Island institutions compute new joint-admissions deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // The big joint-admissions wheel keeps on turning, with two more Long Island institutions joining forces to speed collegians toward higher degrees. This time, the wheel stops…
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Y innovates intervention as COVID’s mental toll mounts
By STACEY SPATA // How are you doing today? Take a minute to ask yourself this question. As New York State restrictions are lifted, it feels like we may be…
Game on: From entrepreneur to Emmy to world’s best
By TOM MARINER // Those “closed captioning” sentences that scroll across your screen, and on screens around the world – they mostly come from a firm called EEG Enterprises, based…
Acupath COVID assay earns national Benasource bump
By GREGORY ZELLER // The United States, at long last, has COVID-19 cornered – national vaccinations have soared, while the New York State Department of Health on Wednesday reported the…
Developer’s tax deal brings Amazon to Woodmere
By GREGORY ZELLER // With the help of another lucrative local-government economic-incentives package, Amazon has staked its latest big claim on Long Island. Riding the wave a $16 million tax-abatement…
Crikey! Aussie media master snags LI captioning king
By GREGORY ZELLER // A legacy Long Island company has been acquired by a global leader in its industry – precisely what EEG Enterprises intended. Farmingdale-based EEG, a longtime North…
Smiles, not subpoenas, can sometimes win an IP battle
By ARTHUR GERMAIN // Last week began with a pleasant surprise: As I drank my morning coffee and reviewed my e-mail, I received a Google Alert for the term “Brandtelling,”…
In Chauvin verdict, another chance for the Rule of Law
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // A turning point, or a punctuation mark, in the long-running story of the Rule of Law? The Chauvin verdict is neither a beginning nor an…
Big brains: Disasters led to leaps in mammalian IQ
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Smarter Than You Look File comes an international scientific study questioning decades of presumptions about brain size and intelligence. In fact, the study –…
Innovation in the Age of Coronavirus
Vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic is winding down, but COVID-19 continues to reshape the world around us. And myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and…
Stratospheric sunshield can’t deflect critical questions
By GREGORY ZELLER // Earth – SAI Control Center 04.27.2121 Solar Geoengineering Project: Day 913 Chief engineer’s log: The Stratospheric Aerosol Injection proceeds uninterrupted. SGP drones continue to inject reflective…
Large buy-in has DepYmed eyeing huge clinical trials
By GREGORY ZELLER // Farmingdale pharmaceutical firm DepYmed is no stranger to capital investments – but a new infusion might be enough to push the rare-disease innovator over the commercialization…
Online ownership: It’s all fine, until the fine print
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // For a brief moment in 2010, my wildest dreams came true: The Dallas Cowboys ceased to exist. At least, www.dallascowboys.com did. This unfortunately had nothing…
Universities unite to batten the energy grid’s hatches
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Department of Resiliency comes Yacov Shamash, the one-time Stony Brook University vice president for economic development who “retired” two years ago but remains very…
Putting a dent in homelessness, not a tiny one
By KEVIN PAUL // It’s been more than a month since the first 3D-printed home was put on the market in the United States, and society has had a chance…