese imports bodes very well for a leading Long Island innovator. Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences – a DNA-based supply-chain authenticator that’s…
Chapters in verse: Poet tackles climate, and YA tropes
By GREGORY ZELLER // A popular writer with a penchant for poetry, an itch for education and close ties to a top Long Island university is storming shelves again. Kentucky-raised,…
Healthcare finally prioritizing providers’ mental health
By TERRY LYNAM // They’re often held to higher standards, but doctors and other medical professionals are mere mortals, just like the rest of us. Unlike the rest of us,…
Coffee king gives Molloy workforce training a $2M jolt
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s newest university and a Farmingdale-based coffeemaker with a heart of gold are teaming up to promote regional workforce development. A $2 million donation from…
Old friends back new Women’s Surgical Center
By GREGORY ZELLER // A next-generation surgical center uniquely suited to women’s physical and psychological needs is heading to Glen Cove. Community leaders joined top Northwell Health brass and Glen…
Cell high: Second-stage Edgewise aiming for an LI first
By GREGORY ZELLER // Which of these Clean Energy Business Incubator Program companies is not like the others? It sounds like a children’s game, but Plainview-based Edgewise Energy truly stands…
Chancellor cheers federal Internet-access funding
By DEBORAH STANLEY // It has been clear for years that high-speed Internet access is not a privilege, but a necessity that provides the key to academic, professional and personal…
For real market value, nothing beats life on the farm
By DAVID HAMILTON // Spring has fully sprung and summer is near – and that means sunny mornings, high pollen counts … and farmer’s markets! Farmer’s markets have become a…
Study: Even more promise in hot anticancer candidate
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University researchers are reporting significant gains in the war on cancer – specifically, an anticancer drug showing real potential to reduce cancerous tumors. That’s…
Hamptons art exhibit goes to war, brings back hope
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Hamptons art gallery is putting itself on the front lines of the Russo-Ukrainian War. With a nod to eminent Sag Harbor art advisor and curator…
Shinnecock Bay earns global ecological distinction
By GREGORY ZELLER // An international organization on an oceanic rescue mission is holding up Shinnecock Bay as a dual example of pristine ecology and hard work. Mission Blue, a…
Albany turns to residents to sharpen EV master plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // An “online resource center” will help Albany plan New York’s electric-vehicle destiny – and, hopefully, qualify for $175 million in federal funding. The New York State…
For videogame pioneers, the real ‘Pitfall’ was lethargy
By TOM MARINER // “Pitfall!,” the chart-topping 1982 videogame smash that spent 64 weeks atop the software charts, celebrated its 40th anniversary this spring. The birthday brought to mind memories…
‘Grand’ name, on-time update for new LIRR terminal
By GREGORY ZELLER // Next stop, Grand Central Madison. That’s the formal name of the 700,000-square-foot Long Island Rail Road terminal nearing completion below New York City’s Grand Central Terminal,…